Links:

          General:

            Upcoming and Recent FPGA/VLSI/CAD Conferences

          Optimization:

                 Convex optimization course in Stanford University

                  Nonlinear Programming course in University of California

                  Lectures on modern convex optimization by A. Nemirovski and A. Ben-Tal

                  MIT course on combinatorial optimization

                  A Course in Combinatorial Optimization

                  The Cross Entropy Method

           Interconnect optimization:

 "Optimizations for VLSI Interconnect" course

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• Atraf

• Ski.ru (Russian only)

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