Math 164 - Optimization

Winter 2013
Dr. David Weisbart
Course Webpage
Here is the syllabus for this course.

Section 1 - Tues at 9am in MS 6229

Office hours:
    Tues at 10am in MS 6118
    Wed at 2pm in MS 6118

WEEK 10: No Office Hours on Wed 3/13
Office Hour on Thurs 3/14 at 3pm in Boelter 5420

Late Homework Policy:
Homework is due on Fridays.
If you turn in your homework on __ I will take __ off your grade:
Monday -- 20%
Tuesday -- 40%
Wednesday -- 60%
Thursday -- 80%
no credit for homework turned in a more than a week late.

General Course Outline

*image credited to Sam Derbyshire / CC-BY-SA-3.0

Notes

• This is the paper on The Split Bregman Method that I mentioned in section that gives an example of optimization problems in Image Processing.
• Here is a page with a cool video about solving the optimization problem of how to arrange your furniture. Make it Home: Automatic Optimization of Furniture Arrangement
• Here is an interesting page describing how the Simplex Method is used to match singles on an online dating site. Here is a TED Talk describing how OKCupid rates matches (these are the coefficients pi in the previous page).

Homework Related Material

• Homework 1 - section 4.1 in the book. I wrote a matlab code that plots the surface z = c*x over top of the feasible region given by the system Ax <= b. Here are two plots from 4.1.1 (ii) and 4.1.1 (iii) respectively:
• Homework 4 - Here is a pdf outlining the Simplex Algorithm, as well as the worked through example from section.
• Homework 4 - You can resubmit problem 6.1.3 for a regrade.
• Here are some partial solutions from HW 8

Office: MS 7630
Email: ektuley at math dot ucla dot edu
Mailing Address: Mathematics Department
University of California Los Angeles
Los Angles, CA 90095