The Grand Rapids Community College Mathematics Department is pleased to announce that it will host its next Mathematics Seminar today from 3-4 p.m. in 102 Cook.
Our speaker, GRCC faculty member Alejandro Saldivar, will be discussing Linear Programming.
Linear Programming, developed in the 1940s to help with the war effort, found many uses in the post-war economy. With the principle goal of allocating resources in the best possible way, it continues to find important applications in areas as diverse as airline crew scheduling, creation of investment portfolios, and developing communications networks. It also possesses inherent mathematical beauty, and its fundamental principles are accessible to anyone who can graph lines and find points of intersection. As is the case with all of our seminars, everyone is welcome!
Details:
- DATE: TODAY, March 27
- TIME: 3-4 p.m. (Refreshments served at 2:45 p.m.)
- PLACE: 102 Cook
- SUBJECT: Systems of Linear Equations, Linear Programming, and the Simplex Method
The Simplex Method is used to optimize logistic problems such as transportation scheduling. In this talk, we review some history and insight into the method from geometric and vectorial points of view.
This talk is suitable for anyone with an intermediate algebra background.
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