Faculty members K. S. Mallkarjuna Rao and Vishnu Narayanan gave a short course on Optimization at the IFCAM Summer School on Applied Mathematics at IISc, Bangalore. The short course consisted of eight lectures (during July 7--10, 2014) on various aspects of optimization, and several advanced courses in the three-week summer school will build upon contents of the optimization course.
There will not be any spot admissions for this year's admission (2014) to the M.Tech. programme in IEOR.
Prof. Narayan Rangaraj and Vishal Rewari made a presentation on April 9, 2014, at the workshop on Urban Freight Transport: A Global Perspective. This workshop was organized by Transportation Systems Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay and VREF Center of Excellence for Sustainable Urban Freight Systems, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
The 12th International Symposium on Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2014) was held from May 12-16, 2014 at Diar Lemdina Hotel in Yasmine, Hammamet Tunisia.
Admissions in the year 2014-2015 to M.Sc.-Ph.D. Dual Degree (Operations Research) Programme in IEOR will be done on the basis of relevant JAM scores only; no interviews will be conducted this year.