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Math 4025 Syllabus

This document outlines the details of the Math 4025 Optimization course for Spring 2011. It will be taught by Professor Peter Wolenski and use the textbook The Basics of Practical Optimization by Adam Levy. Grades will be based on homework, exams, and a final project. Homework will include exercises from the text and be collected in a notebook. Exams will cover basic terms and concepts. The final project is a 20 page research paper on an optimization topic.

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Math 4025 Syllabus

This document outlines the details of the Math 4025 Optimization course for Spring 2011. It will be taught by Professor Peter Wolenski and use the textbook The Basics of Practical Optimization by Adam Levy. Grades will be based on homework, exams, and a final project. Homework will include exercises from the text and be collected in a notebook. Exams will cover basic terms and concepts. The final project is a 20 page research paper on an optimization topic.

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Math 4025 Optimization

Spring, 2011

Instructor: Peter R. Wolenski Oce Hours: 10:30-12:00 T, Th, or by appointment (578-1606); Lockett 326. Text: The Basics of Practical Optimization by Adam Levy. This is the second time I am using this text. We should be able to cover most of it and a lot more. Grading: 40% Homework and Notebook: Your homework and class notes must be kept in a notebook, and will be collected 5 times, roughly every 3 weeks. You should use this notebook to record your notes and make commentary on the diculties and/or enjoyments you are having. It is understood that you will write up answers to all of the Exercises and Problems that appear throughout the text. We shall go over many of these in class, and you should write up the answers to all of them up in your notebook, even if they were not specically assigned. Additional homework problems will be added occasionally, as well as computational problems whose solution will require a computer. We will attempt to go through the 25 Modeling Problems that are included at the end of Chapter One. 20% Midterm Exam: This will be an in-class 100 point exam that will cover basic terms and concepts. 20% Final Exam: Similar to the mid-term, but twice as long. 20% Final Project: A nal term paper is required. There is considerable leeway in choosing a topic. Possibilites include (1) a description of a specic application of optimization in industry or science, (2) an in depth analysis of a specic algorithm, (3) a survey of modern optimization methods and software, (4) modern theoretical developments of optimization, or (5) a software implementation (e.g. with AIMMS, Maple, Matlab, or Mathematica) of a specic but fairly complicated optimization problem. The paper should be about 20 pages and include complete and accurate references.

Due Thursday, January 27, 2011


Turn in your notebook containing the solutions to Problems 2.1-2.4. Also, formulate the Modeling Problems 1, 3, and 4 on page 16. You do not need to solve them at this time, but do so if you can. Learn a software program (AIMMS, Maple, Matlab, Mathematica) well enough to solve the Blending Example given in class. Recall the data was Sulfur Vanadium Available Price Exxon 5% 1% 1000 $50 Mobile 2% 4% 1500 $40 The goal is to make the cheapest product of 2000 tons that has sulfur content between 3 and 4% and with Vanadium less than 3%. What is the mixture?

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