Applied Convex Optimization, EE4530, [5 ECTS]

Convex optimization has revolutionized the way problems are thought, posed, and solved in many different fields, from biology, medicine, finance to engineering. Convex optimization has provided a set of comprehensive tools to handle and answer a surprisingly large variety of useful and societally relevant questions. It has provided the theory to understand these questions in terms of a certain class of optimization problems, and computationall