{"id":36,"date":"2016-10-03T18:03:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T18:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mitmgmtfaculty.mit.edu\/rfreund\/events\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T16:52:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T16:52:22","slug":"educationalactivities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mitmgmtfaculty.mit.edu\/rfreund\/educationalactivities\/","title":{"rendered":"Educational Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-36\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-36-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-36-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-36-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_mit-pf-biography widget_mit_pf_biography panel-first-child\" data-index=\"0\" >\t\t<h2 class=\"widget-title\">New Online Course: Data Science and Analytics<\/h2>\t<div class=\"teasertext textwidget\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/xpro.mit.edu\/courses\/course-v1:xPRO+PCDSx+R1\/\">MIT xPRO: Professional Certificate in Data Science and Analytics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Taught by Profs. Freund, Farias, Levi, and Ramakrishnan<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-36-0-0-1\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_mit-pf-wysiwyg widget_mit_pf_wysiwyg\" data-index=\"1\" ><h2 class=\"widget-title\">Teaching Interests and Activities<\/h2><div class=\"textwidget\"><ul>\n<li>Theory and methods for nonlinear optimization (masters\u2019 and doctoral levels)<\/li>\n<li>Operations research\/management science for MBA curricula (MBA level)<\/li>\n<li>Business analytics (MBA and masters\u2019 level)<\/li>\n<li>Co-author of textbook <em>Data, Models, and Decisions: the Fundamentals of Management Science.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><div id=\"panel-36-0-0-2\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_mit-pf-wysiwyg widget_mit_pf_wysiwyg panel-last-child\" data-index=\"2\" ><h2 class=\"widget-title\">Lecture Notes on Topics in Nonlinear Optimization<\/h2><div class=\"textwidget\"><p>These lecture notes have been developed with Professor Jorge Vera at Pontificia Universidad Cat\u00f3lica, Santiago, Chile.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mitsloan-php\/wp-faculty\/sites\/30\/2016\/12\/15025626\/Introduction-to-Nonlinear-Optimization-and-Optimality-Conditions-fo.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Introduction to Nonlinear Optimization and Optimality Conditions for Unconstrained Optimization Problems<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mitsloan-php\/wp-faculty\/sites\/30\/2016\/12\/15031226\/Newton%E2%80%99s-Method-for-Unconstrained-Optimization.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Newton\u2019s Method for Unconstrained Optimization<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mitsloan-php\/wp-faculty\/sites\/30\/2016\/12\/15031319\/Steepest-Descent-Algorithm-for-Unconstrained-Optimization.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steepest Descent Algorithm for Unconstrained Optimization<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mitsloan-php\/wp-faculty\/sites\/30\/2016\/12\/15031343\/Optimality-Conditions-for-Constrained.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Optimality Conditions for Constrained Optimization Problems<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mitsloan-php\/wp-faculty\/sites\/30\/2016\/12\/15031445\/First-Order-Methods-in-Simple-Settings-Euclidean-norm-unconstraine-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First-Order Methods in Simple Settings (Euclidean norm, unconstrained optimization)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mitsloan-php\/wp-faculty\/sites\/30\/2016\/12\/15031546\/First-Order-Methods-in-the-General-Setting-non-Euclidean-norm-Breg.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First-Order Methods in the General Setting (non-Euclidean norm, Bregman distances, with constraints and composite functions)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mitsloan-php\/wp-faculty\/sites\/30\/2016\/12\/15031751\/Interior-Point-Methods-for-Linear-Optimization.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interior-Point Methods for Linear Optimization<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mitsloan-php\/wp-faculty\/sites\/30\/2016\/12\/15031918\/Interior-Point-Theory-for-Convex-Optimization-with-Self-Concordant-B.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Interior-Point Theory for Convex Optimization with Self-Concordant Barriers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mitsloan-php\/wp-faculty\/sites\/30\/2016\/12\/15032002\/Duality-Theory-of-Constrained-Optimization.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Duality Theory of Constrained Optimization<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mitsloan-php\/wp-faculty\/sites\/30\/2016\/12\/15032040\/Analysis-of-Convex-Sets-and-Functions.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Analysis of Convex Sets and Functions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mitsloan-php\/wp-faculty\/sites\/30\/2016\/12\/15032100\/Convex-Conic-Optimization-and-SDP-Semi-Definite-Programming.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Convex Conic Optimization, and SDP (Semi-Definite Programming)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/mitsloan-php\/wp-faculty\/sites\/30\/2016\/12\/15032137\/Symmetric-Matrices-and-Eigendecomposition.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Symmetric Matrices and Eigendecomposition<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Online Course: Data Science and Analytics MIT xPRO: Professional Certificate in Data Science and Analytics Taught by Profs. 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