Lecture plan
The lecture plan will be continuously updated.
| Date | Topics | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Introduction and preliminaries | ||
| Week 2 | Introduction and examples Dirichlet integral and Laplace equation Weak and strong Euler-Lagrange equation | DlR Chap. 1.1, 2.1-2.2 |
| Week 3 | Weak derivatives The Sobolev space \(H^1\) Weak and strong Euler-Lagrange equation Weak solutions of PDEs Optimality conditions for finite dimensional control problems | DlR Chap. 2.2-2.3, 1.2 |
DlR refers to the book J.C. De los Reyes, Numerical PDE-Constrained Optimization, 2015.