Operations, Information & Technology Seminars

The GSB OIT Seminar is held on Wednesdays from 12:00 to 1:00 pm. If you have any questions regarding the seminar please email seminar organizer Kostas Bimpikis.

Please select the link above to view the schedule and email Miriam Torres for an appointment.

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Spring 2012

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

April 4Dimitris Bertsimas
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

A Computationally Tractable Theory of Performance Analysis in Stochastic Systems (abstract)

12:00-1:00 PM
SE107
April 11Edward Kaplan
Yale University

Terror Queues

Abstract
12:00-1:00 PM
SE107
April 18John R. Birge
Chicago Booth School of Business
Firm Profitability, Inventory Volatility, and Capital Structure12:00-1:00 PM
SE107
April 25Beril Toktay
Georgia Tech
Fair and Efficient Implementation of Collective Extended Producer Responsibility Legislation12:00-1:00 PM
SE107
May 2Balaji Prabhakar
Stanford University (EE & CS)

It Pays to do the Right Thing: Incentives Mechanism for Societal Networks (Abstract

Paper 1 Paper 2

12:00-1:00 PM
SE107
May 16Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi
Columbia Business School
The Network Origins of Aggregate Fluctuations12:00-1:00 PM
SE107
May 30Douglas Fearing
Harvard Business School
 12:00-1:00 PM
G101

Winter 2012

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

January 18Jun Li
Wharton University of Pennsylvania
Are Consumers Strategic? Structural Estimation from the Air-Travel Industry 12:00-1:30 PM
SE107
January 25Tim Carnes
MIT
An Optimization Framework for Smoothing Surgical Bed Census Via Strategic Block Scheduling12:00-1:30 PM
SE107
February 1Baris Ata
Northwestern University
OrganJet: Overcoming Geographical Disparities in Access to Deceased Donor Kidneys in the United States (abstract)12:00-1:00 PM
SE107
February 29Larry Wein
Stanford-GSB
Three Data-Driven Operations Research Analyses in the Public Sector12:00-1:00 PM
SE107
March 7Jeanette Song
Duke University

Tracy Lewis

Duke University
Contracting for Supply in an Unpredictable World 12:00-1:00 PM
SE107
March 14Carri Chan
Columbia University
Intensive Care Unit patient flow with readmissions: When does speedup reduce congestion? (Abstract)12:00-1:00 PM
SE107

Autumn 2011

Speaker

Title

Time/Place

October 12Dan Iancu
Stanford GSB
The Price of Dynamic Consistency for Distortion Risk Measures12:00-1:00 PM
SE107
October 19Terrence August
UCSD
Who Should be Responsible for Software Security? A Comparative Analysis of Liability Policies in Network Enviornments12:00-1:00 PM
SE107
October 26Bora Keskin
(Stanford-GSB)

Rob Bray
(Stanford-GSB)

Ani Kumarasamy
(Stanford-GSB)
Dynamic Pricing with an Unknown Linear Demand Model: Asymptotically Optimal Semi-Myopic Policies

Deriving Supply Chain Metrics from Financial Statements

On Improving the Quality of Care of Profit-Maximizing Dialysis Providers
12:00-1:00 PM
SE107
November 2Li Chen
Duke University
Bullwhip Effect Measurement and Its Implications12:00-1:00 PM
SE107
November 9Vishal Gaur
Cornell University
Systematic Risk and the Bullwhip Effect in Supply Chains12:00-1:00 PM
SE107
December 7Kostas Bimpikis
Stanford GSB
Timing the Revelation of Information in a Model of Experimentation (Abstract)12:00-1:00 PM
SE106