Spring 2010 Seminar Series


February 11th 4:15 p.m. E51-376	Cynthia Rudin Assistant Professor Sloan School of Management, MIT	Dynamics of AdaBoost

February 18th 4:15 p.m. E51-376	Alexandre d'Aspremont Assistant Professor Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton University	Subsampling, Spectral Methods & Semidefinite Programming

March 4th	Peter Kolesar Professor Emeritus Columbia University	Conflict on the Delaware: Trout Fisherman and River Towns versus the Big Apple: Improving Water Release Policies with Operations Research

March 11th 4:15 p.m. E51-376	Terry Friesz Harold and Inge Marcus Chaired Professor of Industrial Engineering Penn State	Dynamic Traffic Assignment: History, Recent Results and Unanswered Questions

April 1st 4:15 p.m. E51-376	Vineet Goyal Postdoctoral Associate Operations Research Center, MIT	On the Power of Robust and Affine Solutions in Dynamic Optimization

April 8th 4:15 p.m. E51-376	Garud Iyengar Associate Professor Industrial Engineering and OR Department, Columbia University	Inequality and Network Structure

April 15th 4:15 p.m. E51-376	Paul Glasserman Jack R. Anderson Professor of Business Columbia Business School	Valuing the Treasury’s Capital Assistance Program

April 21st (Wednesday) 4:15 p.m. E51-325	Maria Chudnovsky Associate Professor Industrial Engineering and OR Department, Columbia University	Perfect Graphs --- Structure and Recognition

April 29th 4:15 p.m. E51-376	Robert Kleinberg Assistant Professor of Computer Science Cornell University	Pricing Randomized Allocations

May 6th 4:15 p.m. E51-376	Alexander Barvinok Professor of Mathematics University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	Gaussian and Almost Gaussian Formulas for the Number of Integer Points in Polyhedra

May 13th 4:15 p.m. E51-376	Yinyu Ye Professor of Management Science and Engineering and Institute of Computational and Mathematical Engineering and the Director of the MS&E Industrial Affiliates Program Stanford University	A Dynamic Near-Optimal Algorithm for Online Linear Programming

Please Note: All seminars will be held on Thursdays (except for 4/21) from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. in the room indicated. All seminars will be followed by refreshments in the ORC Conference Room (E40-106). If you have any questions contact Matthew Fontana <mfontana@mit.edu>, Philipp Keller <pkeller@mit.edu>, Alexander Rikun <arikun@mit.edu> by email or by calling (617) 253-6185.

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