Autumn 2006 Operations Research Colloquia

Wednesday
October 18, 2006
4:30 - 5:30 PM
An Asymptotic Approximation Algorithm for 3D-Strip Packing

Klaus Jansen
Department of Computer Science
Universität Kiel

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Friday
October 20, 2006
4:00 - 5:00 PM
Game and Market Equilibria: Approximation and Smoothed Complexity

Shanghua Teng
Department of Computer Science
Boston University

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Friday
October 27, 2006
3:15 - 4:15 PM
Risk-Sensitive and Risk-Neutral Multi-Armed Bandits

Uriel G. Rothblum
Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management
The Technion

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Monday
October 30, 2006
4:15 - 5:15 PM
Joint Seminar with MS&E Production & Operations Management

Warranty Inventory Optimization for Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, Inc.


John Khawam and Warren Hausman
Department of Management Science and Engineering
Stanford University

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Tuesday
October 31, 2006
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Inference Through Self-Avoiding Walk

Devavrat Shah
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Wednesday
November 15, 2006
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Probabilistic Analysis of Message Passing Algorithms

Andrea Montanari
Department of Electrical Engineering
Stanford University

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Wednesday
November 29, 2006
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Sharp Thresholds for Sparsity Recovery in the High-Dimensional and Noisy Setting Using l1 Relaxations

Martin Wainwright
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Department of Statistics
University of California, Berkeley

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