Invited Seminars
Next Speaker
Stochastic Algorithms for Solving Constrained Continuous Optimization Problems
Dr. Frank Curtis
Lehigh University
Friday, April 12, 2024
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Caruth 383
Near-Optimal Data-driven Control for Assemble-to-order Systems
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
Friday, April 19, 2024
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Caruth 383
Provable and Efficient Algorithms for a Class of Minimax Optimization Problems
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Friday, April 26, 2024
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Caruth 383
Past Speakers
Political Districting to Minimize County Splits
Dr. Austin Buchanan
Oklahoma State University
Friday, April 5, 2024
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Caruth 383
Reinforcement Learning for Optimizing Inventory of Beer (and other things)
Dr. Larry Snyder
Lehigh University
Friday, March 8, 2024
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Caruth 383
Operations Management in the Age of the Sharing Economy: What Is Old and What Is New?
Dr. Saif Benjaafar
University of Michigan
Friday, February 16, 2024
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Caruth 384
Data-Driven Inverse Optimization through the Lens of Machine Learning
Dr. Taewoo Lee
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, February 9, 2024
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Caruth 384
Funding Perspectives from the National Science Foundation
Dr. Reha Uzsoy
National Science Foundation
Friday, December 1, 2023
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Caruth 383
Optimization of Lung Cancer Screening Using Principles from Operations Research
Dr. Iakovos Tourmazis
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Friday, November 17, 2023
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Caruth 383
Inverse Optimization for Imputing Constraints in Mathematical Programs
Dr. Archis Ghate
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Fluor Endowed Chair
Clemson University
Friday, November 10, 2023
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Infectious Disease Modeling, Evaluating Interventions, and Resource Allocation
Dr. Pinar Keskinocak
William W. George Chair and Professor in the H. Milton Steward School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Tech
Friday, October 27, 2023
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
On a Fair and Risk-averse Urban Air Mobility Resource Allocation Problem Under Demand and Capacity Uncertainties
Dr. Weijun Xie
Coca-Cola Foundation Early Career Professor and Assistant Professor, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Friday, September 8
11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Caruth 383
Generalizations of Compromise Decisions (or Bagging) for Stochastic Integer Programming and Multi-stage Stochastic Linear Programming
Dr. Suvrajeet Sen
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Southern California
Friday, January 27, 2023
10:00 am - 11:15 pm
Van Oyen
Dr. Mark P. Van Oyen
Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering
University of Michigan
Friday, October 7, 2022
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
The ARPA-E Grid Optimization Competition
Dr. Andreas Waechter
Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences
Northwestern University
Friday, September 23, 2022
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
An Extended Unit Commitment Formulation and Convex Hull Pricing for Electricity Markets
Dr. Yongpei Guan
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Florida
Friday, April 22, 2022
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Power and Scheduling in a Parallel Processing Network
Dr. Mark E. Lewis
Operations Research and Information Engineering
Cornell University
Friday, April 8 2022
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Subspace Clustering with Missing Data via Integer Programming
Dr. Jeff Linderoth
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Madison-Wisconsin
Friday, March 25, 2022
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Fleet Sizing and Charging Infrastructure Planning for Ride Hailing Services Using Autonomous EVs
Dr. Tapas Das
Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering
University of South Florida
Friday, March 11, 2022
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Convexification for Non-Convex Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming
Dr. Sam Burer
Tippie College of Business
University of Iowa
Friday, February 25, 2022
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Assessing the Value of Information in Supply Chain: A Case for Enterprise Systems Informatics Approach
Dr. Charu Chandra
Department of Management Studies & Operations Management
University of Michigan - Dearborn
Tuesday, December 7, 2021
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Queueing Models for Hospitals
Dr. Ohad Perry
Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Northwestern University
Thursday, December 2, 2021
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Chance-Constrained Model with Exogenous and Endogenous Uncertainty for Network Design
Dr. Miguel Lejeune
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The George Washington University
Friday, November 12, 2021
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Analytical Models for Optimal Process Design in an Integrated Biorefinery
Dr. Sandra Eksioglu
Department of Industrial Engineering
University of Arkansas
Friday, November 5, 2021
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Dealing with the Lower-level (Follower’s) Problem in Bilevel Mixed-Integer Linear Programming
Dr. Oleg A. Prokopyev
Department of Industrial Engineering
University of Pittsburgh
Friday, October 8, 2021
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Convex Chance-Constrained Programs with Wasserstein Ambiguity
Dr. Ruiwei Jiang
Industrial & Operations Engineering
University of Michigan
Friday, October 1, 2021
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
New Algorithms and Complexity Analysis of Multistage Stochastic and Distributionally Robust Optimization
Dr. Andy Sun
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Friday, September 24, 2021
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Balancing the Protection of Covid-19 At-Risk Populations while Reopening Communities
Dr. Victoria Chen
Industrial, Manufacturing & Systems Engineering Department
University of Texas at Arlington
Friday, September 10, 2021
11:15 am - 12:30 pm
AC Unit Commitment
Dr. Antonio Conejo
Department of Integrated Systems Engineering
The Ohio State University
Friday, April 30, 2021
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
On Process Capacity
Dr. Milind Dawande
Naveen Jindal School of Management
The University of Texas at Dallas
Friday, April 23, 2021
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Deterministic and Stochastic Models for Manufacturing, Warehousing and Health Care Systems
Dr. Sunderesh S. Heragu
School of Industrial Engineering and Management
Oklahoma State University
Friday, April 16, 2021
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Data-Driven Sample-Average Approximation for Stochastic Optimization with Covariate Information
Dr. Jim Luedtke
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Friday, April 9, 2021
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Dealing with Model Uncertainty in Markov Decision Processes for Chronic Diseases
Dr. Brian Denton
Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering
University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Friday, March 26, 2021
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Mixed-Integer Convex Programming for Statistical Learning
Dr. Simge Küçükyavuz
Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Department
Northwestern University
Friday, March 19, 2021
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
New Algorithms and Complexity Analysis of Multistage Stochastic and Distributionally Robust Optimization
Dr. Andy Sun
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Friday, March 12, 2021
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Modeling and Data Analysis for COVID-19 Healthcare Demand Projections in Arizona
Dr. Esma Gel
School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering
Arizona State University
Friday, March 5, 2021
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
A Scale Invariant Approach for Signal and Image Recovery
Dr. Yifei Lou
Mathematical Sciences Department
University of Texas Dallas
Friday, February 26, 2021
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Continuous Approximation Models for some Modern Logistical Problems
Dr. John Carlsson
Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Southern California
Friday, February 12, 2021
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Opportunities and Challenges of Black Box Optimization in Engineering Applications
Dr. Giulia Pedrielli
School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering
Arizona State University
Friday, February 5, 2021
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Limited-Trust Equilibrium and Social Network Games
Dr. Rakesh Nagi
Department of Industrial Engineering and Enterprise Systems Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Friday, January 29, 2021
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Distributionally Robust Two-Stage Stochastic Programming
Dr. David Morton
Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences
Northwestern University
Friday, December 4, 2020
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
A Chance Constrained Programming Framework to Handle Uncertainties in Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning
Dr. Gino Lim
Department of Industrial Engineering
University of Houston
Friday, November 20, 2020
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
Multistage Distributionally Robust Mixed-Integer Programming with Decision-Dependent Moment-Based Ambiguity Sets
Dr. Siqian Shen
Industrial and Operations Engineering
University of Michigan
Friday, November 6, 2020
11:00 am - 12:15 pm
COVID‐19 Forecasting: Three Cheers for Simple Models
Dr. J. Eric Bickel
Operations Research and Industrial Engineering
The University of Texas
Friday, October 23, 2020
COVID‐19 Primer
Dr. Robert Hendler
Chief Medical Officer
Texas Hospital Association
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
An Optimization Framework for Multi‐agent Demand Response
Dr. Jay Rosenberger
Professor, Director of Research Development
Associate Director of the Center for Transportation Equity, Decisions & Dollars (CTEDD)
University of Texas at Arlington
Friday, November 22, 2019
Optimal Lung Transplantation Patient Selection from a Transplant Program’s Perspective
Dr. Andrew Schaefer
Noah Harding Chair and Professor
Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Rice University
Friday, November 15, 2019
Effectively Using Negative Curvature in Optimization and Scalable Methods for Subspace Clustering
Dr. Daniel P. Robinson
Assistant Professor
Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
Johns Hopkins University
Monday, April 29, 2019