Past Seminars

Spring '07        

• 4//20/07: Muhong Zhang, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley

  Two-stage Robust Network Flow and Design Under Demand Uncertainty
• 4/16/07: Dan Stratila, Ph.D. Candidate in Operations Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Network Design Problems with Concave Costs
• 4/09/07: Jitamitra (Jita) Desai, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Arizona
  A Convexification-based Global Optimization Algorithm for Emergency Response Resource Allocation Problems
• 4/06/07:  Oktay Gunluk, IBM Research
  Separating from the MIR Closure of Polyhedra
• 3/02/07: Nathan Edwards, Ph.D., Center for Bioinformatics and Computation Biology, University of Maryland
  Large Scale Combinatorial Optimization Problems from Bioinformatics
• 2/23/07: Ming Hu, Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University
  Dynamic Pricing of Perishable Assets Under Competition

• 2/16/07:  Lifeng Chen, Ph.D. Candidate, Operations Research, Columbia University
  Interior-Point L_2-Penalty Methods for Nonlinear Programming

• 2/02/07: Russell R. Barton, Penn State University, Dept of Supply Chain and Information Systems

  Monitoring Methods and Quality Metrics for Supply Chain Data

• 1/26/07: Michael Dziecichowicz and Amanda Schmitt, Ph.D. Students, Lehigh University ISE Department

  1) Flight to Quality, Flight to Liquidity, and the Pricing of Risk and 2) Multi-Echelon Supply Chains Subject to Supply Disruptions

• 1/19/07: Julie Drzymalski, Ph.D. Student, Lehigh University ISE Department

  A Swift Response for Cost Allocation in a Horizontal Partnership: The Shapley Value and Analytic Network Process - A Comparative Analysis

 

Fall '06        

• 12/08/06: Scott DeNegre and James Ostrowski, Ph.D. Students, Lehigh University ISE Department

  1) Chasing Leaks in Water Distribtuion Networks by Solving Prize Collecting Steiner Arborescence Problems and 2) An Effective Algorithm for Solving Integer Programs which Contain a Great Deal of Symmetry
• 12/01/06: Owen Finnegan and Rockey Myall, Ph.D. Students, Lehigh University ISE Department
  1) Blurring the LIne: Bringing Manufacturing and Services Together and 2) The Impact of Exchange Rate Fluctuation on Strategic Operations Management
• 11/17/06: Art Chaovalitwongse, Rutgers University, Industrial Engineering
  Optimization-Based Data Mining in Neuroscience Research
• 11/10/06:  Kevin Shang, Duke University, Operations Management
  Analysis of Serial Inventory Systems with Batch Ordering and Nested Replenishment Schedule
• 11/03/06: John Mulvey, Princeton University, Operations Research and Financial Engineering  *Spencer C. Schantz Distinguished Lecture
  What Can Engineers Tell Us About Risk Management in Finance?
• 10/27/06: Sven de Vries, Yale University, Economics
  On Ascending Vickrey Auctions for Heterogeneous Objects

• 10/13/06:  Michael Ball, Univ of Maryland, Management Science
  Revenue Management with Limited Demand Information

• 9/29/06: Rene Caldentey, NYU, Operations Management

  The Martingale Approach to Operational and Financial Hedging

• 9/22/06: Michael Ferris, University of Wisconsin

  Solving Intractable MIPs via GAMS and the Grid

• 9/15/06: Paul Hovland, Argonne National Laboratory

  Automatic Differentiation and its Role in Large-Scale Optimization

• 9/8/06: Lisa Fleischer, Dartmouth College, Computer Science

  Finding Equilibria through Natural Play:  Tatonnement and the Market Problem

Summer '06

• 6/23/06: Mani Janakiram, Ph.D., Manager, Analysis & Control Technology, Intel Corporation                                                                                                         Semiconductor Factory Integration Challenges & Research Needs

 

Spring '06

• 4/28/06: Professor Kurt M. Anstreicher, University of Iowa Tippie College of Business
  An Improved Algorithm for Computing Steiner Minimal Trees in Euclidean d-space
• 4/21/06: Zuo-Jun Max Shen, Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California at Berkeley
  Decision Making with Limited Information - Operational Statistics
• 4/07/06: Dr. Saul I. Gass, Professor Emeritus, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland
  How Did O.R. Get From There to Here? An Annotated Timeline of Operations Research
• 3/31/06: William L. Cooper, Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota
  A Comparison of Pricing Models that Do and Do Not Explicitly Model Competition
• 3/24/06: Nicolas E. Stier-Moses, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
  The Efficiency of Equilibria in Network Games
• 3/17/06: Giuseppe A. Paleologo, IBM Research, TJ Watson Center
  Experimental Investigation of Supplier-Retailer Contracts: The Wholesale Price Contract

• 3/3/06:  Dr. Sven Leyffer, Argonne National Laboratory
  Optimization with Equilibrium Constraints

• 2/24/06: Ozalp Ozer, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University

  Unlocking the True Value of RFID Innovation:  Visibility and Inventory Management

• 2/17/06: Dr. Andreas Wachter, IBM Research

  An Interior-Point Algorithm for Large-Scale Nonlinear Optimization with Applications in Circuit Tuning

• 2/10/06: Marina A. Epelman, Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan

  Sampled Fictitious Play Algorithms for Discrete Optimization Problems

• 2/3/06: Dr. Francois Margot, Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University

  Code Construction by Integer Linear Programming

• 1/20/06: Adrienne Fusco, Ph.D. student, Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, Lehigh University

  Optimal Location of Converters in Multi-Fiber WDM Networks

 

Fall '05

• 10/21/05: Karen Smilowitz, Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences, Northwestern University (Joint work with Peter Francis and Michal Tzur)    Flexibility and Complexity in Periodic Distribution Problems

• 10/14/05: Mark E. Lewis, Associate Professor, School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering, Cornell University                                                            Resource Flexibility in Manufacturing Systems
• 10/07/05: Professor Guillermo Gallego, Columbia University                                         New Generation Revenue Management Product Design and Optimal Control
• 9/30/05: Professor Doug Thomas, Smeal College of Business at Penn State Coordinating Production Planning with a Contract Manufacturer by Sharing Sales Forecasts and Inventory Risk

 

Spring '05

• 4/22/05: Professor Alper Atamturk, Industrial Engineering & Operations, Research University of California at Berkeley                                                                   Robust Discrete Optimization under Objective and RHS Uncertainty

• 4/15/05: Jeff McGill, Queen’s School of Business Kingston, Ontario (Joint work with Yuri Levin and Mikhail Nediak)                                                                                    New Developments in Dynamic Pricing and Revenue Management
• 4/1/05: Professor Alexander Shapiro, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology                                                               Some Recent Developments in Stochastic Programming
• 3/18/05: Dr. Erhan Cinlar, Princeton University                                                                   Construction and Analysis of Jump-Diffusions
• 2/25/05: Prof. Mor Harchol-Balter, Computer Science Dept. Carnegie Mellon University                                                                                                                                  Recursive Dimensionality Reduction Technique for Analyzing Multiserver Scheduling Including: Cycle Stealing, Priority Queueing, and Threshold Policies
• 2/18/05: Dr. Steve Kou, Columbia University                                                                       Financial Engineering in Wonderland: Flying with Riemann, Lisa, and Dickens
• 2/11/05: Dr. Daniela Pucci de Farias, MIT                                                                              A Cost-Shaping LP for Average-Cost Approximate Dynamic Programming with Performance Guarantees
• 2/5/05: Rachel R. Chen and Lawrence W. Robinson, Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University                                                                                         Optimal Quantity Discount Schedules for Customers With Heterogeneous Demands

Fall '04

• 12/3/04: Krishnan S. Anand, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania            Can Information and Inventories be Complements?
• 11/19/04: Georgia Perakis, Sloan School of Management, MIT                                       The Price Of Anarchy And Its Applications
• 11/12/04: Professor Reha Tutuncu, Dept.of Mathematical Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University                                                                                                                    Optimization Models in Quantitative Finance
• 11/5/04: Aurelie Thiele, Assistant Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering at Lehigh University                                                                                                                Revenue Management: Theory, Practice, and Future Research Directions
• 10/29/04: Professor Soulaymane Kachani, Columbia University                                    Leveraging Game Theory and Traffic Flow Modeling for Pricing in Retail and Make-to-Stock Supply Chain Systems
• 10/22/04: Professor Asuman Ozdaglar, MIT                                                                       Towards a Game Theoretic Framework for the Analysis of Communication Networks
• 10/15/04: Raghu Raghaven, Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland                                                                                                                                   Generation and Selection of Core Outcomes in Sealed-Bid Combinatorial Auctions
• 10/1/04: Stefan Schmieta, Axioma, Inc.                                                                                Incorporating Estimation Errors into Portfolio Selection: Robust Efficient Frontiers
• 9/24/04: Melike Baykal-Gursoy, I&SE Department, Rutgers University                          Queues with Markov Modulated Service Rates
• 9/17/04: Suvrajeet Sen, Program Director for Operations Research and Service Enterprise Engineering, National Science Foundation                                                     Briefing on Directions at NSF; Directions for Operations Research and Service Enterprise Engineering
• 8/27/04: David Drake Jr, Lehigh University, ISE Department Ph.D. Candidate  Integrated Graduate Education & Research Training: International Internship