Nicolas Boumal

EPFL SB SMA-GE
MA C2 627 (Bâtiment MA)
Station 8
1015 Lausanne

EPFL SB MATH OPTIM
MA C2 627 (Bâtiment MA)
Station 8
1015 Lausanne

Teaching & PhD

PhD Students

Andreea-Alexandra Musat, Javier Esteban Maass Martinez

Past EPFL PhD Students

Christopher Criscitiello (2025), Quentin Rebjock (2025)

Courses

Advanced analysis I - real analysis

MATH-100(a)

Study of the fundamental concepts of analysis, differential and integral calculus

Continuous optimization

MATH-329

This course introduces students to continuous, nonlinear optimization. We study the theory of optimization with continuous variables (with full proofs), and we analyze and implement important algorithms to solve constrained and unconstrained problems.

Optimization on manifolds

MATH-512

We develop, analyze and implement numerical algorithms to solve optimization problems of the form min f(x) where x is a point on a smooth manifold. To this end, we first study differential and Riemannian geometry (with a focus dictated by computational concerns). We also discuss several applications