Spring 2001 Seminar Series

February 15	Professor Daniel Bienstock Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Columbia University	Approximation Algorithms for Linear Programming: From Theory to Growing Practice
February 22	Professor Madhu Sudan EECS Department Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Random Walks with "Back Buttons"
March 15	Professor Anton Kleywegt School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology	Revenue Management Models for The Sea Cargo Industry
March 22	Professor Mike Todd Leon C. Welch Professor School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Cornell University	Interior-Point Methods for Semidefinite Programming
April 5	Professor Stefanos Zenios Graduate School of Business Stanford University	Optimal Control of a Paired-Kidney Exchange Program
April 12	Professor Cynthia Barnhart Co-Director, Operations Research Center Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Airplane Fleet Assignment and Extensions: A New Model and Solution Approach
April 19	Dr. Richard Sutton AT&T Shannon Labs	Overcoming the Curse of Dimensionality with Reinforcement Learning
April 26	Professor Rakesh Vohra John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Ecomonics and Decision Science Kellogg School of Management Northwestern University	Linear Programming and Vickrey Auctions
May 3	Professor Andrew Lo Harris & Harris Group Professor Director, MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Finance Made Difficult: Opportunities and Challenges in Quantitative Finance
May 10	Professor Donald W. Hearn Co-Director, Center for Applied Optimization Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering University of Florida	Computational Methods for Congestion Toll Pricing Models