Welcome to the website of the 2025-2026 optimization course at Mines Nancy.
What to expect from this course¶
In short: an hands-on introduction to numerical optimization with Python
Organisation of the course¶
36h of classes, including lectures, exercices and lab work (Python).
Course material in in english. Lectures will be given in french or english, depending on the audience.
Main results will be on lecture slides and/or on the course website, but detailed computations, proofs and exercises solutions will not, in general. So take notes!
Bring your computer to class! We’ll alternate between exercices on paper and on the computer.
Lecture slides, exercise sheets and additional documents are all available from the Arche website. (Internal access only).
Evaluation¶
This might be subject to slight changes, but for now the course will be graded as follows:
- intermediate exam (about 40%): somewhere in november
- final exam (about 60%): January 13th, 2026 The final exam will cover both theoretical and practical (Python programming) aspects of the course.
Important references¶
Most of the material of this course has been adapted from classical textbooks of the literature on numerical optimization. This course also largely benefited from previous course material kindly shared by Y. Privat at Mines Nancy.
Many interesting material on numerical optimization can also be found online.
Contact¶
For any questions or inquiries, please write me an email at julien