EE364a: Lecture Slides

1. Introduction

2. Convex sets

3. Convex functions

4. Convex optimization problems

5. Duality

6. Approximation and fitting

7. Statistical estimation

8. Geometric problems

9. Numerical linear algebra background

10. Unconstrained minimization

11. Equality constrained minimization

12. Interior-point methods

13. Conclusions

Lecture slides in one file.

Additional lecture slides:

1. Convex optimization examples

2. Stochastic programming

3. Chance constrained optimization

4. Filter design and equalization

5. Disciplined convex programming and CVX

Two lectures from EE364b:

1. methods for convex-cardinality problems

2. methods for convex-cardinality problems, part II