Dr. R. Badri Narayan, General Manager (R and D), Centre for Railway Information Systems gave a talk on "CRIS: The IT Engine of Indian Railways" on 29th September, 2011.

The talk was about the kind of applications CRIS handles for the Indian Railways and the challenges involved in development and implementation. The last part of the talk was specifically about the time tabling software being developed currently and the issues that are sought to be addressed using this application.

Tilak Raj Singh, PhD student attended the OR 2011 Conference held at Zurich between August 30 and September 2, 2011.  He gave a presentation on "Calculation of constructible set of configurations for product variety management". This is a joint work with Prof. Narayan Rangaraj, Andreas Schuette (DIAMLER AG, Germany) and Christian Schlange (DIAMLER AG, Germany).

IEOR students actively participated in the sports event held at the Institute.

IEOR won gold in table tennis (girls). The team consisted of Ketki Kulkarni (captain), Neha Phatak and Indu Choudhary. Ketki was unbeaten throughout in the singles tournament. Ketki and Neha were unbeaten in the doubles tournament as well.

IEOR won silver in badminton (boys). The team consisted of Pritam Kamble (captain), Yogesh Valunj and Debayan Das. Pritam was unbeaten in the singles throughout the tournament.

Dr. Yogeshwaran Dhandapani is delivering two lectures on Percolation Theory.

The abstracts of the two talks are as follows:

1) Introduction to basic percolation model ; Existence of a non-trivial phase transition ; Sub-exponential decay in the sub-critical phase.

2) Uniqueness of the infinite cluster ; The critical probability is 1/2 in two dimensions

The talks should be elementary in nature and should be accessible to people with reasonable background in Probability. 

The venue and timings are

Lecture 1: ME 217, 11-12.30; 25th August 2011 (today)

IEOR@IITB is arranging a LaTeX workshop for all the new students of our department.

It is mandatory for all new students to attend this workshop.

LaTeX is a document preparation system for high-quality typesetting. It is most often used for medium-to-large technical or scientific documents but it can be used for almost any form of publishing.

Dr. D. Bijual, Ph.D in IEOR, receievd an Award for Excellence in Thesis for the year 2010-11.  The award is given to a selected set of students in the Ph.D. programme for their exemplary contributions during their Thesis work, overall academic performance and contributions during the student's tenure in the doctoral programme.  The award was presented during the 49th Convocation of IIT Bombay held on 5th August 2011.

Ms. Violet Bhattacharya, M.Tech IEOR, received the Institute Silver Medal for the year 2010-11.  The Silver medal was awarded to her for standing first in her M.Tech class by obtaining the highest CPI.   The award was presented during the 49th Convocation held on 5th August 2011.   Violet's Master's thesis was on "The Capacitated Vehicle Routing Problem - Recent Developments and Analysis of Effects of Parameters", under the guidance of Prof. P.G. Awate.

Dr. Jayendran Venkaetswaran attended the 29th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society held during July 24th - 29th 2011, at Washington, DC, USA .  He presented the paper on "Simulation based Analysis of Service Levels in Stable Production-Inventory Systems", co-authored with Mr. Kaushik Margabandu, Dr. Bijulal and Prof. N. Hemachandra.

Vikas Vikram Singh, a PhD student, participated in 8th International ISDG Workshop (http://www.gerad.ca/colloques/isdg2011/) during 21-23 of July, 2011 at Padova, Italy. He presented a paper `Constrained stochastic game with independent state processes: A mathematical programming approach', co-authored with Prof N. Hemachandra.

Ketki Kulkarni, PhD student, along with Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran presented their work titled "Scheduling in stochastic job shops using hybrid simulation and optimization approaches" at the 2011 INFORMS Simulation Society Research Workshop. This was held at Montreal, Canada between July 18-20, 2011.

Prof. Jayendran also presented his work on "Production planning using hybrid optimization-simulation based approach" at the same workshop. This is a joint work with Vivek Sharma, Dual Degree student, Mechanical Engineering.