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IOMS-OM RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES: FALL 2009

SPEAKER

DATE

TIME/
LOCATION

TITLE

Christopher Tang 
UCLA

Thursday,
September 24

12:30 pm-2pm,
KMC 3-80

Project Management Contracts with Delayed Payments 

Edieal Pinker 
University of Rochester

Thursday,
October 22

12:30 pm-2pm,
KMC 3-80

Division of Labor in Medical Office Practices 

Andreas Schulz 
MIT

Thursday,
October 29

12:30 pm-2pm,
KMC 3-80

Order Scheduling: Inapproximability Results and Approximation Algorithms 

Gad Allon
Northwestern

CANCELED
Thursday,
November 5

12:30 pm-2pm,
KMC 3-80

"We Will Be Right With You:" Managing Customers' Expectations With Vague Promises and Cheap Talk   
***This seminar has been canceled.  We hope to reschedule this talk at a date TBD.***

Marshall Fisher
Wharton

Thursday,
November 19

12:30 pm-2pm,
KMC 3-80

Retail Assortment Optimization
Soulaymane Kachani
Columbia

Thursday,
December 3

12:30 pm-2pm,
KMC 3-80

TBA


Francis de Vericourt
Duke

 

Thursday, December 10

 

12:30 pm-2pm,
KMC 3-80

 

TBA

 
 
 
 

IOMS-OM RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES: SPRING 2009

SPEAKER

DATE

TIME/
LOCATION

TITLE

Gideon Weiss 
University of Haifa

Friday
February 6

10:30 am,
KMC 5-80

Infinite Virtual Queues (IVQ) and the Control of Multi Class Queueing Networks (MCQN) 

Martin A Lariviere 
Northwestern University

Thursday
March 12
10:30 am, KMC 3-80 Saving Seats for Strategic Customers

Uriel Rothblum
Israel Institute of Technology

Thursday
March 26

10:30 am, KMC 3-80

Partition problems: Optimality and Clustering

Robert Shumsky 
Dartmouth 

Thursday
April 2

10:30 am, KMC 3-80

Revenue Management in Airline Alliances 

Paul Zipkin
Duke University
 
Friday
May 1

10:30 am, KMC 5-85

Quality Snags in the Mortgage-Finance Supply Chain
 
 

IOMS-OM RESEARCH SEMINAR SERIES: FALL 2008

SPEAKER

DATE

TIME/
LOCATION

TITLE

Sergei Savin
Columbia University

Friday
September 19

10:30 am,
KMC 5-85

Reducing Delays for Medical Appointments 

Xiuli Chao
University of Michigan

Friday
September 26

10:30 am,
KMC 5-85

Optimal Control of Remanufacturing Inventory Systems With Multiple Types of Return 

Felipe Caro 
UCLA

Friday
October 3

10:30 am,
KMC 5-85 

Understanding the Competitive Advantage of Fast Fashion Retailers 

Hao Zhang
University of Southern California

Friday
October 17

10:30 am,
KMC 5-85

Dynamic Adverse Selection: Models, Methods and Results 

Ramandeep Randhawa University of Texas at Austin

Friday
October 31

10:30 am,
KMC 5-85

A Little Flexibility is All You Need: Optimality of Tailored Chaining and Pairing 

Nicola Secomandi
Carnegie Mellon University

Friday
November 7

10:30 am,
KMC 5-85

An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach to Benchmark Practice-based Heuristics for Natural Gas Storage Valuation

Haipeng Shen
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Friday
November 21

10:30 am,
KMC 5-85

Workforce Management for Labor-Intensive Service Systems through the Statistics Lens 

Bill Cooper
University of Minnesota

Friday
December 5

10:30 am,
KMC 5-85

Demand Estimation and Pricing with Models that do not Explicitly Account for Competition

Garrett J van Ryzin
Columbia University

Friday
December 12

10:30 am,
KMC 5-85

Estimating primary demand for substitutable products from sales transaction data
 

FALL 2007

SPEAKER

DATE

TIME/

LOCATION

TITLE

Ken Kortanek
University of Iowa

Friday
September 7th

10:30 am
KMC 5-80

Optimization Technique for Extracting a Forward Rate Function
from Coupon Paying Financial Instruments

**Joint talk with IOMS-Statistics

Rakesh Vohra
Kellogg School of Management 

Friday
September 14th

10:30 am
KMC 5-80

Testing Forecasts

 

Xuanming Su
UC Berkeley

Friday
September 28th

10:30 am
KMC 5-80

Bounded Rationality in Newsvendor Models

Amy Ward
University of Southern California

Friday
October 5th

10:30 am
KMC 5-80

A Single-Server System with In-line and Off-line Waiting,
Generalized Processor Sharing, and Abandonments

Victor DeMiguel
London Business School

Friday
October 12th

10:30 am
KMC 5-80

A Stochastic Multiple Leader Stackelberg Model:
Analysis, Computation, and Application 

Sergio Chayet
Washington University

Friday
October 26th

10:30 am
KMC 5-80

Product Variety and Congested Production Systems:
Capacity Investments and Vertical Differentiation

Peng Sun
Duke University

Friday
November 9th

10:30 am
KMC 5-80

Information Relaxations and Duality in Stochastic Dynamic Programs

Serguei Netessine
U. Penn Wharton 

Friday
November 16th

10:30 am
KMC 5-80

Revenue Management with Strategic Customers:
Last-Minute Selling and Opaque Selling

Nicholas Hall
Ohio State University

Friday
November 30th

10:30 am
KMC 5-80

Capacity Allocation and Scheduling in Supply Chains

Monday
December 3rd

12:30 pm
KMC 5-80

Simple Models at the Service of Complex Realities

Gabriel Weintraub
Columbia University

Friday
December 7th

10:30 am
KMC 5-80

Approximations for Markov Perfect Industry Dynamics

Philippe Baptiste
The Ecole Polytechnique

Friday
December 14th

10:30 am
KMC 5-80

On Scheduling a Multifunction Radar: Models and Algorithms

 

 

For information on how to participate in the OM Research Seminar Series please contact Josh Reed or Wenqiang Xiao.