The 51st Annual Convention of the Operational Research Society of India (ORSI) and International Conference (hereafter, ORSI 2018) was conducted at Victor Menezes Convention Centre (VMCC), IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India, from 16th -19th December 2018.

ORSI-2018 was organised jointly by ORSI-Mumbai chapter and IIT Bombay, and was sponsored by Optym (Gold sponsor), JDA, Palisade, Spashta Technologies, Opex Analytics, Springer Publisher and IIT Bombay Diamond Jubilee office.

A one-day workshop on "Suburban Rail Operations Planning" was conducted on 21st June 2019 at VMCC, IIT Bombay.   The workshop was attended by Railway personnel from Central, Western, South Central, Southern, South Eastern and Eastern Railways and also Delhi and Bengaluru Metro Corporation, apart from students & faculty of IIT Bombay

The 57th Convocation of IIT Bombay was held on 10th August 2019. The main function of the convocation was held in the forenoon at the Convocation Hall, presided by Chief Guest Hon'ble Minister of Human Resource Development Shri. Ramesh Pokhriyal 'Nishank'.  

IEOR is happy to announce the appointment of Prof. Veeraruna Kavitha and Prof. Ashutosh Mahajan as Associate Professor in the department, as of August 2019.

IEOR is happy to announce the appointment of Prof. Jayendran Venkateswaran as Professor in the department, as of August 2019.

Title: A Safe Minimum Standard, an Elasticity of Substitution, and the Cleanup of the Ganges in Varanasi

Speaker: Prof. Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, Rochester Institute of Technology

Date, Time: 26th July 2019, 2.15 PM

Venue:  IEOR Teaching Lab (Ground floor)

L. Sathishkumar defended his Ph.D. thesis, titled "Simulation based Optimisation with Input Data Uncertainty" on Monday, 22nd July, 2019.  The IEOR family extends their congratulations to Dr.Sathishkumar, and wishes him well for his future contributions in the field of IE & OR.