This document provides assignments for the MS-51 Operations Research course for the first semester of 2011. It includes 5 questions covering various topics in operations research, including: 1) solving a linear programming problem using the simplex method, 2) writing the generalized form of a linear programming problem with matrix rotation, 3) determining the optimum manufacturing quantity and number of production runs per year given costs and demand, 4) distinguishing between pure and mixed strategies for games and solving a game with a given payoff matrix, and 5) providing short notes on goal programming, dynamic programming, and simulation.