Schedule
This schedule is tentative and will likely change as the semester progresses. See course materials in blackboard for detailed notes and slides from lecture.
First day of class: Thurday, Jan 18.
- Week of Jan 15:
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- 209 Notes 1.1: Conditional Probability
- Week of Jan 22:
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- 209 Notes 1.2: Review of Sums Independent Random Variables, MGFs, and Convolution
- 209 Notes 1.3: The Poisson Process
- Week of Jan 29:
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- 209 Notes 1.4: Introduction to the Newsvendor Model
- 209 Notes 2.1: Characteristics of Queueing Systems and Kendall Notation
- Week of Feb 5:
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- 209 Notes 2.1: Characteristics of Queueing Systems and Kendall Notation (cont.)
- 209 Notes 2.2: Little’s Law
- 209 Notes 3.1: Introduction to Markov Chains
- Week of Feb 12:
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- 209 Notes 3.2: Classification of States
- 209 Notes 3.3: Periodicity and Behavior in the Long-Run
- Week of Feb 19:
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- 209 Notes 3.4: Markovian Decision Problems and Optimization
- Week of Feb 26:
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- 209 Notes 4.1: Birth-Death Processes and the \(M/M/1\) Queueing System
- 209 Notes 4.2: Queues With Finite Capacity \(M/M/1/K\) and the PASTA Principle
- 209 Notes 4.3: The General Birth-Death Process and Multiserver Queues \(M/M/c\)
- Week of Mar 4:
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- 209 Notes 4.3 (cont.): Unlimited Service \(M/M/\infty\)
- 209 Notes 4.4: Finite Source Queues and the Repairmen Problem
- 209 Notes 4.5: Queues With Truncation \(M/M/c/K\) and Erlang’s Loss Formula \(M/M/c/c\)
- 209 Thursday: Midterm Review
Spring Break: no classes week of Mar 11.
- Week of Mar 18:
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- 209 Notes 5.1: Networks and Multistage Queues
- 209 Notes 5.2: Bulk Service and Different Customer Types
MIDTERM
- Tuesday, Mar 19.
- Location : In class.
- Week of Mar 25:
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- 209 Notes 5.3: General Service/Single Server: the \(M/G/1\) Queue
- 209 Notes 5.4: Queueing and Decisions
- Week of Apr 1:
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- 209 Notes 6.1: The Newsvendor Model Revisited
- 209 Notes 6.2: Introduction to Pooling
- Week of April 8:
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- 209 Notes 6.3: Pooling With Variation in Demand
- Week of April 15:
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- 209 Notes 6.4: Application: Designing a Vaccine Distribution System
- 209 Notes 7.1: The Bullwhip Effect
- Week of April 22:
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- 209 Notes 7.1: The Bullwhip Effect (cont.)
- 209 Notes 7.2: Multi-Echelon Modeling With Several Items
- Week of April 29:
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- 209 Notes 7.3: Capacitated Systems – Single-Item
LAST DAY OF CLASSES: Tuesday, April 30
FINAL EXAM
- Time: Wed, May 8 at 4-7pm
- Location: TBA