51st Convocation of IIT Bombay was held on August 10, 2013 at Convocation Hall, IIT Bombay.
Mr. Deepak Singh, M.Tech. IEOR, Class of 2013, received "Institute Silver Medal" for the year 2012-13.
The Australian Society For Operations Research (ASOR), Melbourne Chapter, organized a one day conference with the topic "Recent Advances in OR 2013" on July 17, 2013. The conference was held at RMIT Melbourne, Australia, with an aim to give members the opportunity to exchange ideas and promote growth and activity in the OR community.
Election for the Post of CR for M.Tech. 2013
Interested students of IEOR M.Tech 2013 batch can apply and upload their manifesto below, for the post of CR for their batch.
Title: Searching And Bargaining With Middlemen
Speaker: Prof. Vijay Subramaniam, Northwestern University.
Date and Time : 26th July, 2013, 2-30 - 3.30 PM
Venue: ME 217, Mechanical Engineering.
Prof Narayan Rangaraj visited University of Goettingen (Georg August Universitaet, Goettingen) from July 8-12, 2013. He visited the research group of Prof Anita Schoebel (Institute for Numerical and Applied Mathematics) and gave a talk on "Optimization Problems in Production Planning and Supply Chain Management" based on work done with students and colleagues at IIT Bombay.
Prof Narayan Rangaraj attended the EURO 2013 conference in Rome, Italy from July 1-4, 2013 and presented a talk "Timetabling for Suburban Rail Services in India", work co-authored with Abhiram Ranade, Devendra Shelar, Peeyush Gupta and R.Gopalakrishnan.
Title: Ensembles of Adaptive One-Factor-at-a-time Experiments: Methods, Evaluation, and Theory
Speaker: Dr. Nandan Sudarsanam, Quantitative Researcher, Rackson Asset Management
Time and Date: 3:30 p.m., Tuesday July 16 2013
Venue: Room 208, Mechanical Engineering
Speaker: Vinod Cheriyan, Georgia Tech.
Date and Time: 11:30 am, Friday July 12, 2013
Venue: Room 217, Mechanical Engineering
Abstract:
Asset price bubbles have been observed in experimental markets.
However, in most of these studies the supply and demand of assets are
specified exogenously. Also, their finite duration causes end of the
horizon effects. In this work, we design an experimental market with
endogenous supply and demand, and random duration. We show that asset