MATH3215A - Operations Research - 2017/18

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2017/18
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1

Announcement

  • Sep 3: There is no tutorial in the first week.

General Information

Lecturer

  • Dr. PAN Lily
    • Office: LSB 202A
    • Tel: 3943 7969
    • Email:
    • Office Hours: Mon 15:30 - 17:00 (or by appointment)

Teaching Assistant

  • Mr. WANG Chao
    • Office: LSB 222B
    • Tel: 3943 7963
    • Email:
  • Mr. CHAN Hei Long
    • Office: LSB 222B
    • Tel: 3943 7963
    • Email:

Time and Venue

  • Lecture: Tue 13:30 - 14:15, BMS LT; Thu 14:30 - 16:15, LSB LT3
  • Tutorial: Tue 12:30 - 13:15, BMS LT

Course Description

Operations Research (OR) refers to the science of decision making. This course provides a fundamental account of the basic results and techniques of Linear Programming (LP), network optimization and integer programming (IP) in Operations Research. Pre-requisite: MATH1030.


Textbooks

  • The course will mainly follow the lecture notes.

References

  • Operations Research: An Introduction, by H.F. Taha
  • Introduction to Operations Research, by F.S. Hillier and G.J. Lieberman
  • Linear and Nonlinear Programming, by D.G. Luenberger and Y.Y. Ye
  • Introduction to Linear Optimization, by D. Bertsimas and J.N. Tsitsiklis

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Assignments

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Quizzes and Exams

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Solutions

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Assessment Scheme

Assignment  10%
Programming Assignment  5%
Midterm Exam (Oct 19, 14:30 - 16:15, LT3) 40%
Final Exam  45%

Honesty in Academic Work

The Chinese University of Hong Kong places very high importance on honesty in academic work submitted by students, and adopts a policy of zero tolerance on cheating and plagiarism. Any related offence will lead to disciplinary action including termination of studies at the University. Although cases of cheating or plagiarism are rare at the University, everyone should make himself / herself familiar with the content of the following website:

http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/policy/academichonesty/

and thereby help avoid any practice that would not be acceptable.


Assessment Policy

Last updated: December 21, 2017 16:19:11