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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