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Fall 2008 Seminar Series
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September 11
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Jesus De Loera
Professor of Mathematics
University of California, Davis |
Transportation Polytopes: a Twenty-year Update |
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September 18 |
Ravindra Ahuja
Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Florida |
Tales of an OR Company: From Problems to Solutions to Decision Support Systems |
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September 25
* E51-063 |
Brenda Dietrich
IBM Fellow and Vice President
IBM T J Watson Research Center |
Business-to-Business Services New Opportunities for Operations Research |
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October 2
* E40-496
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Achal Bassamboo
Assistant Professor of Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
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A Little Flexibility is All You Need: Optimality of Tailored Chaining and Pairing |
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October 16
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Shmuel Oren
The Earl J. Isaac Chair Professor, IEOR Department
UC Berkeley |
Modeling and Computing Oligopolistic Strategic Forward Market Equilibrium in a Congested Electricity Network |
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October 23
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Guillermo Gallego
Professor and Chairman Department of Industrial Engineering & OR
Columbia University
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Upgrades, Upsells and Pricing in Revenue Management |
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October 30
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Thomas Magnanti
Institute Professor
MIT |
The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly: Progress and Challenges in Designing Optimal Networks |
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November 6
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Paul Zipkin
R. J. Reynolds Professor of Business Administration, School of Business
Duke University |
A Multi-Source Inventory System with Order Tracking and Expediting |
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November 13
* E51-063
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Jonathan Caulkins
Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy
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Carnegie Mellon University, Qatar |
How Should the Mix of Drug Control Strategies Vary Over a Drug Epidemic?
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December 4
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Levent Tuncel
Professor of Mathematics, Department of Combinatorics & Optimization
University of Waterloo
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Fundamentals of Convergence Theories for Convex Relaxation Hierarchies |
December 11
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Christian Borgs
Deputy Managing Director of Microsoft Research New England
Microsoft |
Belief Propagation for weighted b-matchings
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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 Jason Acimovic <jason@acimovic.com>, Ruben Lobel <rlobel@mit.edu>, or Karima Nigmatulina <knigmatu@mit.edu> by email or by calling (617) 253-6185.
Print Version (PDF): ORC FALL '08 Seminar Schedule
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