Program


The conference consists of keynote presentations, tutorials/ workshops, parallel sessions, panel discussion, final round of "Best Practice Award" for industries, exhibition hall, product demonstrations, Blitz talks @ Foyer, awards, etc.

The tentative conference schedule is available here.

The detailed schedule will be made available by end of November.

Pre-conference Tutorials and Workshops on 16 December, 2018


Session A1: 10:15am-1:30pm (with a 15 min break)
Design of Markets and Service Systems with Strategic Agents
Krishnamurthy Iyer, Cornell University
Session A2: 10:15am-1:30pm (with a 15 min break)
Introduction to Machine Learning
Manjesh Hanawal, IIT Bombay and N. Hemachandra, IIT Bombay

Session B1: 2:30pm - 7:30pm (with 2x15min breaks) Registration limited to 30 participants only
Workshop on Computational Optimization
IEOR and FOSSEE team, IIT Bombay
Session B2: 2:30pm - 4:45pm (with a 15min break)
Risk Modeling and Optimization using Simulation
Pankaj Dutta, IIT Bombay



Keynote Speakers


Eitan Altman, Institut national de recherche en informatique et en automatique (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis)
Game Theoretic Analysis of Competitive Routing over Wireless Links
Nicholas Hall (INFORMS President), The Ohio State University
INFORMS, Analytics, Research and Challenges
Sandeep Juneja, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Sample Complexity of Partition Identification Using Multi-armed Bandits
Sven Leyffer, Argonne National Laboratory and Computation Institute, University of Chicago
Mixed-Integer Derivative Free Optimization
Vittal Prabhu, Pennsylvania State University
Modeling and Analysis of Distributed Control Algorithms
Luis Rabelo, University of Central Florida
Trends in Industrial Engineering
Kavita Ramanan, Brown University
Stochastic Networks: Performance Analysis, Optimization and Scaling Limits
Suvrajeet Sen, University of Southern California
Learning Enabled Optimization: A New Generation of Stochastic Programming Models



Panel Discussion


Trends of emerging concepts in Operations Research and Management Science

Moderator: Narayan Rangaraj, IIT Bombay

Invited Panelists: