Introduction to Optimization (Fall 2026)
Instructor
- Instructor: Ali Mohammad Nezhad
- Office: Hanes 330
- Office hours: Tuesday and Thursday 12:45 - 1:45 PM and Friday 10:00 - 11:00 AM
- Email: alimn@unc.edu
Lecture
- STOR 415-001: Tuesday and Thursday 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM at Hanes 120
Teaching Assistant
- TA: Jaehyuk Kwon
- Office: Hanes B-48
- Office hours: Monday 1:30-3:00 PM and Thursday 2:00 - 3:30 PM
- Email: jaehyuk@unc.edu
Course Information
Useful Links
Tentative Course Schedule
| Date | Week# | Topic | HW# | Event |
| 18-Aug | 1 | Optimization Examples | ||
| 20-Aug | 1 | LP Modeling, NLP, (Toy Examples) | HW 1 | |
| 25-Aug | 2 | IP (Toy Examples) | ||
| 27-Aug | 2 | IP, LP Modeling, Transportation | HW 2 | |
| 1-Sep | 3 | LP Modeling, Transshipment | ||
| 3-Sep | 3 | GAMS software | HW 3 | Quiz 1 |
| 8-Sep | 4 | GAMS - Graphical method | ||
| 10-Sep | 4 | Graphical Method, Basic Solutions | HW 4 | |
| 15-Sep | 5 | Pivot method, linear algebra review | ||
| 17-Sep | 5 | linear algebra review | HW 5 | Quiz 2 |
| 22-Sep | 6 | Basic Feasible solutions | ||
| 24-Sep | 6 | Feasibility rule, Improvement rule | HW 6 | |
| 29-Sep | 7 | Review | ||
| 1-Oct | 7 | Midterm | Midterm 1 | |
| 6-Oct | 8 | No Class | Well-being day | |
| 8-Oct | 8 | Simplex Method | HW 7 | |
| 13-Oct | 9 | Unboundedness, Multiple optimal | ||
| 15-Oct | 9 | No Class | Fall Break | |
| 20-Oct | 10 | Degeneracy | ||
| 22-Oct | 10 | Degeneracy - Two-phase method | HW 8 | Quiz 3 |
| 27-Oct | 11 | Two-phase method-Matrix Form | ||
| 29-Oct | 11 | Matrix Form, LP reformulation, Dual Simplex | HW 9 | |
| 3-Nov | 12 | Review | ||
| 5-Nov | 12 | Midterm | Midterm 2 | |
| 10-Nov | 13 | Dual Simplex | ||
| 12-Nov | 13 | Sensitivity Analysis in LP | HW 10 | |
| 17-Nov | 14 | IP, TSP | ||
| 19-Nov | 14 | B&B | HW 11 | |
| 24-Nov | 15 | Modeling tricks | HW 12 | Quiz 4 |
| 26-Nov | 15 | No Class | Thanksgiving | |
| 1-Dec | 16 | Review | Comprehensive Review | |
| 2-Dec | 16 | End of Classes | ||
| 8-Dec | Final Exam (12:00 - 03:00 PM at Hanes 120) | |||