Spring 2013 Seminar Series

February 14th 4:15 p.m. E51-315	Tauhid Zaman Assistant Professor of Operations Management MIT, Sloan School of Management	Predictive Models of User Behavior in Twitter
February 21st 4:15 p.m. E51-315	Edward H. Kaplan William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences Yale School of Management	Terror Queue Staffing and the Duration of Terror Plots
February 28th 4:15 p.m. E51-315	Özalp Özer Professor The University of Texas at Dallas	Mechanism Design (for a Capacity Investment Decision) under Dynamic Evolutions of Asymmetric (Demand) Information
March 7th 4:15 p.m. E51-315	Eleni Pratsini Manager Mathematical and Computational Sciences Department IBM Research - Zurich	Decision Making Under Uncertainty: An Industrial Perspective
March 14th 4:15 p.m. E51-315	Ariel Pakes Professor of Economics Harvard University	Dynamic Games with Asymmetric Information: A Framework for Empirical Work
March 21st 4:15 p.m. E51-315	John Birge Professor of Operations Management The University of Chicago Booth School of Business	Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for Stochastic Optimization
April 11th 4:15 p.m. E51-315	Egon Balas University Professor of Industrial Administration and Applied Mathematics, The Thomas Lord Professor of Operations Research Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business	On Cut Generating Sets and Their Use in Mixed Integer Programming
April 18th 4:15 p.m. E51-315	Guillermo Gallego Professor Columbia University, Department of IEOR	Assortment and Pricing Optimization for the Nested Logit Model
April 25th 4:15 p.m. E51-315	Erol Peköz Professor of Operations and Technology Management Boston University School of Management	Reverse Engineering the Preferential Attachment Random Graph Process
May 2nd 4:15 p.m. E51-315	Richard Berk Professor of Criminology and Statistics Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania	Algorithmic Criminology
* May 7th (Tuesday) 4:15 p.m. E51-315	Daniel Kuhn Senior Lecturer for Operations Research and Computational Finance Department of Computing, Imperial College London	Distributionally Robust Convex Optimization

* The May 9th seminar with Aharon Ben-Tal has been canceled. Note: this replacement seminar will be held on Tuesday, May 7th from 4:15pm to 5:15pm.

Please Note: All seminars will be held on Thursdays from 4:15pm to 5:15pm in room E51-315 unless otherwise indicated. All seminars will be followed by refreshments outside the seminar room. If you have any questions contact Vishal Gupta <vgupta1@mit.edu>, Kristine Dianne Johnson <krisdj@mit.edu>, or Maxime Cohen <maxcohen@mit.edu> by email.

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