Scheduling and Timetabling

Lectures

An overview of the lectures can be found in Overview of lectures. This is a tentative schedule. If you are interested in the overall picture, then you can take a look in the overview of last year (see overview 2012). Roughly speaking, the same topics will be dealt with, but I will include new results in the course.
In total, I have scheduled six hours for lecturing:

Wednesday, 13.15-15.00 (various rooms in BBL)
Friday, 09.00-10.45 (Minnaert 202)
Friday, 11.00-12.45 (various rooms in BBL)
I will not always use all four hours on Friday; I will announce it beforehand. In principle, we start at 10.00 and continue until 12.45.

News

(May 22): The results of the first assignment can be found here.

(May 15): On Friday May 17, we start at 10.00.

(May 15): The second assignment have been handed out at the lectures. This is an individual assignment, and the deadline is Friday, May 31. You can find the assignment here.

(May 1): There is no lecture on Wednesday, May 8. The deadline of the first assignment is postponed until Wednesdag, May 15.

(May 1): On Tuesday May 7, Tim van Weelden will present his Master's thesis defense on rostering in the UMC Utrecht. It starts at 15.30 in BBL 001. Next to being very interesting, it also counts in the COSC colloquium series. Hence, you are all invited.

(May 1): On Friday May 3, we start at 10.00.

(May 1): Today's lecture will take place in BBL 001.

(April 24): For the first assignment (see below) you can work in groups consisting of at most two persons.

(April 24): As announced during the lecture: On Friday, April 26, we start at 10.00 in Minnaert 202.

(April 23): Tomorrow, the first lecture will be about `consultancy skills'. Therefore, we have a special guest: Johan van Rooij from CQM. You are more than welcome (in fact, you are all expected to show up) in BBL 061.

Presentations

You have to present a talk of at most 25 minutes (including time for questions and discussion) on a relevant subject; in case of doubt, you can contact me. If you mail me the subject beforehand, then I might cluster talks with similar subjects.
I want to use three different days for the presentations (two parallel sessions): Friday, June 21, Wednesday, June 26, and Friday, June 28. On all days, we will have two parellel sessions (unless we decide differently).

Oral examinations

The actual oral examination will last something like 60 minutes, but you will get some questions immediately before the start of the examination that you can prepare (and will be questioned about later). The examinations will take place in the exam week (if necessary, these can take place in the week before that as well). You will have to make an appointment.

Computation final grade

The final grade is computed as 0.25 × your score on the presentation + 0.25 × your score on the take-home assignments + 0.5 × your score on the oral examination.

Take-home assignments

First assignment:
Find a good model of the problem of finding the right quantities of rolling stock. The goal is to test your `consultancy skills'; you are not supposed to formulate the problem as an ILP or something like that. You can work in a group consisting of at most two persons. You can obtain the desired information from me by asking the right kind of questions by mail. There is one possibility to ask me questions `head-to-head'; I advise to do at least one round of email first. The deadline is May 8, at the start of the lecture. A short description can be found here.

Last change: Wedneseday, April 24, 2013.