Here is some basic information about this web page. (This web page is under construction.)
K. Driessel created this web page in the August of 2008 for a course/seminar at Iowa State University. Irv Hentzel and Driessel organized this seminar. Most of the lectures are related to topics in the book "A Mathematical View of Interior-Point Methods in Convex Optimization" by J. Renegar (SIAM, 2001).
Students can receive course credit for participating in this seminar. Such course credit can be arranged with K. Driessel.
This seminar meets at 2:10 on Thursdays in Carver 118.
Here is a list of the seminar talks.
December: The seminar will not meet during December.
November 27 : The seminar will not meet this week.
November 20 : Ken Driessel, "Constructing Self-Concordant Functionals (continued)"
November 13 : The seminar will not meet this week.
November 6 : Ken Driessel, "Constructing Self-Concordant Functionals"
Abstract: We shall continue to discuss the second chapter 'Basic Interior-Point Method Theory' in the book by Renegar. In particular, we shall discuss some of the other properties of self-concordant functionals and we shall construct more examples of such functionals.
October 30 : The seminar will not meet this week.
October 23 : "Self-Concordancy and Newton's Method (continued)"
October 16 : Ken Driessel, "Self-Concordancy and Newton's Method (continued)"
October 9 : The seminar will not meet this week.
October 2 : Ken Driessel, "Self-Concordancy and Newton's Method"
Abstract: We shall continue to discuss the second chapter 'Basic Interior-Point Method Theory' in the book by Renegar. We shall see that convergence results for Newton's method are particularly nice for self-concordant functionals.
September 25 : Ken Driessel, "Self-Concordant Functionals (continued)"
September 18 : Ken Driessel, "Self-Concordant Functionals"
Abstract: We shall begin to discuss the second chapter 'Basic Interior-Point Method Theory' in the book by Renegar.
September 11 : The seminar will not meet this week.
September 4 : Ken Driessel, "Derivatives, Gradients, and Hessians"
Abstract: We shall discuss the first chapter 'Preliminaries' in the book by Renegar.
Last update: November 16, 2008
Kenneth R. Driessel, driessel@iastate.edu