The Australian Society For Operations Research (ASOR), Melbourne Chapter, organized a one day conference with the topic "Recent Advances in OR 2013" on July 17, 2013. The conference was held at RMIT Melbourne, Australia, with an aim to give members the opportunity to exchange ideas and promote growth and activity in the OR community.
ISCI (International Simulation Conference of India) is an International forum in India where recent Development in the field of System Simulation are talked about. ISCI-2013 was the second edition held from 21st to 23rd February at IITM Research Park, hosted jointly by IIT Madras, Chennai and PMI. Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran, Ms. Ketki Kulkarni and Mr, Ratnaji Vanga attended the conference.
Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran presented a keynote address on 'Hybrid Simulation and Optimization Approaches'.
The following is a news item published in Mumbai Mirror on Nov 1, 2012 (Mumbai Edition).
Top brains to suggest ways to increase frequency of trains and help save time wasted by changing tracks and passing signals between Virar and Churchgate
Dr. Ashutosh Mahajan has joined as Assistant Professor on 13/6/12. We welcome him and wish him all the best.
Ashutosh obtained B. Tech. in Production and Industrial Engineering from IIT Delhi and Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University. He worked at the Argonne National Laboratory for three years after that. His research interests are in theory, algorithms and applications of linear and nonlinear integer optimization.
Dr. V. V. Kavitha has joined as Assistant Professor on 15/5/12. We welcome her and wish her all the best.
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Prof N. Hemachandra conducted a session `Basics of MILPs' on 16th September, 2011, in the CEP course `Advanced Power System Analysis' for Researchers and Engineers from CDAC and Intel India. This CEP is conducted by Prof S. A. Soman, EE, at CDAC, Bangalore during 14--16, September, 2011.
Dr. D. Bijual, Ph.D in IEOR, receievd an Award for Excellence in Thesis for the year 2010-11. The award is given to a selected set of students in the Ph.D. programme for their exemplary contributions during their Thesis work, overall academic performance and contributions during the student's tenure in the doctoral programme. The award was presented during the 49th Convocation of IIT Bombay held on 5th August 2011.
Ms. Violet Bhattacharya, M.Tech IEOR, received the Institute Silver Medal for the year 2010-11. The Silver medal was awarded to her for standing first in her M.Tech class by obtaining the highest CPI. The award was presented during the 49th Convocation held on 5th August 2011. Violet's Master's thesis was on "The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem - Recent Developments and Analysis of Effects of Parameters", under the guidance of Prof. P.G. Awate.
D.Bijulal defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "Stability and Service Level based Control of Some Forward and Reverse Flow Production - Inventory Systems" on 30 June, 2011. The external examiner for the defence was Prof.Pratap.K.J Mohapatra from IIT Kharagpur. Bijulal is working as an associate professor in College of Engineering Trivandrum, Thiruvananthapuram.
Anu Thomas, Research Scholar won the Oskar Award for the Best Poster at The Annual Symposium of The IITB-Monash Research Academy held at IIT Bombay campus from Feb 17-19, 2011. His poster was based on " Collaborative Resource Constrained Scheduling : A Coal Indutry Example ".