Conference

IEOR students and faculty participated in OR2016 – Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society at Helmut Schmdit University, Hamburg, Germany during 30 Aug - 02 Sep 2016.

Tilak Raj Singh, a research scholar, presented a paper on "Optimization models for vehicle planning in the pre-production phase".

Shripad Salsingikar, a research scholar, presented a paper on "Freight train routing and scheduling in a large railway network" co-authored with Prof N. Rangaraj.

IEOR students participated in "SPJIMR-POMS India Chapter Conference on Big Data Analytics for Optimising Supply Chains", at S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai during 29-30 July. 2016.

Siddhartha Paul, a research scholar, presented a paper on "Studying Bullwhip Effect in Supply Chain: A System Dynamics Approach" co-authored with Prof Debabrata Das (IIM Kashipur).

Manu Kumar Gupta defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Dynamic Priority Scheduling in Multi-class Queues: Pricing, Achievable Regions and Applications" on 4th July 2016 at 11:30 am in LC-101 (Lecture Hall Complex).

The research was carried out under the supervision of Prof. J. Venkateswaran and Prof. N. Hemachandra.

Prof. Jayendran attended the 34th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society organized at TU Delft, Netherlands during July 17th - July 21, 2016. He also participated in the System Dynamics summer school held at TU Delft from July 13th - 15th, 2016.

Prof. Jayendran presented a paper on "Inventory Management in Response to an Unfolding Epidemic", and a poster on "Modeling New Product Diffusion under Uncertainty". Both were joint work with his doctoral student Siddhartha Paul.

PhD student Umakanta Pattanayak presented his work on Local Polyhedrality of Integer Hulls of Strictly Convex Sets at the Mixed-Integer Programming Workshop (poster), Miami, May 23--26, and at the SIAM Discrete Mathematics Conference (contributed talk), Atlanta, June 6--10. 

IEOR Faculty members gave talks at the Game Theory & Optimization Conference (9--10 June, IIT Madras) on the following topics:

Vishnu Narayanan: Local Polyhedrality of some Integer Hulls

N. Hemachandra: Some Aspects of Excess-Based Solution Concepts for Cooperative Games

K. S. Mallikarjuna Rao: PDE Approach to Nonexpansive Ergodic Control

Prof. Manjesh K Hanawal presented his work tilted 'Jamming Attack on In-band Full Duplex Communications: Detection and Countermesaures' at INFOCOM 2016 held at San Francisco, CA, USA

IEOR students and faculty members participated in Mining Intelligence and Knowledge Exploration, The Third International Conference, MIKE 2015, http://www.mike.org.in/2015/ at IIIT Hyderabad duing Dec 9-11, 2015.

Puja Sahu, a Research Scholar, presented a paper `A Geometric Viewpoint of the Selection of the Regularization Parameter in some Support Vector Machines' co-authored with Prof N. Hemachandra.

Alok Patel, a research scholar, presented a poster on "Optimal Signal Control for Pre-timed Signalized Junctions with Uncertain Traffic: Simulation based Optimization Approach", a joint work with Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran and Prof. Tom V. Mathew in the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) 2015, Dec. 6-9, 2015 at the Hyatt Regency Resort & Spa, Huntington Beach, California, USA.

Prof. Jayendran attended the 48th International Conference & Annual Convention of Operational Research Society of India (ORSI) organized at SOA University, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India on December 17-19, 2015.

Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran presented a paper on "Operations Experience in Large Scale Dissemination of 
Technology Solutions in Rural India", a joint work with Prof. Chetan S. Solanki (ESE) and Prof. N.C. Narayanan (CTARA)