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.

Title: Mathematical Models for Analyzing Networks

Speaker: Pallavi Manohar

Time and Date: 10:30 am, Monday July 25

Venue: LC 201

Title: Generalized Envelope Theorems: Applications to Dynamic Programming

Speaker: Suchismita Tarafdar, Shiv Nadar University

Time and Date: 11:00 am, Tuesday July 12, 2016

Venue: LC 102

IEOR faculty members K.S. Mallikarjuna Rao and Vishnu Narayanan gave a 10-lecture course on optimization at IISc as part of the IFCAM Summer School on Large-Scale Optimization, also organized as part of the National Mathematics Initiative.