GENERAL INFORMATION

• Announcement
• Syllabus
• Laurent O. Jay's homepage
• 056:271 another course on nonlinear optimization given by Yong Chen from the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.

SOME OPTIMIZATION LINKS

• The Network-Enabled Optimization System (NEOS) Guide to Optimization
• Other Optimization-related Web Sites
• Nonlinear Programming Frequently Asked Questions
• Linear Programming Frequently Asked Questions

COMPUTER LABORATORY

• Studio Classroom, this lab is in room B5 of MLH. Check for time reserved.
• Help Page for the Division of Mathematical Sciences and Getting Started in the Division of Mathematical Sciences You can find some information about Unix there.

UNIX CLASS ACCOUNTS

• Class directory: /group/class/m174.
• Group you belong to and class mailing list: m174.
• If you do not know your password go to 303A MLH.
• Accounts for students who are not majoring in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Statistics and Actuarial Science will be deleted at the end of the term. Note the expiration date at the top of your Unix Account Information form.
• The directory for this class will be removed before the beginning of the next term. If there is anything in this directory that you would like to save, you must archive it to your own home directory.

MATLAB

• Free electronic textbook Numerical Computing with MATLAB by Cleve Moler himself!, the founder of Matlab.
• Matlab Help is available directly from the Help menu of the Matlab window.
• A Very Elementary MATLAB Tutorial, MATLAB Tutorials from Other Universities, MATLAB & Simulink Tutorials, MATLAB Homework Helper, all presented by Mathworks, Inc., producers of Matlab.
• Crash Course in MATLAB by Tobin Driscoll, University of Delaware.
• Some Matlab tutorials from Edward Neuman
• Matlab tutorial - University of New Hampshire
• Matlab tutorial - US Naval Academy
• Matlab tutorial - University of British Columbia
• Matlab tutorial - University of Florida
• Matlab tutorial - University of California at Los Angeles
• MATLAB Online Reference Documentation provides direct hypertext links to specific MATLAB function descriptions (from the Math Dept, University of Florida).
• Matlab Primer (ps) (for an earlier version of Matlab)
• Matlab 5 introduction (ps, see also html)
• MATLAB Guide by D. J. Higham and N. J. Higham, SIAM, Philadelphia, 2005 (ENGINEERING QA297 .H5217 2005)
• Introduction to Engineering Programming: in C, MATLAB and JAVA by Mark A. Austin.
• Matlab for first order ODEs
• Matlab for higher order ODEs and systems of ODEs
• Matlab for PDEs

FORTRAN

• Type "man f90" on Unix workstations for information on how to compile
• A list of Fortran tutorials, Fortran 90 for the Fortran 77 programmer.

GRADER

• Ricardo Ortiz-Rosado, 1K MLH, 335-0780, e-mail: rortizro@math.uiowa.edu.

HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS

1. hmwk1.ps , hmwk1.pdf due 01/31/07.
2. hmwk2.ps , hmwk2.pdf due 02/07/07.
3. hmwk3.ps , hmwk3.pdf due 02/14/07.
4. hmwk4.ps , hmwk4.pdf due 02/26/07. Two simple Matlab files related to exercise 2: broyden.m, F.m.
5. hmwk5.ps , hmwk5.pdf due 03/05/07.
6. hmwk6.ps , hmwk6.pdf due 03/21/07.
7. hmwk7.ps , hmwk7.pdf due 03/28/07.
8. hmwk8.ps , hmwk8.pdf due 04/04/07.
9. hmwk9.ps , hmwk9.pdf due 04/20/07.
10. hmwk10.ps , hmwk10.pdf due 04/25/07.