Tech-Connect is the annual technical exhibition held at IIT Bombay to showcase projects done by IIT-Bombay’s students and faculty. It aims to highlight the diverse contributions of IIT Bombay in the fields of operations research, healthcare, energy, defe
nce, wireless communication, information technology and material sciences.
Speaker: Akshay Gupte, PhD student, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech.
Date and Time: 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Venue: Room 217, Mechanical Engineering Building
Talk title: Lifted Inequalities for bilinear flow constrained sets
Abstract:
Prof N. Hemachandra conducted a session `Basics of MILPs' on 16th September, 2011, in the CEP course `Advanced Power System Analysis' for Researchers and Engineers from CDAC and Intel India. This CEP is conducted by Prof S. A. Soman, EE, at CDAC, Bangalore during 14--16, September, 2011.
Prof N. Hemachandra has presented an invited paper `Performance analysis of a delay dependent priority queue arising from a joint pricing and queue management model' at International Conference on Advances in Modeling, Optimization and Computing, AMOC-2011, conducted by Department of Mathematics, IIT Roorkee, 5--7 December, 2011. This is a joint work with Bharat Singh Raghav. He also chaired a session.
Title: An optimizer's approach to stochastic control problems with nonclassical information structure Speaker: Dr. Ankur Kulkarni Time and Date: 10am, 18/11/11 (Friday)
Mode: Skype based
Venue: HoD Conference Room, 1st Floor, Mechanical Engg. Abstract: We present a novel optimization based approach to the stochastic control problems with nonclassical information structures (in particular, for
Title: Stationary Performance of Continuous Polling Models and Risk Sensitive Control of Delay Tolerant Networks
Speaker: Dr. Veeraruna Kavitha
Time and Date: 11.30am, Wed. 16/11/11
Place: Room 217, Mechanical Engg. Building
Abstract:
Title: Mixed Integer Nonlinear Optimization: Algorithms and Software.
Speaker: Dr. Ashutosh Mahajan, Mathematics and Computer Sc. Division,
Argonne National Laboratory, USA.
Abstract:
Mixed Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) finds applications in a wide
variety of applications in science and engineering. These optimization
problems suffer from two difficulties: presence of integer variables that
are used to model on/off decisions or to represent discrete quantities, and
Dr. Jayendran Venkateswaran attended the 2nd International Conference on Services in Emerging Markets (ICSEM 2011) held during Sept 29th - Oct 1st 2011, at IIT Bombay, Mumbai, India. The conference was organized by Services Research & Innovation Institute (SRII) and SJM School of Management, IIT Bombay. He presented the paper on "Collaborative Services Provision in Production-Logistics Scheduling: A Coal Industry Example", co-authored with Mr. Anu Thomas, Dr. Gaurav Singh (CSIRO, Australia) and Dr.
Dr. R. Badri Narayan, General Manager (R and D), Centre for Railway Information Systems gave a talk on "CRIS: The IT Engine of Indian Railways" on 29th September, 2011.
The talk was about the kind of applications CRIS handles for the Indian Railways and the challenges involved in development and implementation. The last part of the talk was specifically about the time tabling software being developed currently and the issues that are sought to be addressed using this application.