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Lecture 17: Equality Constrained Minimization Continued (EE364a)

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1:19:25·2008·graduate level

Continuing from the previous lecture, this session delves deeper into advanced techniques and complex scenarios involving equality-constrained minimization. It examines algorithmic refinements and specific engineering applications.

Professor Stephen Boyd, of the Stanford University Electrical Engineering department, continues his lecture on equality constrained minimization 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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