Exercises (Introduction to Optimization)

General Information

For each lecture there will be an exercise sheet that you are requested to solve in written form. The current set of exercises will be published on this webpage as a pdf-file every Tuesday 7 p.m. Your solutions have to be submitted before the exercise of the following week. You can either file your solutions in room HG G 21 (Put it in the tray labeled "Introduction to Optimization") or give them to one of the teaching assistants before the lecture. Note that you will find the exercise sheet (assignment x) in the row corresponding to the date the exercises are discussed in the time schedule below.

Time Schedule

In some exercises you are asked to use a linear programming software. For this, there is an online-version of the CPLEX-Solver available. Note that your problem must be formulated in the so-called lp-format. For a short introduction, see the manual by Utz-Uwe Haus.

Certificate Conditions and Credit Points

Bachelor / Master students

In order to get the certificate ("Testat"), at least 50% of both the first seven assignments and the last six assignments have to be solved correctly and an active participation in the exercise sessions is required. To receive the credit points, a written exam needs to be passed at the end.

PhD students

Doctoral students need to solve at least 60% of both the first seven assignments and the last six assignments and to participate actively in the exercise sessions to get all credit points for the course without taking the written exam. Note that the doctoral students' adviser might independently require that the student takes an exam (e.g. as a requirement for entering the doctoral program) in oral or written form. In this case the student is asked to inform one of the course assistants.