Spring 2009 Seminar Series


February 19 E51-376	Nikhil Bansal Research Staff Member IBM Watson	Degree Bounded Network Design

February 26 E51-376	Shane Henderson Associate Professor, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering Cornell University	Ambulance Location and Relocation

March 5 E51-376	John Hooker Professor of Operations Research and Holleran Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility Carnegie Mellon University	Keeping it SIMPL: Recent Developments in an Integrated Solver

March 19 E51-376	Noah Gans Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management UPenn Wharton	Accounting for Arrival-Rate Uncertainty in Call-Center Workforce Scheduling
April 9 E51-057	Jiawei Zhang Associate Professor of Operations Management NYU Stern	The Joint Replenishment Problem and Polymatroid Optimization

April 16 E51-057	Georgia Perakis Associate Professor of Operations Research MIT	The Price of Oligopolistic Competition

April 23 E51-057	Ed Kaplan William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences Yale School of Management	Estimating HIV incidence in the United States

April 30 E51-057	Kavita Ramanan Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences Carnegie Mellon University	Asymptotic Approximations for Many-Server Queues

May 7 E51-057	Hans-Jakob Luethi Professor for Operations Research ETH Zurich	The Challenge of Designing in Complex Systems

May 14 E51-057	Jorge Nocedal Professor, Director of the Computational Science Institute Northwestern University	Optimization of Systems Described by Differential Equations

Please Note: All seminars will be held on Thursdays from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. in in the room indicated, followed by refreshments in the ORC Conference Room (E40-106). If you have any questions contact Adrian Becker <adrianbb@mit.edu>, Ye Lu <yelu@mit.edu>, or Diana Michalek <dianam@MIT.EDU> by email or by calling (617) 253-6185.

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