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:
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.
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.
Soundarya Natya Kalalaya Sanskriti, IIT Powai (Cell for human values) , held Annual Day on 6th May 2017. This included Bharatnatyam performances by students of the institute, which included three students from IEOR department, Sandhya Tripathi, Aanchal Panwar and Chhavi sharma.
IEORSA,2017 had arranged a farewell for the students of M.tech 2017 batch and M.Sc. students who are graduating in the year 2017. The program was attended entusiastically by current M.Sc. and M.tech students as well as the faculty members.
Title: Energy Management, Uncertainty and Optimisation
Speaker: Gopal Basak, ISI Kolkata
Time and Date: Friday, May 5, 11:30 am.
Venue: Room 011 (Teaching Lab), IEOR Building
Abstract: