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
The IEOR office, offices of all IEOR faculty members and student laboratories have shifted to the new IEOR building which is located beside Biosciences and Bioengineering building behind Lecture Hall Complex 3.
The IEOR office is located in Room 105 (on first floor), offices of the faculty members are located on the first and second floors, and students laboratories are located on the second and third floors of the IEOR building. The phone numbers of all the offices remain unchanged.
An orientation session for newly-admitted students was conducted by IEOR Students Association (IEORSA). M.Tech and PhD students had their orientation on 15th July 2016 from 2:30-5:00pm and MSc-PhD dual degree students had theirs on 16th July 2016 from 3:00-5:00pm.
A farewell function was organised by the IEOR Students Association for the 2016 passing-out batch of M.Tech and PhD students on 23 June 2016. IEOR faculty members joined in to spend some time with them. Vinay Rai, general secretary of IEORSA, was the presenter for the evening.
The graduating students introduced themselves briefly, shared their experiences in IEOR and on campus, and shared their future plans. They were then presented with gifts by the faculty members. The faculty members shared their thoughts and blessed the outgoing batch with their advice.
IEOR students participated in "SPJIMR-POMS India Chapter Conference on Big Data Analytics for Optimising Supply Chains", at S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Mumbai during 29-30 July. 2016.
Siddhartha Paul, a research scholar, presented a paper on "Studying Bullwhip Effect in Supply Chain: A System Dynamics Approach" co-authored with Prof Debabrata Das (IIM Kashipur).
Manu Kumar Gupta defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Dynamic Priority Scheduling in Multi-class Queues: Pricing, Achievable Regions and Applications" on 4th July 2016 at 11:30 am in LC-101 (Lecture Hall Complex).
The research was carried out under the supervision of Prof. J. Venkateswaran and Prof. N. Hemachandra.
