Seminar

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

Abstract:

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