Autumn 2004 Operations Research Colloquia

Thursday October 7 4:15 - 5:15 PM Building 200, Room 205 Theory and Computation of Semidefinite Programming for Sensor Network Localization and Other Euclidean Distance Geometry Problems Yinyu Ye Department of Management Science and Engineering and   Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering Stanford University [ details ] Wednesday October 13 4:30 - 5:45 PM A Fictitious Play Approach to Complex Systems Optimization Robert L. Smith Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering University of Michigan [ details ] Monday October 18 4:30 - 5:45 PM An Economist's View of Reputation: Some Models and Applications Steven Tadelis Department of Economics Stanford University [ details ] Wednesday October 20 4:30 - 5:45 PM Faster Approximation Algorithms for Packing and Covering Problems Garud Iyengar Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Columbia University [ details ] Monday October 25 3:00 - 4:00 PM Very Large Scale Neighborhood Search James Orlin Operations Research Center Massachusetts Institute of Technology [ details ] Wednesday October 27 4:30 - 5:45 PM Validity of Steady-State Heavy Traffic Approximations in Generalized Jackson Networks David Gamarnik Department of Math Sciences IBM T.J. Watson Research Center [ details ] Friday November 12 1:30 - 6:00 PM Arrillaga Alumni Center SPECIAL EVENT: DVC Meeting, honoring George Dantzig on his 90th birthday and Pete Veinott and Dick Cottle on their 70th birthdays for their contributions to management science and operations research Sponsored by the Department of Management Science and Engineering [ details ] Tuesday November 16 4:30 - 5:45 PM How to Reach Correlated Equilibrium Silvio Micali Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Massacusetts Institute of Technology [ details ] Thursday November 18 12:00 - 1:15 PM When Systems Don't Scale: Avoiding Collapse in Congestion-Sensitive Processing Systems David Alderson Division of Engineering and Applied Science California Institute of Technology [ details ] Thursday November 18 4:15 - 5:15 PM Terman 498 Aspects of Long-Range Dependence Daryl J. Daley Centre for Mathematics and Applications Australian National University [ details ] Wednesday November 24 4:30 - 5:45 PM The Cross-Entropy Method for Monte-Carlo Simulation, Rare-Event Estimation and Combinatorial Optimization Reuven Rubinstein Faculty of Industrial and Engineering Management Technion [ details ] Tuesday November 30 4:15 - 5:30 PM Terman 498 Customized Sequential Designs for Random Simulation Experiments: Kriging Metamodeling and Bootstrapping Jack Kleijnen Department of Information Management Tilburg University [ details ] Wednesday December 1 4:30 - 5:45 PM Statistical Physics, Bounded Rationality, and Distributed Control/Optimization David Wolpert Computational Sciences Division NASA Ames Research Center [ details ]

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