Seminars for Spring 2008:

2/5/08

Speaker:     Dan Stratila
Affiliation:    MIT,
Cambridge, MA
Title:           Primal-Dual Algorithms for Network Design and Inventory
                  Problems with Concave Costs

  2/7/08

Speaker:     Matthias Koeppe
Affiliation:    Otto-von-Guericks-University,
Magdeburg, Germany
Title:           Rational generating function techniques for integer linear and
                  nonlinear optimization              

 2/11/08

Speaker:     Hongchao Zhang
Affiliation:   
University of Minnesota
Title:           Recent Advances in Box Constrained Optimization

 2/15/08

Speaker:     Zhaosong Lu
Affiliation:   
Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
Title:           Primal-dual gradient methods for linear cone programming and
                  applications

   2/20/08

  Speaker:     Nikolai Kukushkin
  Affiliation:    Russian
Academy of Sciences
  Title
:           Acyclicity of improvements in finite game forms

   2/21/08

  Speaker:     Myong Jeong
  Affiliation:   
University of Tennessee
  Title
:           Data Mining with High-dimensional Functional Data and Image
                    Sensor Signals

   3/13/08

                    RUTCOR BrownBag:
  Speaker:    
Yao Zhao
  Affiliation:    MSIS Department,
Rutgers Business School
  Title:           Title: Integrating Inventory Planning with Project Management in
                    Project-Driven Supply Chains

   3/26/08

  Speaker:     Lifeng Chen
  Time/Date: 
2:00 PM, March 26, 2008 
 Affiliation:    Department of Industrial Engr. & Operations Researach
                   
Columbia University
  Title:           Local Search Approximation Algorithms for Deterministic
                    Inventory Optimization

  3/31/08

                    RUTCOR Colloquium: (Note different day and time)
  Time:         
4:15 PM
  Speaker:     Akimichi Takemura
  Affiliation:    Department of Mathematical Informatics
                    Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
                    The University of Tokyo
   Title:          Comparison of proof techniques in game-theoretic probability and
                    measure-theoretic probability

  4/3/08

                    RUTCOR Colloquium:
   Speaker:    Martin Golumbic
   Affiliation:   The Caesarea Rothschild Institute
                    University of Haifa
   Title:          A characterization of chain probe graphs

   4/10/08

                    RUTCOR Colloquium:
   Speaker:    József Bukszár
   Affiliation:  
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
   Title:          Estimate of the individual effect sizes in multiple-hypothesis testing
                    problem and its applications

   4/17/08

                    RUTCOR Colloquium (Room 166 - 1:30 PM)
   Speaker:    Gergely Madi-Nagy
   Affiliation:   Budapest University of Technology & Economics, Hungary
   Title:          Bounding Expectations of Functions of Random Vectors with Given
                    Marginals and some Moments: Applications of the Multivariate  
                    Discrete Moment Problem
            

   5/1/08

                    RUTCOR Colloquium  (Room 166 - 1:30 PM)
  Speaker:     Nir Halman
  Affiliation:    Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT
  Title:           Approximating Functions in Logarithmic Space and Time:
                    a "Plug & Play" Approach