Instructor

Dr. Vasilije Perovic

Email

perovic@uri.edu

Office

Lippitt Hall, 202H

Office Hours

Tuesday:   9:00am - 10:00am;    Wednesday:   2:30pm - 4:30pm;     Thursday:   9:00am - 10:00am.
Other times by appointment. Right before class is definitely not a good time to see me!

Class Time

Monday   3:00pm - 4:30pm,     Thursday   4:00pm - 5:00pm,     Lippitt Hall 201.
Please turn off your cellphones, tablets, laptops, and other electronic gadgets during the class.
Regular attendance is expected.

Prerequisite

MTH 215 or equivalent. MTH 142 and some familirity with Matlab/Mathematica is highly recommended.

Textbook (required)

An Introduction to Optimization, by Edwin K. P. Chong and Stanislaw H. Zak, 4th Edition, Wiley, 2013.
Please bring this text with you to every class!

SAKAI

You should check SAKAI regularly for announcements, schedule changes, downloading resources, grade updates, etc.

References

Linear and Nonlinear Programming, by David G. Luenberger and Yinyu Ye, 4th edition, Springer, 2016.

Numerical Optimization, by Jorge Nocedal and Stephen Wright, 1st or 2nd edition, Springer, 1999 or 2006 (more advanced text).

Nonlinear Programming, by Dimitri P. Bertsekas, 3rd Edition, Athena Scientific, 2016 (more advanced text).

Convex Optimization, by Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe (more advanced text, freely available from authors' website).

Computer Resources

We will use MATLAB in this course.