Manu Kumar Gupta defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Dynamic Priority Scheduling in Multi-class Queues: Pricing, Achievable Regions and Applications" on 4th July 2016 at 11:30 am in LC-101 (Lecture Hall Complex).

The research was carried out under the supervision of Prof. J. Venkateswaran and Prof. N. Hemachandra.

Prof. Jayendran attended the 34th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society organized at TU Delft, Netherlands during July 17th - July 21, 2016. He also participated in the System Dynamics summer school held at TU Delft from July 13th - 15th, 2016.

Prof. Jayendran presented a paper on "Inventory Management in Response to an Unfolding Epidemic", and a poster on "Modeling New Product Diffusion under Uncertainty". Both were joint work with his doctoral student Siddhartha Paul.

Title: Mathematical Models for Analyzing Networks

Speaker: Pallavi Manohar

Time and Date: 10:30 am, Monday July 25

Venue: LC 201

Title: Generalized Envelope Theorems: Applications to Dynamic Programming

Speaker: Suchismita Tarafdar, Shiv Nadar University

Time and Date: 11:00 am, Tuesday July 12, 2016

Venue: LC 102