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Home | News | Applications still open for elective course Heuristic Optimization Methods!
News | August 09, 2024

Applications still open for elective course Heuristic Optimization Methods!

Deepen your knowledge in the research field of Operations Analytics. Heuristics form an indispensable tool for everyone working in operations management.

Applications still open for elective course Heuristic Optimization Methods!

Tinbergen Institute’s field courses in Business Data Science make top-notch faculty and expertise accessible to a broader audience.

Join the Heuristic Optimization Methods course during the first block of academic year 2024-2025 (September 2 – October 25) at our location in Amsterdam. The course is part of the two-year research master Business Data Science at Tinbergen Institute. Important date: deadline for application for block 1 is August 15, 2024.

Faculty: Wout Dullaert, Professor Supply Chain Logistics at VU School of Business and Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Daniele Vigo, Professor of Operations Research at the University of Bologna, Italy.

Who Should Apply? 

Registration for elective courses during academic year 2024-2025 is open to external participants and (external) PhD students. This offers the opportunity to take a single course to build a new skill or deepen knowledge.

Apply here

Topics that will covered:
  • Classical heuristics to construct a feasible solution and improvement heuristics based on structured local search
  • Metaheuristics aiming at escaping local optima
  • Including learning methods in metaheuristic search and designing computational experiments
  • All methods will be illustrated through actual implementations in high-level programming languages.

Are you looking for another topic? Start exploring all our elective courses here. Information about the Research Master Business Data Science you find under Graduate Program.