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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">Scott Alessandro <<a href="mailto:salessan@mit.edu">salessan@mit.edu</a>><br>
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</span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';"><b>FW: Announcement about 15.053, Optimization methods in Business Analytics</b><br>
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<span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica';">November 28, 2017 at 12:32:35 PM EST</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(10, 10, 10); background-color: rgb(254, 254, 254); background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">The goal in 15.053 is to help students develop an "optimization mindset".
We want students to look out at the world and see optimizations problems everywhere, and to recognize when these problems can be modeled, analyzed, and solved. Within 15.053, we show how to optimize problems within machine learning and statistics, sports analytics,
finance, operations, marketing, as well as other domains.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<b>15.053, Optimization Methods in Business Analytics</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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Spring 2018: TR 10-11:30 or TR 1-2:30. REST. ( <a href="http://student.mit.edu/catalog/search.cgi?search=15.053&style=verbatim" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">Catalogue description</a> ). <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">
Prerequisite: 1.00, 1.000, 6.00, 6.0001, or permission of instructor.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">
Required subject of the 15-2 major and the 15-2 minor. <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">
Serves as a restricted elective in the following majors: 1 (Systems), 2A (Management Science), 6-14, 15-3, and 16-ENG.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">
Satisfies a "computation and data analysis" requirement of the minor in Statistics and Data Science.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">
See <a href="http://web.mit.edu/15.053/www" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">http://web.mit.edu/15.053/www</a> for a subject overview written for prospective students. <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">
Examples of <a href="http://web.mit.edu/15.053/www/projects.html" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">15.053 course projects</a> in 2017.<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">
For more information, contact Professor James Orlin at <a href="mailto:jorlin@mit.edu" style="color: purple; text-decoration: underline;">jorlin@mit.edu</a> .<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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