COPT Course - Topics

 Advanced Methods for Constrained Optimization 








Topics:

  • Optimization in the Mathematical and the Applications World.
  • Global Optimization Issues.
  • Optimality Conditions.
  • Paradigms of Constrained Optimization algorithms.
  • Augmented Lagrangian theory and software.
  • Algencan and other packages for large-scale constrained optimization.
  • Sequential Quadratic Programming and Inexact Restoration methods.
  • Non-smooth problems.
  • Applications: Electronic Structure Calculations and others.