Ms. Tejas Ghorpade presented her paper on, "Rolling Horizon Models for Inter-Depot Empty Container Repositioning" at the Winter Simulation Conference, 2019 held in National Harbor, Maryland from 8^th to 11^th December 2019. This is joint work with Prof. Narayan Rangaraj.  This work defines the Inter-depot Empty Container Repositioning Problem and proposes a heuristic real-time decision model to address it.  The heuristic is based on Node-wise Decomposition of a Approximate Dynamic Programming based Value Approximation Model.

IEOR students and faculty participated in the annual conference of the Society of Operations Management 2019 at IIT Kanpur from 20-21 December, 2019.

Mallikarjuna Reddy P (Demand Forecasting and end to end supply chain optimization in tractor manufacturing industry), Ratnesh Srivastava (Industrial engineering application in production unit) and Praneeth Akonda (Industry implementable part launch sequence optimization) presented papers at the conference and Jayendran Venkateswaran also attended.

IEOR had a strong presence in ORSI-2019, the annual convention of the Operational Research Society of India, held at IIM Ahmedabad from 15-18 December 2019.

Firstly, Ashutosh Mahajan, Prashant Palkar, Meenarli Sharma and Mustafa Vora conducted a pre-conference workshop on the Minotaur software suite, for Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimization problems.

Title: Solutions to optimization problems with a continuum of variables/constraints in auction settings

Speaker: Dr. D. Thirumalanathan

Time and Date: 10 am-11 am, 21st November 2019 (Thursday)

Venue: IEOR Teaching lab (Ground floor, IEOR Building)

Title: Quantum Embedding of Knowledge for Machine Reasoning

Speaker: Dr. Dinesh Garg, AI Reasoning, IBM Research, Bengaluru

Time and Date: 3:30 PM to 4.30 PM, on 28th November 2019 (Thursday)

Venue: IEOR Seminar Room (2nd Floor, IEOR Building)

Title: New Results in Distributed and Combinatorial Optimization Problems in Network Systems

Speaker: Dr. Mayank Baranwal, Post-Doctoral Scholar, Department of EECS, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Time and Date: 10 AM to 11 AM, 29th November, 2019  

Venue: IEOR Seminar Room (2nd Floor, IEOR Building)

Ms. Puja Sahu presented her work, "Optimal PAC-Bayesian Posteriors for Stochastic Classifiers and their use for Choice of SVM Regularization Parameter" at the Eleventh Asian Conference on Machine Learning (ACML 2019) held in Nagoya, Japan, from 17th to 19th November 2019. This is a joint work with Prof. N. Hemachandra. Originating in the Asia-Pacific Region, ACML aims at providing a leading international forum for researchers in machine learning and related fields to share their original research findings ,new ideas and achievements.