All classes and the exam last three hours fifteen minutes (and include a 15min break).
| Date | Lecturer | Topic | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon, 21.9.2015 | Dimo Brockhoff | Overview of Optimization Course, Introduction to Discrete Optimization and Graphs | slides | ||
| Mon, 28.9.2015 | Dimo Brockhoff | Basic Flavors of Complexity Theory | slides | Exercise 1 | |
| Mon, 5.10.2015 | Dimo Brockhoff | Greedy algorithms | slides | Exercise 2 | |
| Mon, 12.10.2015 | Dimo Brockhoff | Branch and bound [+ 2nd part of greedy algorithm exercise] | slides | ||
| Mon, 2.11.2015 | Dimo Brockhoff | Dynamic programming | slides | Exercise 3 | |
| Fri, 6.11.2015 | Dimo Brockhoff | Approximation algorithms and heuristics [+ 2nd part of dynamic programming exercise] | slides | ||
| Mon, 9.11.2015 | Dimo Brockhoff | Introduction to Continuous Optimization I [+ heuristics part of last lecture] | slides | ||
| Fri, 13.11.2015 | Dimo Brockhoff | Introduction to Continuous Optimization II | slides | Exercise 4 | |
| Fri, 20.11.2015 | Dimo Brockhoff | Introduction to Continuous Optimization III: Gradient-based Algorithms | slides | ||
| Fri, 27.11.2015 | Dimo Brockhoff | Stochastic Optimization and Derivative Free Optimization I | slides | ||
| Fri, 4.12.2015 | Dimo Brockhoff | Stochastic Optimization and Derivative Free Optimization II | slides |