IIT Bombay is organising an Institute Colloquium on Thursday, August 16, 2012. The details are as follows:

Title : Diffusion of Microfinance

Speaker : Prof. Matthew Jackson
William D. Eberle Professor of Economics
Stanford University

Day & Date : Thursday, August 16, 2012

Time : 3.00 p.m.

Venue : Main Auditorium, VMCC

Two of the faculty members from IEOR, Prof. Vishnu Narayanan and Prof. Ashutosh Mahajan attended the 21st International Symposium on Mathematical Programming.

Prof. Vishnu Narayanan presented a talk on "Some properties of integer hulls of convex sets". 

Prof. Ashutosh Mahajan presented a talk on "Algorithms for solving convex MINLPs with MINOTAUR".

 Title: On the analysis and solution of stochastic variational inequality problems

Speaker: Uday V. Shanbhag, Penn. State University

Date: 9:30 am, Tuesday August 14, 2012

Venue: Room 217, Mechanical Engineering Building

Abstract:

Prof. Ashutosh Mahajan gave a talk on solving convex mixed-integer nonlinear optimization problems using a new method called QP-Diving. He discussed the motivation behind the approach, describe the algorithm, and present some computational results.

Anirban Ghatak, Research Scholar,  gave a talk on "Spatial Games and Evolutionary Stability against Multiple Mutations" on July 16th, Monday at 4:30 pm. The venue is S9, Old CSE Building.

Abstract is attached. He presented the same at the "15th International Symposium on Dynamic Games and Applications" (ISDG-2012) between 19th - 23rd July 2012 at Bysice, Czech Republic.

Puja Sahu wins the "Judge's Choice" award in the  online writing competition in Hindi category, conducted at IIT Bombay. Her article titled "Mein Stree Hoon" also won the overall third prize in the competition.