The 2018 issue of the annual departmental magazine Optimystic was released by IEOR head Prof. Narayan Rangaraj, Dean (R&D) Prof. P.V. Balaji and Prof. N. Hemachandra on the occasion of IEOR Day 2018. During the occasion, Prof. Rangaraj noted that the first edition was launched in 2014, and commended the efforts of the students in resurrecting the magazine. He also hoped that the magazine would be a regular feature of IEOR and become an avenue for showcasing students' literary and research works.

The magazine can be accessed by following the link below:

Umakanta Pattanayak defended his Ph.D. thesis, titled "Geometry of Mixed Integer Hulls of Convex Sets" on Friday, 4 May, 2018.  

Title: Renewable Energy Aggregation: A Coalitional Game Theory Approach

Speaker: Pratyush Chakraborty, UC Berkeley

Time: 11:30 am, Thursday April 12

Venue: Room 011 (Teaching Lab, Ground Floor), IEOR Bldg.

Ph.D. student Nora Estgfäller from the Department of Civil Engineering, Monash University is visiting IEOR at IIT Bombay from 16 March to 22 March, 2018 on a mobility grant from her university.  She works in public transit issues (bus network design) in the group of Prof Graham Currie at Monash University.