IAP 2016 Activities by Sponsor - Operations Research Center

Amine Anoun, Arthur Flajolet, Zach Saunders

Jan/27

Wed

10:00AM-03:00PM

E25-111

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: None

The OR Center participates in MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP) by offering informational seminars focusing on the OR Center and on current research and the practice of OR.

Date: Wednesday, January 27th
Time: 10:00am-3:00pm 
Place: E25-111

Description: There is little doubt that "Analytics" is becoming a major part of Operations Research, gaining a lot of interest in the research community as well as in a variety of industries. This year, the MIT Operations Research Center will welcome speakers from various fields to talk about the role and impact of Analytics in improving decision making. Four speakers, from both industry and academic settings, will present their work and experience on topics ranging from marketing to sharing economy.

Schedule:

9:30am - 10:00am - Intro and Continental Breakfast 

10:00am - 11:00am - John Silberholz - Lecturer in the MIT Sloan School of Management

11:00am - 12:00pm - Dean Eckles - Assistant Professor in the MIT Sloan School of Management - Marketing Groupy

12:00pm - 1:00pm - Lunch Break (lunch will not be provided)

1:00pm - 2:00pm - Jae-wook Ahn - Data Scientist at IBM Watson Life, TJ Watson Research Center

2:00pm - 3:00pm - Jon Petersen - Senior Data Scientist at Uber

More details at http://www.mit.edu/~orc/seminars/iap.html

Sponsor(s): Operations Research Center
Contact: Zachary Saunders, ZACHARYS@MIT.EDU

Joseph Huchette, Jack Dunn

Jan/05	Tue	09:00AM-12:00PM	E51-315
Jan/07	Thu	09:00AM-12:00PM	E51-315
Jan/12	Tue	09:00AM-12:00PM	E51-315
Jan/14	Thu	09:00AM-12:00PM	E51-315
Jan/19	Tue	09:00AM-12:00PM	E51-315
Jan/21	Thu	09:00AM-12:00PM	E51-315
Jan/26	Tue	09:00AM-12:00PM	E51-315
Jan/28	Thu	09:00AM-12:00PM	E51-315

Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required
Sign-up by 01/01
Attendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions

The "big data revolution" has placed added emphasis on computational techniques in Operations Research (OR). Large-scale optimization, data analysis and visualization are now commonplace among researchers and practitioners alike. More than ever, there is a need not only to develop new techniques, but also to implement and use them. This course is a multi-session workshop focusing on software tools specific to the practice of OR. We concentrate on the mechanics of using common software to apply specific methodologies. The goal of the course is to provide a baseline technical knowledge for modern research in OR, including the computational aspects of: data manipulation/analysis, visualization, graphs, and optimization. Class participation and individual hands-on coding are stressed in each session.

Sponsor(s): Operations Research Center
Contact: Joseph Huchette, HUCHETTE@MIT.EDU