General Information

Here you will find the lectures that are offered on a Bachelor level.

If you would like to attend a Seminar or write your Bachelor Thesis at our chair, please participate in the allocation procedure, organized by Dr. Jürgen Blank.

Summer Term

Management Science (Operations Research)

Content

  • Management Science 1 (Operations Research 1):
    • Introduction to Operations Research: planning models and methods.
    • Networks, graphs, and their applications: Paths in graphs, networks, flows in graphs, transportation problem
    • Linear Optimization: basic model structures, Simplex algorithm, special LP structures, different phases of Simplex, variables with lower and upper bounds, post-optimality analysis (sensitivity analysis), parametric optimization, applications and modeling, duality.
    • Integer linear optimization: Examples and case studies, Branch & Bound, Cutting Planes.
    • Stochastic Processes: Queueing theory, simulation of stochastic processes.
  • Management Science 2 (Operations Research 2):
    • Nonlinear Optimization: Unconstrained and constrained nonlinear problems and models, Convex optimization, Karush-Kuhn-Tucker-conditions, lagrangian method, Quadratic optimization (Wolfe’s Algorithm), approximation methods (Golden Section, Gradient Method), Barrier methods, Penalty methods.
    • Heuristics: problem search methods (A*-algorithm), local search methods, Simulated Annealing, Genetic Algorithms.

Further Information

 

Lecturer(s):

Prof. Dr. Oliver Wendt

Marvin Caspar

Materials:

All learning materials are available in OLAT.

 

Winter Term

Information Systems

Content

  • Information- and knowledge management
  • Planning, realization and introduction of application systems
  • Analysis and design of internal and intercompany processes
  • Fundamentals of IT networking
  • Selected areas of business informatics
  • Object oriented modelling
  • Introduction to Python

Further Information

Lecturer(s):

Prof. Dr. Oliver Wendt

Konstantin Kloster, M.Sc.

Materials:

All learning materials are available in Olat.

Artificial Intelligence

Content

Artificial Intelligence I:

  • An introductory course to Python
  • Array/tensor processing and vectorization
  • Basics of parallel programming

Artificial Intelligence II:

  • Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
  • Linear Models
  • Neural Networks
  • Intro to Convolutional Neural Networks
  • Intro to Reinforcement Learning

Further Information

Lecturer(s):

Prof. Dr. Oliver Wendt

Konstantin Kloster, M.Sc.

Materials:

All learning materials are available in Olat.