Interesting courses for fall 2014

• ECON 109 Game Theory
• MWF 12:00p-12:50p PCYNH 109 Newhouse, Herbert S
• MAE 281A/B Nonlinear Systems and Control (Prof. Krstic/Cortes)
• ... Not offered
• ECE 271A Statistical Learning I
• TuTh 12:30p-1:50p WLH 2205 Vasconcelos, Nuno 
• ECE 275A Parameter Estimation I
• TuTh 2:00p-3:20p PETER 104 Kreutz-Delgado, Kenneth
• ECE 251C Filter Banks and Wavelets
• TuTh 3:30p-4:50p WLH 2110 Rao, B
• ECE 293 Comm. Theory Seminar
• W 3:00p-3:50p EBU1 4309 Kim, Young-Han 
• CSE 250 Probabilistic Learning
• TuTh 12:30p-1:50p HSS 1330 Saul, Lawrence 
• MATH 245A Convex Analysis
• MWF 4:00p-4:50p APM 5829 Nie, Jiawang 
• MATH 271A/B/C Numerical Optimization (Philip E. Gill)
• ... Not offered
• MATH 280A Probability Theory 
• MW 5:00p-6:20p APM 6402 Williams, Ruth J 
• MATH 286 Stochastic Differential Equations
• MWF 4:00p-4:50p APM  B412 Schweinsberg, Jason

Notes on Clang

• Clang and LLVM disable RTTI.  As such the object files do not contain RTTI information.
• ensure the -fno-rtti flag is set

Good questions on C

• Difference between external linkage and internal linkage
• default linkage for non-const and const in C
• use of extern and static keyword
• Use of unnamed namespace in C++ vs static keyword

Building Clang (cont.)

gmake ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1

Perform a Release (Optimized) build.

gmake ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=1 DISABLE_ASSERTIONS=1

Perform a Release (Optimized) build without assertions enabled.

gmake ENABLE_OPTIMIZED=0

Perform a Debug build.

gmake ENABLE_PROFILING=1

Perform a Profiling build.

gmake VERBOSE=1

Print what gmake is doing on standard output.

gmake TOOL_VERBOSE=1

Ask each tool invoked by the makefiles to print out what it is doing on the standard output. This also implies VERBOSE=1.

Relevant courses in Math Dept.

MATH 271 A,B,C

• Taught by Professor Philip E. Gill in 2013 (course link)
• NOTE: Not offered in 2014

MATH 245 A,B,C

• Offered and taught by Professor Nie in 2014
• Mostly concepts in convex optimization covered in ECE 273 by Prof. Lanckriet 

MATH 277 A,B

• Offered and taught by Professors {Saab, Leok} in 2014
• Not sure how applicable this is to the area of optimization 

MATH 250 A 251 B,C

• Differential geometric and theory of Lie groups (methods used in the paper by Steven Simon and Aris Moustakas to obtain capacity of MIMO correlated channels)
• Taught by Prof. Kemp (who also taught Random Matrix theory course)