Winter 2010 Operations Research Colloquia
Wednesday
Jan 13 , 2010
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Formalizing Privacy-Utility trade-offs

Mukund Sundararajan
Google



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Wednesday
Jan 20 , 2010
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Large Traders and Illiquid Options: Hedging vs. Manipulation

Holger Kraft
Goethe University, Frankfurt and UCLA



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Wednesday
Jan 27 , 2010
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Graph eigenvalues, spectral partitioning, and flow deformations

James Lee
Department of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Washington, Seattle


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Tuesday
Feb 2 , 2010
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Surprising Results on Task Assignment in Server Farms under High Variability Workloads

Mor Harchol-Balter
Department of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University


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Wednesday
Feb 03, 2010
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Understanding Polytopes

Persi Diaconis
Department of Statistics
Stanford University


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Wednesday
Feb 10 , 2010
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Social Attention in the Age of the Web

Bernardo Huberman
HP Labs



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Wednesday
Feb 17 , 2010
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Too Interconnected to Fail: A Network Approach to Default Contagion and Systemic Risk

Rama Cont
Industrial Engineering & Operations Research Department
Columbia University


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Wednesday
Feb 24 , 2010
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Can Complexity Theory Ratify the Invisible Hand of the Market?

Vijay Vazirani
College of Computing
Georgia Tech


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Wednesday
March 3, 2010
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Approximating Generalized Min Sum Set Cover

Anupam Gupta
Department of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University


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Thursday
March 4, 2010
4:00 - 5:00 PM
The Remarkable Isoperimetric Problem and the Euler-Lagrange Equation Revisited

Richard Tapia
Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics
Rice University


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Monday
March 8, 2010
3:00 - 4:00 PM
A Non-Zero Sum Game Approach to Convertible Bonds: Tax Benefit, Credit Risk and Late Call

Nan Chen
Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management
The Chinese University of Hong Kong


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Monday
March 15, 2010
5:00 - 6:00 PM
Rigidity and Localization: An Optimization Perspective

Anthony So
Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management
The Chinese University of Hong Kong


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