Fall 2006 Seminar Series


September 14	Barry Smith Scientist and Corporate Officer Sabre Holdings	Helping Travelocity Transition to Travel Retailer

September 28	Vijay Vazirani Professor Georgia Institute of Technology	New Market Models and Algorithms

October 5	Mihalis Yannakakis Percy K. and Vida L. W. Hudson Professor of Computer Science Columbia University	TBA

October 12	Saul Gass Professor Emeritus University of Maryland	An Annotated Timeline of Operations Research

October 19	Fernando Bernstein Associate Professor of Operations Management Duke University	Managing Operational Risks in Decentralized Supply Chains

October 26	Daniel Bienstock Professor Columbia University	Experiments in Robust Optimization

November 2	Feryal Erhun Assistant Professor Stanford University	Risk Management in Supply Chains: An Operations Management Perspective

November 16	Adrian Lewis Professor Cornell University	Alternating Projections Revisited

November 30	Yannis Paschalidis Associate Professor Boston University	Optimization for Protein-Protein Docking

December 7	Seyed M. R. Iravani Associate Professor Northwestern University	Workforce Agility in Production and Service Operations Systems

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 Margret Bjarnadottir <margret "at" mit.edu>, David Czerwinski <dczerwin "at" mit.edu>, or Raghavendran Sivaraman <rags "at" mit.edu> by email or by calling (617) 253-7412.

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