User:Karthik0112358

C S Karthik is an undergraduate at IIT-Bombay and is working on addition of an rSQP optimiser for ASCEND during GSOC2011.

Goals

Prior to May 23:

Related to rSQP:

Started reading Mathematical and High-Level Overview of MOOCHO. However was later redirected to chapter 12 (Nonlinear programming) of "Operations Research: Applications and Algorithms" from Winston, 1994, 3rd (or a later) Ed., Duxbury Press (Belmont, California) as a preliminary reading for mathematical background.
Completed reading chapter 12 (Nonlinear programming) of "Operations Research: Applications and Algorithms".
Re-reading Mathematical and High-Level Overview of MOOCHO.
Revisited theory behind the Simplex Algorithm from "Introduction to Algorithms", 3rd Edition, Page 864-879 authored by Cormen, Leisersin, Rivest, Stein.

Related to Radau5:

Investigated code ascend/integrator/integrator.h and ascend/integrator/integrator.c to understand the data structures used.