Fall 2026 Lectures

Lecture Videos for Fall 2025 In Chronological Order:

(lectures will be linked to their corresponding pages once they are available)

• Lecture 0 (2026-08-20): Introduction to the Course and Its Policies
• Lecture A1 (2026-08-25): Introduction to Modeling
• Lecture A2 (2026-08-27): Introduction to Simulation Modeling
• Lecture B1 (2026-09-01): Fundamental Concepts of Discrete-Event Simulation
• Lecture B2 (2026-09-03): DES Examples, Part I
• Lecture B3 (2026-09-08): DES Examples, Part II (and post-lab discussion for Lab 2)
• Lecture C1 (2026-09-10): Basic Simulation Tools and Techniques
• Lecture C2 (2026-09-15): Beyond DES Simulation – SDM, ABM, and NetLogo (and pre-lab discussion for Lab 4 and post-lab discussion for Lab 3)
• Lecture D1 (2026-09-17): Probability and Random Variables
• Lecture D2 (2026-09-22): Probabilistic Models (and post-lab discussion for Lab 4 if time permits)
• Lecture E1 (2026-09-24): Random-Number Generation (and a little bit of missed Lecture D2 content)
• Lecture E2 (2026-09-29): Random-Variate Generation
  
  
• Lecture F (2026-10-01): Midterm Review
  
  
• Lecture G1 (2026-10-15): Input Modeling, Part 1 (Data Collection)
• Lecture G2 (2026-10-20): Input Modeling, Part 2 (Selection of Model Structure)
• Lecture G3 (2025-10-22): Input Modeling, Part 3 (Parameter Estimation and Goodness of Fit)
• Lecture H (2026-10-27): Verification, Validation, and Calibration of Simulation Models
• Lecture I (2026-10-29): Statistical Reflections
• Lecture J1 (2026-11-03): Estimation of Absolute Performance, Part I (Introduction to Point and Interval Estimation)
• Lecture J2 (2026-11-05): Estimation of Absolute Performance, Part II (Terminating Systems/Transient Simulations)
• Lecture J3 (2026-11-10): Estimation of Absolute Performance, Part III (Non-Terminating Systems/Steady-State Simulations)
• Lecture J4 (2026-11-12): Estimation of Relative Performance
• Lecture K1 (2026-11-17): Variance Reduction Techniques, Part I (CRNs and Control Variates)
• Lecture K2 (2026-11-19): Variance Reduction Techniques, Part II (AVs and Importance Sampling)
• Lecture L (2026-11-24): Course Wrap-Up
  
  
• Lecture M (2026-12-01): Final Exam Review [video, Zoom video, audio]