IEOR 161 Operations Research II, Spring 2008

Class times & Location: TuTh 1:00-2:00p,  155 DONNER LAB

Discussion section: F 3:00-4:00p,   3106 Etcheverry Hall

Announcements

• The final exam is on Tuesday May 20, 5-8p.m. in 390 Hearst Mining

• Review Session will be held on Wednesday 2:30-3:30 in 3107 Etch.
  I will ask for volunteers to work out the practice problems on the board. Please make sure you do these questions before you come.

• 2007 Final has been posted.
  Selina's Office Hours: Tuesday 2:30-3:30 1116 Etch, Wednesday & Thursday 2:30-3:30 Student Lounge (4th floor Etch)

• Midterm 2 Statistics:   mean: 31.9   standard deviation: 5.9   25th Percentile Score: 27   75th Percentile Score: 37  
  You may pick up midterm 2 during Selina's office hours.

• May 3: Homework 12 is posted, due Thursday, May 8.  

• May 1: Midterm 2 will be handed back in section tomorrow.  

• Apr 29: Homework 11 is posted, due Thursday, May 1.  

• Apr 22: You may bring ONE formula sheet to the exam. 

• Apr 18: Midterm 2 will focus on material since the last midterm:
  -conditional distribution of arrival times of Poisson processes
  -non-homogeneous Poisson processes
  -Discrete time Markov chains (modeling and computing stationary distributions)
  Also make sure you are comfortable with the materials from Midterm 1. 

• Apr 17: 2006 Midterm2 questions are irrelevant since they are continuous MC and queuing questions.
  Also check out the following questions concerning conditional distribution of arrival times, which will be on the midterm 2:
  2004 Midterm 1 Q3, 2006 Midterm 1 Q3 and Q4.  

• Apr 11: Homework 10 is posted, due Thursday, Apr 17.  

• Apr 11: Midterm 2 will be held on Thursday, April 24. The past 2 year's midterms are posted.  

• Apr 4: Homework 9 is posted, due Thursday, Apr 10.  

• Mar 28: Homework 8 is posted, due Thursday, Apr 3.  

• Midterm 1 Statistics:   mean: 36.5   standard deviation: 9.4   25th Percentile Score: 29   75th Percentile Score: 45

• Mar 13: Homework 7 is posted, due Thursday, Mar 20.  
  A hint on 5.76: Let Y denotes the number of customers served in a busy period.
  Argue that conditioned on the service time (S) of the first customer, Y-1|S is a compound Possin random variable.
  The calculation for E[Y] and Var(Y) is very similar to Example 5.27.

• Mar 7: Homework 6 is posted, due Thursday, Mar 13.  
  A hint on 5.58: Example 5.17 (on page 313) shows how to relate the coupon collection problem to a Poisson process.

• Mar 5: The graded homeworks are in a box in front of 4177 Etcheverry, please pick them up.  

• Feb 29: Midterm 1 will be held on Tuesday, March 4th. You may bring one formula sheet.  

• Feb 22: Homework 5 is posted, due Thursday, Feb 28.  

• Feb 14: Homework 4 is posted, due Thursday, Feb 21.  

• Feb 7: Homework 3 is posted, due Thursday, Feb 14.  

• January 31: Homework 2 is posted, due Thursday, Feb 7. No need to do 3.21 again. 

• January 24: Homework 1 is posted.  

Syllabus

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