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Fall 2010 Seminar Series

September 9th
4:15 p.m.
E62-550

Michael Braun
Homer A. Burnell Career Development Professor, and Assistant Professor of Management Science (Marketing Group)
Sloan School of Management, MIT

Scalable Inference of Customer Similarities from Interactions Data using Dirichlet Processes

September 16th
Canceled

Benjamin Van Roy
Associate Professor
Stanford University

Directed Learning

September 23rd
4:15 p.m.
E62-550

Robert Smith
Director of the Dynamic Systems Optimization Laboratory
University of Michigan

Infinite Horizon Optimization

September 30th
4:15 p.m.
E62-550

Bert Zwart
Professor
VU University

Macroscopic Models of Bandwidth Sharing Networks

October 7th
4:15 p.m.
E62-550

Awi Federgruen
Charles E. Exley Professor of Management. Chair of the Decision, Risk & Operations Division
Columbia University

How Much is a Reduction of Your Customers' Wait Worth?

October 14th
4:15 p.m.
E62-550

Andrew Lim
Associate Professor & Coleman Fung Chair in Financial Modeling
Department of Industrial Engineering & OR, Berkely

Decentralized Control of Stochastic Dynamic Resource Allocation Problems

October 21st
4:15 p.m.
E62-650

Foster Provost
Professor, NEC Faculty Fellow, and Paduano Fellow of Business Ethics (Emeritus)
Stern School of Business, NYU

Get Another Label? Improving Data Quality and Machine Learning using Multiple, Noisy Labelers

October 28th
4:15 p.m.
E62-550

Balaji Prabhakar
Associate Professor. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Stanford University

It Pays to do the Right Thing: Incentive Mechanisms for Societal Networks
(joint seminar with LIDS)

November 4th
4:15 p.m.
E62-550

Michael Kearns
Professor of Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania

Behavioral Game Theory in Social Networks

November 18th
4:15 p.m.
E62-550

Sebastian Pokutta
Visiting Lecturer
Sloan School of Management, MIT

On the Rank of Generic Cutting-Plane Proof Systems

December 2nd
4:15 p.m.
E62-550

Jeannette Song
Professor
Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

Optimal Policies for an Assemble-to-Order N-System

December 9th
4:15 p.m.
E51-145

David B. Shmoys
Professor, ORIE and Computer Science
Cornell University

Strong LP Formulations and Primal-Dual Approximation Algorithms

 

Please Note: All seminars will be held on Thursdays from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. in room E62-550 unless otherwise indicated. All seminars will be followed by refreshments. If you have any questions contact Allison Chang <aachang@mit.edu>, Nikolaos Trichakis <nitric@mit.edu>, or Eric Zarybnisky <ejz@mit.edu> by email or by calling (617) 253-6185.

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