Vikas Vikram Singh, a PhD student, participated in 8th International ISDG Workshop (http://www.gerad.ca/colloques/isdg2011/) during 21-23 of July, 2011 at Padova, Italy. He presented a paper `Constrained stochastic game with independent state processes: A mathematical programming approach', co-authored with Prof N. Hemachandra.
Ketki Kulkarni, PhD student, along with Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran presented their work titled "Scheduling in stochastic job shops using hybrid simulation and optimization approaches" at the 2011 INFORMS Simulation Society Research Workshop. This was held at Montreal, Canada between July 18-20, 2011.
Prof. Jayendran also presented his work on "Production planning using hybrid optimization-simulation based approach" at the same workshop. This is a joint work with Vivek Sharma, Dual Degree student, Mechanical Engineering.
Three students of IEOR attended the 19th Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS2011) held on July 10-15, 2011 at Melbourne, Australia.
Krishna Chaitanya Vanam (Graduate student) chaired a session "Innovative Applications in Game Theory" and presented a paper on "A New Excess-based Solution Concept for Cooperative TU Games", co-authored with Prof. N Hemachandra.
Faculty and students of IEOR attended the 14th Annual International Conference of the Society of Operations Management, NITIE Mumbai, held on December 17-19 2010 at NITIE, Mumbai. Chandrama Naha (Graduate student) presented the paper on "Agent Based Simulation Games for Analysis of Supply Chain Processes", co-authored with Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran.
Dr. Jayendran Venkateswaran attended the 43rd Annual Convention of ORSI in conjunction with an International Conference on Operational Research for Urban and Rural Development (ORURD) held from 15th to 17th of December 2010 at TCE, Madurai.
Prof. Mallikarjuna Rao attended the ICM Satellite Conference on Probability and Stochastic Processes, held at the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, from August 13-17, 2010. He gave a talk on "Nash Equilibrium in Stochastic Games and its Approximation", based on joint work with PhD student Vikas Vikram Singh and Prof. N. Hemachandra.