Prof. Dr. Moritz Diehl and Léo Simpson
This webpage concerns one part of a more general course called Basics of Applied Mathematics (BAM), which is part of the Master program Mathematics in Data and Technology. This course is taught in three parts, and each part lasts for 5 weeks.
The current page concerns the material related to Part III on Optimization, for which the lectures and exercises take place from January 7 to February 7 2025.
Meetings
The lectures take place every Tuesday, 08:20 - 10:00 and Thursday, 08:20 - 10:00 in Room HS II, Albertstraße 23b, 79104 Freiburg. (Institutsviertel). There will also be exercise sessions.
Manuscript
Exercises
Topic | Questions | Notebooks (exercise) | Notebooks (solutions) |
| Introduction to Python | Installation guide | notebook 0 (exercise) | notebook 0 (solutions) |
| Optimization problems | Exercise 1 | - | - |
| Convexity | Exercise 2 | notebook 2 (exercise) | notebook 2 (solutions) |
| Gradient descent | Exercise 3 | notebook 3 (exercise) | notebook 3 (solutions) |
| Accelerated methods | Exercise 4 | notebook 4 (exercise) | notebook 4 (solutions) |
Contacts: [email protected], [email protected]
Photo of end-of-semester coffee on Feb. 6, 2025:
