FINAL EXAMINATION

To be held on Friday, May 17, 3:00-5:00 PM in room 218 MLH. Comprehensive exam on the whole semester class. On the material covered in class in

• chapter I of my notes, excluding trust-region methods ,
• chapter II of my notes up to page II.29, excluding trust-region methods and Theorem II.7.2.2,
• chapter III of my notes,
• chapter IV of my notes.

ASSIGNMENTS/HOMEWORK

1. hmwk1.ps , hmwk1.pdf due 02/04/13.
2. hmwk2.ps , hmwk2.pdf due 02/13/13.
3. hmwk3.ps , hmwk3.pdf due 02/20/13.
4. hmwk4.ps , hmwk4.pdf due 03/06/13. Two simple Matlab files related to exercise 1: broyden.m, F.m.
5. hmwk5.ps , hmwk5.pdf due 03/13/13.
6. hmwk6.ps , hmwk6.pdf due 03/27/13.
7. hmwk7.ps , hmwk7.pdf due 04/10/13.
8. hmwk8.ps , hmwk8.pdf due 04/22/13.
9. hmwk9.ps , hmwk9.pdf due 05/01/13.
10. hmwk10.ps , hmwk10.pdf due 05/08/13.

RECOMMENDED READINGS

• NW: Appendix A
• NW: Chapter 1, Section 2.1
• K1: Chapter 4
• K1: Chapter 5
• NW: Section 11.1
• K1: Chapter 7
• NW: Chapter 2
• NW: Sections 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
• K1: Chapter 1
• K1: Chapter 2
• NW: Section 5.1
• NW: Section 5.2
• NW: Section 3.1
• NW: Chapter 12
• NW: Sections 16.1, 16.2, 18.1
• NW: Sections 3.2, 3.3, 6.4
• NW: p.604 on SVD, Sections 10.1, 10.2, 10.3

GENERAL INFORMATION

• Syllabus
• ICON
• (NW) Free electronic book on Numerical optimization, by Jorge Nocedal and Stephen Wright, Springer, New York, Springer Series in Operations Research and Financial Engineering, 2006, Second edition, 664 pages, ISBN-10: 0387303030, ISBN-13: 978-0387303031, list price: $79.95. Library reference: MATH Course Reserve QA402.5 .N62 1999. The book on amazon.com.
• (K1) Free electronic book on Iterative Methods for Linear and Nonlinear Equations by Tim Kelley. If the link does not work, go to Download Books from SIAM. This textbook on SIAM for purchase, Softcover, ISBN-10: 0-89871-352-8, ISBN-13: 978-0-898713-52-7, list price: $57.00, SIAM member price $39.90 (becoming a SIAM member is free for students!). This textbook on amazon.com.
• (K2) Free electronic book on Iterative Methods for Optimization by Tim Kelley. If the link does not work, go to Download Books from SIAM. This textbook on SIAM for purchase, list price: $61.00, SIAM member price $42.70 (becoming a SIAM member is free for students!). This textbook on amazon.com.

SOME OPTIMIZATION LINKS

• NEOS Wiki the ubiquitous online source for optimization
• The Network-Enabled Optimization System (NEOS) Server for Optimization

LINUX COMPUTER ACCOUNTS

• Linux computer accounts will be made available on the Linux network in MLH (computer lab rooms B5 and 301). You can also use the NoMachine NX Client Windows software to access your Linux computer account remotely. To access the Linux network (linux.divms.uiowa.edu) from off campus, you are required to establish a VPN connection before connecting (follow these instructions to install the software required to establish such connections).
• Selected Unix commands.
• Class directory: /group/class/m_174. Group you belong to: m_174.
• 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 after the term has ended! 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.
• Getting Started in the Division of Mathematical Sciences

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 - University of British Columbia
• Matlab tutorial - University of Florida
• 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.
• An excellent book on Matlab: MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications by Amos Gilat, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley ; Chichester : John Wiley, 2008, ISBN-10: 0470108770, ISBN-13: 978-0470108772 (ENGINEERING QA297 .G48 2008)

FORTRAN

• Type "man f90" on Unix workstations for information on how to compile
• A list of Fortran tutorials,

GRADER

• Boshi Yang, B20J MLH, 335-3650, e-mail: boshi-yang @uiowa.edu.