ORC Alumni Day 2011
October 15, 2011
Location: Wong Auditorium (E51-115) and Ting Foyer (Building E51)

At the Corner of Wadsworth St. and Amherst St. (Streetview of entrance)

Cambridge, MA 02142

Welcome Back ORC Alumni Coffee / Registration , 7:30 - 8:30 AM

Opening Remarks - 8:30AM

Speaker

John Little, Institute Professor at MIT

Panel 1: The Future of Operations Research - 9:00AM

Moderator

Thomas Magnanti, Institute Professor at MIT

Participants

Dimitris Bertsimas, Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor at MIT
Edward Kaplan, William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences at Yale School of Management
Garrett J. Van Ryzin, Paul M. Montrone Professor of Private Enterprise at Columbia Business School

Panel 2: Operations Research at MIT - 1:30PM

Moderator

Robert Freund, Theresa Seley Professor in Management Science at MIT

Participants

Cynthia Barnhart, Ford Professor of Engineering at MIT
Richard Larson, Mitsui Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT
John Tsitsiklis, Clarence J. Lebel Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT

Panel 3: Operations Research in Today's Economy - 3:30PM

Moderator

Mitchell Burman, Founder and President of Analytics

Participants

Louis Cox, President of Cox Associates
Soulaymane Kachani, Associate Professor at Columbia University
Rama Ramakrishnan, Founder and CEO, CQuotient Inc.

Dinner Speech: Three Data-Driven Operations Research Analyses in the Public Sector

Speaker

Lawrence Wein, Paul E. Holden Professor of Management Science at Stanford Graduate School of Business

 

Print Version (PDF): Alumni Day 2011 Schedule

Alumni Day 2011 Video (MP4) - Right click or option-click the links and choose "Save link as..." to download:
Part 1: Opening Remarks and Future of OR Panel
Part 2: OR at MIT Panel
Part 3: OR in Today's Economy Panel and Memorial Session