ECE: Electrical & Computer Engineering  ECE 5734 Convex
Optimization  Fall 2014 textbook list  The Fall 2014 ECE
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5734 Convex Optimization (3C)  Recognizing and solving convex
optimization problems. Convex sets, functions, and optimization
problems. Least-squares, linear, and quadratic optimization.
Geometric and semidefinite programming. Vector optimization.
Duality theory. Convex relaxations. Approximation, fitting, and
statistical estimation. Geometric problems. Control and
trajectory planning.  What is the reason for this course?  From
the Preface of Convex Optimization by Stephen Boyd and Lieven
Vandenberhghe, page xi: "[C]onvex optimization [is] a special
class of mathematical optimization problems, which includes
least-squares and linear programming problems...[Convex
problems] are more prevalent in practice than was previously
thought. Since 1990 many applications have been discovered i