MATH 171B, Spring 2024

Instruction

Instructor: Jiawang Nie
Office Room: AP&M 5864.
Office Phone: (858) 534-6015.
Email: njw "AT" math. ucsd dot edu.
Office hours: 2:00-3:00, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays in office.

Lectures

Time: 3:30 - 4:50, TuTh
Location: HSS 1330.

Attending classrom lectures is important for this course. The students are expected to learn materials that are covered in class. The homework and exam questions will be given for understanding concepts and theory taught in class.

TA Contact Info

Jiyoung Choi: OHs: 11:00am-1:00pm, Fridays, HSS 3070, jichoi@ucsd.edu
Jiajia Wang: OHs: 10:00am-11:00am (Thursdays), 3:00pm-5:00pm (Fridays), HSS 4056, jiw133@ucsd.edu
Shihao Zhang: OHs: 10:00am-12:00pm, Fridays, HSS 4016, shz051@ucsd.edu

Course Description

Convergence of sequences, multivariate Taylor series. Bisection and related methods for nonlinear equations in one variable. Newton's methods for nonlinear equations in one and many variables. Unconstrained optimization and Newton's method. Equality-constrained optimization, Kuhn-Tucker theorem. Inequality-constrained optimization. Experience of Matlab recommended.

Here is the course schedule.

Prerequisite

Calculus, Linear Algebra, Math 171A

Textbook

Philip Gill and Margaret H. Wright, Numerical Optimization, 1998.

Discussion Sessions and Teaching Assistants

Attending discussion sections is a requirement for this course.

Session A01: 5:00pm - 5:50pm, Wednesdays, APM 2301,   TA:  Jiajia Wang
Session A02: 6:00pm - 6:50pm, Wednesdays, Center 217B,   TA:  Jiajia Wang
Session A03: 7:00pm - 7:50pm, Wednesdays, APM 2301,   TA:  Shihao Zhang
Session A04: 8:00pm - 8:50pm, Wednesdays, Center 217B,   TA:  Jiyoung Choi

Assignments

Assignments will be assigned regularly. The due dates and time (in PDT) are stated in each assignment. Please write your names, id nubmers, and section numbers on your assignments. No late homework will be accepted for any reasons. The lowest grade of assignments will be droped. All assignments need to be submitted through Gradescope.

Calculators

Calculators are allowed for completing homework assignments and exam questions. However, all necessary computational steps need to be shown in submitted solutions. No credits will be given to answers that have no supporting reasoning.

Exams

There will be two midterm exams and one final. The exam rule will be announced before each exam.
  • Midterm I, April 25, Thursday, 2024.
  • Midterm II, May 23, Thursday, 2024.
  • Final - 3:00pm - 6:00pm, Monday, 6/10/2022.

    • Make-up exam policy

    There will be no make-up exams for this couse. If a midterm exam is missing, then the other midterm will count. If the final exam is missing, then this course cannot be passed.

    Grading

    The final course grade will be based on homework assignments, two midterms and the final exam. Your final grade will be based on the following weighted averages.
  • 20% Homework, 40% of the better one of two Midterms, 40% Final Exam.

    • Academic Integrity

    All students are expected to conduct themselves with academic integrity. Any kind of cheatings is not allowed. There are careful, serious checking of potential cheatings for all submissions. To prevent academic cheatings, the students may be requested to explain or even repeat what they have done in the submitted assignments or exams. They may also be possibly requested to re-take different (but mathematically equivalent) questions for assignments or exams. Violations of academic integrity will be treated seriously. All suspected academci dishonest activities will be reported to the integrity office for further serious investigation, possibly wihtout notice to the suspected students.

    The students are welcome to report any kind of suspicious academic dishonesty to the introuctor or TAs or other equivalent school staff. The reporting can be done anonymously, in email, phone, medial communication, or any other private ways. The privacy will be strictly kept.

    See UCSD Policy on Integrity of Scholarship.