AMSC 607 / CMSC 764 Advanced Numerical Optimization

Homework: Important note: To pass this course, you need to make an honest effort at each homework. Partial credit will be given for partially-working programs.

Homework 1, due September 30
Friday, September 26: An adjustment because of the hurricane: the homework is still due on September 30, but if you hand it in by 11am on Thursday October 2, there will be no late penalty. From 11am Thursday to 11am Saturday, the late penalty will be 30%, just as it would have been originally.

The homework was coauthored by Nargess Memarsadeghi, as an assignment for CMSC 660 last year. It is published in the September/October 2003 issue of the magazine Computing in Science and Engineering. I took her name out of the copy I gave you to protect her from questions.
postscript and pdf

Frequently asked questions about the homework.

The image in Matlab format

To view the image, use these Matlab commands:
load charlie;
asdata = double(as);
image(asdata/255);
axis image;
axis off;

For better viewing, use
set(gcf, 'Renderer', 'opengl')
unless you have only the Student Version of Matlab.

To work with the image in matlab, change the array to double precision:
load charlie
asdata = double(as);

Written solution: postscript and pdf

Sample programs

Homework 2, due November 11

postscript or pdf

The test problems

testmyfnct.m

myfnct.m