Past TOPS-OM Research Seminars

 2022–2023 Academic Year

Spring 2023:
Speaker/Affiliation Date/Time Room

Presentation Title

Yaron Shaposhnik (Rochester Simon)

September 13, 12:30-1:30 PM

 TBA TBA

Jeannette Song (Duke)

September 20, 12:30-1:30 PM

 TBA TBA

Jose Blanchet (Stanford)

October 4, 12:30-1:30 PM

 TBA TBA

Daniel Freund (MIT)

October 25, 12:30-1:30 PM

 TBA  TBA

Assaf Zeevi (Columbia)

November 8, 12:30-1:30 PM

 TBA  TBA

 

 

2019-2020 Academic Year
Fall 2019:
Ruomeng Cui
(Emory University)		 November 6, 2019
11:00-12:00pm		 KMC 5-80 Value of High-Quality Logistics: Evidence from a Clash between SF Express Alibaba
Hamsa Bastani
(University of Pennsylvania)		 November 13, 2019
11:00-12:00pm		 KMC 5-80 Transfer Learning: from Fast Fashion to Clinical Trials
Mor Harchol-Balter
(Carnegie Mellon University)		 November 22, 2019
10:00-11:00am		 KMC 4-90 New breakthroughs in scheduling theory
Peng Sun
(Duke University)		 December 4, 2019
11:00-12:00pm		 KMC 5-80 Optimal Monitoring Schedule in Dynamic Contracts

 

2018-2019 Academic Year
Spring 2019:
Shlomo Globerson
(Tel Aviv University)		 February 12, 2019
2:00-3:00pm		 KMC 4-90 Measuring productivity in a multi-stage, multi-product environment
Jay Swaminathan
(UNC)		 February 19, 2019
2:00-3:00pm		 KMC 4-90 Blockchain Adoption for Combating Deceptive Counterfeits 
Brad Staats
(UNC)		 March 5, 2019
2:00-3:00pm		 KMC 4-90 Task Selection and Workload: A Focus on Completeing Easy Tasks Hurts Performance 
Haresh Gurnani
(Wake Forest)		 March 26, 2019
2:00-3:00pm		 KMC 4-90 The Informational Role of Buyback Contracts
Damian Beil
(UMich)		 April 9, 2019
2:00-3:00pm		 KMC 4-90 The Role of Feedback in Dynamic Crowdsourcing Contests: A Structural Empirical Analysis
Fall 2018:
Speaker/Affiliation Date/Time Room Presentation Title
Hummy Song
(Wharton)		 October 2, 2018
10:30-11:30am		 KMC 4-90 Capacity Pooling in Hospitals: The Hidden Consequences of Off-Service Placement
Galit Yom-Tov
(Technion)		 October 9, 2018
11:00-12:00pm		 KMC 3-80 The Influence of Customer Emotions in Service Operations
Wedad Elmaghraby
(University of Maryland)		 November 13, 2018
11:00-12:00pm		 KMC 3-50 New Product Preferences: Decreasing Ambiguity Aversion via Contracts
Itai Gurvich
(Cornell Tech)		 December 11, 2018
11:00-12:00pm		 KMC 4-90 On the Taylor Expansion of Value Functions

 

2017-2018 Academic Year
Spring 2018:
Naveed Chehrazi
(University of Texas Austin)		 February 27, 2018 
11:00-12:00 pm 		 KMC 4-90 To Be Announced 
Antoine Desir
(Columbia) 		 March 20, 2018 
11:00-12:00 pm		 KMC 4-90 To Be Announced 
Kris Ferreira 
(Harvard Business School) 		 March 27, 2018
11:00-12:00 pm		 KMC 4-90 To Be Announced 
Karan Girotra 
(Cornell Tech) 		 April 3, 2018
11:00-12:00 pm		 KMC 3-80 To Be Announced 
Negin Golrezaei
(Google) 		 April 17, 2018
11:00-12:00 pm
 		 KMC 3-80 To Be Announced 
Morris Cohen
(University of Pennsylvania-Wharton) 		 April 24, 2018
11:00-12:00 pm
 		 KMC 4-90 To Be Announced 
Pinar Keskinocak 
(Georgia Tech) 		 May 1, 2018
11:00-12:00 pm 		 KMC 4-90 To Be Announced 
Fall 2017:
Speaker/Affiliation Date/Time Room Presentation Title
Izak Duenyas
(University of Michigan)		 September 27, 2017
10:00-11:00am		 TBA To Be Announced
Achal Bassamboo
(Northwestern University)		 October 4, 2017
10:00-11:00am		 TBA To Be Announced 
Sang Kim
(Yale University)		 October 18, 2017
10:00-11:00am		 TBA To Be Announced 
Leon Zhu
(University of Southern California)		 November 1, 2017
10:00-11:00am		 TBA To Be Announced 
Ruomeng Cui
(Emory University)		 November 15, 2017
10:00-11:00am		 TBA To Be Announced 
Pinar Keskinocak
(Georgia Institue of Technology)		 Rescheduled to Spring 2018 TBA To Be Announced 

 

2016-2017 Academic Year
Spring 2017:
Speaker/Affiliation Date/Time Room Presentation Title
Jacob Leshno
(Columbia University)		 February 1, 2017
11:00am-12:00pm		 3-120 "The Simple Structure of Top Trading Cycles in School Choice: A Fluid Model"
Juan Serpa
(McGill University)		 March 1, 2017
11:00am-12:00pm		 3-120 "Oversight and Efficiency in Public Projects: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis"
Baris Ata
(University of Chicago)		 March 22, 2017
11:00am-12:00pm		 KMC 3-120 "Dynamic Staffing of Volunteer Gleaning Operations" 
"Managing the Callback Option Under Arrival Rate Uncertainty"
"OrganJet: Overcoming Geographical Disparities in Access to Deceased Donor Kidneys in the United States"
Fuqiang Zhang
(Washington University)		 April 5, 2017
11:00am-12:00pm		 KMC 3-120 "3D Printing vs. Traditional Flexible Technology: Implications for Manufacturing Strategy"
Vikram Tiwari
(Vanderbilt University)   		 April 28, 2017
12:30pm-1:30pm		 KMC 8-170 To Be Announced
Karen Zheng 
(MIT)		 May 3, 2017
11:00am-12:00pm		 KMC 3-120 To Be Announced
Fall 2016:
Speaker/Affiliation Date/Time Room Presentation Title
Panos Kouvelis (Washington University) September 14, 2016 
10:00am-11:00am		 KMC 4-90 
 		 To Hedge or Not To Hedge: Contracts, Hedges and Volatile Commodity Prices
Dan Iancu
(Stanford University)		 September 21, 2016
10:00am-11:00am		 KMC 3-80 
 		 Dynamic Pricing under Debt: Spiraling Distortions and Efficiency Losses
Mohsen Bayati
(Stanford University) 		 September 30, 2016 
10:00am-11:00pm		 KMC 3-80 Online-Decision Making with High-dimensional Covariates
Adam Elmachtoub
(Columbia University) 		 October 5, 2016
10:00am-11:00am		 KMC 3-80 The Value of Opaque Products
Edieal Pinker
(Yale University)		 November 2, 2016
10:00am-11:00am		 KMC 3-80 Imminent Mortality Prediction for Advanced Cancer
Gah-Yi Ban
(London Business School)		 December 7, 2016
10:00am-11:00am		 KMC 2-80 The Data-Driven (s, S) Policy: Why You Can Have Confidence in Censored Demand Data
Nagesh Gavirneni (Cornell University)  December 14, 2016 
10:00am-11:00am		 KMC 3-80 Co-opetition in Services with Waiting-Area Entertainment 

 

2015-2016 Academic Year
Spring 2016:
Speaker/Affiliation Date/Time Room Presentation Title
Hamid Nazerzadeh
(USC)		 January 27, 2016
11:00am-12:00pm		 KMC 3-60 Deals or No Deals: Contract Design for Online Advertising
Rainer Kolisch
(TUM School of Management)		 February 3, 2016
11:00am-12:00pm		 KMC 3-60 Managing Patient Flow in Hospitals
Mohamed Mostagir
(University of Michigan)		 February 17, 2016
11:00am-12:00pm		 KMC 3-60 A Dynamic Model of Crowdfunding
Simone Marinesi
(Wharton)		 February 24, 2016
11:00am-12:00pm		 KMC 3-60 The Operational Advantages of Threshold Discounting Offers
Raj Rajagopalan
(USC)		 March 23, 2016
11:00am-12:00pm		 KMC 3-60 Serving Heterogeneous Buyers through Price and Effort Differentiation
Mahesh Nagarajan
(UBC Sauder)		 March 30, 2016
11:00am-12:00pm		 KMC 3-60 Approximation algorithms for Stochastic Inventory models: Two applications in industry
Serguei Netessine
(INSEAD)		 April 6, 2016
11:00am-12:00pm		 KMC 3-60 Business Models for Off-Grid Energy Access at the Bottom of the Pyramid
Patrick Jaillet
(MIT)		 April 20, 2016
11:00am-12:00pm		 KMC 3-60 Satisficing Awakens: Models to Mitigate Uncertainty
George Shanthikumar
(Purdue)		 April 27, 2016
11:00am-12:00pm		 KMC 3-60 Integrating Dynamic Pricing with Inventory Decisions under Lost Sales
Fall 2015:
Speaker/Affiliation Date/Time Room Presentation Title
Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi (Columbia) October 28th
10:00am-11:00am		 KMC 3-80 Supply Chain Disruptions: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake
Dana Popescu (INSEAD) November 11th
10:00am-11:00am		 KMC 3-80 Repricing Algorithms in E-Commerce
Andreea Minca
(Cornell)		 November 20th
10:00am-11:00am		 KMC 3-80 Inhomogeneous Financial Networks and Contagious Links

 

2014-2015 Academic Year
Spring 2015
Speaker/Affiliation Date/Time Room Presentation Title
Aharon Ben-Tal (Technion) February 11th
11:00am - 12:00pm		 KMC 3-120 Some Remedies for Some Intractable Optimization Problems
Gad Allon (Northwestern) March 9th
11:00am - 12:00pm		 KMC 4-110 Managing Service Systems in the Presence of Social Networks
Vishal Gaur
(Cornell)		 April 15th
11:00am - 12:00pm		 KMC 3-50 Operational investment and capital structure under asset-based lending
Kostas Bimpikis
(Stanford)		 April 22nd
11:00am - 12:00pm		 KMC 4-110 Designing Dynamic Contests
Anton Ovchinnikov (Queens School of Business) April 29th
11:00am - 12:00pm		 KMC 4-110 Strategic Consumers, Revenue Management and the Design of Loyalty Programs
Vasiliki Kostami
(London Business School)		 May 6th
11:00am - 12:00pm		 KMC 4-110 Pricing and Capacity Allocation for Shared Services
Fall 2014
Speaker/Affiliation Date/Time Room Presentation Title
Yash Kanoria
(Columbia)		 *Moved to September 10* 
9:30-10:30am		 KMC 4-80 Unbalanced random matching markets
Nagesh Gavirneni (Cornell) September 24 
9:30-10:30am		 KMC 4-80 Self-Selecting Priority Queues with Burr Distributed Waiting Costs
Tolga Tezcan
(Rochester)		 October 8 
9:30-10:30am		 KMC 4-80 Determining the Optimal Configuration of Hospital Inpatient Rooms in the Presence of Isolation Patients
Paat Rusmevichientong (USC) October 15 
9:30-10:30am		 KMC 4-80 The d-Level Nested Logit Model
David Simchi-Levi
(MIT)		 December 10 
9:30-10:30am		 KMC 4-80 Online Revenue Management

 

2013-2014 Academic Year
Spring 2014
Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held on Wednesdays from 11am-12pm in KMC 3-60.
Kamalini Ramdas
London Business School		 February 6th *Thursday, 1:00pm in KMC 4-110* New Joints More Hip? Learning in the Use of New Components
John Birge
Chicago Booth		 February 26th Supply chain network structure and the role of financing
Pavel Shevchenko
CSIRO		 March 24th *Monday, 12:30pm in KMC 8-170* Loss Distribution Approach for Operational Risk Capital Modelling
Chung Piaw Teo
National University of Singapore		 April 2nd Dynamic Inventory Pooling Policies to Deliver Differentiated Service
Itai Ashlagi
MIT		 April 9th Optimal allocation design without transfers
Jan Van Mieghem
Northwestern		 April 23rd Global Dual Sourcing
Georgia Perakis
MIT		 May 5th *Monday, 12:30pm in KMC 8-170* The Impact of Linear Optimization on Promotion Planning
Steve Graves
MIT		 May 7th Mitigating Spillover and Whiplash in Online Retailing via Replenishment

Fall 2013
Speaker and Affiliation Date Title and Abstract
Vineet Goyal
Columbia		 September 11th A Markov Chain Approximation for Choice Modeling
Tauhid Zaman
MIT		 September 25th Predictive Models of Retweeting in Twitter
Richard Larson
MIT		 October 16th Education as a Complex Service System
Sheldon Ross
USC		 October 30th Dynamic Models for Selling Multiple Items
Diwakar Gupta
UMN		 November 6th On Improving Operating Room Schedules
Li Chen
Duke		 November 20th Ethical Sourcing in Emerging Economies
Hyoduk Shin
UCSD		 December 4th Inclusive Innovation: Broader Market Coverage for Innovative Products with Deliberate Supply Chain Leadership
Christian Terwiesch
Wharton		 December 13th, 2-3pm  Patient Portals in Primary Care: Impacts on Patient Health and Physician Productivity

 

Spring 2011

Speaker

Date

Time/
Location

Title
Feryal Erhun
Stanford		 Wednesday, March 2nd 12:00pm-1:30pm
KMC 4-110		 Contract Complexity and Performance under Asymmetric Demand Information:
An Experimental Evaluation
Itai Ashlagi
MIT		 Wednesday, March 23rd 12:00pm-1:30pm
KMC 4-120		 Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney
Exchange
Murad Taqqu
Boston Univ.		 Friday,
March 25th		 11:30-
12:30
Tisch LC-21		 Technique for computing the PDFs and CDFs of non-negative infinitely divisible random variables
**This is a joint IOMS-Operations Management and IOMS-Statistics seminar.**
Mehmet Begen
Univ. of
Western Ontario		 Wednesday, April 6th 12:00pm-1:30pm
KMC 5-90		 Appointment Scheduling with Discrete Random Durations and Applications
Vivek Farias
MIT		 Wednesday, April 13th 10:00am-11:30am
KMC 4-110		 Dynamic Allocation with
Volatile Demand
Garud Iyengar
Columbia		 FRIDAY,
April 22nd		 10:00am-11:30am
KMC 4-110		 Inequality and Network Structure
Yossi Aviv
Washington Univ.
in St. Louis		 Wednesday, May 11th 11:00am-12:30pm
KMC 5-75		 Recent Research on Strategic Consumer Behavior in Dynamic Pricing Systems

 

Fall 2010

Speaker

Date

Time/
Location

Title

A. Gurhan Kok
Duke

Thursday,
September 16th

12:00-1:30,
KMC 4-110


Dynamic Assortment Customization with Limited Inventories

Jose Correa
University of Chile

Tuesday,
September 21st

12:00-1:30,
KMC 4-110

Optimal targeting of customers for a last-minute sale

Ben Melamed
Rutgers

Thursday,
October 14th

12:00-1:30,
KMC 2-80

Optimization of Make-To-Stock Production-Inventory Systems
Via Infinitesimal Perturbation Analysis (IPA)

Ciamac Moallemi
Columbia

Wednesday,
October 20th

12:00-1:30,
KMC 5-90

Topics in Market Microstructure and Optimal Trade Execution

Noah Gans
Wharton

Wednesday,
October 27th

2:00-3:30,
KMC 5-75

Accounting for Arrival-Rate Uncertainty in Call-Center Scheduling

Ioana Popescu
INSEAD

 Thursday, November 11th

11:00am-12:30pm,
KMC 4-110

Managing Satisfaction in Relationships Over Time
Adam Mersereau
Univ. of
North Carolina

Thursday,
November 18th

12:00-1:30,
KMC 4-120

Dynamic Capacity Allocation to Customers Who
Remember Past Service

Yi Xu
Univ. of
Maryland

Thursday,
December 2nd

12:00-1:30,
KMC 4-120

Optimal and Competitive Assortments with Endogenous Pricing Under Hierarchical Consumer Choice Models

Beril Toktay
Georgia Tech

Thursday,
December 9th

12:00-1:30,
KMC 4-120

Is Leasing Greener than Selling?

 

SPRING 2010

SPEAKER

DATE

TIME/
LOCATION

TITLE
Tunay Tunca
Stanford
Monday,
February 15th		 12:30-2pm
KMC 5-85		 An Empirical Analysis of Price, Quality, and Incumbency in Online Service Procurement Auctions (joint work with DJ Wu and Vivian Zhong)
This is a joint seminar with IOMS-Information Systems.

Gad Allon
Northwestern

Thursday, March 4th

12:30-2pm,
KMC 5-75


"We Will Be Right With You:" Managing Customers' Expectations With
Vague Promises and Cheap Talk
Baris Ata
Northwestern

Thursday, March 25th

 12:30-2pm
KMC 3-60		 A Broader View of Designing the Liver Allocation System

Gerard Cachon
Wharton

Thursday,
April 1st

12:30-2pm,
KMC 5-75

 The Cost of Carbon and Supply Chain Design

Michael Trick
Carnegie Mellon

Friday,
April 2nd


10:30am-12pm,
KMC 5-75
Adventures in Sports Scheduling
Candace Yano
UC Berkeley

Thursday,
April 22nd

12:30-2pm,
KMC 5-75

 Pareto-Improving Manufacturer Pricing Policies when Retailers Offer
Discounts and Consumers Stockpile

Dimitris Bertsimas
MIT

Thursday,
April 29th

12:30-2pm,
KMC 5-75

Advances in multistage stochastic optimization

FALL 2009

SPEAKER

DATE

TIME/
LOCATION

TITLE

Christopher Tang
UCLA

Thursday,
September 24

12:30-2pm,
KMC 3-80

Project Management Contracts with Delayed Payments

Edieal Pinker
University of Rochester

Thursday,
October 22

12:30-2pm,
KMC 3-80

Division of Labor in Medical Office Practices

Andreas Schulz
MIT

Thursday,
October 29

12:30-2pm,
KMC 3-80

Order Scheduling: Inapproximability Results and Approximation Algorithms

Gad Allon
Northwestern

RESCHEDULED
Thursday,
November 5

12:30-2pm,
KMC 3-80

"We Will Be Right With You:" Managing Customers' Expectations With Vague Promises and Cheap Talk
***This seminar has been rescheduled for March 4th, 2010.***

Marshall Fisher
Wharton

Thursday,
November 19

12:30-2pm,
KMC 3-80

 Retail Assortment Optimization
Soulaymane Kachani
Columbia

Thursday,
December 3

12:30-2pm,
KMC 3-80

Joint Pricing, Innovation, and Product Introduction Strategies under Consumer Reference-Price Effects

Francis de Vericourt
European School of Management and Technology

 Thursday, December 10

 

12:30-2pm,
KMC 3-80

 

Diagonostic Services Under Congestion

SPRING 2009

SPEAKER

DATE

TIME/
LOCATION

TITLE

Gideon Weiss
University of Haifa

Friday
February 6

10:30 am,
KMC 5-80

Infinite Virtual Queues (IVQ) and the Control of Multi Class Queueing Networks (MCQN)

Martin A Lariviere
Northwestern University

 Thursday
March 12		 10:30 am, KMC 3-80 Saving Seats for Strategic Customers

Uriel Rothblum
Israel Institute of Technology

Thursday
March 26

10:30 am, KMC 3-80

 Partition problems: Optimality and Clustering

Robert Shumsky
Dartmouth

Thursday
April 2

10:30 am, KMC 3-80

Revenue Management in Airline Alliances
Paul Zipkin
Duke University		 Friday
May 1

10:30 am, KMC 5-85

 Quality Snags in the Mortgage-Finance Supply Chain

FALL 2008

SPEAKER

DATE

TIME/
LOCATION

TITLE

Sergei Savin
Columbia University

Friday
September 19

10:30 am,
KMC 5-85

Reducing Delays for Medical Appointments

Xiuli Chao
University of Michigan

Friday
September 26

10:30 am,
KMC 5-85

Optimal Control of Remanufacturing Inventory Systems With Multiple Types of Return

Felipe Caro
UCLA

Friday
October 3

10:30 am,
KMC 5-85

Understanding the Competitive Advantage of Fast Fashion Retailers

Hao Zhang
University of Southern California

Friday
October 17

10:30 am,
KMC 5-85

Dynamic Adverse Selection: Models, Methods and Results

Ramandeep Randhawa University of Texas at Austin

Friday
October 31

10:30 am,
KMC 5-85

 A Little Flexibility is All You Need: Optimality of Tailored Chaining and Pairing

Nicola Secomandi
Carnegie Mellon University

Friday
November 7

10:30 am,
KMC 5-85

An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach to Benchmark Practice-based Heuristics for Natural Gas Storage Valuation

Haipeng Shen
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Friday
November 21

10:30 am,
KMC 5-85

 Workforce Management for Labor-Intensive Service Systems through the Statistics Lens

Bill Cooper
University of Minnesota

Friday
December 5

10:30 am,
KMC 5-85

 Demand Estimation and Pricing with Models that do not Explicitly Account for Competition

Garrett J van Ryzin
Columbia University

Friday
December 12

10:30 am,
KMC 5-85

 Estimating primary demand for substitutable products from sales transaction data

FALL 2007

SPEAKER

DATE

TIME/
LOCATION

TITLE

Ken Kortanek
University of Iowa

Friday
September 7th

10:30 am
KMC 5-80

Optimization Technique for Extracting a Forward
Rate Function from Coupon-Paying
Financial Instruments

**Joint talk with IOMS-Statistics

Rakesh Vohra
Kellogg School of
Management

Friday
September 14th

10:30 am
KMC 5-80

Testing Forecasts

 

Xuanming Su
UC Berkeley

Friday
September 28th

10:30 am
KMC 5-80

Bounded Rationality in Newsvendor Models

Amy Ward
University of Southern
California

Friday
October 5th

10:30 am
KMC 5-80

A Single-Server System with In-line
and Off-line Waiting, Generalized Processor Sharing,
and Abandonments

Victor DeMiguel
London Business School

Friday
October 12th

10:30 am
KMC 5-80

A Stochastic Multiple Leader Stackelberg Model:
Analysis, Computation, and Application

Sergio Chayet
Washington University

Friday
October 26th

10:30 am
KMC 5-80

Product Variety and Congested Production Systems:
Capacity Investments and Vertical Differentiation

Peng Sun
Duke University

Friday
November 9th

10:30 am
KMC 5-80

Information Relaxations and Duality in
Stochastic Dynamic Programs

Serguei Netessine
U. Penn Wharton

Friday
November 16th

10:30 am
KMC 5-80

Revenue Management with Strategic Customers:
Last-Minute Selling and Opaque Selling

Nicholas Hall
Ohio State University

Friday
November 30th

10:30 am
KMC 5-80

Capacity Allocation and Scheduling in Supply Chains

Avishai Mandelbaum
Technion

Monday
December 3rd

12:30 pm
KMC 5-80

Simple Models at the Service of Complex Realities

Gabriel Weintraub
Columbia University

Friday
December 7th

10:30 am
KMC 5-80

Approximations for Markov Perfect Industry Dynamics

Philippe Baptiste
The Ecole Polytechnique

Friday
December 14th

10:30 am
KMC 5-80

On Scheduling a Multifunction Radar:
Models and Algorithms

SPRING 2007
SPEAKER DATE TIME/ LOCATION TITLE
Uriel Rothblum Technion Friday, March 2nd 10:30 am,
KMC 5-85		 Risk-Sensitive and Risk-Neutral
Multi-Armed Bandits
Maria Polukarov Technion Friday, March 9th 10:30 am,
KMC 5-85		 Congestion Games with
(Load-Dependent) Failures
Timothy Laseter University of Virginia Thursday, April 5th 12:00 pm,
KMC 5-80		 Internet Retailing Research and The Long Tail
David Simchi-Levi MIT Friday, April 6th 10:30 am,
KMC 5-85		 An Axiomatic Approach for Product Variety
Senthil Veeraraghavan U. Penn Wharton Friday, April 13th 10:30 am,
KMC 5-85		 Models of Customer Herding Behavior
in Choosing Services
Greys Sosic USC Friday, April 20th 10:30 am,
KMC 5-85		 Stable Inventory-Sharing Alliances

 

FALL 2006
SPEAKER DATE TIME/ LOCATION TITLE
Jan Van Mieghem Northwestern Friday, September 15th 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 Risk Management and Operational Hedging Paper
Kevin Shang Duke Friday, October 6th 10:30 am KMC 5-85 Analysis of Serial Inventory Systems
with Batch Ordering and
Nested Replenishment Schedule
Noah Gans UPenn Wharton Friday, October 13th 10:30 am KMC 5-85 Simple Models of Discrete Choice
and Their Performance Bandit Experiments Paper
Jeannette Song Duke Friday, October 20th 10:30 am KMC 5-85 Bricks and Mortar vs. Clicks and Mortar –
An Equilibrium Analysis
Gerard Cachon UPenn Wharton Friday, October 27th 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 Purchasing and Pricing in the Presence
of Strategic Consumers Paper
Terry Taylor Columbia Friday, November 3rd 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 Incentives for Retailer Forecasting:
Rebates versus Returns
Paper
Jay Sethuraman Columbia Friday, November 10th 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 Online Buffer Management in QoS Switches
Tim Huh Columbia Friday, November 17th 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 A Non-Parametric Data-Driven Approach to
Inventory Planning and Revenue Management
Stephen Graves MIT Friday, December 1st 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 The Benefits of Re-evaluating
Real Time Fulfillment Decisions
Anton Kleywegt Georgia Tech Friday, December 8th 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 Pricing Dynamics of Competitors With
Imperfect Models of Competition

 

SPRING 2006
SPEAKER DATE TIME/ LOCATION TITLE
Li Chen Stanford University Friday, March 24th 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 Dynamic Inventory Management with Learning about the Demand
Distribution and Substitution Probability Paper
Georgia Perakis MIT Friday, March 31st 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 Multi-Period Pricing of Perishable Products: Competition, Uncertainty and Learning and Substitution Probability
Yao Zhao Rutgers University Friday, April 7th 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 Analysis and Evaluation of Assemble-to-Order Systems with Stochastic Sequential Lead-Times
Costis Maglaras Columbia University Friday, April 21st 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 Economics of Queues
Yigal Gerchak Tel Aviv University Monday, April 24th 12:30 pm, KMC 5-80 Inventory Centralization when Shortage Costs Differ: Priorities and Costs Allocation
Roy Radner NYU Stern School Friday, April 28th 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 Self-enforcing Climate-Change Treaties Paper

FALL 2005
SPEAKER DATE TIME/ LOCATION TITLE
Xin Chen U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Tuesday, August 9th 2:30 pm, KMC 5-80 A Robust Optimization Perspective of Stochastic Programming
Retsef Levi IBM Friday, September 16th 2:30 pm KMC 5-80 Provably Near-Optimal Sampling-Based Policies
for Stochastic Inventory Control Models
Peter Glynn Stanford Monday, September 19th 12:25 pm, KMC 5-85 Modeling Issues for Queues
Peter Glynn Stanford Friday, September 23rd 2:30 pm, KMC 5-80 Distributed Algorithms in the Mean Field Limit
Larry Robinson Cornell Friday, September 30th 2:30 pm, KMC 5-80 Improved Base-Stock Approximations for Independent Stochastic Lead Times with Order Crossover Paper
John Birge U. Chicago Friday, October 7th 10:30 am, KMC 5-90 Operational Decisions, Capital Structure, and Managerial Compensation Paper
Kevin Ross UC Santa Cruz Friday, October 28th 10:30 am, KMC 5-90 Resource Allocation and Optimization in Service Networks
William Cooper University of Minnesota Friday, November 4th 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 Dynamic Forecasting and Optimization with Modeling Error: The Spiral-Down Effect in Revenue Management Paper
Andres Weintraub University of Chile Friday, November 18th 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 Vehicle Routing with Fixed and Uncertain Repair Times
Daniel Corsten University of St. Gallen Monday, November 21st 12:30 pm, KMC 8-170 Do Suppliers Benefit from Collaborative Relationships
with Large Retailers?: An Empirical Investigation of ECR Adoption Paper
Vinod Singhal Georgia Tech Friday, December 2nd 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 Excess Inventory and Long-Term Stock Price Performance Paper Presentation
Tava Olsen Washington U., St. Louis Friday, December 9th 10:30 am, 5-85 Service Level Agreements in Call Centers: Perils and Prescriptions Paper


Seminars before 2005