UG Core

A lot of problems across engineering and management can be mod-

eled as optimization problems. Optimization problems come in various forms - Con-

tinuous and Discrete or Combinatorial Optimization being two of the most popular

ones. This course deals exclusively with Continuous optimization, and aims to intro-

duce both, theory and algorithms in Continuous optimization. The course will intro-

duce students to basic terminology in optimization, theory - conditions for existence

of points of optima(maxima/minima), and algorithms to solve optimization problems.

We will deal with both, linear and non-linear continuous optimization problems, fo-

cusing more on the latter.