Spring 2004 Seminar Series

February 19	Dr. Özlem Ergun Assistant Professor School of Industrial and Systems Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology	Collaborative Logistics: The Shipper Collaboration Problem
February 26	Professor Gérard Cachon Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management Ph.D. Coordinator, OPIM The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania	Procuring Fast Delivery, Part II: Sole Sourcing with Information Asymmetry
March 4	Professor Ben Van Roy Assistant Professor Stanford University	Approximate Dynamic Programming
March 11	Professor Moshe Dror Visiting Faculty MIT Operations Research Center	An Overview of Cost Allocation in Newsvendor Inventory Centralization
March 18	Professor Arkadi Nemirovski Professor Mannie and Netti Fischer Academic Chair Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management Technion - Israel Institute of Technology	Tractable Approximations of Semi-Infinite Convex Problems and Applications
April 1	Professor Bill Cunningham University of Waterloo	Even Factors in Digraphs
April 8	Professor Georgia Perakis Career Development Associate Professor of Operations Research MIT Sloan School of Management	The Price of Anarchy under Nonlinear and Asymmetric Costs
April 15	Professor Patrick Jaillet Edmund K.Turner Professor and Department Head MIT Civil and Environmental Engineering	Online Routing and Searching Problems
April 22	Professor Paul Zipkin Austin Finch, Sr. Professor of Business The Fuqua School of Business Duke University	The Newsvendor's Truck
April 29	Professor Jay Sethuraman Assistant Professor Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Columbia University	Fair Allocation