Operations, Information & Technology Seminars
OIT seminars are held on Wednesdays from 4:00pm to 5:00 pm. Events for the 2015-16 academic year will be added here as they are scheduled.
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| Winter 2016 | Speaker | Title | Time/Place | Meet the Speaker |
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| January 6 | Stefan Wager Stanford University |
Estimation and Inference of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects using Random Forests | 12:10 - 1:25 PM E101 |
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| January 13 | Nick Arnosti Stanford University |
Centralized clearinghouse design: a quantity-quality tradeoff |
12:10 - 1:25 PM E101 |
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| January 27 | Peng Shi MIT |
12:10 - 1:25 PM E104 |
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| February 3 | Hummy Song Harvard University |
Public Relative Performance Feedback in Complex Service Systems: Improving Productivity through the Adoption of Best Practices | 11:45 AM - 1:00 PM E101 |
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| February 10 | Carlee Joe-Wong Princeton University |
Multiresource Allocation: Fairness-Efficiency Tradeoffs in a Unifying Framework | 12:10 - 1:25 PM E101 |
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| February 17 | Kamalini Ramdas London Business School |
Variety and Experience: Learning and Forgetting in the Use of Surgical Devices (Abstract) |
4:00 - 5:00 PM P107 |
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| February 25 | Gideon Weiss The University of Haifa, Israel (Joint OIT/OR) |
FCFS bipartite infinite matching and its applications (abstract) | 4:15 - 5:15 PM Y2E2 382 |
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| March 2 | Soo-Haeng Cho Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University |
Incentives in Contests with Heterogeneous Solvers (Abstract) | 4:00 - 5:00 PM P107 |
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| Spring 2016 | Speaker | Title | Time/Place | Meet the Speaker |
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| April 6 | Panos Kouvelis Washington University in St. Louis |
4:00-5:00 PM TBA |
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| April 13 | Eva Lee Georgia Institute of Technology |
4:00-5:00 PM TBA |
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| April 20 | Paul Glasserman Columbia Business School (Decision, Risk and Operations Group) |
4:00-5:00 PM TBA |
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| April 27 | Garrett Van Ryzin Columbia Business School |
4:00-5:00 PM TBA |
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| June 1 | Jim Smith Duke University, The Fuqua School of Business |
4:00-5:00 PM TBA |
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| Fall 2015 | Speaker | Title | Time/Place | Meet the Speaker |
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| September 30 | Avi Seidman University of Rochester |
The Process Implications of using Telemedicine for Chronically Ill Patients: Analyzing Key Consequences for Patients and Medical Specialists | 4:00-5:00 PM E103 |
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| October 7 | Ming Hu University of Toronto |
Dynamic Matching in a Two-Sided Market Joint with Yun Zhou |
4:00-5:00 PM C106 |
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| October 14 | Georgia Perakis MIT Sloan School of Management |
The Analytics of Promotions: Pricing and Vehicle Planning (Abstract) | 4:00-5:00 PM E103 |
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| October 21 | Nicola Secomandi Carnegie Mellon University |
Energy and Commodity Merchant Operations: Storage Practice Revisited and Extensions (Abstract) | 4:00-5:00 PM E103 |
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| October 28 | Amy Ward University of Southern California Marshall School of Business |
Incentive Based Service System Design: Staffing and Compensation to Trade Off Speed and Quality | 4:00-5:00 PM E103 |
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| November 11 | Yash Kanoria (Joint with MS&E Department) Columbia Business School |
Competition and Choice in Matching Markets (Abstract) | 4:00 - 5:00 PM G102 |
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| November 18 | Karen Zheng MIT Sloan School of Management |
Establishing Socially Responsible Supply Chains: Transparency, Consumer Behavior, and Supply Chain Structure (Abstract) | 4:00-5:00 PM C102 |
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| December 9 | Ken Moon Stanford Graduate School of Business |
Randomized Markdowns and Online Monitoring (Abstract) joint with Kostas and Haim Mendelson | 4:00 - 5:00 PM P107 |