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.
Spring 2025
| Date & Time | Speaker | Title |
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| Apr 9 3:45pm - 5:00pm M105 |
Rakesh Vohra University of Pennsylvania joint with Economics |
Information Design for Many Parameters joint paper with Thanh Nguyen
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| Apr 16 12:00pm - 1:00pm M105 |
Auyon Siddiq University of California, Los Angeles |
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| Apr 23 12:00pm - 1:00pm M105 |
Ramesh Johari Stanford University |
When Does Interference Matter? Decision-Making in Platform Experiments joint paper with Hannah Li, Anushka Murthy and Gabriel Weintraub
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| Apr 30 12:00pm - 1:00pm E103 |
Bora Keskin Duke University |
Feature-based Scheduling and Dynamic Learning with a Large Backlog joint paper with Can Zhang
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| May 7 12:00pm - 1:00pm E103 |
Vasiliki Kostami HEC Paris Business School |
Advertising by Recruiting Influencers joint paper with Maya Jalloul
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| May 21 12:00pm - 1:00pm M105 |
Serguei Netessine The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania |
When Where Watt: Harnessing the Value of Time and Location for Renewable Electricity Generation joint paper with Vishrut Rana and Christian Kaps |
| May 28 12:00pm - 1:00pm M105 |
Donald Lee Emory University |
Adventures in distributional machine learning for business
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| June 04 12:00pm - 1:00pm M105 |
Kartik Hosanagar The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania |
Winter 2025
| Date & Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Jan 8 12:00 - 1:00pm M105 |
Akshit Kumar Columbia Business School |
Dynamic Resource Allocation: Theory and Practice |
| Jan 9 12:00pm - 1:00pm M105 |
Angela Kohlenberg Kellogg School of Management |
Greedy Matching of Impatient Agents: The Role of Inventory |
| Jan 15 12:00pm - 1:00pm M105 |
Aras Selvi Imperial College |
Differential Privacy via Distributionally Robust Optimization |
| Jan 16 12:00pm - 1:00pm M105 |
Jiayu Kamessi Zhao Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Two-Sided Flexibility in Platforms |
| Jan 21 12:00pm - 1:00pm M105 |
Ethan Che Columbia Business School |
Differentiable Discrete Event Simulation: Applications in Queuing Network Control joint paper with Jing Dong and Hongseok Namkoong |
| Jan 22 12:00pm - 1:00pm M105 |
Daniel Halpern Harvard University |
Why AI Needs Social Choice Abstract |
| Feb 26 12:00pm - 1:00pm M105 |
Stefan Wager Stanford University |
Optimal Mechanisms for Demand Response: An Indifference Set Approach joint paper with Mohammad Mehrabi and Omer Karaduman |
| Mar 05 12:00pm - 1:00pm M105 |
Bahar Taskesen The University of Chicago, Booth School of Business |
Reliable Data-driven Decision Making through Optimal Transport
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| Mar 12 12:00pm - 1:00pm BC130 |
Rouba Ibrahim School on Management, University College of London |
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Fall 2024
| Date & Time | Speaker | Title |
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| Oct 2 12:00pm - 1:00pm M105 |
Stefanos Zenios Stanford GSB |
Does Lean Startup Work? Evidence from Randomized Control Trials |
| Oct 9 12:00pm - 1:15pm M105 |
Benjamin Olken MIT Economics Joint with Political Economy |
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| Oct 15 12:00 - 1:00 pm M105 |
Student Presentations | |
| Oct 16 12:00 - 1:00 pm M105 |
Student Presentations | |
| Oct 30 12:00pm - 1:00pm E247 |
Dorothee Honhon The University of Texas at Dallas |
It’s still good! Date labels & food waste
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| Nov 6 12:00pm - 1:00pm M105 |
Achal Bassamboo Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management |
Asymptotically Optimal Adaptive A/B Tests for Average Treatment Effect
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| Nov 13 12:00pm - 1:00pm M105 |
Mert Demirer MIT Sloan School of Management |
How On-Demand Inputs Change Firm Production and Business Dynamism: The Case of Cloud Computing Joint paper with James Brand
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| Nov 20 12:00pm - 1:00pm M105 |
Ali Fattahi John Hopkins Carey Business School |
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| Dec 3 12:00pm - 1:00pm M105 |
Brian T. Tomlin Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth |
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Seminar Organizers
Jann Spiess
Associate Professor of Operations, Information & Technology
Ömer Karaduman
Assistant Professor of Operations, Information, and Technology
Yue Hu
Assistant Professor of Operations, Information and Technology
Stefanos Zenios
The Investment Group of Santa Barbara Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Operations, Information & Technology