Berkeley IEOR Seminar Schedule
IEOR Seminars occur on Mondays throughout the semester in room 3108 of Etcheverry Hall. Seminars feature leading-edge research from experts in industrial engineering and operations research who come from local, national, and international institutions. Seminars are open to students, faculty, and the public.
Spring 2024 Seminar Schedule
January 29, 2024
Sami Davies
UC Berkeley
One Partition Approximation All $ell_p$ Objectives in Correlation Clustering
February 12, 2024
Sam Burer
University of Iowa
An Extended Validity Domain for Constraint Learning
February 26, 2024
Amin Saberi
Stanford
Matching in Dynamic Environments
March 4, 2024 (talk not be recorded)
Tor Schoenmeyr
Tesla
Theoretical models and practical considerations for material planning at a large automotive manufacturer
New Location: Barker Hall, Room 101
March 11, 2024
Jelena Diakonikolas
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Cyclic Block Coordinate Methods on a Finer Scale: Tighter Bounds and New Methods
April 1, 2024
David Shmoys
Cornell University
Algorithmic Tools for Redistricting: Fairness via Analytics
April 8, 2024
Linwei Xin
University of Chicago Booth School of Business
VC Theory for Inventory Policies
April 15, 2024
Raghav Singal
Dartmouth University
Bounding Counterfactuals in Hidden Markov Models (joint work with Martin Haugh)
May 6, 2023
Chen Chen
Ohio State University
Parallel Preprocessing for Mixed-Integer Linear Programming
New Location: Etcheverry Hall, Room 1174
Fall 2023 Seminar Schedule
September 11, 2023 | 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Nam Ho-Nguyen
The University of Sydney
Adversarial classification via distributional robustness with Wasserstein ambiguity
October 2, 2023 | 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Philip Kaminsky
UC Berkeley & Amazon
Freight Capacity Portfolio Design in a Two-Sided Freight Marketplace
October 9, 2023 | 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Jelena Diakonikolas [POSTPONED]
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Cyclic Block Coordinate Methods on a Finer Scale: Tighter Bounds and New Methods
October 23, 2023 | 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Xin Guo
UC Berkeley
October 30, 2023 | 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Jong-Shi Pang
USC
A happy home coming after a fruitful “non”-journey
November 6, 2023 | 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Debankur Mukherjee
Georgia Tech
November 13, 2023 | 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
James Orlin
MIT Sloan School of Management
The strong maximum circulation problem: a new way of aggregating preferences.
November 20, 2023 | 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Bento Natura
Georgia Tech
A strongly polynomial algorithm for linear programs with at most two nonzero entries per row or column.
[CANCELLED] November 27, 2023 | 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Sami Davies
UC Berkeley
One Partition Approximation All $ell_p$ Objectives in Correlation Clustering
November 28, 2023 | SPECIAL LOCATION & TIME: Room 3111 and 4-5 PM
Guanghui (George) Lan
Georgia Tech
Uniform Optimality for Convex and Nonconvex Optimization
December 4, 2023 | 3:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Stefanus Jasin
University of Michigan
Joint Inventory and Pricing for a One-Warehouse Multi-Store Problem: Spiraling Phenomena, Near Optimal Policies, and the Value of Dynamic Pricing
Spring 2023 Seminar Schedule
Vijay Vazirani, University of California, Irvine
Monday, March 20, 3:30-4:30 pm
LP-Duality Theory and the Cores of Games
Manxi Wu, Cornell University
Monday, April 3, 3:30-4:30 pm
Spatiotemporal Pricing for Efficient Autonomous Carpooling Markets
Yingfei Wang, University of Washington
Monday, April 24, 3:30-4:30 pm
Smart Testing with Vaccination: A Bandit Algorithm for Active Sampling for Managing COVID-19
Jaksa Cvitanic, California Institute of Technology
Monday, April 24, 3:30-4:30 pm
Fall 2022 Seminar Schedule
Shipra Agrawal, Columbia University
Monday, September 12, 3:30-4:30 pm
Dynamic Pricing and Learning under the Bass Model
Thibaut Mastrolia, UC Berkeley
Monday, September 19, 3:30-4:30 pm
Agency problems and applications to ecology, energy systems and financial markets
Garrett van Ryzin, Amazon
Monday, October 3, 3:30-4:30 pm
Market- based capacity management for Amazon FBA
Swati Gupta, Georgia Tech
Monday, October 24, 3:30-4:30 pm
Bridging Ethical Algorithms, Law, and Practice: Hiring and Beyond
Will Ma, Columbia University
Monday, October 31, 3:30-4:30 pm
A Nonparametric Framework for Online Stochastic Matching with Correlated Arrivals
Matt Draper and Bo Liao, Micron Technology
Monday, November 7, 3:30-4:30 pm
Hierarchical Linear Programming at Scale
Simge Kucukyavuz (PhD '04 IEOR), Northwestern University
Monday, November 28, 3:30-4:30 pm