Title: Efficient Algorithms for a class of Saddle-Point Optimization Problems.

Speaker: Dr. P. Balamurugan, SIERRA Project Team, INRIA-Ecole Normale Superieure.

Time: 10:30am, Tuesday, 25/10/16.

Venue: IEOR Teaching Lab, Ground floor, IEOR Bldg.

IEOR had visitors from Mercedes Benz Research and Development India - MBRDI Bengaluru, which is part of Daimler Mercedes Benz worldwide, on 6 October, 2016.  Mr Satheeskaran Navaratnam (Vice President, IT and Engineering Services at MBRDI) and Mr Tilak Raj Singh (Senior Data Scientist at MBRDI - and also a research scholar at IEOR) gave a talk on "IT @ MBRDI : Data - the new Oil", and had discussions with students and faculty.  The visit is expected to lead to further interaction between MBRDI and IEOR@IIT B.

IEOR students and faculty participated in OR2016 – Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society at Helmut Schmdit University, Hamburg, Germany during 30 Aug - 02 Sep 2016.

Tilak Raj Singh, a research scholar, presented a paper on "Optimization models for vehicle planning in the pre-production phase".

Shripad Salsingikar, a research scholar, presented a paper on "Freight train routing and scheduling in a large railway network" co-authored with Prof N. Rangaraj.

Title: Mixed-Integer PDE-Constrained Optimization

Speaker: Dr. Sven Leyffer. Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Lab, Chicago, USA

Time: 10:30am, Monday, 26/09/16

Venue: IEOR Teaching Lab, Ground Floor, IEOR Building (please note the venue)

Title: Economics and Computation

Speaker: Dr. Swaprava Nath, Fulbright-Nehru Post-doctoral Fellow, Carnegie Mellon University

Time and Date: 10:30am, Thursday, 22/09/16

Venue: IEOR Seminar Hall, 2nd floor, IEOR Building