56:270 Linear Programming

Spring Semester 2000

NOTE: The syllabus below is tentative!

, APL
Week
#
Begin
Date
Lecture Topic
1 19 Jan

Matrices & Linear Algebra

2 24 Jan

Revised Simplex Method
Upper Bounding Technique

3 31 Jan

Representation of Basis Inverse

4 7 Feb

Modeling languages (LINGO, etc.)

5 14 Feb

LP duality, Sensitivity analysis

6 21 Feb

Parametric programming; dual simplex method

7 28 Feb

Complementary pivoting method

8 6 March

Piecewise-linear (separable) programming

9 13 March

SPRING BREAK!

10 20 March

Decomposition methods: Dantzig-Wolfe et al.

11 27 March

Interior-point methods

12 3 April

Interior-point methods

13 10 April

Stochastic LP

14 17 April

Markov decision problems via LP

15 24 April

Case studies, etc.

16 1 May

Review

17 8 May

Final Examination (date to be arranged)

to LP home page.


http://asrl.ecn.uiowa.edu/dbricker/lp_syllabus.html

dennis-bricker@uiowa.edu

Last modified: 18 January 2000