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IEOR Seminar (in Skype mode) by Dr. Ashutosh Mahajan

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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

Dr. R. Badri Narayan gives a talk

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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.

Two lectures by Dr. Yogeshwaran Dhandapani

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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)
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