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Lecture 16: Equality Constrained Minimization (EE364a)

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1:13:59·2008·graduate level

This lecture focuses on minimization problems with equality constraints, introducing Lagrange multipliers and KKT conditions for finding optimal solutions. Practical applications in electrical engineering are also explored.

Professor Stephen Boyd, of the Stanford University Electrical Engineering department, lectures on how equality constrained minimization is utilized in electrical engineering for the course, Convex Optimization I (EE 364A).

Convex Optimization I concentrates on recognizing and solving convex optimization problems that arise in engineering. Convex sets, functions, and optimization problems. Basics of convex analysis. Least-squares, linear and quadratic programs, semidefinite programming, minimax, extremal volume, and other problems. Optimality conditions, duality theory, theorems of alternative, and applications. Interior-point methods. Applications to signal processing, control, digital and analog circuit design, computational geometry, statistics, and mechanical engineering.

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