The weekly notes are usually available on the Friday after the lecture.
| Week | Date | Subject | Material | Slides | Weekly Note |
| 1 | 2/2 | Introduction | Text book Chapter 1 | pdf, ps (8 slides per page) | html, pdf |
| 2 | 9/2 | Basics of LS Methods | Text book Chapter 1-2 up to p. 66 and Chapter 8 up to p. 371 | pdf, ps (8 slides per page) | html, pdf |
| 3 | 16/2 | Perturbative Search and Search Landscape | Paper by Schiavinotto and Stützle (2006) sec. 1-3, text book Chapter 8 up to p. 377 and Chapter 5 up to p. 235 | pdf, ps (8 slides per page) | html, pdf |
| 4 | 23/2 | Search Landscape, CH and II for SMTWTP and GCP, It. Impr. Extensions | Text book Ch. 5, Ch. 8 up to pp. 384 and Ch. 9 pp. 430-433. Survey by Chiarandini et al. sec. 1-5 for the part on GCP. | pdf, ps (8 slides per page) | html, pdf |
| 5 | 2/3 | Metaheuristics | Text book Chapter 2 | pdf, ps (8 slides per page) | html, pdf |
| 6 | 9/3 | Further Metaheuristics and Application Examples. Timetabling. | Tutorial by de Boer et al. Sec. 1, 2.2, 3.2, 4. Report by M. Pelikan et al., Text book Ch. 8 (to completion) and 9 through pag. 438. Survey Chiarandini et al. | pdf, ps (8 slides per page) | html, pdf |
| 7 | 16/3 | Class Exercises on Additional Problems | Text book Chapter 10, through page 507 | --- | html, pdf |
| 8 | 23/3 | Timetabling and Scheduling | Text book Chapter 9, through page 444 | pdf, ps (8 slides per page) | html, pdf |
| 9 | 30/3 | Scheduling | Text book Chapter 9, completion | pdf, ps (8 slides per page) | html, pdf |
| 10 | 6/4 | Vehicle Routing | Photocopies. Survey by O. Bräysy. | pdf, ps (8 slides per page) | html, pdf |
| 11 | 20/4 | Empirical Methods -- Introduction to Statistics | Parts from Chapters 1-6, 17, 19 of the book available from the library: Biostatistical analysis by J.H. Zar | pdf, ps (8 slides per page) | html, pdf |
| 12 | 27/4 | Empirical Methods -- Statistical Tests and Experimental Designs | Article by R.L. Rardin, R. Uzsoy | pdf, ps (8 slides per page) | html, pdf |
| 13 | 4/5 | Empirical Methods -- Application Examples and Racing Methodology | Article by Birattari et al. on the Race Algorithm | pdf, (2 pages per page) pdf (8 slides per page) | html, pdf |
| 14 | 11/5 | Stochastic Optimisation | pdf, pdf (8 slides per page) | html, pdf |