2.098/6.255/15.093 Optimization Methods
Fall 2006
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Prof.: Pablo A Parrilo, Karthik Balkrishnan Natarajan, SUN Jie, Chung Piaw Teo
TAs: Xuan Vinh Doan, Yann Le Tallec, Mardavij Roozbehani, Wenqing Chen
Lecture:
Mon & Wed 9.30-11am
(1-390)
Recitation 1: Tue 10-11am
(26-328)
Recitation 2: Tue 4-5pm
(34-301)
Recitation 3: Thu 12-1pm
(26-142)
Information:
Announcements
Reminder: Course evaluation
Hi all,
If you have already submitted your course evaluaions electronically, please ignore this message. Otherwise, if you could take a few minutes and fil out the evaluation, that would be great. We value your opinion and appreciate your feedback.
The URL for our course is:
https://sixweb.mit.edu/evaluate/6.255-f2006
Course evaluations will be closed at the end of today, Friday, December 22. Please make sure to complete the evaluations today.
Best,
Mardavij
Announced on 22 December 2006 9:40 a.m. by Mardavij Roozbehani
Final exam reminder
As announced earlier, the final exam will take place on:
Tuesday, December 19 from 9:00AM - 12:00 noon
The duration of the test is three hours. The rooms are assigned according to the first letter of your last name:
A - L in room E51-335
M - Z in room E51-345.
Make sure you allow enough time to find the room. Here is a map:
http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?selection=E51
The exam will be open book. You will be allowed to consult your own notes, your homework sets, or the textbook. I still strongly recommend you take the time to sit down and condense the important points of the course in a few pages. You will learn much in the process, and won't waste time in the exam...
Good luck,
-p
Announced on 18 December 2006 10:48 a.m. by Pablo Parrilo
PS6 and PS7
Hi all,You can now pick them up at Fifa Monserrate's office in 32-D733.
Announced on 15 December 2006 4:11 p.m. by Xuan Vinh Doan
Course evaluations
This year, for the first time, the course evaluations will be done electronically. The URL for our course is:
https://sixweb.mit.edu/evaluate/6.255-f2006
MIT certificates are required to access the webpage.
The course evaluations website will open on December 12th.
Announced on 10 December 2006 10:20 p.m. by Pablo Parrilo
Midterm exam
The midterm will take place this Wednesday. Here are some further clarifications:- As it says in the syllabus, and I mentioned in class, everything in lectures 1-9 (and the corresponding recitations/homework) is included. That is:
Linear Optimization, Simplex, Duality, Sensitivity analysis, Robust Optimization and Large scale optimization.
Or in other words, *everything* we've seen (either in class, recitations, or homework, by either me, the guest lecturers, or the TAs), except network flows.
- It will be a closed book exam, but you will be allowed to bring up to two sheets of paper (single or double-sided, handwritten or typeset) with formulas (or similar) that you yourself have prepared.
- No laptops. If desired, you can bring a (standard) calculator, but it shouldn't be necessary (or useful).
- Regarding practice midterms, there are two from previous years available from the OCW page of 15.093 (see the link from the main Stellar homepage of our course).
Please let me know if there are further questions/issues.
-p
Announced on 22 October 2006 11:56 a.m. by Pablo Parrilo
