Title : Bayesian Deep Learning with Gaussian Processes

Venue: IEOR Seminar Hall (2nd floor)

Date: 14th November 2018

Time: 3.00 pm to 4.30 pm
 

Prof. Jayendran attended the Sustainability and Development Conference organized at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, on November 9th-11th, 2018. He presented the paper "Does involvement of local community ensure sustained energy access? A critical review of a solar PV technology intervention in rural India", co-authored with Lalita Joshi (SoULS), Deepak Choudhary (SoULS), Praveen Kumar (Boston College), and Chetan Solanki (DESE).  

Prof. Jayendran V gave an invited talk at the 24th Innovation Conference on "Innovation and Inclusive Growth", conducted by and held at Ahmedabad Managament Association (AMA), Ahmedabad on 6th October 2018.  The topic of his talk was on "Sustaining Solar Energy Access through Localisation", which was based on the SoULS project

Title: New concepts in robust optimization

Speaker: Anita Schöbel

Date and Time: 15 November 2018, 10.30 a.m.

Venue: IEOR Seminar Room (Second floor)

Abstract: Most real-world optimization problems contain parameters which are not known at the time a decision is to be made. In robust optimization one specifies the uncertainty in a scenario set and tries to hedge against the worst case.

Title: Distributionally Robust Optimization: Expectation Shortfall and k-sum problem

Speaker: Dr. Anulekha Dhara, Research Fellow at University of Michigan

Venue: Seminar Room, IEOR (2nd floor)

Time and Date: 11:30 am, 9th October

Speaker: Saish Nevrekar, IGIDR, Mumbai

Title: Endogenous Coalition Formation in Contests

Venue: IEOR Seminar room

Time and date: 11:30 am on 1st October (Monday)