Powerpoint Presentations (and more)

Jim Orlin

Last update: January 2007.

• Cool Techniques using PowerPoint and Excel. Presented at MIT in January, 2007.
• Recent and Open Problems in Computational Biology. Talk given at INFORMS, 2006, in Pittsburgh.
• Teaching a Traditional Optimization Course in a Non-traditional Manner. Talk given jointly with Mike Metzger at INFORMS, 2006, in Pittsburgh.
• Very Large Scale Neighborhood Search for Timetabling. Based on research that is joint with Carol Meyers. Presented at PATAT, 2006.
• Sequence Grammars for Very Large Scale Neighborhood Search. Based on research that is joint with Agustin Bompadre. Talk given at ISMP 2006 in Rio de Janeiro.
• A framework for FPTAS's for sequential decision problems. Talk given at BECO 2004, in Bertinoro, Italy. May, 2004.

• The Operations Research Center. Part of a talk with John Tsitsiklis presented at the 50th anniversary celebration of the MIT OR Center, which was joint with the April 2004 INFORMS practice Meeting.

• "Conjoint Adaptive Ranking Database Systems." Presented at the MIT E-business Center Annual Conference, May 2003.

• "Very Large Scale Neighborhood Search".  (in pdf format) Tutorial presented with Ravi Ahuja at the 2002 INFORMS meeting in San Jose, CA.

• "Very Large Scale Neighborhood Search".  (in pdf format) Semi-Plenary Talk presented at the 2000 International Math Programming Symposium.

• "e-Optimization Schemes and L-Bit Precision:  Alternative Perspectives in Combinatorial Optimization" with Andreas Schulz and Sudipta Sengupta.  (in pdf format) Presented at STOC '00 and at the 2000 International Math Programming Symposium.

• "Neighborhood Seach Made Difficult"  (in pdf format) Prented at DO '99.

• Time Management". (in pdf format) Presented at the Ph.D. colloquium at the Dallas 1997 INFORMS Meeting. (This is stored in html)

• "Inverse Optimization Problems" (in pdf format) with Ravi Ahuja. Presented at the 1997 Math Programming Symposium in Lausanne, Switzerland.