Title: Paths to Stable Allocations
Speaker: Agnes Cseh
Venue: Room LC 102, Lecture Hall Complex
Time: 2:30 pm, Friday, February 27, 2015  

Prof. Ashwin Arulselvan from University of Starthclyde, UK, is giving a series of five lectures on obtaining convex hulls of integer linear programs as per the following schedule.

Lectures will be held on 16th (Mon), 19th (Thrs), 23rd (Mon), 26th (Thrs) and 2nd (Mon) during 3:30pm-4:30pm in LT 205, except for the one on 23rd (ME 217, 3:30pm). The lectures will cover the following topics.

Part 1: Lift and project technique and Balas' sequential convexification procedure to obtain convex hulls.

Title: Formation of Rank Structure through Self Interested Interaction
Speaker: Saish Nevrekar
Venue: Room LT 204, Lecture Hall Complex
Time: 11:30 am, Tuesday February 17, 2015  

Mr. Murugan Pugalenthi, General Manager, Johnson and Johnson Consumer Ltd. gave a talk on Feb 12th, on Operations Research & advanced analytics used to drive critical initiatives across a value chain to deliver profitable growth in the new channels. The announcement is available here.

Title: Completely mixed stochastic games

Speaker: Prof T. Parthasarathy, Chennai Mathematical Institute and Indian Statistical Institute, Chennai Center

Date: Wednesday, 11/02/2015
Time: 11:30am

Venue: ME 217

Prof. Hemachandra gave a talk in a colloquium organized by the Electrical Engineering department of IIT Bombay on 4th February. He talked about his joint work with IEOR students Kishor Patil and Sandhya Tripathi on the topic 'Why are some queues (not) in equilibrium?'

Title: A few Theoretical and Empirical Studies on Single and Multistage Warehouse Location Problems
Speaker: Dr. Pritee Agarwal, Galgotias University
Time: Wednesday, January 14,2015, 3:30 p.m.
Venue: Room 217, Mechanical Engg. Building