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Operations, Information & Technology Seminars

Operations, information and technology seminars are held on Wednesdays from 12:00 to 1:00 pm in M109, unless otherwise indicated.

Open to faculty and students in the Stanford University community.

Spring 2017

Date, Time & Location Speaker Title
Apr 05
12:00-1:00
M109		 Gerard Cachon
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
(Meet the Speaker)  		 The Role of Surge Pricing on a Service Platform with Self-Scheduling Capacity
Apr 12
12:00-1:00
M109		 Kavita Ramanan
Brown University
(Meet the Speaker) 		 Hydrodynamic Limits of Randomized Load Balancing Algorithms ( Abstract)
Apr 19
12:00-1:00
M109		 Rakesh Vohra
University of Pennsylvania
(Meet the Speaker)  		 Network Formation & Systemic Risk
Apr 26
12:00-1:00
M109		 Joshua Reed
NYU
(Meet the Speaker) 		 Large-scale Bundle Size Pricing: A Theoretical Analysis joint with Tarek Abdallah, and Arash Asadpour
May 03
12:00-1:00
C102		 Antonio Moreno-Garcia
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
(Meet the Speaker)
 		 The Value of Fit Information in Online Retail: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment joint with Santiago Gallino
May 17
12:00-1:00
M109		 Omid Nohadani
Northwestern University
(Meet the Speaker) 		 Robust Optimization with Uncertainty Sets ( Abstract)
May 24
12:00-1:00
M109		 Donald Lee
Yale School of Management 
(Meet the Speaker) 		 Can arrival processes be modelled by simple waves? joint with Ningyuan Chen, and Sahand Negahban (Abstract)
May 31
12:00-1:00
C102		 Ryan Buell 
Harvard Business School 
(Meet the Speaker)		 Surfacing the Submerged State: Operational Transparency Increases Trust in and Engagement with Government joint with Ethan Porter and Michael I. Norton

Winter 2017

Date, Time & Location Speaker Title
Jan 18
12:00-1:00
M109		 Gabriel Weintraub
Stanford Graduate School of Business 		 New Approaches for Dynamic Oligopoly Models ( Abstract) 
Feb 01
12:00-1:00
M109		 Sharad Goel
Stanford MS&E		 Law, Order & Algorithms: A Computational Approach to Criminal Justice ( Abstract) 
Feb 08
12:00-1:00
M109		 Marcelo Olivares
University of Chile 
(Meet the Speaker) 		 Using Video Analytics to Improve Customer Assistance and Saleforce Allocation in Retail Stores ( Abstract)
Feb 15
12:00-1:00
M109		 Yoni Gur
Stanford Graduate School of Business 
Feb 22
12:00 - 1:00
M109		 Michael Luca
Harvard Business School		 Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment 
Mar 1
12:00-1:00
M104		 Daniela Saban
Stanford Graduate School of Business 		 Facilitating the search for partners on matching platforms: Restricting agent actions ( Abstract) 
Mar 8
12:00-1:00
M109		 Jacob Leshno
Columbia Business School
(Meet the Speaker)  		 The Simple Structure of Top Trading Cycles in School Choice: A Continuum Model joint with Irene Lo

Fall 2016

Date, Time & Location Speaker Title
Oct 05
12:00-1:00
M109		 Benjamin Van Roy
Stanford MS&E		 Toward Real-World Reinforcement Learning: Deep Exploration Via Randomized Value Functions
Oct 12
12:00-1:00
M109		 Philippe Rigollet
MIT
(Meet the Speaker) 		 Online Learning in Repeated Auctions Joint with Jonathan Weed, and Vianney Perchet  
Oct 19
12:00-1:00
M109		 Stephen Chick
INSEAD
​(Meet the Speaker) 		  
Oct 26
12:00-1:00
M109		 Nicole Immorlica
Microsoft Research
(Meet the Speaker) 		 Procrastination with Variable Present Bias joint with Nick Gravin, Brendan Lucier, and Emmanouil Pountourakis 
Nov 2
12:00-1:00
M109		 Terry Taylor
University of California, Berkeley
(Meet the Speaker)		 On-Demand Service Platforms ( Abstract) 
Nov 30
12:00-1:00
M109		 Bert Zwart
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
(Meet the Speaker) 		 Reliability in energy networks with random supply and demand ( Abstract)
Dec 7
12:00-1:00
Landau Econ building, room 218		 Varun Gupta
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
(Meet the Speaker) 		 Designing load balancing and admission control policies: lessons from NDS regime ( abstract) 
Stanford GSB Faculty Only: Meet the Speaker

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Seminar Organizers
Mohsen Bayati
Mohsen Bayati
Associate Professor, Operations, Information & Technology
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Kostas Bimpikis
Kostas Bimpikis
Associate Professor, Operations, Information & Technology
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