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727 Nonsmooth Optimization. (Crosslisted with Ind Engr 727.) Alt Yrs; 3cr. Methods for handling nondifferentiable functions occurring inoptimization. Convex functions: conjugacy, Fenchel-Rockafellar duality, monotone operators and subdifferentials. Nonconvex functions: variational principles, generalized gradients, subdifferentials, epigraph methods. Algorithms. Applications to operations research and related areas. P:Math 522 and Math 340 or cons inst.

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