Teaching

Block Course: Nonlinear Optimization

Information

• Date: February 7 - February 10, 2011
• Place: IWR, Heidelberg (Lectures in INF 368, Room 432, Practical Sessions in INF 350, Room U011)
• Program outline: 3/2 days theoretical tutorial, 3/2 days practical (hands on)
• Follow up workshop on Thursday, February 10, 2011
• Target group: MathComp doctoral students, advanced master students with experience in numerics and optimization, participants of the EMBOCON project.

Organizers

The course will be jointly organized by the work groups of Stefan Körkel and Sebastian Sager.

Preliminary Program

Time	Monday, 7.2.	Tuesday, 8.2.	Wednesday, 9.2.
09h00-10h00	Sager/Körkel: Introduction	Sager: Unconstrained Optimization	Körkel: Globalization
10h00-10h15	Coffee break
10h15-11h15	Körkel: Derivative free optimization	Körkel: Constrained Optimization	Sager: Interior Point Methods
11h15-11h30	Coffee break
11h30-12h30	Sager: Linear Programming	Körkel: Sequential Quadratic Programming	Sager: Mixed-integer Nonlinear Programming
12h30-14h00	Lunch
14h00-18h00	Practical exercises: Octave	Practical exercises: AMPL	Practical exercises: case studies

Slides

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