ECE1505: Convex Optimization
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
University of Toronto
Winter 2025
Instructor: |
Lectures: |
Professor Wei Yu |
Tuesday 9:30am-12noon GB248 |
Email: weiyu@comm.utoronto.ca |
Office Hours: After class and on Piazza |
Office: Bahen 4114 |
Final Exam: April 8, 2025, 9:00am-12noon, BA1170 |
Textbook: Convex
Optimization
Authors: Stephen Boyd and Lieven
Vandenberghe, Cambridge University Press, 2004
The great watershed in optimization isn't between linearity and nonlinearity, but convexity and nonconvexity - R. Tyrell Rockafellar (SIAM Review '93)
This course provides a comprehensive coverage of the theoretical foundation and numerical algorithms for convex optimization. Topics include:
The topics covered in this course may be of interests to students in all areas of engineering and computer science.
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Pre-requisite: Vector calculus. Linear algebra. A fair level of mathematical maturity is expected.
Grades: Homework (25%), Final Exam (50%), and Course Project (25%).
TA: Yuanxin Guo (yuanxin.guo@mail.utoronto.ca) and Yiming Liu (eceym.liu@mail.utoronto.ca) and Nick Kwan (nick.kwan@mail.utoronto.ca)
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Last Updated: March 19, 2025