On line Basic, Advanced and Combined Classes
Taught by Bruce A. McCarl
Weeks of July 15 and July 21, 2925
In July three classes will be offered online by Bruce McCarl. In particular, a Basic class will be offered in 4 sessions of 5 ½ hours each July 15-18 while an Advanced class will be offered on July 17,18, 21 and 22 and a Combined class on July 15-18 and 21-22.
The Basic class is designed for users initially who know little about GAMS or are in need of a refresher but moves into vital application oriented topics. The Advanced class is best for those with some prior experience. The Combined course starts from the basics but goes well beyond the basics into advanced material.
What will you learn?
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The Basic Class over 4 days starts from ground zero teaching the basic GAMS syntax, covering ways of expressing models, making algebraic modeling work for you, examining your model to see if it looks right, using the GAMS integrated development environment in Studio, use of good modeling practices, enhancing model self documentation, and modeling firm problems. Then we turn to accessing and using the documentation including the McCarl Guide, using conditionals and tuples, fixing misbehaving models, solving NLPs, doing comparative analysis, setting up a simple MCP based CGE model, linking to spreadsheets and data bases through Connect, using MIRO, improving output though report writing and information passage to other software.
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The Advanced Class over 4 days starts with the bolded topics listed for the Basic class then spends much more time with STUDIO and fixing unbounded, infeasible and improperly solving models. The it goes on to treat pre-solution model checking, model scaling, use of advanced bases, fixing execution errors, speeding up code, managing memory use, working with solvers and a short introduction to the GAMSPY python link.
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The Combined Class over 6 days unifies the information from both the Basic and Advanced classes.
When is it taught” The classes are all offered in 5 ½ hour blocks starting in the early morning (7 am) US mountain time allowing access to those in other time zones. All materials are recorded and the recordings are made available for a year after the class. All course notes are provided in PDF form and all examples in GAMS runnable files.
Who is the teacher? Bruce A. McCarl is a Professor at Texas A&M University who specializes in Mathematical Programming GAMS based applications to industry, and government. He wrote the Expanded Users “McCarl” Guide that has been distributed with GAMS for over 20 years and provided the basis for the current GAMS user guide. He taught his first GAMS class in 1986. He has written the GAMSCHK modeling assistance product and the Expanded User Guide plus a tutorial on.
Need more information? See the descriptions of the courses in the links above or at on the GAMS courses web page Courses.