ECE 580
Optimization Methods

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

for Systems and Control

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Midterm #1
Midterm #2
Final

 

 


Midterm #1

February 25, Wednesday,

EE 170

7:00--8:00pm


  • This is a 50 minute duration exam
  • Closed books, closed notes, no crib-sheets, no calculators

 


Test Coverage

  • Gradients and Hessians
  • Taylor series expansion
  • Definiteness of quadratic forms
  • FONC and SOSC
  • Fibonacci and Golden Section methods
  • Steepest descent
  • Newton’s methods
  • Conjugate direction method
  • Conjugate gradient method
  • Outer product (dyadic product)