| Week | Dates | topics | Notes |
| Week 1 | Sep 8 - Sep 12 | Optimization example | |
| Week 2 | Sep 15 - Sep 19 | Linear Programming | |
| Week 3 | Sep 22 - Sept 26 | Extreme points of polyhedra | |
| Week 4 | Sep 29 - Oct 3 | Simplex method | |
| Week 5 | Oct 6 - Oct 10 | Duality | |
| Week 6 | Oct 15 - Oct 17 | Network flows, spanning trees, and network simplex method | NO LECTURE MONDAY OCT 13 |
| Week 7 | Oct 20 - Oct 24 | Maximum flow | |
| Week 8 | Oct 27 - Oct 31 | Shortest path problem | |
| Week 9 | Nov 3 - Nov 7 | Minimum spanning tree problem | |
| Week 10 | Nov 10 - Nov 14 | Assignment problem | |
| Week 11 | Nov 17 - Nov 21 | Derivatives and optimality in unconstrained optimization | |
| Week 11 | Nov 24 - Nov 28 | Steepest descent & Newton's method | |
| Week 13 | Dec 1 | Newton's method for equations |
Henry Wolkowicz, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, 200 University Ave. W., Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1, http://orion.uwaterloo.ca/~hwolkowi/
handed out 2014-Sep-8.