Conference

Prof. Jayendran attended the 34th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society organized at TU Delft, Netherlands during July 17th - July 21, 2016. He also participated in the System Dynamics summer school held at TU Delft from July 13th - 15th, 2016.

Prof. Jayendran presented a paper on "Inventory Management in Response to an Unfolding Epidemic", and a poster on "Modeling New Product Diffusion under Uncertainty". Both were joint work with his doctoral student Siddhartha Paul.

PhD student Umakanta Pattanayak presented his work on Local Polyhedrality of Integer Hulls of Strictly Convex Sets at the Mixed-Integer Programming Workshop (poster), Miami, May 23--26, and at the SIAM Discrete Mathematics Conference (contributed talk), Atlanta, June 6--10. 

IEOR Faculty members gave talks at the Game Theory & Optimization Conference (9--10 June, IIT Madras) on the following topics:

Vishnu Narayanan: Local Polyhedrality of some Integer Hulls

N. Hemachandra: Some Aspects of Excess-Based Solution Concepts for Cooperative Games

K. S. Mallikarjuna Rao: PDE Approach to Nonexpansive Ergodic Control

Prof. Manjesh K Hanawal presented his work tilted 'Jamming Attack on In-band Full Duplex Communications: Detection and Countermesaures' at INFOCOM 2016 held at San Francisco, CA, USA

IEOR students and faculty members participated in Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration, The Third International Conference, MIKE 2015, http://www.mike.org.in/2015/ at IIIT Hyderabad duing Dec 9-11, 2015.

Puja Sahu, a Research Scholar, presented a paper `A Geometric Viewpoint of the Selection of the Regularization Parameter in some Support Vector Machines' co-authored with Prof N. Hemachandra.

Alok Patel, a research scholar, presented a poster on "Optimal Signal Control for Pre-timed Signalized Junctions with Uncertain Traffic: Simulation based Optimization Approach", a joint work with Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran and Prof. Tom V. Mathew in the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) 2015, Dec. 6-9, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency Resort & Spa, Huntington Beach, California, USA.

Prof. Jayendran attended the 48th International Conference & Annual Convention of Operational Research Society of India (ORSI) organized at SOA University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India on December 17-19, 2015.

Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran presented a paper on "Operations Experience in Large Scale Dissemination of 
Technology Solutions in Rural India", a joint work with Prof. Chetan S. Solanki (ESE) and Prof. N.C. Narayanan (CTARA)

IEOR students attended the XIX Annual International Conference of Society of Operations Management (SOM) organized at Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Kolkata on December 11-13, 2015.

Meenarli Sharma, a research scholar presented a paper on " A Routing and Scheduling Problem in Port Operrations of a Refinery ", a joint work with Krishna Rekapalli, Nitin Mehta and Prof. Ashutosh Mahajan.

IEOR students and faculty attended the 2015 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management (IEEM) organized at SUNTEC, Singapore on December 6-9, 2015.

Satishkumar L., a research scholar, presented a paper on "Impact of Input Data Parameter Uncertainty on Simulation-Based Decision Making", a joint work with Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran.

Prashant Palkar, a Ph.D. student, presented a paper titled "A Branch-and-Estimate heuristic procedure for solving nonconvex integer optimization problems", a joint work with Prof. Ashutosh Mahajan, in the workshop on Parallel Computing and Optimization (PCO) in conjunction with 29th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS). The conference was held during May 25-29, 2015, at Hyderabad, India. More details can be seen here.