## Past TOPS-OM Research Seminars

## 2025–2026 Academic Year

## <a class="ck-anchor" id="OM">Operations Management</a>

Fall 2025**Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Room****Presentation Title**Ken Moon
(Cornell University)September 18th, 1:00 PMKMC 5-80(Machine) Learning Preferences from Complex Choice Sets: An Application to Service NetworksOpher Baron
(University of Toronto)October 9th, 2:15 PMKMC 2-60Queueing Analytics: Machine Learning, Causal Queueing, and SiMLQ for Data Driven SimulationThodoris Lykouris
(MIT)October 23rd, 1:00 PMKMC 4-90Scheduling with Uncertain Holding Costs and its Application to Content ModerationSeyed Emadi
(University of North Carolina)November 13th, 1:00 PMKMC 3-130TBASebastien Martin
(Northwestern University)December 11th, 1:00PMKMC 4-90TBA

## 2024-2025 Academic Year

Fall 2024**Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Room****Presentation Title**Mohsen Bayati (Stanford)September 25th, 1:30 PMKMC 3-80Causal Message Passing: A Method for Experiments with Unknown and General Network InterferenceHongseok Namkoong (Columbia)October 9th, 1:30 PMTBATBALawrence Wein (Stanford)October 30th, 1:30 PMTBAAnalysis of the genealogy process in forensic investigative genetic genealogyNicole Immorlica (Microsoft Research)November 20th, 1:30 PMTBATBA

## 2022–2023 Academic Year

**Spring 2023:****Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Room****Presentation Title** Yaron Shaposhnik (Rochester Simon)

September 13, 12:30-1:30 PMTBATBAJeannette Song (Duke)September 20, 12:30-1:30 PMTBATBAJose Blanchet (Stanford)October 4, 12:30-1:30 PMTBATBADaniel Freund (MIT)October 25, 12:30-1:30 PMTBA TBAAssaf Zeevi (Columbia)November 8, 12:30-1:30 PMTBA TBA

## 2019-2020 Academic Year

**Fall 2019:**[Ruomeng Cui](https://goizueta.emory.edu/faculty/profiles/ruomeng-cui)
(Emory University)November 6, 2019
11:00-12:00pmKMC 5-80*Value of High-Quality Logistics: Evidence from a Clash between SF Express Alibaba*[Hamsa Bastani](https://oid.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/hamsab/)
(University of Pennsylvania)November 13, 2019
11:00-12:00pmKMC 5-80*Transfer Learning: from Fast Fashion to Clinical Trials*[Mor Harchol-Balter](https://www.cmu.edu/tepper/faculty-and-research/faculty-by-area/profiles/harchol-balter-mor.html)
(Carnegie Mellon University)November 22, 2019
10:00-11:00amKMC 4-90*New breakthroughs in scheduling theory*[Peng Sun](https://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty/peng-sun)
(Duke University)December 4, 2019
11:00-12:00pmKMC 5-80*Optimal Monitoring Schedule in Dynamic Contracts*

## 2018-2019 Academic Year

**Spring 2019:**[Shlomo Globerson](https://en-coller.tau.ac.il/profile/globe)
(Tel Aviv University)February 12, 2019
2:00-3:00pmKMC 4-90*Measuring productivity in a multi-stage, multi-product environment*[Jay Swaminathan](https://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/faculty/directory/jayashankar-swaminathan/)
(UNC)February 19, 2019
2:00-3:00pmKMC 4-90*Blockchain Adoption for Combating Deceptive Counterfeits* [Brad Staats](https://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/faculty/directory/bradley-staats/)
(UNC)March 5, 2019
2:00-3:00pmKMC 4-90*Task Selection and Workload: A Focus on Completeing Easy Tasks Hurts Performance* [Haresh Gurnani](https://business.wfu.edu/center-for-analytics-impact/)
(Wake Forest)March 26, 2019
2:00-3:00pmKMC 4-90*The Informational Role of Buyback Contracts*[Damian Beil](https://michiganross.umich.edu/faculty-research/faculty/damian-beil)
(UMich)April 9, 2019
2:00-3:00pmKMC 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](https://oid.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/hummy/)
(Wharton)October 2, 2018
10:30-11:30amKMC 4-90*Capacity Pooling in Hospitals: The Hidden Consequences of Off-Service Placement*[Galit Yom-Tov](https://gality.net.technion.ac.il/)
(Technion)October 9, 2018
11:00-12:00pmKMC 3-80*The Influence of Customer Emotions in Service Operations*[Wedad Elmaghraby](https://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/directory/wedad-j-elmaghraby)
(University of Maryland)November 13, 2018
11:00-12:00pmKMC 3-50*New Product Preferences: Decreasing Ambiguity Aversion via Contracts*[Itai Gurvich](https://tech.cornell.edu/people/itai-gurvich/)
(Cornell Tech)December 11, 2018
11:00-12:00pmKMC 4-90*On the Taylor Expansion of Value Functions*

## 2017-2018 Academic Year

**Spring 2018:**[Naveed Chehrazi](https://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/Directory/Profiles/Chehrazi-Naveed)
(University of Texas Austin)February 27, 2018
11:00-12:00 pm KMC 4-90*To Be Announced* [Antoine Desir](http://ieor.columbia.edu/antoine-desir)
(Columbia) March 20, 2018
11:00-12:00 pmKMC 4-90*To Be Announced* [Kris Ferreira](https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=773347)
(Harvard Business School) March 27, 2018
11:00-12:00 pmKMC 4-90*To Be Announced* [Karan Girotra](https://tech.cornell.edu/people/karan-girotra)
(Cornell Tech) April 3, 2018
11:00-12:00 pmKMC 3-80*To Be Announced* [Negin Golrezaei](http://www-scf.usc.edu/~golrezae/)
(Google) April 17, 2018
11:00-12:00 pm
KMC 3-80*To Be Announced* [Morris Cohen](https://oid.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/cohen/)
(University of Pennsylvania-Wharton) April 24, 2018
11:00-12:00 pm
KMC 4-90*To Be Announced* [Pinar Keskinocak](https://www.isye.gatech.edu/users/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](https://michiganross.umich.edu/faculty-research/faculty/izak-duenyas)
(University of Michigan)September 27, 2017
10:00-11:00am*TBA**To Be Announced*[Achal Bassamboo](http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/directory/bassamboo_achal.aspx)
(Northwestern University)October 4, 2017
10:00-11:00am*TBA**To Be Announced* [Sang Kim](http://som.yale.edu/sang-kim)
(Yale University)October 18, 2017
10:00-11:00am*TBA**To Be Announced* [Leon Zhu](https://www.marshall.usc.edu/personnel/leon-zhu)
(University of Southern California)November 1, 2017
10:00-11:00am*TBA**To Be Announced* [Ruomeng Cui](http://ruomengcui.com/)
(Emory University)November 15, 2017
10:00-11:00am*TBA**To Be Announced* [Pinar Keskinocak](https://www.isye.gatech.edu/users/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](https://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/cbs-directory/detail/jl4130)
(Columbia University)February 1, 2017
11:00am-12:00pm3-120*"*The Simple Structure of Top Trading Cycles in School Choice: A Fluid Model*"*[Juan Serpa](https://www.mcgill.ca/desautels/juan-camilo-serpa)
(McGill University)March 1, 2017
11:00am-12:00pm3-120*"*Oversight and Efficiency in Public Projects: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis"[Baris Ata](https://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/directory/a/baris-ata)
(University of Chicago)March 22, 2017
11:00am-12:00pmKMC 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](https://olin.wustl.edu/EN-US/Faculty-Research/Faculty/Pages/FacultyDetail.aspx?username=fzhang22)
(Washington University)April 5, 2017
11:00am-12:00pmKMC 3-120"3D Printing vs. Traditional Flexible Technology: Implications for Manufacturing Strategy"[Vikram Tiwari](https://medschool.vanderbilt.edu/dbmi/person/vikram-tiwari-phd)
(Vanderbilt University) April 28, 2017
12:30pm-1:30pmKMC 8-170*To Be Announced*[Karen Zheng ](http://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-directory/detail/?id=51473)
(MIT)May 3, 2017
11:00am-12:00pmKMC 3-120*To Be Announced***Fall 2016:****Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Room****Presentation Title**[Panos Kouvelis](https://olin.wustl.edu/EN-US/Faculty-Research/Faculty/Pages/FacultyDetail.aspx?username=kouvelis) (Washington University)September 14, 2016
10:00am-11:00amKMC 4-90
*To Hedge or Not To Hedge: Contracts, Hedges and Volatile Commodity Prices*[Dan Iancu](https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/dan-andrei-iancu)
(Stanford University)September 21, 2016
10:00am-11:00amKMC 3-80
*Dynamic Pricing under Debt: Spiraling Distortions and Efficiency Losses*[Mohsen Bayati](https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/mohsen-bayati)
(Stanford University) September 30, 2016
10:00am-11:00pmKMC 3-80*Online-Decision Making with High-dimensional Covariates*[Adam Elmachtoub](http://ieor.columbia.edu/adam-elmachtoub)
(Columbia University) October 5, 2016
10:00am-11:00amKMC 3-80*The Value of Opaque Products*[Edieal Pinker](http://som.yale.edu/edieal-j-pinker)
(Yale University)November 2, 2016
10:00am-11:00amKMC 3-80*Imminent Mortality Prediction for Advanced Cancer*[Gah-Yi Ban](https://www.london.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty/profiles/vahn-g)
(London Business School)December 7, 2016
10:00am-11:00amKMC 2-80*The Data-Driven (s, S) Policy: Why You Can Have Confidence in Censored Demand Data*[Nagesh Gavirneni ](https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Faculty-And-Research/Profile?id=sg337)(Cornell University) December 14, 2016
10:00am-11:00amKMC 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](https://www.marshall.usc.edu/faculty/directory/nazerzad)
(USC)January 27, 2016
11:00am-12:00pmKMC 3-60[Deals or No Deals: Contract Design for Online Advertising](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20Nazerzadeh.pdf)[Rainer Kolisch](https://www.om.wi.tum.de/?id=16)
(TUM School of Management)February 3, 2016
11:00am-12:00pmKMC 3-60[Managing Patient Flow in Hospitals](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20Kolisch.pdf)[Mohamed Mostagir](https://michiganross.umich.edu/faculty-research/faculty/mohamed-mostagir)
(University of Michigan)February 17, 2016
11:00am-12:00pmKMC 3-60[A Dynamic Model of Crowdfunding](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20Mostagir.pdf)[Simone Marinesi](https://oid.wharton.upenn.edu//profile/27793/)
(Wharton)February 24, 2016
11:00am-12:00pmKMC 3-60[The Operational Advantages of Threshold Discounting Offers](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20Marinesi.pdf)[Raj Rajagopalan](https://www.marshall.usc.edu/faculty/directory/raj)
(USC)March 23, 2016
11:00am-12:00pmKMC 3-60[Serving Heterogeneous Buyers through Price and Effort Differentiation](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20Rajagopalan.pdf)[Mahesh Nagarajan](http://www.sauder.ubc.ca/Faculty/People/Faculty_Members/Nagarajan_Mahesh)
(UBC Sauder)March 30, 2016
11:00am-12:00pmKMC 3-60[Approximation algorithms for Stochastic Inventory models: Two applications in industry](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20Nagarajan.pdf)[Serguei Netessine](https://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/profiles/snetessine/)
(INSEAD)April 6, 2016
11:00am-12:00pmKMC 3-60[Business Models for Off-Grid Energy Access at the Bottom of the Pyramid](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20Netessine.pdf)[Patrick Jaillet](http://web.mit.edu/jaillet/www/)
(MIT)April 20, 2016
11:00am-12:00pmKMC 3-60[Satisficing Awakens: Models to Mitigate Uncertainty](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20Jaillet.pdf)[George Shanthikumar](https://www.krannert.purdue.edu/directory/bio.php?username=jshanthi)
(Purdue)April 27, 2016
11:00am-12:00pmKMC 3-60[Integrating Dynamic Pricing with Inventory Decisions under Lost Sales](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20Shanthikumar.pdf)**Fall 2015:****Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Room****Presentation Title**[Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi](http://www.columbia.edu/~at2761/) (Columbia)October 28th
10:00am-11:00amKMC 3-80[Supply Chain Disruptions: Evidence from the Great East Japan Earthquake](https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20Alireza.pdf)[Dana Popescu ](http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/profiles/dpopescu/)(INSEAD)November 11th
10:00am-11:00amKMC 3-80[Repricing Algorithms in E-Commerce](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20Popescu.pdf)[Andreea Minca](http://www.orie.cornell.edu/people/profile.cfm?netid=acm299)
(Cornell)November 20th
10:00am-11:00amKMC 3-80[Inhomogeneous Financial Networks and Contagious Links](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20Minca.pdf)

## 2014-2015 Academic Year

**Spring 2015****Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Room****Presentation Title**[Aharon Ben-Tal ](http://iew3.technion.ac.il/Home/Users/morbt.phtml)(Technion)February 11th
11:00am - 12:00pmKMC 3-120[Some Remedies for Some Intractable Optimization Problems](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20BenTal.pdf)[Gad Allon](http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/directory/allon_gad.aspx) (Northwestern)March 9th
11:00am - 12:00pmKMC 4-110[Managing Service Systems in the Presence of Social Networks](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20Allon.pdf)[Vishal Gaur](https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Faculty-And-Research/Profile?id=vg77)
(Cornell)April 15th
11:00am - 12:00pmKMC 3-50[Operational investment and capital structure under asset-based lending](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20V%20Gaur.pdf)[Kostas Bimpikis](http://web.stanford.edu/~kostasb/)
(Stanford)April 22nd
11:00am - 12:00pmKMC 4-110[Designing Dynamic Contests](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20Bimpikis.pdf)[Anton Ovchinnikov ](http://business.queensu.ca/faculty_and_research/faculty_list/Anton%20Ovinchinnikov.php)(Queens School of Business)April 29th
11:00am - 12:00pmKMC 4-110[Strategic Consumers, Revenue Management and the Design of Loyalty Programs](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20Anton.pdf)[Vasiliki Kostami](https://www.london.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty/profiles/kostami-v#.VTZQbZPGq6E)
(London Business School)May 6th
11:00am - 12:00pmKMC 4-110[Pricing and Capacity Allocation for Shared Services](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20Kostami.pdf)**Fall 2014****Speaker/Affiliation****Date/Time****Room****Presentation Title**[Yash Kanoria](http://idse.columbia.edu/yash-kanoria)
(Columbia)\*Moved to September 10\*
9:30-10:30amKMC 4-80[Unbalanced random matching markets](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20Kanoria_0.pdf)[Nagesh Gavirneni ](https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/Faculty-And-Research/Profile/id/sg337)(Cornell)September 24
9:30-10:30amKMC 4-80[Self-Selecting Priority Queues with Burr Distributed Waiting Costs](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20Gavirneni.pdf)[Tolga Tezcan](http://www.simon.rochester.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-directory/faculty-profile/index.aspx?Username=tolga.tezcan)
(Rochester)October 8
9:30-10:30amKMC 4-80[Determining the Optimal Configuration of Hospital Inpatient Rooms in the Presence of Isolation Patients](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20Tezcan.pdf)[Paat Rusmevichientong ](http://www.marshall.usc.edu/faculty/directory/rusmevic)(USC)October 15
9:30-10:30amKMC 4-80[The d-Level Nested Logit Model](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20Paat.pdf)[David Simchi-Levi](https://esd.mit.edu/Faculty_Pages/simchi-levi/simchi-levi.htm)
(MIT)December 10
9:30-10:30amKMC 4-80[Online Revenue Management](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/Announcement%20Simchi%20Levi.pdf)

## 2013-2014 Academic Year

**Spring 2014**
*Unless otherwise noted, seminars are held on Wednesdays from 11am-12pm in KMC 3-60.*[Kamalini Ramdas](http://www.london.edu/facultyandresearch/faculty/search.do?uid=kramdas)
London Business SchoolFebruary 6th \*Thursday, 1:00pm in KMC 4-110\*[New Joints More Hip? Learning in the Use of New Components](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_046027.pdf)[John Birge](http://www.chicagobooth.edu/faculty/directory/b/john-r-birge)
Chicago BoothFebruary 26th[Supply chain network structure and the role of financing](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_046237.pdf)[Pavel Shevchenko](http://www.cmis.csiro.au/Pavel.Shevchenko/)
CSIROMarch 24th \*Monday, 12:30pm in KMC 8-170\*[Loss Distribution Approach for Operational Risk Capital Modelling](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_046863.pdf)[Chung Piaw Teo](https://apps-bschool.nus.edu.sg/asp/staffprofile/cv.asp?id=157)
National University of SingaporeApril 2nd[Dynamic Inventory Pooling Policies to Deliver Differentiated Service](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_046812.pdf)[Itai Ashlagi](https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/detail.php?in_spseqno=50040)
MITApril 9th[Optimal allocation design without transfers](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_047038.pdf)[Jan Van Mieghem](http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/vanmieghem/)
NorthwesternApril 23rd[Global Dual Sourcing](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_047300.pdf)[Georgia Perakis](http://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/detail.php?in_spseqno=41137)
MITMay 5th \*Monday, 12:30pm in KMC 8-170\*[The Impact of Linear Optimization on Promotion Planning](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_047389.pdf)[Steve Graves](https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/detail.php?in_spseqno=41387)
MITMay 7th[Mitigating Spillover and Whiplash in Online Retailing via Replenishment](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_047451.pdf)**Fall 2013**

**Speaker and Affiliation****Date****Title and Abstract**[Vineet Goyal](http://ieor.columbia.edu/vineet-goyal)
ColumbiaSeptember 11th[A Markov Chain Approximation for Choice Modeling](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_043863.pdf)[Tauhid Zaman](https://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/detail.php?in_spseqno=34301)
MITSeptember 25th[Predictive Models of Retweeting in Twitter](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_043862.pdf)[Richard Larson](http://esd.mit.edu/faculty_pages/larson/larson.htm)
MITOctober 16th[Education as a Complex Service System](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_044344.pdf)[Sheldon Ross](http://www.usc.edu/dept/ise/directory/sheldon_ross.htm)
USCOctober 30th[Dynamic Models for Selling Multiple Items](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_044461.pdf)[Diwakar Gupta](http://www.isye.umn.edu/faculty/gupta.shtml)
UMNNovember 6th[On Improving Operating Room Schedules](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_044750.pdf)[Li Chen](http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty_research/faculty_directory/chen_li/)
DukeNovember 20th[Ethical Sourcing in Emerging Economies](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_045068.pdf)[Hyoduk Shin](http://rady.ucsd.edu/faculty/directory/shin/)
UCSDDecember 4th[Inclusive Innovation: Broader Market Coverage for Innovative Products with Deliberate Supply Chain Leadership](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_044858.pdf)[Christian Terwiesch](https://opimweb.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/43/)
WhartonDecember 13th, 2-3pm[Patient Portals in Primary Care: Impacts on Patient Health and Physician Productivity](/sites/default/files/assets/documents/con_045384.pdf)

**Spring 2011****Speaker****Date****Time/**
**Location****Title**[Feryal Erhun ](http://soe.stanford.edu/research/layoutMSnE.php?sunetid=ferhun)
StanfordWednesday, March 2nd12:00pm-1:30pm
KMC 4-110[Contract Complexity and Performance under Asymmetric Demand Information:](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/ioms/CeDER/RSS-OM%20S11%20Feryal%20Erhun.pdf)
[An Experimental Evaluation](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/ioms/CeDER/RSS-OM%20S11%20Feryal%20Erhun.pdf)[Itai Ashlagi](http://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/detail.php?in_spseqno=sp0027513&co_list=F)
MITWednesday, March 23rd12:00pm-1:30pm
KMC 4-120[Individual Rationality and Participation in Large Scale, Multi-Hospital Kidney](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/ioms/CeDER/RSS-OM%20Sp2011%20Ashlagi.pdf)
[Exchange](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/ioms/CeDER/RSS-OM%20Sp2011%20Ashlagi.pdf)[Murad Taqqu ](http://math.bu.edu/people/murad/)
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 ](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/ioms/CeDER/RSS-Stat%20Sp2011%20Taqqu.pdf)
*\*\*This is a joint IOMS-Operations Management and IOMS-Statistics seminar.\*\**[Mehmet Begen](http://www.ivey.uwo.ca/faculty/Mehmet_Begen.htm)
Univ. of
Western OntarioWednesday, April 6th12:00pm-1:30pm
KMC 5-90[Appointment Scheduling with Discrete Random Durations and Applications](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/ioms/CeDER/RSS-OM%20Sp2011%20Begen.pdf)[Vivek Farias](http://mitsloan.mit.edu/faculty/detail.php?in_spseqno=sp0024683&co_list=F)
MITWednesday, April 13th**10:00am-11:30am**
KMC 4-110[Dynamic Allocation with](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/ioms/CeDER/RSS-OM%20Sp2011%20Farias.pdf)
[Volatile Demand](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/ioms/CeDER/RSS-OM%20Sp2011%20Farias.pdf)[Garud Iyengar](http://www.ieor.columbia.edu/fac-bios/iyengar/faculty.html)
Columbia**FRIDAY,**
**April 22nd****10:00am-11:30am**
KMC 4-110[Inequality and Network Structure](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/ioms/CeDER/RSS-OM%20SP2011%20Iyengar.pdf)[Yossi Aviv](http://www.olin.wustl.edu/facultyandresearch/Faculty/Pages/default.aspx?username=aviv)
Washington Univ.
in St. LouisWednesday, May 11th**11:00am-12:30pm**
KMC 5-75[Recent Research on Strategic Consumer Behavior in Dynamic Pricing Systems](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/ioms/CeDER/RSS-OM%20Sp2011%20Yossi.pdf)

**Fall 2010****Speaker****Date****Time/**
**Location****Title**[A. Gurhan Kok](http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty_research/faculty_directory/kok/)
DukeThursday,
September 16th12:00-1:30,
KMC 4-110
[Dynamic Assortment Customization with Limited Inventories](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Gurhan%20Kok.pdf)[Jose Correa](http://www.dii.uchile.cl/~jcorrea/)
University of ChileTuesday,
September 21st12:00-1:30,
KMC 4-110[Optimal targeting of customers for a last-minute sale](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Jose%20Correa.pdf)[Ben Melamed](http://www.melamed.rutgers.edu/)
RutgersThursday,
October 14th12:00-1:30,
KMC 2-80[Optimization of Make-To-Stock Production-Inventory Systems](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/OM-Ben%20Melamed.pdf)
[Via Infinitesimal Perturbation Analysis (IPA)](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/OM-Ben%20Melamed.pdf)[Ciamac Moallemi](http://moallemi.com/ciamac/)
ColumbiaWednesday,
October 20th12:00-1:30,
KMC 5-90[Topics in Market Microstructure and Optimal Trade Execution](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Ciamac%20Moallemi.pdf)[Noah Gans](http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/gans.cfm)
WhartonWednesday,
October 27th2:00-3:30,
KMC 5-75[Accounting for Arrival-Rate Uncertainty in Call-Center Scheduling](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Noah%20Gans.pdf)[Ioana Popescu](http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/faculty/profiles/ipopescu/)
INSEADThursday, November 11th11:00am-12:30pm,
KMC 4-110[Managing Satisfaction in Relationships Over Time](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Ioana%20Popescu.pdf)[Adam Mersereau](http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/faculty/search/detail.cfm?person_id=909)
Univ. of
North CarolinaThursday,
November 18th12:00-1:30,
KMC 4-120[Dynamic Capacity Allocation to Customers Who](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Mersereau.pdf)
[Remember Past Service](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Mersereau.pdf)[Yi Xu](http://www.rhsmith.umd.edu/doit/faculty/xu.aspx)
Univ. of
MarylandThursday,
December 2nd12:00-1:30,
KMC 4-120[Optimal and Competitive Assortments with Endogenous Pricing Under Hierarchical Consumer Choice Models](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/ioms/CeDER/RSS-OM%20F10%20Yi%20Xu.pdf)[Beril Toktay](http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~bt71/)
Georgia TechThursday,
December 9th12:00-1:30,
KMC 4-120[Is Leasing Greener than Selling?](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/ioms/CeDER/RSS-OM%20F10%20Beril%20Toktay.pdf)

**SPRING 2010****SPEAKER****DATE****TIME/**
**LOCATION****TITLE**[Tunay Tunca](https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/facultyprofiles/biomain.asp?id=75520559)
Stanford
**Monday**,
February 15th12:30-2pm
**KMC 5-85**[An Empirical Analysis of Price, Quality, and Incumbency in Online Service Procurement Auctions](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Tunay%20Tunca.pdf) (joint work with DJ Wu and Vivian Zhong)
*This is a joint seminar with IOMS-Information Systems.*[Gad Allon](http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/Faculty/Directory/Allon_Gad.aspx)
NorthwesternThursday, March 4th12:30-2pm,
KMC 5-75
["We Will Be Right With You:" Managing Customers' Expectations With](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Gad%20Allon.pdf)
[Vague Promises and Cheap Talk](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Gad%20Allon.pdf)[Baris Ata](http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/Faculty/Directory/Ata_Baris.aspx)
NorthwesternThursday, March 25th12:30-2pm
**KMC 3-60**[A Broader View of Designing the Liver Allocation System](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Baris%20Ata.pdf)[Gerard Cachon](http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~cachon/)
WhartonThursday,
April 1st12:30-2pm,
KMC 5-75[The Cost of Carbon and Supply Chain Design](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Gerard%20Cachon.pdf)
[Michael Trick](http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu/)
Carnegie Mellon**Friday,**
**April 2nd**
10:30am-12pm**,**
KMC 5-75
[Adventures in Sports Scheduling](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Michael%20Trick.pdf)[Candace Yano](http://www2.haas.berkeley.edu/Faculty/yano_candace.aspx)
UC BerkeleyThursday,
April 22nd12:30-2pm,
KMC 5-75[Pareto-Improving Manufacturer Pricing Policies when Retailers Offer](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Candace%20Yano.pdf)
[Discounts and Consumers Stockpile](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Candace%20Yano.pdf)[Dimitris Bertsimas](http://web.mit.edu/dbertsim/www/)
MITThursday,
April 29th12:30-2pm,
KMC 5-75[Advances in multistage stochastic optimization](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Dimitris%20Bersimas.pdf)

**FALL 2009****SPEAKER****DATE****TIME/**
**LOCATION****TITLE**[Christopher Tang](http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x980.xml)
UCLAThursday,
September 2412:30-2pm,
KMC 3-80[Project Management Contracts with Delayed Payments](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Tang%20paper.pdf)[Edieal Pinker](http://www.simon.rochester.edu/fac/pinker/)
University of RochesterThursday,
October 2212:30-2pm,
KMC 3-80[Division of Labor in Medical Office Practices](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Edi%20Pinker%20paper.pdf)[Andreas Schulz](http://web.mit.edu/schulz/)
MITThursday,
October 2912:30-2pm,
KMC 3-80[Order Scheduling: Inapproximability Results and Approximation Algorithms](http://www.optimization-online.org/DB_FILE/2008/11/2143.pdf)[Gad Allon](http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/Faculty/Directory/Allon_Gad.aspx)
NorthwesternRESCHEDULED
Thursday,
November 512:30-2pm,
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](http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/fisher.html)
WhartonThursday,
November 1912:30-2pm,
KMC 3-80[Retail Assortment Optimization](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Fisher%20&%20Vaidyanathan%20Demand%20estimation%20and%20assortment%20optimization.pdf)[Soulaymane Kachani](http://www.columbia.edu/~sk2267/)
ColumbiaThursday,
December 312:30-2pm,
KMC 3-80[Joint Pricing, Innovation, and Product Introduction Strategies under Consumer Reference-Price Effects](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/OM-Soulaymane%20Kachani.pdf)[Francis de Vericourt](http://www.esmt.org/eng/faculty-research/francis-de-vericourt/)
European School of Management and TechnologyThursday, December 10

12:30-2pm,
KMC 3-80

[Diagonostic Services Under Congestion](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/OM-Francis%20de%20Vericourt.pdf)

**SPRING 2009****SPEAKER****DATE****TIME/**
**LOCATION****TITLE**[Gideon Weiss](http://stat.haifa.ac.il/~gweiss/)
University of HaifaFriday
February 610:30 am,
KMC 5-80[Infinite Virtual Queues (IVQ) and the Control of Multi Class Queueing Networks (MCQN)](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/GWeissAbstract.doc)[Martin A Lariviere](http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/lariviere/research/)
Northwestern UniversityThursday
March 1210:30 am, KMC 3-80[Saving Seats for Strategic Customers](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/LariviereAbstract.doc)[Uriel Rothblum](http://iew3.technion.ac.il/Home/Users/rothblum.phtml?YF)
Israel Institute of TechnologyThursday
March 2610:30 am, KMC 3-80[Partition problems: Optimality and Clustering](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/RothblumAbstract%5B2%5D.doc)[Robert Shumsky](http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/pages/faculty/robert.shumsky/)
DartmouthThursday
April 210:30 am, KMC 3-80[Revenue Management in Airline Alliances](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/shumsky_stern_abstract.doc)[Paul Zipkin](http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty_research/faculty_directory/zipkin/)
Duke UniversityFriday
May 110:30 am, KMC 5-85[Quality Snags in the Mortgage-Finance Supply Chain](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Quality_Mortgages%20Abstract.doc)

**FALL 2008****SPEAKER****DATE****TIME/**
**LOCATION****TITLE**[Sergei Savin](http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/divisions/dro/savin2006.html)
Columbia UniversityFriday
September 1910:30 am,
KMC 5-85[Reducing Delays for Medical Appointments](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/SSabstract.doc)[Xiuli Chao](http://ioe.engin.umich.edu/people/fac/xchao.php)
University of MichiganFriday
September 2610:30 am,
KMC 5-85[Optimal Control of Remanufacturing Inventory Systems With Multiple Types of Return](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/XCabstract.doc)[Felipe Caro](http://www.anderson.ucla.edu/x9362.xml)
UCLAFriday
October 310:30 am,
KMC 5-85[Understanding the Competitive Advantage of Fast Fashion Retailers](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/FCabstract.doc)Hao Zhang
University of Southern CaliforniaFriday
October 1710:30 am,
KMC 5-85[Dynamic Adverse Selection: Models, Methods and Results](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/Abstract.doc)[Ramandeep Randhawa](http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/faculty/Ramandeep.Randhawa/Welcome.html) University of Texas at AustinFriday
October 3110:30 am,
KMC 5-85[A Little Flexibility is All You Need: Optimality of Tailored Chaining and Pairing](http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/faculty/Ramandeep.Randhawa/Files/bassamboo_randhawa_vanmieghem_a%20little%20flexibility%20is%20all%20you%20need.pdf)[Nicola Secomandi](http://public.tepper.cmu.edu/facultydirectory/FacultyDirectoryProfile.aspx?id=207)
Carnegie Mellon UniversityFriday
November 710:30 am,
KMC 5-85[An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach to Benchmark Practice-based Heuristics for Natural Gas Storage Valuation](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/NGStorage.pdf)[Haipeng Shen](http://www.unc.edu/~haipeng/)
University of North Carolina at Chapel HillFriday
November 2110:30 am,
KMC 5-85[Workforce Management for Labor-Intensive Service Systems through the Statistics Lens](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/haipengabstract.doc)[Bill Cooper](http://www.me.umn.edu/research/faculty/cooper.shtml)
University of MinnesotaFriday
December 510:30 am,
KMC 5-85[Demand Estimation and Pricing with Models that do not Explicitly Account for Competition](http://web-docs.stern.nyu.edu/old_web/emplibrary/billcooperabstract.doc)[Garrett J van Ryzin](http://www.columbia.edu/~gjv1/gvr_webpage.html)
Columbia UniversityFriday
December 1210:30 am,
KMC 5-85[Estimating primary demand for substitutable products from sales transaction data](http://emplibrary/ryzinabstract.doc)

**FALL 2007****SPEAKER****DATE****TIME/**
**LOCATION****TITLE**[Ken Kortanek](http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/mansci/faculty/kkortane.html)
University of IowaFriday
September 7th10:30 am
KMC 5-80Optimization Technique for Extracting a Forward
Rate Function from Coupon-Paying
Financial Instruments

\*\*Joint talk with IOMS-Statistics

[Rakesh Vohra](http://http/www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/bio/vohra.htm)
Kellogg School of
ManagementFriday
September 14th10:30 am
KMC 5-80Testing Forecasts

[Xuanming Su](http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/faculty/su.html)
UC BerkeleyFriday
September 28th10:30 am
KMC 5-80Bounded Rationality in Newsvendor Models[Amy Ward](http://http/mymarshall.usc.edu/portal/subapps/digitalmeasures/faculty.jsp?surveyId=48914)
University of Southern
CaliforniaFriday
October 5th10:30 am
KMC 5-80A Single-Server System with In-line
and Off-line Waiting, Generalized Processor Sharing,
and Abandonments[Victor DeMiguel](http://faculty.london.edu/avmiguel/)
London Business SchoolFriday
October 12th10:30 am
KMC 5-80A Stochastic Multiple Leader Stackelberg Model:
Analysis, Computation, and Application[Sergio Chayet](http://news-info.wustl.edu/sb/page/normal/770.html)
Washington UniversityFriday
October 26th10:30 am
KMC 5-80Product Variety and Congested Production Systems:
Capacity Investments and Vertical Differentiation[Peng Sun](http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty/alpha/sun.htm)
Duke UniversityFriday
November 9th10:30 am
KMC 5-80Information Relaxations and Duality in
Stochastic Dynamic Programs[Serguei Netessine](http://www.netessine.com/)
U. Penn WhartonFriday
November 16th10:30 am
KMC 5-80Revenue Management with Strategic Customers:
Last-Minute Selling and Opaque Selling[Nicholas Hall](http://fisher.osu.edu/~hall_33)
Ohio State UniversityFriday
November 30th10:30 am
KMC 5-80Capacity Allocation and Scheduling in Supply Chains[Avishai Mandelbaum](http://iew3.technion.ac.il/Home/Users/avim0.html)
TechnionMonday
December 3rd12:30 pm
KMC 5-80Simple Models at the Service of Complex Realities[Gabriel Weintraub](http://www0.gsb.columbia.edu/whoswho/bio.cfm?UNI=gyw2105)
Columbia UniversityFriday
December 7th10:30 am
KMC 5-80Approximations for Markov Perfect Industry Dynamics[Philippe Baptiste](http://http/www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~baptiste/)
The Ecole PolytechniqueFriday
December 14th10:30 am
KMC 5-80On Scheduling a Multifunction Radar:
Models and Algorithms

**SPRING 2007**SPEAKERDATETIME/ LOCATIONTITLE[Uriel Rothblum](http://iew3.technion.ac.il/Home/Users/rothblum.phtml?YF) TechnionFriday, March 2nd10:30 am,
KMC 5-85**Risk-Sensitive and Risk-Neutral**
**Multi-Armed Bandits**[Maria Polukarov](http://tx.technion.ac.il/~pmasha/) TechnionFriday, March 9th10:30 am,
KMC 5-85**Congestion Games with**
**(Load-Dependent) Failures**[Timothy Laseter](http://faculty.darden.virginia.edu/lasetert/index.htm) University of VirginiaThursday, April 5th12:00 pm,
KMC 5-80**Internet Retailing Research and The Long Tail**[David Simchi-Levi](http://slevi1.mit.edu/Default.aspx) MITFriday, April 6th10:30 am,
KMC 5-85**An Axiomatic Approach for Product Variety**[Senthil Veeraraghavan](http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/veeraraghavan.html) U. Penn WhartonFriday, April 13th10:30 am,
KMC 5-85**Models of Customer Herding Behavior**
**in Choosing Services**[Greys Sosic](http://www-rcf.usc.edu/~sosic/) USCFriday, April 20th10:30 am,
KMC 5-85**Stable Inventory-Sharing Alliances**

**FALL 2006**SPEAKERDATETIME/ LOCATIONTITLE[Jan Van Mieghem](http://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/faculty/VanMieghem/) NorthwesternFriday, September 15th10:30 am, KMC 5-85**Risk Management and Operational Hedging** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/OM0607/091506.pdf)[Kevin Shang](http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty/alpha/shang.htm) DukeFriday, October 6th10:30 am KMC 5-85**Analysis of Serial Inventory Systems**
**with Batch Ordering** **and**
**Nested Replenishment Schedule**[Noah Gans](http://www.wharton.upenn.edu/faculty/gans.html) UPenn WhartonFriday, October 13th10:30 am KMC 5-85**Simple Models of Discrete Choice**
**and Their Performance Bandit Experiments** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/OM0607/101306.pdf)[Jeannette Song](http://www.fuqua.duke.edu/faculty/alpha/song.htm) DukeFriday, October 20th10:30 am KMC 5-85**Bricks and Mortar vs. Clicks and Mortar –**
**An Equilibrium Analysis**[Gerard Cachon](http://opim.wharton.upenn.edu/~cachon/) UPenn WhartonFriday, October 27th10:30 am, KMC 5-85**Purchasing and Pricing in the Presence**
**of Strategic Consumers** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/OM0607/102706.pdf)[Terry Taylor](http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/divisions/dro/taylor.html) ColumbiaFriday, November 3rd10:30 am, KMC 5-85**Incentives for Retailer Forecasting:**
**Rebates versus Returns**
[**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/OM0607/110306.pdf)[Jay Sethuraman](http://www.columbia.edu/~js1353/) ColumbiaFriday, November 10th10:30 am, KMC 5-85**Online Buffer Management in QoS Switches**[Tim Huh](http://www.columbia.edu/~th2113/) ColumbiaFriday, November 17th10:30 am, KMC 5-85**A Non-Parametric Data-Driven Approach to**
**Inventory Planning and Revenue Management**[Stephen Graves](http://web.mit.edu/sgraves/www/) MITFriday, December 1st10:30 am, KMC 5-85**The Benefits of Re-evaluating**
**Real Time Fulfillment Decisions**[Anton Kleywegt](http://www2.isye.gatech.edu/~anton/) Georgia TechFriday, December 8th10:30 am, KMC 5-85**Pricing Dynamics of Competitors With**
**Imperfect Models of Competition**

**SPRING 2006**SPEAKERDATETIME/ LOCATIONTITLE[Li Chen](http://www.stanford.edu/~forchen/) Stanford UniversityFriday, March 24th10:30 am, KMC 5-85**Dynamic Inventory Management with Learning about the Demand**
**Distribution and Substitution Probability** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/OM20052006/032406.pdf)[Georgia Perakis](http://web.mit.edu/~georgiap/www/) MITFriday, March 31st10:30 am, KMC 5-85**Multi-Period Pricing of Perishable Products: Competition,** **Uncertainty and Learning and Substitution Probability**[Yao Zhao](http://zhao.rutgers.edu/) Rutgers UniversityFriday, April 7th10:30 am, KMC 5-85**Analysis and Evaluation of Assemble-to-Order Systems** **with Stochastic Sequential Lead-Times**[Costis Maglaras](http://www2.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/cmaglaras/maglaras.htm) Columbia UniversityFriday, April 21st10:30 am, KMC 5-85**Economics of Queues**[Yigal Gerchak](http://www.eng.tau.ac.il/~ygerchak/) Tel Aviv UniversityMonday, April 24th12:30 pm, KMC 5-80**Inventory Centralization when Shortage Costs Differ: Priorities and Costs Allocation**[Roy Radner](http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~rradner/) NYU Stern SchoolFriday, April 28th10:30 am, KMC 5-85**Self-enforcing Climate-Change Treaties** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/OM20052006/042806.pdf)

**FALL 2005**SPEAKERDATETIME/ LOCATIONTITLE[Xin Chen](http://www.mie.uiuc.edu/content/asp/people/faculty/current/xin_chen.asp) U. Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignTuesday, August 9th2:30 pm, KMC 5-80**A Robust Optimization Perspective** **of Stochastic Programming**[Retsef Levi](http://www.orie.cornell.edu/~levi/Index.html) IBMFriday, September 16th2:30 pm KMC 5-80**Provably Near-Optimal Sampling-Based Policies**
**for Stochastic Inventory Control Models**[Peter Glynn](http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/people/faculty/glynn/) StanfordMonday, September 19th12:25 pm, KMC 5-85**Modeling Issues for Queues**[Peter Glynn](http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/people/faculty/glynn/) StanfordFriday, September 23rd2:30 pm, KMC 5-80**Distributed Algorithms in the Mean Field Limit**[Larry Robinson](http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/faculty/profiles/Robinson/) CornellFriday, September 30th2:30 pm, KMC 5-80**Improved Base-Stock Approximations for Independent** **Stochastic Lead Times with Order Crossover** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/OM20052006/093005.pdf)[John Birge](http://portal.chicagogsb.edu/portal//server.pt/gateway/PTARGS_0_2_332_207_0_43/http%3B/portal.chicagogsb.edu/Facultycourse/Portlet/FacultyDetail.aspx?&min_year=20044&max_year=20063&person_id=917702) U. ChicagoFriday, October 7th10:30 am, KMC 5-90**Operational Decisions, Capital Structure,** **and Managerial Compensation** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/OM20052006/100705.pdf)[Kevin Ross](http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~kross/) UC Santa CruzFriday, October 28th10:30 am, KMC 5-90**Resource Allocation and Optimization in Service Networks**[William Cooper](http://www.me.umn.edu/research/faculty/cooper.shtml) University of MinnesotaFriday, November 4th10:30 am, KMC 5-85**Dynamic Forecasting and Optimization with Modeling Error:** **The Spiral-Down Effect in Revenue Management** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/OM20052006/110405.pdf)Andres Weintraub University of ChileFriday, November 18th10:30 am, KMC 5-85**Vehicle Routing with Fixed and Uncertain Repair Times**Daniel Corsten University of St. GallenMonday, November 21st12:30 pm, KMC 8-170**Do Suppliers Benefit from Collaborative Relationships**
**with Large Retailers?: An Empirical Investigation** **of ECR Adoption** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/OM20052006/112105.pdf)[Vinod Singhal](http://mgt.gatech.edu/directory/singhal.html) Georgia TechFriday, December 2nd10:30 am, KMC 5-85**Excess Inventory and Long-Term Stock Price Performance** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/OM20052006/120205.pdf) [**Presentation**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/OM20052006/singhal_presentation.ppt)[Tava Olsen](http://www.olin.wustl.edu/faculty/olsen/) Washington U., St. LouisFriday, December 9th10:30 am, 5-85**Service Level Agreements in Call Centers: Perils and Prescriptions** [**Paper**](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/ciio/WorkOnline/OM20052006/120905.pdf)

[Seminars before 2005](http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~gjanakir/SEMINAR.html)