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
Vikas Vikram Singh defended his PhD thesis titled "Some topics in Stochastic Games" on Oct 29, 2013. He has worked under the guidance of Prof. Mallikarjuna Rao and Prof. N. Hemachandra.
He will be joining as a Post-Doc in INRIA, France very soon.
Title: On the geometric rank of the matching polytope
Speaker: Dr. Ashwin Arulselvan, Postdoctoral Associate,
Institute for Mathematics, Technische Universität Berlin.
Time and Date: 2:30pm, 28/10/13 (Monday)
Venue: Room 217, Mechanical Engg. Building.
Abstract: Recently, Padberg introduced the notion of geometric ranks for mixed integer polyhedra. This
involves in ranking the facets that define a polyhedron. In this talk, we will show that the the
Talk Title : Control of a queuing system under the moderate deviation scaling
Speaker : Anup Biswas, Postdoctoral fellow at Technion--Israel Institute of Technology
Time and Date : 2:30 p.m., Monday, August 19 2013
Venue : Room 217, Mechanical Engineering