[ 12/7 ] No class Tuesday, December 8th. The final is on Thursday, December 10th at 9am in the normal classroom. Review session Tuesday from 3 to 4! Meet outside Lubrano on the 4th floor.

[ 11/24 ] Reminder: The Final is on Thursday, December 10th from 9am to 12pm in the same location as class.
Meinolf will be gone next week (after Thanksgiving) and Kevin will be giving 2 lectures: On Tuesday, solving LPs in polynomial time with the ellipsoid and interior point algorithms, and on Thursday local search. The Tuesday lecture contains material on the final, the Thursday lecture is useful for optimization and AI, but not on the final.

[ 10/27 ] Prof. Holger Hoos from UBC is giving a talk tomorrow (Wednesday, 10/28) at 12pm in CIT 368!

[ 10/26 ] Review session for the midterm today (10/26) from 3pm-4pm in Lubrano* hosted by the TAs.
* Tentatively scheduled for Lubrano. Any changes will be posted there.

[ 10/19 ] The final well be held Thursday, December 10th from 9am to 12pm. If this causes a conflict for you, please email the TAs! The final and midterm are open notes/open book, but no electronic devices are allowed!
 
Also, Project 1 is up! It is due November 4th at 4pm.

[ 10/13 ] The midterm will be held on Tuesday, October 27. A review session will be held the previous Thursday.

[ 9/28 ] Homework 3 has been postponed for 1 week since there are several portions of it you have not yet learned (extreme points, basic feasible solutions). [ 9/26 ] We have all returned from CP and are working to get previous homeworks graded and handed back some time this week.
 
For those interested in myths about mathematical programming, here is the recently updated Myths and Counterexamples in Mathematical Programming by Harvey J. Greenberg.

[ 9/17 ] Important!! Meinolf along with Kevin and Serdar are going to be at CP 2009 for the next week.

Tuesday, 9/22: Class is cancelled.
Thursday, 9/24: Yuri Malitsky will be teaching class.

Yuri is also generously offering the following office hours to help with homework 2 (which is still due next Wednesday!)
Monday, 9/21 from 3-4 pm (CIT 409)
Wednesday, 9/23 from 2-4 pm (CIT 409)

The TAs will try to respond to any emailed questions, but we can't guarantee we will have the time or internet access to do so.

[ 9/11 ] We have created a Google group for the class that will allow you to communicate with other students. This is in leiu of a course mailing list. Please go and sign up!

[ 9/10 ] The first homework is up! It is due Wednesday, 9/16 at 4pm. Please hand in a printed copy in the bins on the 2nd floor outside of room 271. Remember that you are allowed to work with a partner!! (more details about partners in the missive)

Welcome! The first class meeting is Thursday, Sept 10th, in CIT 227. The class meets Tue/Thur 10:30-11:50. See you there :)