Organization
A program on two years full-time.
The typical trajectory of a student who follows the track "ORO" is:
First year
Semester 1 (Fall) in Nantes
All scientific courses are given in French.
• Compulsory courses from the core curriculum:
code |
Course
|
Lecturer(s)
|
Hours (CM|TD|TP) |
ECTS credits
|
X1II010 |
Graphes Graphs
|
Iréna Rusu (U Nantes) |
24 |
2 |
X1II030 |
Complexité et algorithmes Complexity and Algorithms |
Guillaume Fertin (U Nantes) |
24 |
2 |
X1II040 |
Anglais scientifique Scientific English 1 |
Laurie Labarbe (U Nantes) |
20 |
2 |
• Compulsory courses from the track "Optimization in Operations Research (ORO)":
code |
Course
|
Lecturer(s)
|
Hours (CM|TD|TP) |
ECTS credits
|
X1I2010 |
Optimisation discrète et combinatoire Discrete and Combinatorial Optimization
|
Xavier Gandibleux (U Nantes), Anthony Przybylski (U Nantes) |
60
|
8
|
X1I2020 |
Graphes II et Réseaux Graphs II and Networks |
Iréna Rusu (U Nantes) |
24
|
6
|
X1I2030 |
Métaheuristiques Metaheuristics |
Xavier Gandibleux (U Nantes) |
24
|
3
|
X1I2IMT |
Optimisation non-linéaire NonLinear Optimization |
Alexandre Goldsztejn (CNRS) |
24 |
3 |
X1MS010 |
Analyse des données Data Analysis |
Lise Bellanger (U Nantes) |
32 |
3
|
X1II020 |
Langages de programmation de haut-niveau High-level Programming Languages |
Didier Robbes (U Nantes)
|
24 |
3
|
• Optional courses from the core curriculum; a total of 3 credits chosen from the following:
Option 1:
code |
Course
|
Lecturer(s)
|
Hours (CM|TD|TP) |
ECTS credits
|
X1II050 |
Communication, connaissance de l'entreprise. Introduction to Entrepreneurship
|
Olivier Godard (U Nantes) |
12 |
2 |
X1II060 |
Introduction à la recherche Introduction to Research |
Claude Jard (U Nantes) |
12 |
1 |
Option 2:
code |
Course
|
Lecturer(s)
|
Hours (CM|TD|TP) |
ECTS credits
|
X1LI010 |
Management à visée innovante et entrepreunariale Management
|
. |
12 |
2 |
Semester 2 (Spring) in Nantes
Some scientific courses are given in English.
• Compulsory courses from the core curriculum:
code |
Course
|
Lecturer(s)
|
Hours (CM|TD|TP) |
ECTS credits
|
X2II010 |
Apprentissage automatique Machine Learning |
Colin De la Higera (U Nantes) |
24 |
2 |
X2II020 |
Fouille de données Data Mining |
Julien Blanchard (EPUN) |
24 |
2 |
X2II030 |
Compilation Compilation |
Mourad Oussalah (U Nantes) |
24 |
2 |
X2II040 |
Ethique et numérique Ethics |
Chantal Enguehard (U Nantes). |
12 |
2 |
X2II050 |
Travail d'étude et de recherche Research Project |
- |
semester |
10 |
X2II060 |
Anglais pour la communication scientifique |
. |
10 |
2 |
• Compulsory courses from the track "Optimization in Operations Research (ORO)":
code |
Course
|
Lecturer(s)
|
Hours (CM|TD|TP) |
ECTS credits
|
X2I2010 |
Programmation par Contraintes Constraint Programming
|
Eric Monfroy (U Angers) |
24 |
4 |
• Options courses from the core curriculum; a total of 6 credits chosen from the following:
Option 1 (optimization):
code |
Course
|
Lecturer(s)
|
Hours (CM|TD|TP) |
ECTS credits
|
X2I3010 |
Programmation multi-coeurs Multicore Programming |
Matthieu Perrin (U Nantes) |
24 |
3 |
X2I3020 |
Ingénierie de la décision Decision Engineering |
Evgeny Gurevsky (U Nantes) |
24 |
3 |
Option 2 (software):
code |
Course
|
Lecturer(s)
|
Hours (CM|TD|TP) |
ECTS credits
|
X2I4010 |
Systèmes temps réel embarqués. Embedded Real-time systems |
Audrey Queudet (U Nantes) |
24 |
3 |
X2I4020 |
Ingénierie des réseaux Network Engineering |
Salima Hamma (U Nantes) |
24 |
3 |
Option 3 (data):
code |
Course
|
Lecturer(s)
|
Hours (CM|TD|TP) |
ECTS credits
|
X2I5010 |
Modèles probabilistes Probabilistic models |
Colin De la Higera (UNantes) |
24 |
3 |
X2I5020 |
Interaction et applications Interaction and applications |
Matthieu Perreira da Silva (EPUN) |
24 |
3 |
• Available courses from the core curriculum:
code |
Course
|
Lecturer(s)
|
Hours (CM|TD|TP) |
ECTS credits
|
X2MC050 |
Optimisation déterministe et stochastique Deterministic and Stochastic Optimization |
François Jauberteau (U Nantes). |
64 |
0 |
X1LA010 |
Anglais Préparation TOEIC TOEIC |
- |
0 |
0 |
X2II090 |
Stage d'été Summer Internship |
- |
0 |
0 |
Semester 2 (Spring) in Brussels
All courses are given in English. Each erasmus student has to select courses, scheduled on spring semester, for a total of 30 ECTS among the list available here (master 1, option "Optimization and Algorithms").
Example:
Module |
Course
|
Coordinator
|
Hours (CM|TD|TP) |
ECTS credits
|
Optimization |
Continuous Optimization
|
Bernard Fortz |
48 |
5 |
Optimization |
Combinatorial Optimization |
Michael Poss |
48
|
5 |
Optimization |
Heuristic Optimization |
Thomas Stuetzle |
60
|
5 |
Computational Intelligence |
Statistical Fundation of Machine Learning |
Gianluca Bontempi |
48 |
5 |
Computational Intelligence |
Techniques of Artificial Intelligence |
Hugues Bersini |
36 |
5 |
Computational Intelligence |
Swarm Intelligence |
Marco Dorigo |
60 |
5 |
Core Curriculum |
Computing Project (see here) |
Mauro Birattari |
150 |
5 |
Second year
Semester 3 (Fall)
Total of 264hours. All lectures are organized at Nantes and given in English.
code |
Course
|
Lecturer(s)
|
Hours (CM|TD|TP) |
ECTS credits |
X3IO050 |
Large Scale Optimisation
|
Marc Sevaux (UBS), André Rossi (U Paris-Dauphine)
|
24 (12|12|00) |
3
|
X3IO080 |
Multi-Objective Optimization |
Anthony Przybylski (U Nantes) |
24 (12|12|00) |
3
|
X3IO010 |
Multi-Objective MetaHeuristics |
Xavier Gandibleux (U Nantes) |
24 (12|12|00) |
3 |
X3IO030 |
Global Optimisation |
Laurent Granvilliers (U Nantes) |
24 (12|12|00) |
3 |
X3IOM10 |
Global Constraints |
Nicolas Beldiceanu (IMT-A) |
24 (12|12|00) |
3
|
X3IO020 |
Advanced Constraint Programming |
Eric Monfroy (U Angers) |
24 (12|12|00) |
3
|
X3IO040 |
Optimization in Robotics |
Christophe Jermann (U Nantes), Alexandre Goldsztejn (CNRS) |
24 (12|12|00) |
3
|
X3IOM30 |
Transportation and Logistics |
Fabien Lehuédé (IMT-A) |
24 (12|12|00) |
3
|
X3IOM20 |
Planning and Scheduling |
Odile Morineau (IMT-A) |
24 (12|12|00) |
3
|
X3IO060 |
Algorithmics in Genomics |
Irena Rusu (U Nantes), Guillaume Fertin (U Nantes) |
24 (12|12|00) |
2
|
X3IO070 |
Conferences
|
Quentin Tonneau (Artelys, Nantes), Frédéric Gardi (Innovation24, Paris), Damien Blanchon (IBM, Paris) |
24 (00|24|00) |
1
|
Semester 4 (Spring)
The master thesis may be prepared in English.
code |
Course |
- |
Period |
ECTS credits |
X4II010
|
- Master Thesis (track research) or - internship (track application) |
-
|
(min) 5 months from February 1 to (min) June 30
|
30 |