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.  

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