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Solutions to the term paper: See the links in the exam problem links section. I do however suggest you show up for the review lecture rather than just browsing the solutions, as the papers submitted reveal a few issues to address.
Not too many of you did submit term papers today. I'm done with them, and could easily assess more. Just bring'em on. It will be more convenient to use the envelopes on my door.
Since I got two questions concering my availability before the exam: Yes, the extra lecture Thursday 09th is still on.
- I was made aware that in one of the examples, I managed to interchange the partial derivatives in a slope. What you know is right, is still right ;)
- One of the problems for this week asks to check Euler's theorem. That is the name of the property that the sum of the variables times their respective partial derivatives, equals k f.
Problem set for the (voluntary) term paper now published. You would want to do this week's (today's/tomorrow's) seminar problems first.
Minor error in the "extra" problems for this week: U' and V' are supposed to take all positive values. Should not affect any calculations.
Problem set for next week contains the problems announced in my previous message, and in addition two problems elaborating on the contract theory example I mentioned in the lecture. Only the first of these is exam relevant (see the note).
Since I usually don't announce next week's problems until Thursdays, I won't put this into the links, but: they will in the very least include the entire problem set for Autumn 06, and problem 4 from the Autumn 07 set.
The "extra" lecture is moved to Dec 09. Topic: The term paper problem set.
Voluntary term paper (tba later)
There is no compulsory term paper in this course this year. However, I will as a service put up a problem set for you to solve. It will not be available until you have done seminar problems in nonlinear programming.
It will be taken from exam problem sets from 2008 and 2009. I have disabled a link or two -- they are there for those who want to find, but I suggest you rather:
- Don't look at this "broken link" exam yet -- and the same goes for the 2009 exams, in case you have found them elsewhere;
- When I announce the "term paper", allocate three hours for it for a realistic exam setting. Then print out, write a solution in three hours, and submit it to me.
I will only give a rough assessment to them (no explicit grading) -- hey, I am not really paid to do this ;) -- but you might want the feedback not only to whether yo...
- Seminar problems available.
- As mentioned in the lecture, the review lecture is too close to an exam. Alternative times will be discussed in Monday's lecture.
- A quick note on problem 63: the sign of F(L) does in fact follow from the equations.
- Someone pointed out the following omission in the lecture: In the "find and classify" example, I forgot to classify the "case (III)" points.
- Someone also asked whether this logic part is on the curriculum. No, not per se -- it is rather intended for you to understand what you are doing, and what tests are necessary and sufficient (i.e. when you can conclude what).
- Today's consultation hours cancelled.
- Problems for next week will be up by tonight or tomorrow, but will at least include 28, 61 and the rest of 63, 92.
- The price search problem had an error: The derivatives of the g function need to be divided by x.
- Seminar problems for next week available.
- Seminar problems for next week now available.
- Norsk: Undervisningsplanen korrigert med referanser til ny og gml MA1.
- Complete lecture plan available
- In Norwegian: oppdaterte lenker til st?ttelitteratur ogs? for ligningssystemer. Hele kompendiet er n? tilgjengelig i tilfelle dere ?nsker ? bruke det som st?ttelitteratur ogs? for analyse-biten etter at vi er ferdig med line?r algebra.
- Next week: Lecture Monday only. No seminars.
- I have made available problems you can solve by means of the Sep 30 lecture. More problems will be made available early next week.
For this week's seminar problem set, I managed to paste the "manage this document" link rather than the correct one. Updated now.
(Should I be surprised that no-one has pointed it out to me yet, as of one hour before the first seminar?)
- Seminar problems for next week now available.
- Has anyone tried to reach me at consultation hours 1515--1530? "1515" was quoted by mistake, I am available after the Thursday seminars. Information updated.
- Seminar problems for next week now available.
- To compensate for the canceled lecture: a new one put up Monday in week 40 (which is then not teaching-free anymore). Lecture schedule updated.
And another Q for discussion tomorrow: Since we are lagging, I might not have enough material for seminar problems for next week. What to do about that?
- I may of course find other problems, but not other topics (as they are not covered in lectures yet).
- If you want to call off the teaching-freeness of wk40, we can run seminars then instead of next week.
- Otherwise: Is December 1st too late for a seminar?
- The lecture tomorrow Thursday will continue where last Thursday ended -- i.e., you will have the lecture you were supposed to have on Monday.
- The missing lecture will be replaced -- if nothing else, it will take the review lecture I intended to put after the ordinary lecture series.
- Until decided upon: we are lagging one lecture compared to the lecture plan.
- Tomorrow's consultation hours canceled, though. (You don't really want to show up in my office tomorrow without a spacesuit anyway.)
Today's seminar @1515 canceled. - Nils