| Symposium on Optimization and Control |
Venue: Ground floor seminar hall, Old CSE Please click here for more info
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| ISCI 2012 |
IEOR, IITB is hosting the first ISCI 2012, International Simulation Conference of India 2012. Venue: VMCC, IITB Date: Feb 2-4, 2012 The following papers from IEOR are presented in ISCI2012. |
| IEOR faculty and students attended GTORA 2012 |
IEOR faculty and students attended International Conference on Game Theory and Operations Research Applications (GTORA 2012) organised at ISI Chennai on Jan 5-7, 2012. A workshop on Game theory was held on Jan 3rd and 4th. Anirban Ghatak, Research scholar, presented a paper " Bribery, A Game Theoretic Approach" in the conference. |
| Seminar by Akshay Gupte |
Speaker: Akshay Gupte, PhD student, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech.
Date and Time: 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, December 27, 2011 Talk title: Lifted Inequalities for bilinear flow constrained sets Abstract: |
| Dr. Jayendran attended ICASCMM @ IIT Kgp |
Dr. Jayendran Venkateswaran attended the International Conference on Advances in Supply Chain and Manufacturing Management (ICASCMM 2011) held during Dec 16th - 18th 2011, at IIT Kharagpur, India. The conference was organized by Dept. of Industrial Engg. and Management of IIT Kgp. He presented the paper on "Impact of Control Parameters on Bullwhip Measure of Production-Inventory Systems", co-authored with Dr. Bijulal (College of Engg., Trivandrum) and Dr. N. Hemachandra (IIT Bombay). |
| N. Hemachandra participates in AMOC-2011 |
Prof N. Hemachandra has presented an invited paper `Performance analysis of a delay dependent priority queue arising from a joint pricing and queue management model' at International Conference on Advances in Modeling, Optimization and Computing, AMOC-2011, conducted by Department of Mathematics, IIT Roorkee, 5--7 December, 2011. This is a joint work with Bharat Singh Raghav. He also chaired a session. |
| Skype based seminar by Dr. Ankur Kulkarni |
Title: An optimizer's approach to stochastic control problems with nonclassical information structure Speaker: Dr. Ankur Kulkarni Time and Date: 10am, 18/11/11 (Friday) Mode: Skype based Venue: HoD Conference Room, 1st Floor, Mechanical Engg. Abstract: We present a novel optimization based approach to the stochastic control problems with nonclassical information structures (in particular, for |
| IEOR Seminar by Dr. Veeraruna Kavitha |
Title: Stationary Performance of Continuous Polling Models and Risk Sensitive Control of Delay Tolerant Networks Time and Date: 11.30am, Wed. 16/11/11 Abstract: |
| IEOR Seminar (in Skype mode) by Dr. Ashutosh Mahajan |
Title: Mixed Integer Nonlinear Optimization: Algorithms and Software.
Speaker: Dr. Ashutosh Mahajan, Mathematics and Computer Sc. Division,
Argonne National Laboratory, USA.
Abstract:
Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) finds applications in a wide
variety of applications in science and engineering. These optimization
problems suffer from two difficulties: presence of integer variables that
are used to model on/off decisions or to represent discrete quantities, and
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| Dr. Jayendran attended ICSEM2011 |
Dr. Jayendran Venkateswaran attended the 2nd International Conference on Services in Emerging Markets (ICSEM 2011) held during Sept 29th - Oct 1st 2011, at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India. The conference was organized by Services Research & Innovation Institute (SRII) and SJM School of Management, IIT Bombay. He presented the paper on "Collaborative Services Provision in Production-Logistics Scheduling: A Coal Industry Example", co-authored with Mr. Anu Thomas, Dr. Gaurav Singh (CSIRO, Australia) and Dr. |
| Dr. R. Badri Narayan gives a talk |
Dr. R. Badri Narayan, General Manager (R and D), Centre for Railway Information Systems gave a talk on "CRIS: The IT Engine of Indian Railways" on 29th September, 2011. The talk was about the kind of applications CRIS handles for the Indian Railways and the challenges involved in development and implementation. The last part of the talk was specifically about the time tabling software being developed currently and the issues that are sought to be addressed using this application. |
| A CEP session by Prof N. Hemachandra |
Prof N. Hemachandra conducted a session `Basics of MILPs' on 16th September, 2011, in the CEP course `Advanced Power System Analysis' for Researchers and Engineers from CDAC and Intel India. This CEP is conducted by Prof S. A. Soman, EE, at CDAC, Bangalore during 14--16, September, 2011. |
| Tilak Raj Singh, PhD Student Attends OR 2011 Conference |
Tilak Raj Singh, PhD student attended the OR 2011 Conference held at Zurich between August 30 and September 2, 2011. He gave a presentation on "Calculation of constructible set of configurations for product variety management". This is a joint work with Prof. Narayan Rangaraj, Andreas Schuette (DIAMLER AG, Germany) and Christian Schlange (DIAMLER AG, Germany). |
| Two lectures by Dr. Yogeshwaran Dhandapani |
Dr. Yogeshwaran Dhandapani is delivering two lectures on Percolation Theory. The abstracts of the two talks are as follows: 1) Introduction to basic percolation model ; Existence of a non-trivial phase transition ; Sub-exponential decay in the sub-critical phase. 2) Uniqueness of the infinite cluster ; The critical probability is 1/2 in two dimensions The talks should be elementary in nature and should be accessible to people with reasonable background in Probability. The venue and timings are Lecture 1: ME 217, 11-12.30; 25th August 2011 (today) |
| Violet Bhattacharya received Institute Silver Medal for 2011 |
Ms. Violet Bhattacharya, M.Tech IEOR, received the Institute Silver Medal for the year 2010-11. The Silver medal was awarded to her for standing first in her M.Tech class by obtaining the highest CPI. The award was presented during the 49th Convocation held on 5th August 2011. Violet's Master's thesis was on "The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem - Recent Developments and Analysis of Effects of Parameters", under the guidance of Prof. P.G. Awate. |
| D.Bijulal received Award for Excellence in Thesis for 2011 |
Dr. D. Bijual, Ph.D in IEOR, receievd an Award for Excellence in Thesis for the year 2010-11. The award is given to a selected set of students in the Ph.D. programme for their exemplary contributions during their Thesis work, overall academic performance and contributions during the student's tenure in the doctoral programme. The award was presented during the 49th Convocation of IIT Bombay held on 5th August 2011. |
| Talk by Professor David Abramson |
Title: High Throughput Computational Science with the Nimrod Toolkit Time and date: 4:00 p.m. on Monday, July 25 |
| Jayendran Venkateswaran attends 2011 Int'l Conference of SDS |
Dr. Jayendran Venkaetswaran attended the 29th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society held during July 24th - 29th 2011, at Washington, DC, USA . He presented the paper on "Simulation based Analysis of Service Levels in Stable Production-Inventory Systems", co-authored with Mr. Kaushik Margabandu, Dr. Bijulal and Prof. N. Hemachandra.
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| Vikas Vikram Singh attends 8th International ISDG Workshop |
Vikas Vikram Singh, a PhD student, participated in 8th International ISDG Workshop (http://www.gerad.ca/colloques/isdg2011/) during 21-23 of July, 2011 at Padova, Italy. He presented a paper `Constrained stochastic game with independent state processes: A mathematical programming approach', co-authored with Prof N. Hemachandra. |
| IEOR faculty and student attend 2011 INFORMS Simulation Society Research Workshop |
Ketki Kulkarni, PhD student, along with Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran presented their work titled "Scheduling in stochastic job shops using hybrid simulation and optimization approaches" at the 2011 INFORMS Simulation Society Research Workshop. This was held at Montreal, Canada between July 18-20, 2011. Prof. Jayendran also presented his work on "Production planning using hybrid optimization-simulation based approach" at the same workshop. This is a joint work with Vivek Sharma, Dual Degree student, Mechanical Engineering. |
| IEOR students attend IFORS-2011 |
Three students of IEOR attended the 19th Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS2011) held on July 10-15, 2011 at Melbourne, Australia. Krishna Chaitanya Vanam (Graduate student) chaired a session "Innovative Applications in Game Theory" and presented a paper on "A New Excess-based Solution Concept for Cooperative TU Games", co-authored with Prof. N Hemachandra. |
| Prof. Sreekar Vadlamani gives a course on "Stochastic Analysis: Malliavin Calculus" |
Prof. Sreekar Vadlamani, Visiting Faculty of IEOR, will be giving a series of lectures on "Stochastic Analysis: Malliavin Calculus". The first lecture will be held in Seminar Hall (Ground Floor) of CSE building at 11AM on 5th July. |
| D. Bijulal defended his Ph.D. thesis |
D.Bijulal defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "Stability and Service Level based Control of Some Forward and Reverse Flow Production - Inventory Systems" on 30 June, 2011. The external examiner for the defence was Prof.Pratap.K.J Mohapatra from IIT Kharagpur. Bijulal is working as an associate professor in College of Engineering Trivandrum, Thiruvananthapuram. |
| N. Hemachandra gives a talk at TIFR |
N. Hemachandra gave a talk "Quadratic programs and some constrained stochastic games", at School of Technology and Computer Science, TIFR, Mumbai, on 12th May 2011. |
| Seminar by M Ravibabu |
Title: Assessing the Freight Transport System in India: Overview of Current State and Methodological Challenges Time and date: 11:30 am, Friday, April 15 2011 |
| Seminar by Aatira Nedungadi |
Title: Granger causality for point processes Time and date: Wednesday, April 13 2011, 3:30 p.m. |
| Guest lecture by G. Raghuram |
Title: Managerial Issues based on O.R. Analysis of Public Systems Time and date: Thursday 7 April, 200 p.m. Abstract: |
| Seminar by Krishnamurthy Iyer |
Title: Mean Field Equilibria of Dynamic Auctions with Learning Time and date: 3:30 p.m., Wednesday, April 6 2011 |
| Seminar by Mohan Krishnamoorthy |
Title: Scheduling aircraft landings optimally Time and date: 3:30 p.m. on Friday, March 18, 2011 |
| Seminar by Rahul Pandey |
Title: Modeling supply chain decisions and developing solutions Time and date: 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, 01/03/2011 |
| Anu Thomas wins Best Poster Award |
Anu Thomas, Research Scholar won the Oskar Award for the Best Poster at The Annual Symposium of The IITB-Monash Research Academy held at IIT Bombay campus from Feb 17-19, 2011. His poster was based on " Collaborative Resource Constrained Scheduling : A Coal Indutry Example ". |
| Seminar by Sameer Kamal |
Title: Stochastic approximation - convergence and stability. Time and Date: 4.00 pm, Wednesday February 9, 2011 |
| Seminar by Ruta Mehta |
Title : Rank-1 Two-player Games: A Homeomorphism and a Polynomial Time Algorithm. Time : 3:30pm, Friday February 4, 2011 |
| Seminar by Debjit Roy |
Title: Design insights for warehouse systems using autonomous vehicle technology |
| Seminar by Saikat Saha |
Title : Approximate Bayesian inference & model learning using particle filtering Time and Date : 4:00 pm, January 24, 2011 |
| Prof N. Hemachandra takes over as Convenor of IEOR |
Prof N. Hemachandra (IEOR) has been appointed as Convenor of IEOR in October 2010 and has taken over from Prof Narayan Rangaraj (IEOR) on 24 January 2011. |
| Dr. N.Hemachandra appointed as Professor |
Dr. N.Hemachandra appointed as Professor in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research with effect from 21 January 2011. |
| Seminar by Yashodhan Kanoria |
Title: Fast Convergence of Natural Dynamics in Bargaining Networks |
| IEOR participates in TechConnect 2011 |
Students of IEOR participated in the TechConnect Exhibition (January 7-9, 2011) as part of TechFesh at IIT Bombay and creatively displayed the extent of problems under the gamut of IEOR. The exhibition had displays of simulated models and agent based simulation theme, interesting puzzles like Sudoku solver, fun representation of concepts like Markov Chains, applications of IEOR in varied areas such as railway operations, game theory and so on. |
| IEOR students and faculty attend 14th AICSOM 2010 |
Faculty and students of IEOR attended the 14th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, NITIE Mumbai, held on December 17-19 2010 at NITIE, Mumbai. Chandrama Naha (Graduate student) presented the paper on "Agent Based Simulation Games for Analysis of Supply Chain Processes", co-authored with Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran. |
| Dr. Jayendran Venkateswaran attends 2010 ORSI conference |
Dr. Jayendran Venkateswaran attended the 43rd Annual Convention of ORSI in conjunction with an International Conference on Operational Research for Urban and Rural Development (ORURD) held from 15th to 17th of December 2010 at TCE, Madurai. |
| Seminar by Prof. Johann-Friedrich Luy |
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| Narayan Rangaraj gives an invited talk at CET |
Prof Narayan Rangaraj (IEOR) gave an invited talk titled "Industrial Engineering and Operations Research applied to Infrastructure and Service Sectors" at the College of Engineering, Trivandrum on 26 November, 2010, at the International Conference on Technological Trends, organized by College of Engineering Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. |
| Seminar by Prof. Sandeep Juneja |
IEOR announces the following seminar. The details are as follows: Title: The Concert Queuing Game: To Wait or To be Late |
| Seminar by Prof. Murali. K. Srinivasan |
Title: Binary code upper bounds based on semidefinite programming and Speaker: Prof. Murali. K. Srinivasan, Mathematics, IITB Time: 3.15pm, 22/10/10, Friday Venue: 208, First floor, Mech Engg. Building |
| Seminar by Dr Siddhartha Sengupta |
Industrial Engineering and Operations Research - seminar announcement Title of talk: When do IT Investments Pay? Proposal for a way ahead in strategic ICT projects |
| Seminar By Prof Mokshay Madiman |
Prof Mokshay Madiman, Yale University, will be giving a IEOR Seminar on this friday, 27th August at 16.15PM. Topic: Fundamental Limits of Distributed Estimation and Multiuser Information-Theoretic Games Abstract: The first part of the talk focuses on fundamental limits of distributed estimation, motivated by a toy model for sensor networks. In distributed estimation, it is of interest to relate the minimax risks of estimating a parameter for users who have |
| Seminar by Dr. R. Klass |
Title: Digital Engineering Visualization in Automotive Product Creation Processes Speaker: Dr. Reinhold Klass (Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India) |
| Seminar by Prof Alladi Subramanyam |
Title: Bivariate exponential distribution: Properties, Estimation and Applications. Speaker: Prof Alladi Subramanyam, Mathematics, IITB Time: 4pm, 20/8/10 Venue: 217, Mech Engg. Building Abstract: The Pickands bivariate exponential distribution is first defined. The distribution is characterised by a function, say A(\cdot), |
| Seminar by Prof. Kate Smith-Miles |
Title: How can data mining help to understand what makes an optimization problem hard, which algorithm will perform best, and why? Speaker: Prof Kate Smith-Miles, School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University, Australia Abstract: |
| Prof. Mallikarjuna Rao attends ICM Satellite Conference |
Prof. Mallikarjuna Rao attended the ICM Satellite Conference on Probability and Stochastic Processes, held at the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, from August 13-17, 2010. He gave a talk on "Nash Equilibrium in Stochastic Games and its Approximation", based on joint work with PhD student Vikas Vikram Singh and Prof. N. Hemachandra. |
| Dileep More gets Award for Excellence in Thesis Work |
Dileep More received the award for Excellence in Thesis Work. The award was distributed on 06th August 2010 in the 48th
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| IEOR website redesigning |
IEOR website redesigning is under progress. It is expected to be complete before the July 15, 2010. |
| A talk by Prof Vivek Borkar |
Prof Vivek Borkar from TIFR gave a talk on 28th June 2010.
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| Dileep S. More defended his Ph.D. thesis |
Dileep S. More defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "Some studies in supply chain flexibility" on 10 May, 2010. The external examiner for the defence was Prof G. Srinivasan from IIT Madras. Dileep is soon taking up an academic position at IIM Calcutta. |
| Archive - General |
GENERAL Dileep More defends his Ph.D. Thesis Dileep S. More defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "Some studies in supply chain flexibility" on 10 May, 2010. The external examiner for the defence was Prof G. Srinivasan from IIT Madras. Dileep is soon taking up an academic position at IIM Calcutta. |
| Archive - Conference |
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| Archive - Seminar |
SEMINAR/TALK FACULTY: Prof. Narayan Rangaraj gave an invited talk at S.P.Jain Institute of Management and Research on Sunday, 28th March, on "Service queuing, logistics strategy and network optimization" in a programme on Services Sciences,Management and Engineering. |
| Archive - Visit |
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