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Harvard Applied Math 205 is a graduate-level course on scientific computing and numerical methods. This video introduces Unit 4 ...

Sequential Quadratic Programming.

Review of linear algebra and calculus: norms, range space, null space, sequences, convergence of sequences.

Sequential quadratic programming.

Lagrange multiplier theorem, sufficient conditions for optimality, examples using Lagrange multiplier theorem.

Lagrange multiplier method and sensitivity theorem, problems with inequality constraints.

Primal-Dual Method, Second order Lagrangian Method for equality constrained optimization problems.

Augmented Lagrangian method and method of multipliers.

Manifold suboptimization method.

Necessary and sufficient conditions for optimality in minimization problems, gradient descent methods.

Review of Linear Algebra and Taylor series.

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Review of dynamic optimization: Maximum principle, dynamic programming and two-stage stochastic programming with recourse.

Gradient descent methods for computing optimal solutions.

Approximate dynamic programming, state aggregation, simplified modeling, singular perturbation, parametric approximation of ...

Banach contraction mapping theorem and its application to proving convergence of optimization algorithms.

Manifold suboptimization method and its relationship to simplex method for linear programming.

Markov decision problems, memoryless and stationary policies, Bellman operator, value iteration algorithm.

Necessary and sufficient conditions for optimality in constrained optimization, Projection theorem.