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Spring 2011 Seminar Series

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

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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

 

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 Chaithanya Bandi <cbandi@mit.edu>, Michael Frankovich <mfrankov@mit.edu>, or Anna Teytelman <teytanna@mit.edu> by email or by calling (617) 253-6185.

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