Nitish Kumar Dumoliya, a research fellow at IEOR, IIT Bombay, presented his work titled "Heuristics for Optimizing Water Distribution Networks" co-authored with Prof Ashutosh Mahajan at the 57th Operational Research Society of India (ORSI - 2024) conference held at the IIT Bombay, India from 12th Dec to 14th Dec 2024.
Simran Lakhani, a PhD scholar of IEOR, presented her work titled "Extending Services Optimally for a Bank" (co-authored with Prof Ashutosh Mahajan and the SBI team), at the 57th Operational Research Society of India (ORSI - 2024) conference held at the IIT Bombay, India from 12th Dec to 14th Dec 2024. The initial part of the talk was given by Rashda Khanam from SBI. She introduced the concept of extended facilities and their requirements to improve the bank's reach and attract new customers.
Title: Markov Persuasion Processes with Endogenous Agent Beliefs
Venue: IEOR Seminar Room
Date and time: 3 January 2025 (Friday), 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Research scholars Santosh, Pintu, Pranav, and Sachin from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research (IEOR) participated in the Fifth Indian Symposium on Machine Learning (IndoML 2024). The event was held at the BITS Pilani Goa Campus from December 21–23, 2024.
Title: Algorithm and Incentive Design for Sustainable Resource Allocation: Beyond Classical Fisher Markets
Venue: IEOR Seminar Room
Speaker: Devansh Jalota
Date and time: 2 January 2025 (Thursday), 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Title: The problem of (stochastic) persistence in mathematical ecology and population dynamics
Speaker: Prof. Michel Benaim
Date and time: 2 January 2025 (Thursday), 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Venue: IEOR Seminar Room
Title: New Approaches to Multi-Objective Optimization with Applications to Fairness and Online Learning
Speaker: Jai Moondra
Venue: IEOR Seminar Room
Date and time: 1 January 2025 (Wednesday), 3:30-4:30 p.m.
Riya Sultana, a Research Scholar from the Department of IEOR at IIT Bombay, presented a paper titled ''Cooperate or Compete: Coalition Formation in Congestion Games'', co-authored with Prof. Veeraruna Kavitha at the 63rd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control 2024 in Milan, Italy. The conference was held Monday through Thursday, December 16-19, 2024 at Allianz MiCo, Milan Convention Centre, Italy.
Title: Analysis of Large-Scale Networks
Venue: IEOR Seminar Room
Date and time: 26 December 2024 (Thursday), 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Abstract: Large-scale networks arise in many areas of operations research, for example, as models of call centers, wireless and wired communication networks and neural networks. In this talk I will provide a survey of some mathematical techniques that are useful for the performance of these networks. The talk will be aimed at undergraduate students.
Research scholars Kritika, Santosh, and Rishav from the Department of IEOR attended the 51st International Conference on Computers and Industrial Engineering (CIE51), organized at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. This event was held in collaboration with the Decision Sciences and Analytics Group at UNSW and the Centre for Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Resilience at the University of Adelaide from December 9 to 11, 2024. They presented their following respective works