Fall 2007 Seminar Series

September 13	Damon Wischik Professor University College, London	Queueing Theory for TCP
September 20	Eitan Bachmat Professor Ben-Gurion University	Airplane Boarding
September 27	Rekha Thomas Professor University of Washington, Seattle	Small Chvatal Rank
October 4	Shang-Hua Teng Professor Boston University	Game and Market Equilibria: Approximation and Smoothed Complexity
October 11	Eva Lee Professor Georgia Institute of Technology	Large-Scale Optimization Strategies for Optimal Cancer Treatment Design
October 18	Pascal Van Hentenryck Professor Brown University	Anticipatory Algorithms for Online Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization
October 25	Jorge Vera Professor Catholic University of Chile	Robust Optimization Applied to Supply Chain Problems in the Forest Industry
November 1	Vivek Farias Assistant Professor MIT	The Greedy Policy for a class of Stochastic Scheduling Models
November 15	Matthew O. Jackson Professor Stanford University	Naive Learning in Social Networks: Convergence, Influence, and the Wisdom of Crowds
November 29	Roman Kapuscinski Associate Professor University of Michigan	Advance Selling with Limited Capacity and Customers' Dependent Valuations

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 ORC Conference Room (E40-106). If you have any questions contact Ilan Lobel <lobel "at" mit.edu>, Premal Shah <premal "at" mit.edu>, or Theophane Weber <theo_w "at" mit.edu> by email or by calling (617) 253-7412.

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