Events
Industry and IEOR Panel Discuss the Future of Supply Chain
Prof. Max Shen comments on supply chain disruption caused by COVID-19 & how operations research can help in Berkeley Conversation
Professor Shmuel Oren to give lecture at Aalto Systems Forum
Professor Shmuel Oren, of the UC Berkeley IEOR department, will be giving a public lecture, “Challenges and Opportunities for OR in Electricity Markets”, on Friday, March 6 at the Aalto System Forum, held at the Aalto University is Espoo, Finland. Aalto System Forum provides a platform for a dialogue between practitioners and researchers, based on…
Read MoreProfessor Shmuel Oren was Key Speaker at First Annual Felix Höffler Memorial Lecture
Professor Shmuel Oren was the key speaker at the first Felix Höffler Memorial Lecture, hosted by EWI Energy Conference, which took place on September 25th at the University of Cologne, Germany. His lecture was titled, “Firming Renewable Power with Demand Response: An End-to-end Aggregator Business Model“. The annual Felix Höffler Memorial Lecture, in memory of…
Read MoreShmuel Oren to be Keynote Speaker for the 2019 IEEE Sustainable Power & Energy Conference
Professor Shmuel Oren will be a keynote speaker at the 2019 IEEE Sustainable Power & Energy Conference (iSPEC). The iSPEC conference will be held during November 21-23, 2019 in Beijing. This years theme is “Grid Modernization for Energy Revolution.” The IEEE Sustainable Power & Energy Conference 2019 aims at providing an international forum for engineers…
Read MoreShmuel Oren to be Keynote Speaker at 4th Annual Purple Mountain Forum
Prof. Shmuel Oren will be a keynote speaker at the 4th annual Purple Mountain Forum, which will be held on August 17-18 in Nanjing China. The aim of the conference is to provide an international forum for experts to promote technical exchanges and share of expertise in the field of smart grid operation, protection and…
Read MoreBADSS — IISE’s Data Science Summit
Often regarded as the ‘combustion engine-like revolution’ of the 21st century, data analytics is on a rapid rise in today’s world. Realizing this, members of UC Berkeley’s Institute for Industrial and Systems Engineers (IISE) took the onus on themselves to host the second Bay Area Decision Sciences Summit (BADSS) on March 16th, 2019. Much like…
Read MoreNicole Johnson and Kiel Murray talk about the importance of storytelling in your next venture
IEOR Hosts Semi-Annual PSERC Meeting
The Department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research will host the semi-annual industry-university meeting for the Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC) on December 5-7 at UC Berkeley. The agenda for the meeting can be viewed here. The purpose of PSERC is to empower minds to engineer the future electric energy system, to pursue, discover, and transfer knowledge, to produce…
Read MoreHow To Build A Viral App: TBH Founder Gives Startup Advice At UC Berkeley
The night before Nikita Bier launched his app TBH, he was on the phone with his lawyer, asking how to liquidate a business. About three months later, more than 5 million people had downloaded his app and Facebook was acquiring it. At the Newton Lecture Series Tuesday night in the Li-Ka Shing Auditorium, Bier spoke…
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