February 14
Professor Awi Federgruen Graduate School of Business Columbia University
A General Equilibrium Model for Decentralized Supply Chains with Price and Service Competition
February 21
Professor Martin Grötschel Department of Mathematics Technische Universitaet, Berlin and Vice President, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum
Combinatorial Online Optimization
February 28
Professor Laurent El Ghaoui Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California, Berkeley
Convex Optimization and Applications in Classification Problems
March 7
Dr. Maxim Sviridenko T.J. Watson Research Center IBM
A 5/8 Approximation Algorithm for the Asymmetric Maximum TSP
March 14
Professor Yinyu Ye Department of Management Sciences University of Iowa
On Complexity of Linear Programming
March 21
Dr. Katya Scheinberg T.J. Watson Research Center IBM
Solving Convex Quadratic Programming Problems Arising in Support Vector Machine Framework
April 4
Professor Costis Maglaras Graduate School of Business Columbia University
Dynamic Pricing for a Multi-Product Make-to-Order Queue
April 11
Dr. Adam Kalai Department of Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Follow the Leader for Online Algorithms
April 18
Professor John Vande Vate School of Industrial and System Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology Visiting Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cross Docking in Load Driven Distribution Systems
April 25
Professor Egon Balas Graduate School of Industrial Administration Carnegie Mellon University
On Certain Unions of Polyhedra
May 2
Professor John Tsitsiklis Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Simpler Solutions by Means of Larger Formulations in Dynamic Programming and Supply Chain Management
May 9
Professor Michael Fu Decision and Information Technologies Department University of Maryland Visiting Professor Massachusetts Institute of Technology
A Large Deviations Analysis of Quantile Estimation with Application to Value at Risk
