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.
Our seminar schedule is continuously updated throughout the semester as we receive more information from our speakers. Be sure to check back regularly for the latest details on talk titles and abstracts.
Spring 2026 Seminar Schedule
Monday, February 9, 2026
Amitabh Sinha
Amazon
Analytics for Retail Supply Chains
[POSTPONED] Monday, February 23, 2026
Srikanth Jagabathula
NYU Stern
Monday, March 2, 2026
Bistra Dilkina
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
Machine Learning meets Combinatorial Optimization
Monday, March 9, 2026
Weina Wang
Carnegie Mellon University
"A Local-to-Global Approach for Decision-Making in Large Stochastic System"
Monday, March 16, 2026
Santiago Balseiro
Columbia University
Distributed Load Balancing at Scale for Generative AI Inference
Monday, March 30, 2026
Devavrat Shah
MIT
Time Series As A Unit Square: Towards a Compute Efficient Foundation Model
Monday, April 6, 2026
Stephen Wright
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Optimization in Theory and Practice
Monday, April 20, 2026
Shmuel Oren
UC Berkeley
Mobilizing Demand Flexibility in Wholesale Electricity Markets with VPP Supply Function
Monday, April 27, 2026
Ernest Ryu
UCLA
Point Convergence of Nesterov’s Accelerated Gradient Method: An AI-Assisted Proof
Monday, May 11, 2026
Mihai Cucuringu
UCLA