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Unless stated otherwise, all seminars are at 3:30 in room 3108 Etcheverry Hall. |
SPRING 2006
| Date | Speaker | Title |
Jan 23 |
Speaker: Pr. Phil Kaminsky | Subject: Masters and Comprehensive Exams |
| Jan 23 3:45-4:30 |
Speaker: Moshe Dror, MIS Dept., Eller School of Management, Univ. Arizona, Tucson. |
Subject: Rare Events in Combinatorial Optimization: The Metric TSP Case and Bin-Packing |
| Jan 30 | Speaker: Pr. Mor Harchol-Balter, Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon Univ. | Subject: Dimensionality Reduction Technique for Scheduling in Multiserver Systems, Including Cycle Stealing, Priority Queueing, and Threshold Policies |
| Feb 6 | Speaker: Tolga Tezcan, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. | Subject: State Space Collapse in Many-Server Diffusion Limits of Parallel Server Systems |
| Feb 14 TUESDAY |
Speakers: Ozge Sahin and Guillermo Gallego, IEOR, Columbia Univ. | Subject: Inter-temporal Valuations, Product Design and Revenue Management |
| Feb 21 TUESDAY 3:00-4:00 |
Speaker: Ramandeep Randhawa, School of Business, Stanford Univ. | Subject: Operational Benefits of Subscription Services |
| Feb 27 | Speaker: Pr. Bert Zwart, Dept of Mathematics and Computer Science, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology. | Subject: The Impact of Reneging in Processor Sharing Queues |
| Mar 6 | Speaker: Sunil Chopra, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern Univ. | Subject: When are Stair Step Incentives Appropriate? | Mar 7 | Speaker: Jiaqiao Hu, Univ. of Maryland, College Park | Subject: A Model Reference Adaptive Search Method for Global Optimization |
| Mar 13 | Speaker: Mor Armony, Stern School of Business, New York Univ. | Subject: The Impact of Delay Announcements in Many-Server Queues With Abandonment |
| Mar 20 | Speaker: Steve Nahmias, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara Univ. | Subject: The USGA Golf Handicapping System: Is it Fair? |
| April 3 | Speaker: Paul Zipkin, Fuqua School of Business, Duke Univ. | Subject: Analysis and Comparison of Queues with Different Levels of Delay Information |
| April 10 | Speaker: Vijay Mehrotra, Department of Decision Sciences, San Francisco State Univ. | Subject: Intelligent Procedures for Intra-Day Updating of Call Center Agent Schedules |
| April 17 | Speaker: CANCELLED | Subject: CANCELLED |
| April 24 | Speaker: Kevin Ross, Baskin School of Engineering, UCSC. | Subject: Resource Allocation and Optimization in Service Networks |
| May 1 | Speaker: Lisa Fleischer, Watson Research Center, IBM. Starts: 3:30 SHARP! Ends: 4:25! |
Subject: Toward Discrete and Local Tatonnement Algorithms for the Market Equilibrium Problem |
| May 8 | Speaker: Yu Ding, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Texas A&M. | Subject: Sensor Redundancy and Robust Estimation |