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Spring 2007 Seminar Series

February 8

*Room E51- 376

Rene Caldentey
Assistant Professor of Operations Management
New York University

Insider Trading with Stochastic Valuation

February 15

Assaf Zeevi
Gantcher Associate Professor of Business
Columbia University

Two Problems Involving Sequential Estimation and Optimization

February 22

James Orlin
Edward Pennell Brooks Professor of Operations Research
MIT

A Faster and Simpler Strongly Polynomial Time Algorithm for Submodular Function Minimization

March 1

Christos Papadimitriou
C. Lester Hogan Professor of EECS
UC Berkeley

Linked Decompositions of Networks and Polya Urns with Choice

March 8

Paat Rusmevichientong
Assistant Professor
Cornell University

An Adaptive Algorithm for Selecting Profitable Keywords for Search-Based Advertising Services

March 15

Baris Ata
Assistant Professor of MEDS
Northwestern University

Bid Price Controls for Network Revenue Management

March 22

Sridhar Seshadri
Toyota Motor Term Professor of IOMS-OM
NYU

Risk Management in Supply Chains

April 5

Maurice Queyranne
Professor
University of British Columbia

Toward Robust Revenue Management: Competitive Analysis of Online Booking

April 12

Dorit S. Hochbaum
Professor
UC Berkeley

Ranking Sports Teams, Web Pages, Academic Papers, NSF Proposals and More with Optimization Techniques

April 19

Bruce Tidor
Professor of Biological Engineering and Computer Science
MIT

Research in the Emerging Field of Computational and Systems Biology

April 26

Baruch Schieber
Manager of the Optimization Center in the Mathematical Sciences Department IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Coping with the Unknown in the Battlefield and on the Auction Block

May 2

Jan A. Van Mieghem
Professor of Managerial Economics and Operations Management Northwestern University

The Value of Dynamic Resource Pooling: Should a service network be integrated or Product-focused?

 

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 Xuan Vinh Doan <vanxuan "at" mit.edu>, Nelson Uhan <uhan "at" mit.edu>, or Yunqing Ye <jereyyq "at" mit.edu> by email or by calling (617) 253-7412.

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