Title: Relaxing MINLPs with discrete product terms
Speaker: Akshay Gupte, Clemson University
Time: Monday, December 29, 2014, 10:30 a.m.
Venue: LC 201, Lecture Hall Complex

IIT Bombay hosted the 50th Inter IIT Sports Meet-Aquatics Meet during October 1-4, 2014, and the Main Meet during December 12-19, 2014. Out of 16 participating IITs, Bombay won the girls championship by a huge margin, while boys narrowly missed the third place.

Four students from IEOR participated in various events. Shilpi Bhargava, M.Tech. 2nd year student, took part in aquatics and won Silver in 50 meter Butterfly,  Bronze in 100 meter Freestyle, and secured 4th place in 50 meter Backstroke.

Title: Efficient Detection and Localization on Graph Structured Data

Speaker: Dr. Manjesh Kumar Hanawal

Time and Date: 3:30pm, 18/12/14 (Thursday)

Venue: Room 217, Mechanical Engg. Building

The ninth meeting of Lectures on Probability and Stochastic Processes held at Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata during December 12 - 16, 2014. IEOR students Ashish Chandra, Akash P.B., Sandhya Tripathi, Ravi Kant Rai, Arko Chatterjee, M. Venkateswararao. K, Kaushal Kumar Singh Gautam and Debayan Das attended this meeting.

Prof. V. Kavitha gave a talk in this meeting.

Manu K. Gupta, M.Sc-Ph.D. student, presented the paper titled "On mean waiting time completeness and equivalence of EDD and HOL-PJ dynamic priority schemes in 2-class M/G/1 queue", a joint work with Prof. N. Hemachandra and Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran, in the 8th International Conference on Performance Evaluation Methodologies and Tools (ValueTools).

The conference was held during December 9-11, 2014, at Bratislava, Slovakia. This is a focused conference in the areas related to random systems. More details can be seen here.

Ketki Kulkarni, Ph.D. student, presented the paper titled "Iterative simulation and optimization approach for job shop scheduling", a joint work with Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran, in the Winter Simulation Conference. The Winter Simulation Conference (WSC) is the premier international forum for disseminating recent advances in the field of system simulation.

Ketki also gave a short talk and presented poster in PhD colloquium during conference.

IEOR office, earlier located in room 308A in Mechanical Engineering building, has been relocated to room 323 in the same building. Also, Prof. P.G. Awate's and Prof. Narayan Rangaraj's offices have been shifted to room 304C and room 323 in the same building, respectively. The phone numbers of all the three offices remain unchanged.