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Fall 2009 Seminar Series

September 17th
4:15 p.m.
E51-325


Stephen Boyd
Samsung Professor of Engineering, and Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Information Systems Laboratory
Stanford University
Visiting Professor at MIT, Fall Semester 2009–10

Real-Time Embedded Convex Optimization

September 24th
4:15 p.m.
E51-325

Srinivas Bollapragada
Principal Scientist
General Electric Global Research Center (GEGRC)

Dispatching Trains on Rail Networks; Optimizing Insurance Portfolios

October 1
4:15 p.m.
E51-325

Santosh Vempala
Distinguished Professor
School of Computer Science, Georgia Tech

Efficient Algorithms for Some Nonconvex Families

October 7th
4:15 p.m.
54-100

Jon Kleinberg
Tisch University Professor
Department of Computer Science, Cornell University

Social Networks, Cascading Behavior, and Search

October 8th
4:15 p.m.
E51-325

Jon Kleinberg
Tisch University Professor
Department of Computer Science, Cornell University

Digital Traces and Anonymized Networks

October 15th
4:15 p.m.
E51-325

William Hogan
William W. Hogan, Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy
John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

A Model for a Zonal Operating Reserve Demand Curve

October 22nd
4:15 p.m.
E51-325

Susan Athey
Professor of Economics
Harvard University

An Empirical Model of Search Advertising Auctions

October 29th
4:15 p.m.
E51-325

R. Ravi
Carnegie Bosch Professor of Operations Research and Computer Science
Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

Iterative Methods in Combinatorial Optimization

November 5th
4:15 p.m.
E51-325

Ananth Iyer
Susan Bulkeley Butler Chair in Operations Management and Director, DCMME and GSCMI
Purdue University

Value of Operational Flexibility During Product Upgrade in Closed Loop Supply Chains

November 12th
4:15 p.m.
E51-325

David Morton
Engineering Foundation Professor in the Graduate Program in Operations Research in the Mechanical Engineering
University of Texas at Austin

Assessing Solution Quality in Stochastic Programs via Sampling

December 10th
4:15 p.m.
E51-325


Wuqin Lin
Donald P. Jacobs Scholar in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

beta-Maximum Pressure Policies in Stochastic Processing Networks: Heavy Traffic Analysis

 

Please Note: All seminars will be held on Thursdays from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. in the room indicated, followed by refreshments in the ORC Conference Room (E40-106). If you have any questions contact Doug Fearing <dfearing@mit.edu>, David Goldberg <dag3141@mit.edu>, or Jonathan Kluberg <kluberg@mit.edu> by email or by calling (617) 253-6185.