Find seminars on operations, information, and technology that are open to the Stanford University community.
OIT seminars are held on Wednesdays from 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. PT, unless otherwise indicated.
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Spring 2022
| Date & Time | Speaker | Title |
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| Apr 13 12:00–1:00 M105 |
Soroush Saghafian Harvard Kennedy School |
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| Apr 20 12:00–1:00 C106 |
Mor Armony New York University, Stern School of Business |
Queue configurations and customer ownership: An analytical and experimental investigation joint paper with Guillaume Roels and Hummy Song (
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| Apr 27 11:45–12:45 M105 |
Gabriel Weintraub Stanford University, Graduate School of Business |
Analytics Saves Lives During the Covid Crisis in Chile: Chile’s Presentation to the Franz Edelman Award 2022 |
| May 04 12:00–1:00 Zoom |
John R. Birge The University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
Managing Prediction Markets with Informal Agents |
| May 11 12:00–1:00 Zoom |
Jay Sethuraman Columbia University |
A Systematic Approach to Selection Problems joint paper with Nick Arnosti and Carlos Bonet |
| May 18 12:00-1:00 M105 |
Daniel Russo Columbia University |
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| May 25 12:00–1:00 M105 |
Baris Ata The University of Chicago Booth School of Business |
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| Jun 01 12:00–1:00 M105 |
Assaf Zeevi Columbia University, Business School |
Structured Learning in Sequential Selections Problems (
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Winter 2022
| Date & Time | Speaker | Title |
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| Jan 19 11:45–1:00 C106 |
Jong Myeong Lim The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
Searching for the Best Yardstick: Cost of Quality Improvements in the U.S. Hospital Industry joint paper with Ken Moon and Sergei Savin |
| Jan 21 11:45–1:00 C106 |
Guy Aridor Columbia University |
Drivers of Digital Attention: Evidence from a Social Media Experiment |
| Jan 24 11:45–1:00 C106 |
Omer Karaduman Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Economics of Grid-Scale Energy Storage in Wholesale Electricity Markets |
| Jan 26 11:45–1:00 C106 |
Manolis Zampetakis University of California, Berkeley |
How to handle Biased Data and Multiple Agents in Machine Learning? |
| Jan 28 11:45–1:00 C106 |
Chara Podimata Harvard University |
Incentive-Aware Machine Learning for Decision Making |
| Jan 31 11:45–1:00 Zoom |
Jackie Baek Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Fair Exploration via Axiomatic Bargaining joint paper with Vivek F. Farias |
| Feb 02 11:45–1:00 C106 |
Yue Hu Columbia University |
Prediction-Driven Surge Planning with Application in the Emergency Department joint paper with Carri W. Chan and Jing Dong |
| Feb 04 11:45–1:00 Zoom |
Jason Altschuler Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Transport and Beyond: Optimization Over Probability Distributions joint paper with Jonathan Weed and Philippe Rigollet |
Fall 2021
| Date & Time | Speaker | Title |
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| Sep 29 12:00–1:00 Zoom |
Tauhid Zaman Yale School of Management |
The Impact of Bots in the (First) Impeachment of Donald Trump (
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| Oct 06 12:00–1:00 Zoom |
Kevin Williams Yale School of Management |
Organizational Structure and Pricing: Evidence from a Large U.S Airline joint paper with Ali Hortasçu, Olivia Natan, Hayden Parsley, and Timothy Schwieg |
| Oct 13 12:00–1:00 Zoom |
Georgina Hall INSEAD |
Traceability Technology Adoption in Supply Chain Networks (
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| Oct 20 12:00–1:00 M104 |
Elisabeth Paulson Stanford University Postdoctoral Fellow, Immigration Policy Lab |
Optimal interventions for increasing healthy food consumption among low-income populations joint paper with Retsef Levi and Georgia Perakis (
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| Nov 10 12:00–1:00 Zoom |
Nathan Kallus Cornell University |
Learning and Optimization: Separate or Integrate? (
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| Nov 17 12:00–1:00 Zoom |
Vahideh Manshadi Yale School of Management |
Online Policies for Efficient Volunteer Crowdsourcing (
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