First meeting Feb 10 2015, 15.15-17.00 in Konferensrum 1167B in the lab corridor of the Department of Automatic Control.
Organizer: Pontus Giselsson send me an email to be added to the course email list.
Meetings: Tuesdays 15.15-17.00, see schedule below. These will be exercise sessions.
Lectures: Online video lectures by Stephen Boyd are available here. The participants should view roughly two of these video lectures per week. There will be no separate lectures held in Lund, we will focus entirely on exercise sessions.
The textbook by Stephen Boyd and Lieven Vandenberghe is published by Cambridge University Press, who also makes it freely available for download.
Read and watch the following material before solving the exercises that are due on the listed date.
Before exercise sessions, fill in this exercise_list.
Exercise schedule: At meetings, the participants should show and discuss solutions to the exercises. The handins, in bold face below, should be done individually and handed in before the exercise session. The handin grading will be based on the best 7 of your handins.
All numbered exercises are from the textbook; exercises which start with ‘A’ are from the set of additional exercises posted on the textbook website. Data files for the additional exercises can be found on the textbook page.
You should make sure to have installed and can use CVX, CVXPY, or Convex.jl.
The examination will be based on weekly home problems (14p) and a take-home exam (21p). The limit for pass is 18p out of 35p. The 24 hour take-home exam is scheduled to take place the 29th of April. I will, via email, send the exam to the course participants at 09:00 on the 29th.
It is possible to add a project to the course. Projects can be done in groups of 1-3 persons. I would encourage you to find your own project formulations, perhaps with relation to your own research. Projects could range from numerical experiments to purely mathematical projects. There are three mandatory parts of the project: