Spring 2005 Seminar Series

February 10	Stefanos A. Zenios Associate Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology Graduate School of Business Stanford University	Recipient Choice Can Address the Efficiency-Equity Trade-Off in Kidney Transplantation: A Mechanism Design Model
February 17	Devavrat Shah Postdoctoral Associate Department of Statistics Stanford University	New Approaches For Switch Algorithms
February 24	Olivier L. de Weck Robert N. Noyce Assistant Professor of Aeronautics & Astronautics and Engineering Systems Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Supersize Me? …or Architecting the Evolution of Engineering Systems
March 10	Alan Frieze Professor of Mathematics Department of Mathematical Sciences Carnegie Mellon University	One and Two Stage Minimum Spanning Tree Problems: Average Case Analysis
March 17	Garud Iyengar Associate Professor Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Columbia University	Uncertainty, Learning, and Robust Optimization
March 31	Uriel G. Rothblum William Davidson Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management Technion	Convex Combinatorial Optimization
April 7	Michael Pinedo Julius Schlesinger Professor of Operations Management Leonard N. Stern School of Business New York University	Scheduling Orders in Dedicated and Flexible Machine Environments
April 14	Robert A. Shumsky Associate Professor of Operations Management Simon Graduate School of Business University of Rochester	Dynamic Capacity Management with Substitution
April 28	Erica Plambeck Associate Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology Graduate School of Business Stanford University	Optimal Control of a High Volume Assemble-to-Order System
May 5	Gilbert Laporte Professor of Operations Research Department of Management Sciences HEC Montréal	Branch-and-Cut Algorithms for the m-Peripatetic Salesman Problem
May 12	Bernhard Korte Professor or Operations Research and Discrete Mathematics University of Bonn	Mathematics of VLSI Chip Design