Seminar

Title: Much Ado About Big Data
Speaker: N. R. Srinivasa Raghavan, Data Science and Big Data, Reliance
Industries Ltd.

Time and Date: 3:00 pm, Tuesday, 29 April 2014
Venue: Room 217, Mechanical Engineering

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Data science and her big brother Big Data have been ringing the corporate board rooms for a while now and 
are touted by pundits and brokers alike, as the harbingers of innovation and profitability. This talk will
try to do justice to the hubris as well as to the ground realities.

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Title: Social Algorithms and Internet Economics
Speaker: Dr. Swaparva Nath, ISI Delhi

Time and Date: 2:30 pm, Monday 21/04/2014
Venue: Room 217, Mechanical Engineering

Abstract:
Classical algorithm design assumes that all the parameters of the objective function is known. When that 
information is held privately by multiple agents, we arrive in the domain of mechanism design, where the 

Title: Random geometric complexes

Speaker: Dr. Yogeshwaran, D.
         EC Senior Researcher, EE, Technion

Time: 2:15pm, 27th, February 2014
Venue: Room 217, ME Building

Abstract: In this talk, we shall focus on the global behaviour of geometric simplicial complexes built
random point sets. Starting with definitions of simplicial complexes, I shall describe heuristics about the
vanishing and formation of Betti numbers (counts of holes in the simplicial complex). We shall later look

The 3^rd winter school on Optimization and Control, organised by the Systems and Control Engineering & Industrial Engineering and Operations Research groups at IIT Bombay aims to expose graduate students to diverse aspects of the field of systems, control, optimization and certain current areas of research.

Umakanta Pattanayak, a research scholar, gave a talk on "Intersection Cuts for Convex Integer Programs", joint work with Prof. Vishnu Narayanan.

Title: On Network Design with Stochastic Arc Capacities.
Speaker: Avinash Bhardwaj, UC Berkeley

Time and date: 3:00 pm, Friday Jan 17 2014
Venue: Room 217, Mechanical Engineering

Abstract:
In this work, we present robust models to determine minimum cost network setup(s) while considering
a fixed charge network flow problem with particular attention to the stochastic nature of the arc
capacities. We study the associated submodular knapsack constraint set and derive strong valid

Title: Correlated Equilibria- Existence and some Properties for Bimatrix Games
Speaker: T.E.S. Raghavan, University of Illinois at Chicago
Date and Time: Friday 3 January 2014, 3:00 pm
Venue: Room 217, Mechanical Engineering

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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