STAT - 562: Operation Research. Spring 2008.

MWF, 11:00-11:50, GMCS-308.

SYLLABUS. HOMEWORK. HANDOUTS.

NEWS.

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Instructor: Professor Vladimir Rotar; Office GMCS -514, phone: 594 7244; e-mail: rotar@sciences.sdsu.edu or vrotar@euclid.ucsd.edu.  

Office hours: MW: 14:30-16:00; F: 14:05-14:35, or by appointment.

Texts (all optional):

1. W.L.Winston and M. Venkataramanan, Intoduction to Mathematical Programming, 4^th edition, Thompson Brook/Cole, 2003.

2. Pravin Varayia, Lecture Notes on Optimization. http://paleale.eecs.berkeley.edu/~varaiya/papers_ps.dir/NOO.pdf

3. Joel Franklin, Methods of Mathematical Economics, Springer, 1980.

4. David Luenberg, Linear and Non-Linear Programming, 2^nd edition, Addison-Wesley, 1984.

Examinations. There will be a number of quizzes, and a final exam. Homework will be assigned almost each class and will be collected, as a rule, each week.)

The prerequisite is ordinary Calculus and Linear Algebra (not complicated, but the student should know how to differentiate and integrate, how to multiply matrices, and what their eigenvalues are, etc).