ORC seminar - "Commercial Operations Research"
Thibault Le Guen, Adrian Becker, Karima Nigmatulina
Mon Jan 28, 10:30am-04:30pm, E51-145
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 50 participants.
Single session event
This seminar will include several talks on the use of Operations Research in Marketing and Finance.
Lunch provided
10:30 - 10:45 Welcome and overview
10:45 - 12 OR in Marketing. Dr. Michael Braun
12-1 Lunch.
1-1:20 Overview of OR/MS in business systems at GE. Chris Johnson
1:20-3:30 Capital and Resource Management
-Scheduling examples at NBC Universal and GE Rail. Dr. Srinivas Bollapragada [~1hr10min]
-Distributed power and grid dispatch. Dr. Jason Black [~30min]
-Total capital management. Kete Chalermkraivuth [~30min]
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-4:30 Risk Management
-Industrial risk transfer - service contracts case Dr. Jens Alkemper
-Endogenous-exogenous coupling in markets - insurance case Dr. Jens Alkemper
Contact: Thibault Le Guen, E40, (857) 253-1932, tleguen@mit.edu
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Towards a quantitative theory of medicine: Opportunities for undergraduates
Dimitris Bertsimas
Fri Jan 11, 11am-01:00pm, WONG AUDITORIUM E-51
No enrollment limit, no advance sign up
Signup by: 10-Jan-2008
Single session event
In the last decade quantitative methods have created a critical edge in many industries: asset management, the internet, sports, revenue management and many others. We outline how quantitative methods have the potential in creating a critical edge in generating new knowledge in medicine, assess the quality of health care, predict health care risk and in the end make a difference in the health care of people. I outline several examples from our research with particular emphasis on the role that undergraduate students have played as well as exciting new opportunities. Here is an example: Develop a web-based tool that analyzes the existing clinical trial data for all cancers, and proposes new therapies based on the successes and failures of prior trials. The key here is to use information from different cancers.
Lunch provided.
Contact: Jason Acimovic, MIT ORC, acimovic@mit.edu
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