Provided by:
IMT
From:
Altro PhD (Institutions, Markets and Technologies)
Sede:
IMT Lucca
Lecturers:
Alberto BEMPORAD
Semester:
1
Hours:
20
Exam:
Y
Educational Goals:
Optimization plays a key role in solving a large variety of decision problems that arise in engineering (design, process operations, embedded systems), data science, machine learning, business analytics, finance, economics, and many others. This course focuses on formulating optimization models and on the most popular numerical methods to solve them.
Prerequisites:
Linear algebra and matrix computation, calculus and mathematical analysis.
Programme:
Modeling: linear programming models, convex optimization models. Basic optimization theory: optimality conditions, sensitivity, duality. Algorithms for constrained convex optimization: active-set methods for linear and quadratic programming, proximal methods and ADMM, stochastic gradient, interior-point methods. Line-search methods for unconstrained nonlinear programming, sequential quadratic programming.
