Seminar

Title: What is Probability Theory?
Speaker: Krishna B. Athreya, Iowa State University
Venue: Room 217, Mechanical Engineering
Time: 9:45 am, Friday July 31, 2015.

Title:  An efficient data-driven approach to static and dynamic ambulance location for emergency medical services
Speaker: Prof. Lavanya Marla
Venue: Room 205, Mechanical Engineering
Time: 10 a.m., Friday July 10 2015

Dr. Suchismita Das gave a seminar on "A Brief Discussion on a Class of Semiparametric Regression Models" on March 27, 2015.

Title: A graph theoretic algorithm to locate the nucleolus of assignment game

Speaker: Professor T. E. S. Raghavan

Time and Date: 11:45am, Saturday, March 14, 2015

 Venue: 211, Mech. Engg. Building

Title: Optimal wages to an optimistic contractor who has time inconsistent preferences
Speaker: Prof. Rahul Marathe
Venue: Room LC 201, Lecture Hall Complex
Time: 2:00 pm, Thursday, March 12, 2015  

Title: Paths to Stable Allocations
Speaker: Agnes Cseh
Venue: Room LC 102, Lecture Hall Complex
Time: 2:30 pm, Friday, February 27, 2015  

Prof. Ashwin Arulselvan from University of Starthclyde, UK, is giving a series of five lectures on obtaining convex hulls of integer linear programs as per the following schedule.

Lectures will be held on 16th (Mon), 19th (Thrs), 23rd (Mon), 26th (Thrs) and 2nd (Mon) during 3:30pm-4:30pm in LT 205, except for the one on 23rd (ME 217, 3:30pm). The lectures will cover the following topics.

Part 1: Lift and project technique and Balas' sequential convexification procedure to obtain convex hulls.

Title: Formation of Rank Structure through Self Interested Interaction
Speaker: Saish Nevrekar
Venue: Room LT 204, Lecture Hall Complex
Time: 11:30 am, Tuesday February 17, 2015  

Mr. Murugan Pugalenthi, General Manager, Johnson and Johnson Consumer Ltd. gave a talk on Feb 12th, on Operations Research & advanced analytics used to drive critical initiatives across a value chain to deliver profitable growth in the new channels. The announcement is available here.

Title: Completely mixed stochastic games

Speaker: Prof T. Parthasarathy, Chennai Mathematical Institute and Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai Center

Date: Wednesday, 11/02/2015
Time: 11:30am

Venue: ME 217