MS&E 318/CME 338: Large-Scale Numerical Optimization

The notes below are initially from last year's class. They will be updated as we proceed through the spring quarter. Hard copies of the updated notes will be handed out in class.

1. Overview

2. Iterative Methods for Symmetric

3. Iterative Methods for Square and Rectangular Systems

4. The Primal Simplex Method

5. Basis Updates

6. LUSOL – a Sparse Basis Package

7. PDCO – Primal-Dual Interior Methods

8. MINOS Part 1 – the Reduced-Gradient Method

9. Augmented Lagrangian Methods

10. MINOS Part 2 – LCL Methods

11. NPSOL and SNOPT – SQP Methods

12. SNOPT Example Optimizations