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)