Introduction to Optimization (Spring 2026)
Instructor
- Instructor: Ali Mohammad Nezhad
- Office: Hanes 330
- Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday 2:30 - 4:00 PM
- Email: alimn@unc.edu
Lecture
- STOR 415-001: Tuesday and Thursday 9:30 - 10:45 AM at GA 105
Teaching Assistant
- TA: Beichen Wan
- Office: Hanes B-26
- Office hours: Monday and Friday 2:30 - 3:30 PM
- Email: bcwan@unc.edu
Course Information
Useful Links
Tentative Course Schedule
| Date | Week# | Topic | HW# | Event |
| 8-Jan | 1 | LP Modeling, Toy Examples | Syllabus | |
| 13-Jan | 2 | Diet and Blending Problems | ||
| 15-Jan | 2 | Inventory and Transportation Problems | 1 | |
| 20-Jan | 3 | Solving LP with GAMS | ||
| 22-Jan | 3 | Graphical Solution of 2D examples | 2 | Quiz 1 |
| 27-Jan | 4 | LP Formulations | ||
| 29-Jan | 4 | Linear Algebra Review | 3 | |
| 3-Feb | 5 | Solving Linear Programs, Simplex Method | ||
| 5-Feb | 5 | Multiple Optimal, Unboundedness, Infeasibility | 4 | Quiz 2 |
| 10-Feb | 6 | Initialization of Simplex Method | ||
| 12-Feb | 6 | Review | 5 | |
| 17-Feb | 7 | Exam | Midterm 1 | |
| 19-Feb | 7 | Standard Form and Duality | 6 | |
| 24-Feb | 8 | Sensitivity Analysis | ||
| 26-Feb | 8 | Integer Programming Modeling | 7 | |
| 3-Mar | 9 | Assignment, Scheduling, Set Covering | ||
| 5-Mar | 9 | Modeling Tricks | 8 | Quiz 3 |
| 10-Mar | 10 | Transshipment, Traveling Saleman Problem | ||
| 12-Mar | 10 | Shortest Route, Max flow | 9 | |
| 17-Mar | 11 | No Class | Spring Break | |
| 19-Mar | 11 | No Class | Spring Break | |
| 24-Mar | 12 | Complexity, Branch and Bound | ||
| 26-Mar | 12 | Review | 10 | |
| 31-Mar | 13 | Exam | Midterm 2 | |
| 2-Apr | 13 | No Class | Well-Being Day | |
| 7-Apr | 14 | Branch and Bound | ||
| 09-Apr | 14 | Nonlinear Programming | 11 | |
| 14-Apr | 15 | Applications | Quiz 4 | |
| 16-Apr | 15 | Unconstrained Optimization | 12 | |
| 21-Apr | 16 | Constrained Optimization | ||
| 23-Apr | 16 | Comprehensive Review | ||
| 27-Apr | End of Classes | |||
| 07-May | Final Exam (08:00 - 11:00 AM at GA 105) | |||