Spring 2006 Seminar Series


March 2	Pinar Keskinocak Associate Professor School of Industrial Engineering Georgia Institute of Technology	Supply Chain Procurement with Inventory and Backordering Options

March 9	Ioana Popescu Assistant Professor Decision Sciences INSEAD	Dynamic Pricing with Reference Effects

March 16	Costis Maglaras Philip H. Geier Jr., Associate Professor of Business Colmbia Business School	Economics of Queues

March 23	Petar Momcilovic Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science University of Michigan	Waiting Time Dynamics in Large-Scale Queues

April 6	Erol Peköz Associate Professor of Operations and Technology Management Boston University	Distinguishing Induced Demand from Redirected Demand in a Healthcare Network

April 13	David Parkes Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences & Associate Professor of Computer Science Harvard University	Adaptive Online Mechanism Design for Sequential Environments

April 20	David Gamarnik Assistant Professor of Operations Research MIT Sloan School of Management	Correlation Decay, Statistical Physics and Algorithmic Applications

April 27	Seyed Iravani Pentair-Nugent Associate Professor of Manufacturing Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Science Northwestern University	Workforce Agility in Production and Service Operations Systems

May 4	Marshall Fisher UPS Professor of Operations and Information Management The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania	Sales, Customer Satisfaction and Store Execution

May 11	Jean-Philippe Vial Professor in Operations Management University of Genève	Stochastic Programming with Decision Rules

May 18	Diego Klabjan Associate Professor Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Inventory Models for Business-to-Consumer Fulfillment

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 Pavithra Harsha <pavithra "at" mit.edu>, Wanhang Shum <sstephen "at" mit.edu>, Carine Simon <casimon "at" mit.edu> by email or by calling (617) 253-7412.

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