IEOR faculty and students attended OPTIMA 2012
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IEOR faculty and students attended International Conference on Optimization Modelling and Applications (OPTIMA 2012) organised at Delhi University on Nov 29 - Dec 1, 2012.
Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran presented a paper on "Managing Impact of Epidemics: Epidemic Preparedness and Volunteer Staff Hiring", a joint work with John Joy.
Sweety Hansuwa, a research scholar presented on "Some Practical Variants of the Vehicle Routing Problem", a joint work with Prof. Narayan Rangaraj and Rahul Pandey.
Seminar by Neeraja Sahasrabudhe
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Title: Covariance Realization Problems for Spin Systems
Speaker: Neeraja Sahasrabudhe, University of Padova
Time: 4 pm, Monday, November 26, 2012
Venue: Room 217, Mechanical Engineering
About the Speaker: Neeraja Sahasrabudhe is a PhD student of Mathematics at the University of Padova.
The Abstract is attached alongwith.
IEOR Day - November 2,2012
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IEOR faculty and students came together to celebrate IEOR day on November 2, 2012. There were talks by Prof Vishnu Narayanan on the properties of sets arising as convex hulls of integer points and by Prof Jayendran Venkateswaran on metaheuristics for nonlinear and combinatorial problems. Prof. Narayan Rangaraj spoke briefly on the importance of research in IE and OR and on some recent work in railway operations.
IEOR students and faculty participate in study to analyse Mumbai's suburban rail network
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The following is a news item published in Mumbai Mirror on Nov 1, 2012 (Mumbai Edition).
WR asks IIT-B for a secret to a smoother commute
Top brains to suggest ways to increase frequency of trains and help save time wasted by changing tracks and passing signals between Virar and Churchgate
Seminar by Amit Parekh
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Title: Math Goes Mainstream - Stories of Applications of Advanced Analytics and Optimization
Speaker: Amit Parekh, FICO
Time: 3:30PM, Wednesday, Oct 31, 2012
Venue: S-9, Old Computer Science Building (second floor)