Industrial Engineering and Operations Research - seminar announcement
Title of talk: When do IT Investments Pay? Proposal for a way ahead in strategic ICT projects
Speaker: Dr Siddhartha Sengupta (Principal Scientist & Head, TCS Innovation Labs Complex Decision Support Systems Group)
Date and time: Wednesday, 22 September, 2010, 4 p.m.
Venue: Institute Auditorium, IRCC building
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.
Title: Digital Engineering Visualization in Automotive Product Creation Processes
Speaker: Dr. Reinhold Klass (Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India)
Seminar on 27th August, 2010, Friday, at 3.00 p.m.
Venue: Room 217, Mechanical Engg Department
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
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),
called the dependence function (along with the marginal means). One may specify a parametric model for A or take A itself as a parameter.
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
Date and venue: Tuesday, 17 August, 4 p.m., Room 205, Mechanical Engineering Department
Abstract:
Dileep More received the award for Excellence in Thesis Work. The award was distributed on 06th August 2010 in the 48th
Convocation. The award includes a Certificate/Citation and Rs 20,000/-. He joined in IIM Calcutta as an assistant professor after completing PhD from IEOR in 2009.
Prof Vivek Borkar from TIFR gave a talk on 28th June 2010.
Topic: Learning Algorithms for Risk-Sensitive Control
Bio:
IEOR website redesigning is under progress. It is expected to be complete before the July 15, 2010.
VISITS/EXTERNAL SEMINAR:
Santanu Dey from Georgia Institute of Technology gave a talk on 6th April 2010.
Title: The Chvatal-Gomory closure of an Ellipsoid is a Polyhedron.