Seminar Events
4/4: Kristen Gardner – A General “Power-of-d” Dispatching Framework for Heterogeneous Systems
George B. Dantzig Auditorium - 1174 Etcheverry Hall Etcheverry Hall, Berkeley, CA, United StatesAbstract: Intelligent dispatching is crucial to obtaining low response times in large-scale systems. The bulk of "power-of-d" policies studied in the literature assume that the system is homogeneous, meaning that all servers have the same speed; meanwhile, real-world systems often exhibit server speed heterogeneity. We introduce a general framework for describing and analyzing heterogeneity-aware power-of-d…
4/12: Irene Lo – Designing School Choice for Diversity in the San Francisco Unified School District
Cheit Hall C125 2220 Piedmont Ave., Berkeley, CA, United StatesAbstract: More than 65 years after the "Brown v. Board of Education" ruling that school segregation is unconstitutional, public schools across the U.S. are resegregating. In attempts to disentangle school segregation from neighborhood segregation, many cities have adopted policies for city-wide choice. However, these policies have largely not improved patterns of segregation. From 2018-2020, we…
4/25: Daniela H. Saban – Online Algorithms for Matching Platforms with Multi-Channel Traffic
IEOR Seminar Series: 4/25 with Daniela H Saban - Online Algorithms for Matching Platforms with Multi-Channel Traffic Monday, April 25 | 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm George B. Dantzig Auditorium (1174 Etcheverry Hall) Description: In this talk, I describe our collaboration with VolunteerMatch (VM), the largest nationwide platform that connects nonprofits with volunteers.…