Fall 2012 Seminar Series


September 6th 4:15 p.m. 32-124	Ronald de Wolf Researcher Dutch Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science	Exponential Lower Bounds for Polytopes in Combinatorial Optimization Joint seminar with CSAIL Theory of Computation (TOC) group

September 13th 4:15 p.m. E51-376	Yossi Aviv Dan Broida Professor of Operations & Manufacturing Management The John M. Olin School of Business Washington University	Dynamic Pricing of Fashion Products: The Effects of Demand Learning and Strategic Consumer Behavior

September 20th 4:15 p.m. E51-376	Sham Kakade Senior Research Scientist Microsoft Research, New England	Scalable Tensor Methods for Learning Latent Variable Models

October 2nd 4:15 p.m. 32-124	James Orlin Edward Pennell Brooks Professor of Operations Research MIT Sloan School of Management	Max Flows in O(nm) Time, or Better Joint seminar with CSAIL Theory of Computation (TOC) group

October 4th 4:15 p.m. E51-376	Jim Smith J.B. Fuqua Professor of Business Administration Fuqua School of Business at Duke University	Optimal Sequential Exploration: Bandits, Clairvoyants, and Wildcats

October 18th 4:15 p.m. E51-376	Marshall Fisher UPS Professor The Wharton School	Retail Assortment Optimization

October 25th 4:15 p.m. E51-376	Chaitanya Bandi and Nataly Youssef ORC Best Student Paper Award Winners MIT Operations Research Center	Robust Queueing Theory

November 1st 4:15 p.m. E51-376	Baruch Schieber Manager of the Optimization Center in the Mathematical Sciences Department IBM T.J. Watson Research Center	The Euclidean k-Supplier Problem

November 8th 4:15 p.m. E51-376	Sigrun Andradottir Professor H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering	Simulation Optimization: Algorithms and Convergence

November 15th 4:15 p.m. E51-376	Gerard Cornuejols IBM University Professor of Operations Research Carnegie Mellon University	Cut-generating Functions and S-free Sets

*December 11 4:15 p.m. E51-376	Cynthia Rudin Assistant Professor of Statistics MIT Sloan School of Management	Algorithms for Interpretable Machine Learning

December 6th 4:15 p.m. E51-376	Jeff Eisen Watson Core Technology Chief Architect IBM Watson Solutions	Putting IBM Watson to Work

December 13th 4:15 p.m. E51-376	Juan Pablo Vielma Assistant Professor in Operations Research and Statistics MIT Sloan School of Management	Encodings in Mixed Integer Linear Programming

Please Note: All seminars will be held on Thursdays from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. in room E51-376 unless otherwise indicated. All seminars will be followed by refreshments outside the seminar room. If you have any questions contact André Calmon <acalmon@mit.edu>, Adam Elmachtoub <ane@mit.edu>, or Allison Kelly O'Hair <akohair@mit.edu> by email or by calling (617) 253-6185.

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