Speaker: Dinesh Seth, College of Engineering, Qatar University

Title: Value stream mapping for lean operations and cycle time reduction

Date and time: 11 December 2018, 11 a.m.

Venue: Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, IEOR building

Name: Mr. Siddhartha Paul, Roll No. 10i19007, (Teaching Assistantship category)

Department: Industrial Engineering and Operations Research

Ph.D. Supervisor: Prof. J. Venkateswaran

Venue and Time: Friday, 30-11-2018 at 11.00 A.M. in IEOR Seminar Room.

Title of Thesis: "Medicine Supply Chain Management in Response to an Infectious Disease Outbreak".

Title : Bayesian Deep Learning with Gaussian Processes

Venue: IEOR Seminar Hall (2nd floor)

Date: 14th November 2018

Time: 3.00 pm to 4.30 pm
 

Prof. Jayendran attended the Sustainability and Development Conference organized at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, on November 9th-11th, 2018. He presented the paper "Does involvement of local community ensure sustained energy access? A critical review of a solar PV technology intervention in rural India", co-authored with Lalita Joshi (SoULS), Deepak Choudhary (SoULS), Praveen Kumar (Boston College), and Chetan Solanki (DESE).  

Prof. Jayendran V gave an invited talk at the 24th Innovation Conference on "Innovation and Inclusive Growth", conducted by and held at Ahmedabad Managament Association (AMA), Ahmedabad on 6th October 2018.  The topic of his talk was on "Sustaining Solar Energy Access through Localisation", which was based on the SoULS project

Title: New concepts in robust optimization

Speaker: Anita Schöbel

Date and Time: 15 November 2018, 10.30 a.m.

Venue: IEOR Seminar Room (Second floor)

Abstract: Most real-world optimization problems contain parameters which are not known at the time a decision is to be made. In robust optimization one specifies the uncertainty in a scenario set and tries to hedge against the worst case.

Title: Distributionally Robust Optimization: Expectation Shortfall and k-sum problem

Speaker: Dr. Anulekha Dhara, Research Fellow at University of Michigan

Venue: Seminar Room, IEOR (2nd floor)

Time and Date: 11:30 am, 9th October