Math 450 / 558 - Course Calendar
This calendar is tentative. The precise duration on various topics are likely to change.
The chapters of the textbook corresponding to the topics are referred inside parentheses.

• Week 1 (Oct 5):  Introduction (Chapter 1)

• Week 2 (Oct 12):  Convex Sets (Chapter 2)

• Weeks 3 (Oct 19): Convex Functions (Chapter 3)
  

• Weeks 4-5 (Oct 26): Convex Optimization Problems, Optimality Conditions  (Chapter 4)

• Weeks 6-7 (Nov 9): Lagrangian Duality, Strong Duality  (Chapter 5)

• Week 8 (Nov 23): Applications - Approximation and Fitting Problems (Chapter 6)

• Week 9 (Nov 30): Applications - Geomteric Problems (Chapter 8)

• Weeks 10-11 (Dec 7): Algorithms for Unconstrained Minimization (Chapter 9)

• Week 12 (Dec 21): Algorithms for Equality Constrained Minimization (Chapter 10)

• Weeks 13-14 (Dec 28): Interior Point Methods for General Constrained Minimization (Chapter 11)