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Fall 2005 Seminar Series

September 15

Stephen E. Chick
Associate Professor
Technology Management Area
INSEAD

A Bandit Approach to the Economics of System Selection with Simulation

September 22

Murali Kodialam
Research Staff Member
Networking Research Laboratory
Bell Labs

Estimating Traffic Rates by Counting Coincidences

September 29

Retsef Levi
Postdoctoral Fellow
IBM Watson Research Center

Provably Near-Optimal Sampling-Based Policies for Stochastic Inventory Control Models

October 6

Thomas Bortfeld
Director of Physics Research in Radiation Oncology
Massachusetts General Hospital

Operations Research Meets Radiation Oncology

October 13

Kourosh Eshghi
Associate Professor
Industrial Engineering Department
Sharif University of Technology

Graceful Graphs

October 20

Irvin Lustig
Manager of Technical Services
ILOG Direct

Computational Progress in Optimization

October 27

Ed Kaplan
William N. & Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences
School of Management
Yale

Polls, Prices, and Predicting the Presidential Election

November 3

Ward Whitt
Professor
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Columbia University

Fluid Approximations for Many-Server Queues with Abandonment and their Applications

November 10

Dimitris Bertsimas
Boeing Professor of Operations Research
Sloan School of Management and Operations Research Center
MIT

Robust and Adaptive Optimization:
A Tractable Approach to Optimization Under Uncertainty

December 1

Lisa Fleischer
Research Staff Member
IBM Watson Research Center

Toward Discrete and Local Tatonnement Algorithms for the Market Problem

December 8

Stephen P. Boyd
Samsung Prof. of Engineering & Prof. of Electrical Engineering
Information Systems Laboratory
Stanford University

A New Minimax Theorem for Rayleigh Quotients, with Applications to Machine Learning, Signal Processing, and Finance

 

Please Note: All seminars will be held on Thursdays from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. in E40-298 (unless otherwise announced), followed by refreshments in the Philip M. Morse Reading Room (E40-106). If you have any questions contact Timothy Chan <tcychan "at" mit.edu>, Kathryn Kaminski <katykam "at" mit.edu>, or Alexandre Nogueira <belloni "at" mit.edu> by email or by calling (617) 253-7412.