GENERAL
Dileep More defends his Ph.D. Thesis
Dileep S. More defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "Some studies in supply chain flexibility" on 10 May, 2010. The external examiner for the defence was Prof G. Srinivasan from IIT Madras. Dileep is soon taking up an academic position at IIM Calcutta.
Prof. Joydeep Dutta (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, IIT Kanpur) visited the IEOR group between 27 and 30 July, 2009. He delivered a series of lectures: (1) Fundamentals of Mathematical Programming (2) Variational Inequalities (3) Gap Functions and (4) Nonlinear Complementarity Functions during his visit. These lectures were attended by senior students, research scholars and faculty from IEOR and other parts of the institute.
Prof. V.S. Borkar, TIFR, Mumbai gave a talk on Reinforcement Learning Algorithms to the IEOR group on 23rd January 2008. Title : Reinforcement Learning - A bridge between numerical methods and Monte Carlo