Operations Research (Math/CS 339)
Spring 2024
Textbook Info
Textbook information is here
Video links
Optional videos for each lecture are here.
Beginning Material
Section Links
- Week 1
- Friday and Monday Jan 21-24 (Example using dietary restrictions, also how to use a spreadsheet)
- Week 2
- Monday- Class canceled due to ice (Watch videos: "Vocabulary Review"
"How to solve a linear program using LibreOffice Calc", and Section 3.3 setups.). Homework postponed to Friday.
- Wednesday
Review/questions from the videos. Assorted setups from 3.3-3.9 (skip 3.6,3.7).
- Friday. Here are the handouts we've looked at, with spreadsheet solutions (for some):
- (3.4) Raising pigs and Factories on the River.
- (3.5) Job Scheduling
- (3.8) Eli Daisy (Blending): Statement of the problem
- Week 3
- Monday:
- Wednesday:
- HW due tonight- HW from sections 3.8, 3.9, 3.10. These problems were (from the HW sheet):
- 3.8: 1, 10*
- 3.9: 1, 7*
- 3.10: 1, 7*
- Today: Start chapter 4 (4.1-4.2)
- Friday: 4.2-4.3
- Week 4 (Feb 2-9)
- Mon: 4.3
- Wed: 4.5 and 4.5
- Fri: The Simplex Method
- Week 5
- Mon: Finish 4.5-4.8 (Simplex, "Min" problem, Alternative optimal BFS, and unbounded LPs- also, 4.14, which was dealing with variables that are unrestricted in sign (URS))
- Wed: (HW from 4.5-4.8 due)
- Fri: 4.12-4.13 (Big-M and Two Phase)
- Week 6 (Change in schedule- Exam next Monday)
- Week 7
- Exam 1
- Section 6.1 (Graphical sensitivity analysis)
- Section 6.2, 6.3
- Week 8
- Mon: Finish 6.3.
- Wed: Section 6.5 (The Dual)
- Fri:
- HW Due: 6.1 #5 (note the typo thats listed on the handout), 6.2 #2, 6.3 #6 and the reverse side of the homework handout.
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