Spring 2008 Seminar Series


February 21 *E51-315	Hamsa Balakrishnan Assistant Professor Aeronautics and Astronautics and Engineering Systems, MIT	Scheduling Takeoffs and Landings at Airports: New Approaches to Old Problems

February 28	Thomas McCormick WJ Van Dusen Professor in Management Sauder School of Business, UBC	A Polynomial Algorithm for Weighted Abstract Flow

March 6	Gerard Cornuejols IBM Professor of Operations Research Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University	On the Facets of Mixed Integer Programs with Two Integer Variables and Two Constraints

March 13	Michael O. Ball Orkand Corporation Professor of Management Science Robert H. Smith School of Business & Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland	Robust Revenue Management with Limited Demand Information

March 20	John Liechty Associate Professor of Marketing and Statistics Pennsylvania State University	Approaches to Heterogeneity: Adventures with Mixture Models

April 10 *E51-315	Peter Glynn Thomas W. Ford Professor in the School of Engineering Department of Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University	Bounds on Stationary Expectations for Markov Processes

April 17	John R. Birge Jerry W. and Carol Lee Levin Professor of Operations Management The University of Chicago	Estimation Effects in Large-Scale Optimization

April 24	Mahesh Nagarajan Assistant Professor Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia	Optimal and Approximate Supplier Selection Mechanisms

May 1	Jonathan A. Kelner Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics MIT	A Randomized Polynomial-Time Simplex Algorithm for Linear Programming

May 8	Chris P. Lee Assistant Professor of Operations and Information Management The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania	Lessons from Renal Dialysis as the Benchmark for Society's Willingness to Pay for Medicine

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 Konstantinos Bimpikis <kostasb” at” mit.edu> , Juliane Dunkel <juliane “at” mit.edu>, or Rajiv Menjoge <menjoge “at” mit.edu> by email or by calling (617) 253-7412.

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