September 16
Michel Goemans Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics MIT
Two-Dimensional Gantt Charts
September 23
Dr. Mitchell Burman Managing Partner Analytics Consulting
Applications of Revenue Management in Manufacturing
September 30
Nitin R. Patel Cytel Software Corp Visiting Scientist, Sloan School of Management MIT
Network Algorithms for Exact Statistical Inference in Contingency Tables
October 7
Egon Balas University Professor, Graduate School of Industrial Administration Carnegie Mellon University
Lift-and -Project: Recent Progress
October 14
Adrian Lewis Professor, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization University of Waterloo
Ill-Conditioned Linear Inequalities
October 21
Gil Syswerda Strategic Technology and Business Advisor I2 Technologies
Genetic Algorithms and Schedule Optimization
October 28
Duncan Watts Postdoctorial Associate Sloan School of Management, MIT
Dynamics of 'Small-World' Networks
November 4
Glen Urban Professor of Management; Dean Emeritus Sloan School of Management, MIT
Trust Based Marketing on the Internet
November 18
Anna Nagurney John F. Smith Memorial Professor University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Networks as Links Between Operations Research and Other Disciplines
December 2
Jan Van Mieghem Associate Professor Northwestern University
Differentiated Quality of Service: Joint Pricing and Scheduling in Queuing Systems
December 9
Lawrence M. Wein Professor of Management Science Sloan School of Management, MIT
Some Mathematical Models of Cancer Treatment