Optimization on smooth manifolds: companion material
Nicolas Boumal

This book is published by Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Click here to download the pre-publication PDF (Feb. 11, 2023).

This webpage collects material from lectures given at EPFL for the course MATH-512 in spring 2023. A semester runs for 14 weeks. Almost every week has a lecture and an exercise session, which each last 90-95 minutes. The students further learn the material by completing two extensive projects.

The material below is split by topic rather than by lecture. For reference, the rhythm of lectures as taught in 2023 is indicated in the second column (week number).

You can change the playback speed of videos (play faster, slower): see controls at the bottom-right of the video panel.

I gratefully acknowledge EPFL's CEDE for video post-production!