Syllabus
ESI
6492/8359/3: Global Optimization
Instructor: Distinguished Professor Panos M. Pardalos
Office: 401 Weil Hall
Tel: 392-9011 ext 2017
E-mail: pardalos@ufl.edu
Url: http://www.ise.ufl.edu/pardalos/
Office Hours: MW 10:00 am to 11:00 am or by appointment
TA: Steffen Rebennack
Office: 401 Weil Hall
E-mail: steffen@ufl.edu
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Office Hours: MW 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm
Class Hours: MW 5:10 pm to 7:05 pm
Classroom: Weimer 1094
Course description: Global optimization problems appear in a wide range of applications in operations research, economics, statistics, medicine, engineering and computer sciences. In this course we introduce the student to the main concepts and techniques of global optimization. Topics to be covered include: Properties of Nonconvex Functions, Convex Envelopes, Duality, Complexity, Applications and Software Issues, Algorithms for Quadratic Programming, Concave Minimization, D.C. Programming, Lipschitz Optimization, Nonconvex Network Flow Problems, Decomposition Algorithms.
Prerequisities or Co-requisities: Linear and Nonlinear Programming, or equivalent.
Required Textbook: R. Horst, P.M. Pardalos and N.V. Thoai: "Introduction to Global Optimization", Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001, ISBN: 0-7923-6756-1 (2nd edition) Information on the book can be found in: http://www.springer.com/978-0-7923-6756-7
Other references:
- Selected papers published in the Journal of Global Optimization will be discussed in the class or given to students for study and analysis.
