Title: On Network Design with Stochastic Arc Capacities.
Speaker: Avinash Bhardwaj, UC Berkeley

Time and date: 3:00 pm, Friday Jan 17 2014
Venue: Room 217, Mechanical Engineering

Abstract:
In this work, we present robust models to determine minimum cost network setup(s) while considering
a fixed charge network flow problem with particular attention to the stochastic nature of the arc
capacities. We study the associated submodular knapsack constraint set and derive strong valid

TechConnect is a platform in the Techfest at IIT Bombay, where all the departments get a chance to showcase their research and academic projects. Some of the projects from IEOR which were at display this year are:

IEOR students attended XVII Annual International Conference of Society of Operations Management (SOM) organized at Indian Institute of Technology Madras - Research Park, Chennai on December 20-22, 2013.

Tilak Raj Singh, a research scholar presented a paper on " Managing product variety through customer choice modlling ", a joint work with Prof. Narayan Rangaraj.

IEOR students attended workshop on high dimensional network analytics organised jointly by Department of Computer Science and Automation, IISc and IBM india research labs on December 16-19, 2013.

Title: Correlated Equilibria- Existence and some Properties for Bimatrix Games
Speaker: T.E.S. Raghavan, University of Illinois at Chicago
Date and Time: Friday 3 January 2014, 3:00 pm
Venue: Room 217, Mechanical Engineering

Abstract:

Prof. Veeraruna Kavitha presented on "Interactions between random walk and Poisson process", joint work with Debayan and Kaushal.

Title:   Algorithms for Variational Inequalities and Solvers for Quadratic Programming
Speaker: Aswin Kannan, Penn. State University
Time:    3pm, 6/12/2013 (Friday)
Venue:   LCC 11, Lecture Hall Complex

Abstract: This talk will focus on three different classes of problems arising in generic optimization 
settings. In the first part of the talk, we consider a class of monotone variational inequality problems. 

Title:   Analysis of MILP techniques for the Pooling Problem
Speaker: Santanu Dey, Georgia Institute of Technology
Time:    3pm, 5/12/2013 (Thursday)
Venue:   LCC 11, Lecture Hall Complex

Abstract: The pooling problem is a challenging non-convex optimization problem that is motivated by 
refinery processes in the petroleum industry, and also finds application in other areas such as waste water