====== Convex Optimization ======

==== General ====
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|organizer  | Nicolas Macris (lthc)|
|office     |INR 134               |\\
|phone      |38114                 |
|email       |nicolas.macris@epfl.ch\">nicolas.macris@epfl.ch|\\
|tentative schedule | monday 11h - 12h30 |
|location | room INR 113 |
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==== Topic ====
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This semester we will study the topic of convex optimization. We will base ourselves on the book [[http://www.stanford.edu/~boyd/cvxbook|Convex Optimization]] by  S.Boyd and L.Vandenberghe. \\

We will meet on a weekly basis for presentations of 1h or 1h30.
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==== Evolving schedule ====
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^ speaker ^ date ^ topic ^
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| Satish Korada |  march 20   | Organisation - Linear programming |
| Satish Korada |  march 27   | Linear programming |
| Satish Korada | april 3      | Linear programming-end |
| Vishwambar Rathi | april 10  | Convex sets |
| easter holiday | april 17    | - - - - |
| Dinkar Vasudevan | april 24  | Convex functions (chap 3)|
| Jasper Goseling | May 1      | Convex optimization problems (chap 4)|
| Mohammad Karzand | May 8     | Duality (chap 5)|
| Mohammad Karzand | May 15    | Strong Duality: continued (chap 5)|
| Mohammad Karzand | May 22    | Strong duality: proof of main theorem (chap 5)|
| Amin Karbasi | May 29        | Optimality conditions (chap 5)|
| holiday |  June 5            | - - - - |
| Amin Karbasi | June 12       | KKT conditions: proofs, interpretation and examples |
| Florence Benezit | June 19   | Sensitivity analysis and theorems of alternatives |
| Etienne Perron | June 26     | Applications to estimation theory (chap 7) |
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