Spring 2012 Seminar Series


February 9th 4:15 p.m. E62-550	Antonio Conejo Professor of Electrical Engineering Universidad de Castilla	Equilibria in an oligopolistic electricity pool with stepwise offer curves

February 16th 4:15 p.m. E62-550	Nir Halman Lecturer of Operations Research Jerusalem School of Business Administration, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem	FPTASs for stochastic optimization problems

March 1st 4:15 p.m. E51-335	Nils Rudi Associate Professor of Technology and Operations Management INSEAD	In-play football (soccer) prediction

March 8th 4:15 p.m. E51-335	Dimitris Bertsimas Boeing Leaders for Global Operations Professor, ORC Codirector MIT Sloan School of Management	A computationally tractable theory of performance analysis in stochastic systems

March 15th 4:15 p.m. E51-335	Peter Bartlett Professor Division of Computer Science and Department of Statistics at UC Berkeley	Oracle inequalities for large scale model selection

March 22nd 4:15 p.m. E51-335	Andrea Montanari Associate Professor Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Statistics at Stanford University	Universal limits in high-dimensional statistics

April 5th 4:15 p.m. E51-335	Ward Whitt Professor Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at Columbia University	Queueing models for large-scale service systems experiencing periods of overloading

April 12th 4:15 p.m. E51-335	Gérard Cachon Fred R. Sullivan Professor of Operations and Information Management The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania	Supply chain design and the cost of greenhouse gas emissions

April 19th 4:15 p.m. E51-335	Santanu Dey Assistant Professor School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech	Some properties of convex hulls of integer points contained in general convex set

April 26th 4:15 p.m. E51-335	Daron Acemoglu Elizabeth and James Killian Professor of Economics Department of Economics, MIT	Systemic risk and stability in financial networks

May 10th 4:15 p.m. E51-335	Ebrahim Nasrabadi Postdoctoral Associate MIT Sloan School of Management	On the power of randomization in robust optimization and network interdiction

Please Note: All seminars will be held on Thursdays from 4:15 to 5:15 p.m. in room E51-335 unless otherwise indicated. All seminars will be followed by refreshments in the ORC Conference Room (E40-106). If you have any questions contact Joline Ann Villaranda Uichanco <uichanco@mit.edu>, Yehua Wei <y4wei@mit.edu>, or Yuan Zhong <zhyu4118@mit.edu> by email or by calling (617) 253-6185.

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