IEOR announces the following seminar. The details are as follows:

Title: The Concert Queuing Game: To Wait or To be Late
Speaker: Prof. Sandeep Juneja, TIFR, Bombay
Venue: Room 217, Mechanincal Engineering Building,
Time and Date: 11.30AM, 4th November, 2010.

Title:  Binary code upper bounds based on semidefinite programming and
explicit block diagonalization.

Speaker: Prof. Murali. K. Srinivasan, Mathematics, IITB

Time: 3.15pm, 22/10/10, Friday

Venue: 208, First floor, Mech Engg. Building

Industrial Engineering and Operations Research - seminar announcement

Title of talk: When do IT Investments Pay? Proposal for a way ahead in strategic ICT projects

          
Speaker:  Dr Siddhartha Sengupta (Principal Scientist & Head, TCS Innovation Labs Complex Decision Support Systems Group)

Date and time: Wednesday, 22 September, 2010, 4 p.m.

Prof. Mallikarjuna Rao attended the ICM Satellite Conference on Probability and Stochastic Processes, held at the Indian Statistical Institute, Bangalore, from August 13-17, 2010. He gave a talk on "Nash Equilibrium in Stochastic Games and its Approximation", based on joint work with PhD student Vikas Vikram Singh and Prof. N. Hemachandra.

Title: Digital Engineering Visualization in Automotive Product Creation Processes

Speaker: Dr. Reinhold Klass (Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India)

Seminar on 27th August, 2010, Friday, at 3.00 p.m.

Venue: Room 217, Mechanical Engg Department

Prof Mokshay Madiman, Yale University, will be giving a IEOR Seminar on this friday, 27th August at 16.15PM.

Topic:   Fundamental Limits of Distributed Estimation and Multiuser Information-Theoretic Games

Abstract: The first part of the talk focuses on fundamental limits of distributed estimation, motivated by a toy model for sensor networks. In distributed estimation, it is of interest to relate the minimax risks of estimating a parameter for users who have

Title: Bivariate exponential distribution: Properties, Estimation and Applications.

Speaker: Prof Alladi Subramanyam, Mathematics, IITB

Time: 4pm, 20/8/10

Venue: 217, Mech Engg. Building

Abstract: The Pickands bivariate exponential distribution is first defined. The distribution is characterised by a function, say A(\cdot),
called the dependence function (along with the marginal means). One may specify a parametric model for A or take A itself as a parameter.

Title: How can data mining help to understand what makes an optimization problem hard, which algorithm will perform best, and why?

Speaker: Prof Kate Smith-Miles, School of Mathematical Sciences, Monash University, Australia
Date and venue: Tuesday, 17 August, 4 p.m., Room 205, Mechanical Engineering Department

Abstract:

Dileep More received the award for Excellence in Thesis Work. The award was distributed on 06th August 2010 in the  48th
Convocation. The award includes a Certificate/Citation and Rs 20,000/-. He joined in IIM Calcutta as an assistant professor after completing PhD from IEOR in 2009.