Title: Social Algorithms and Internet Economics Speaker: Dr. Swaparva Nath, ISI Delhi Time and Date: 2:30 pm, Monday 21/04/2014 Venue: Room 217, Mechanical Engineering Abstract: Classical algorithm design assumes that all the parameters of the objective function is known. When that information is held privately by multiple agents, we arrive in the domain of mechanism design, where the
Title: Random geometric complexes
Speaker: Dr. Yogeshwaran, D.
EC Senior Researcher, EE, Technion
Time: 2:15pm, 27th, February 2014
Venue: Room 217, ME Building
Abstract: In this talk, we shall focus on the global behaviour of geometric simplicial complexes built
random point sets. Starting with definitions of simplicial complexes, I shall describe heuristics about the
vanishing and formation of Betti numbers (counts of holes in the simplicial complex). We shall later look
The 3rd winter school on Optimization and Control, organised by the Systems and Control Engineering & Industrial Engineering and Operations Research groups at IIT Bombay aims to expose graduate students to diverse aspects of the field of systems, control, optimization and certain current areas of research.
Umakanta Pattanayak, a research scholar, gave a talk on "Intersection Cuts for Convex Integer Programs", joint work with Prof. Vishnu Narayanan.
Title: On Network Design with Stochastic Arc Capacities. Speaker: Avinash Bhardwaj, UC Berkeley Time and date: 3:00 pm, Friday Jan 17 2014 Venue: Room 217, Mechanical Engineering Abstract: In this work, we present robust models to determine minimum cost network setup(s) while considering a fixed charge network flow problem with particular attention to the stochastic nature of the arc capacities. We study the associated submodular knapsack constraint set and derive strong valid
Title: Correlated Equilibria- Existence and some Properties for Bimatrix Games
Speaker: T.E.S. Raghavan, University of Illinois at Chicago
Date and Time: Friday 3 January 2014, 3:00 pm
Venue: Room 217, Mechanical Engineering
Abstract:
Title: Algorithms for Variational Inequalities and Solvers for Quadratic Programming Speaker: Aswin Kannan, Penn. State University Time: 3pm, 6/12/2013 (Friday) Venue: LCC 11, Lecture Hall Complex Abstract: This talk will focus on three different classes of problems arising in generic optimization settings. In the first part of the talk, we consider a class of monotone variational inequality problems.
Title: Analysis of MILP techniques for the Pooling Problem Speaker: Santanu Dey, Georgia Institute of Technology Time: 3pm, 5/12/2013 (Thursday) Venue: LCC 11, Lecture Hall Complex Abstract: The pooling problem is a challenging non-convex optimization problem that is motivated by refinery processes in the petroleum industry, and also finds application in other areas such as waste water
Title: Computational Analysis of Waiting-time Distributions of BMAP/R/1 and BMAP/D/1 Queues Using Method of Roots
Title: Distributional Robust Optimization: Applications in Portfolio Optimization and Predictive Choice Analytics
Speaker: Karthik Natarajan, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Time and Date: 10 a.m., Friday, November 8, 2013
Venue: ME 217, Mechanical Engineering Dept
Title: Study of Stationarity Concepts for a Class of Stochastic MPCC Problems.
Speaker: Arnab Sur, IIT Kanpur
Time and Date: 3:30 pm, Wednesday November 6, 2013
Venue: LCC 12, Lecture Hall Complex