Title: Optimal Signaling Mechanisms in Unobservable Queues

Speaker: Krishnamurthy Iyer, Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University

Time: 11:45 AM, 8th Auust 2017

Venue: Teaching Lab, IEOR Building

Ratnaji Vanga defended his Ph.D. thesis titled "Supply Chain Management of Reusable Articles" on July 3, 2017. The research work was carried out under the supervision of Prof. Jayendran V. and Prof. Narayan Rangaraj. The external examiner was Prof. R. K. Amit of IIT Madras.

Speaker: Dr. Chandrashekar Lakshmi Narayanan.

Title: A Generalized Reduced Linear Program for Markov Decision Processes.

Date: 06th July, 2017 (Thursday)

Time: 11.00 am

Venue: Room No. 011, Ground Floor, IEOR Building.

IEOR is happy to welcome the appointment of Prof. Vishnu Narayanan as Associate Professor in the department, as of May 2017. Prof. Vishnu works in the areas of mathematical programming, convex optimization and integer programming.

The 2017 issue of the annual departmental magazine Optimystic was released by IEOR head Prof. Narayan Rangaraj. During the occasion, Prof. Rangaraj noted that the first edition was launched in 2014, and commended the efforts of the students in resurrecting the magazine. He also hoped that the magazine would be a regular feature of IEOR and become an avenue for showcasing students' literary and research works.

The magazine can be accessed by following the link below:

The Conference on Optimization organised by SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) is amongst the most prestigious conferences in the field of optimization. Research scholar Umakanta Pattanayak presented his work titled "Intersection Cuts for Convex Mixed Integer Programs from Translated Cones" at the SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP17) held in Vancouver, BC, Canada from 22-25 May, 2017. He also received the SIAM Student Travel Award for his work. This was a joint work with Prof. Vishnu Narayanan.