MIT: Independent Activities Period: IAP

IAP 2018 Activities by Sponsor - Operations Research Center



ORC IAP Seminar 2018: "Operations Research for Social Good"

Philip Chodrow, Sharon Xu, Austin Herrling

Add to Calendar Jan/29 Mon 09:00AM-04:15PM 34-101

Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up
Prereq: None

Date: Monday, January 29th, 2018

Time: 9:30am-4:30pm

Place: 34-101

Schedule:

9:00am-9:30am

COFFEE AND REFRESHMENTS

 

 9:30am-10:15am

Michael Johnson, UMass Boston

“Community-engaged operations research: Localized interventions, appropriate methods, social impact”

 

10:30am-11:15am

Arthur Delarue and Sebastien Martin, MIT, Operations Research Center

“8 months on a school bus”

 

11:30am-12:15pm

Andrew Therriault, Chief Data Officer, City of Boston

“Saving the world with data - The case for civic data science”

 

12:30pm-1:30pm

LUNCH BREAK (not provided)

 

1:45pm-2:30pm

Edoardo Airoldi, Harvard, Statistics

 "Near-optimal design of social network experiments"

 

2:45pm-3:30pm

Hamsa Bastani, IBM Research

“Mechanism design for social good: Analysis of medicare pay-for-performance contracts”

 

3:45pm-4:30pm

Marta C. Gonzalez, UC Berkeley, Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning

“Modeling and planning urban systems with novel data sources”

 

More details available on the ORC IAP Seminar website: http://orc.mit.edu/events/orc-iap-seminar-2018

 

If you have any questions you may contact the ORC IAP Seminar student coordinators by email: orc_iapcoordinators@mit.edu

Sponsor(s): Operations Research Center
Contact: Philip Chodrow, pchodrow@mit.edu