 |
February 10th
4:15 p.m.
E51-345
|
Ben Van Roy
Associate Professor
Stanford University |
Manipulation Robustness of Collaborative Filtering |
 |
February 15th
4:00 p.m.
32-141
|
Eva Tardos
Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science
Cornell University |
Auctions Games and The Price of Anarchy
(joint seminar with LIDS) |
 |
February 17th
4:15 p.m.
E62-550 |
Rakesh Vohra
John K. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University |
Optimal Auctions with Budget Constraints |
 |
February 24th
4:15 p.m.
E62-550
|
Carla E. Brodley
Professor and Chair
Department of Computer Science, Tufts University |
Challenges in the Practical Application of Machine Learning |
 |
March 3rd
4:15 p.m.
E62-550
|
Peter Kolesar 
Professor Emeritus
Columbia University |
Breaking the Deadlock: Improving Water-Release Policies on the Delaware River through Operations Research |
 |
March 10th
4:15 p.m.
E62-550
|
Hung-po Chao
Director, Market Strategy and Analysis
ISO New England |
Smart Pricing via Consumer Subscription |
 |
March 17th
4:15 p.m.
E62-550
|
Itai Ashlagi 
Assistant Professor
Sloan School of Management, MIT |
Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney Exchange
|
 |
April 7th
4:15 p.m.
E62-550
|
Stefanos Zenios
Charles A. Holloway Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology and Professor of Health Care Management
Stanford University |
Evidence-Based Incentive Systems with an Application in Health Care Delivery |
 |
April 14th
4:15 p.m.
E62-550
|
Kamal Jain
Principal Researcher
Microsoft Research Center |
Generalized Online Matching with Concave Utilities |
 |
April 21st
4:15 p.m.
E62-550
|
Retsef Levi
J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Management
Sloan School of Management, MIT |
Near-Optimal LP-Based Policies for Revenue Management of Reusable Resources |
 |
April 28th
4:15 p.m.
E62-550
|
Jonathan Kelner
KDD Career Development Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics
MIT |
Fitting a Graph to Vector Data |
 |
May 5th
4:15 p.m.
E62-550
|
Paat Rusmevichientong
Associate Professor
School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University |
Robust Assortment Optimization Under the Multinomial Logit Choice Model |
 |
May 12th
4:15 p.m.
E62-550
|
George Shanthikumar
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
University of California, Berkeley |
When Does More Information-gathering Lead to More Production? The Case of the Newsvendor |
 |