| Lecturer | Professor Alexandra M. Newman Colorado School of Mines |
| Date | August 9 & 12, 2024 with classes at 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. & 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. each day |
| Room/Address | TU Dresden Georg Schumann-Bau (SCH A 105) |
| Target group | Doctoral students in business and economics, mathematics, and/or operations research |
| Seminar content | This two-day workshop will introduce PhD students already familiar with linear and integer programming formulations to techniques that should help expedite solutions, especially to complicated formulations and/or large instances. We will start by identifying mathematical modeling structures that complicate both linear and integer programming models. We will then look at techniques that expedite solutions via a direct execution of the monolith. Finally, we will examine exact decomposition approaches in which we first identify particular problem structures that lend themselves to specific decomposition procedures. Then, we describe these procedures. Day 1:
Day 2:
A strong interest in working with quantitative methods is required. Good knowledge of discrete optimization and programming skills is also required. |
| Certificate | Doctoral candidates from the Faculty of Business and Economics, TU Dresden can earn a certificate according to § 9 of the Ph.D. doctoral regulations (PromO 2018): Doctoral candidates of Business Administration: § 9 (1) Nr. 5 or 6 Doctoral candidates of Business Information Systems: § 9 (1) Nr. 6 Doctoral candidates of Economics: § 9 (1) Nr. 6 Doctoral candidates from other universities can earn a certificate as well. |
| Assignment | Several homework problems that can be executed via a student’s software of choice will be served. |
| Registration | Participation is limited (max. 15). To register send an e-mail to Dr. Uta Schwarz: uta.schwarz@tu-dresden.de Phone: +49 351 463-33141 |