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Operations, Information & Technology Seminars

Operations, information and technology seminars are held on Wednesdays from 12:00 to 1:00 pm, unless otherwise indicated.

Open to faculty and students in the Stanford University community.

Spring 2019

Date Speaker Title
Apr 03
12:00-1:00
E102		 Rob Bray
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University		 Unnesting the Fixed Point in the Estimation of Dynamics Programs with General Utility Functions 
Apr 17
12:00-1:00
E101		 Peng Sun
Duke University Fuqua School of Business		 Optimal Monitoring Schedule in Dynamic Contracts joint paper with Mingliu Chen, and Yongbo Xiao
Apr 24
12:00-1:00
W104		 Itai Gurvich
Cornell Tech		 On the geometry of regret ( Abstract) 
May 01
12:00-1:00
E101		 Rene Caldentey
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business 		 On the Optimal Design of a Bipartite Matching Queueing System ( Abstract) 
May 08
12:00-1:00
E101		 Fanyin Zheng
Columbia Business School		 Network Effects in Contagion Processes: Identification and Control 
May 22
12:00-1:00
E101		 Xuanming Su
The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania 		 Pricing Models for Online Food Ordering Platforms: Commission Rates and Delivery Fees ( Abstract) 
May 29
12:00-1:00
E102		 Vishal Gupta
USC		 Data-Pooling in Optimization ( Abstract)

Winter 2019

Date Speaker Title
Jan 09
12:00-1:00
E104		 Erik Brynjolfsson
MIT		 The Productivity J-Curve: How Intangibles Complement General Purpose Technologies joint paper with Daniel Rock and Chad Syverson ( Abstract) 
Jan 14
12:00-1:15
G102		 Daniel Rock
MIT Sloan		 Engineering Value: The Returns to Technological Talent and Investments in Artificial Intelligence
Jan 25
12:10-1:10
E102		 Thodoris  Lykouris
Cornell University		 Small-loss bounds for online learning with partial information
Jan 28
12:10-1:10
E102		 Sebastian Martin
MIT		 From School Buses to Start Times: Driving Policy with Optimization
Jan 30
12:00-1:00
E102		 Francesca Parise
MIT		 An aggregative game framework for the analysis of socio-technical systems

Fall 2018

Date, Time & Location Speaker Title
Sep 26
12:00-1:00
W104		 Adam Wierman
Caltech		 Transparency and Control in Platforms & Networked Markets ( Abstract) 
Oct 03
12:00-1:00
M105		 Andrew Davis
Cornell University		 Private Information and Endogenous Matching in Supply Chains: Theory and Experiments joint paper with Kyle Hyndman ( Abstract) 
Oct 10
12:00-1:00
C102		 Nicolas Stier
Facebook		  
Oct 17
12:00-1:00
M105		 Alessandro Arlotto
Duke University		 On the regret of dynamic and stochastic knapsack problems ( Abstract) 
Oct 31
12:00-1:00
E104		 Yiangos Papanastasiou
Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley		 Fake News Propagation and Detection: A Sequential Model
Nov 14
12:00-1:00
M105		 Rouba Ibrahim
University College London, School of Management		 A General Framework to Compare Announcement Accuracy: Static vs LES-based Announcement joint paper with Achal Bassamboo
Nov 28
12:00-1:00
W104		 Hamid Nazerzadeh
USC		 Market Design for Uber’s Rider-Sharing Platform ( Abstract) 
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Seminar Organizers
Daniela Saban
Daniela Saban
Assistant Professor, Operations, Information & Technology
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Yonatan Gur
Yonatan Gur
Associate Professor, Operations, Information & Technology
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Kuang Xu
Kuang Xu
Assistant Professor, Operations, Information & Technology
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