| # Logistics Intructor: Laurent El Ghaoui Contact: elghaoui at EECS Office hours: M 1-2, 402 Cory Teaching assistants: Anh Pham, Office Hours: Thu 2-3, 571 Cory Youwei Zhang, Office Hours: W 11-12, 403 Cory Exercises and Homeworks: Exercises: Each week we will assign a set of Exercises, which are meant to help in the theoretical understanding of the lectures. Homeworks: In addition we will assign a total of five Homeworks which are more extensive and require the use of matlab or python. Discussion section: A discussion section will be held a two different times each week. Wednesday, 1:30-2:30pm, 340 Moffitt, starting 2/3. The other time slot is TBA. Labs: On some weeks, the Wednesday discussion section is replaced by a lab: Location and time: 1:30-3pm, 330 Cory Lab dates: 1/27, 2/10 3/3, 4/14 `Grading:` 30% Homework and Exercises, one midterm (30% each), one final (40%) Book: Boyd and Vandenberghe, Convex Optimization. Software: See here.