Fall 2014 Seminar Series


9/11/2014 4:15 p.m. E51-335	Retsef Levi J. Spencer Standish (1945) Professor of Management, Professor of Operations Management MIT, Sloan School of Management	Exploration vs. Exploitation: Reducing Uncertainty in Operational Problems

9/18/2014 4:15 p.m. E51-335	Peng Shi ORC Best Student Paper Award Winner MIT, Operations Research Center	Optimal Allocation without Money: an Engineering Approach

9/25/2014 4:15 p.m. E51-335	Andy Philpott Professor University of Auckland	Supply Function Equilibrium Models for Electricity Markets

9/30/2014 (Tuesday) 12:00 p.m. E25-111	Michael I. Jordan Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor Department of EECS Department of Statistics University of California, Berkeley	Optimistic Concurrency Control for Distributed Machine Learning

10/9/2014 4:15 p.m. E51-335	Aurelie Thiele Associate Professor Lehigh University	Optimal Facility in-Network Selection for Healthcare Payers Under Reference Pricing

10/16/2014 4:15 p.m. E51-335	Peter Frazier Assistant Professor School of Operations Research and Information Engineering Cornell University	Parallel Bayesian Global Optimization of Expensive Functions, for Metrics Optimization at Yelp

10/23/2014 4:15 p.m. E51-335	Garrett van Ryzin Paul M. Montrone Professor of Private Enterprise, Chair of Decision, Risk, and Operations Columbia Business School‎	Estimating Willingness-to-Pay and Willingness-to-Sell from Negotiation Data and Implications for Pricing

10/30/2014 4:15 p.m. E51-335	Donald Goldfarb Alexander and Hermine Avanessians Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Columbia University	Low-rank Matrix and Tensor Recovery: Theory and Algorithms

11/6/2014 4:15 p.m. E51-335	Erick Delage Canada Research Chair in Decision Making Under Uncertainty Department of Decision Sciences, Director of LACED HEC Montréal	Addressing Model Ambiguity in the Expected Utility Framework

11/20/2014 4:15 p.m. E51-335	Fatma Kılınç-Karzan Assistant Professor of Operations Research Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University	Structure in Disjunctive Conic Optimization and Non-convex Quadratic Programs

12/4/2014 4:15 p.m. E51-335	Georgia Perakis William F. Pounds Professor of Operations Research MIT, Sloan School of Management	When Data Analytics Meets Promotion Planning

Please Note: All seminars will be held on Thursdays from 4:15pm to 5:15pm unless otherwise indicated. All seminars will be followed by refreshments after the seminar. If you have any questions contact David Fagnan <dfagnan@mit.edu>, Paul Grigas <pgrigas@mit.edu>, or Iain Dunning <idunning@mit.edu> by email.

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