Operations/Management Science Workshop

Organizer

Emily O'Neill (Emily.Oneill@ChicagoBooth.edu)

Schedule

Tuesday, 12:10p.m.-1:20 p.m.

Location

Harper Center HC3B

Please refer to the weekly announcement for up to date room or time changes.

Spring 2013

 
Date Topic Speaker
April 2 cancelled Robert Swinney, Stanford
April 9

"Optimal Design of Social Comparison Effects: Setting Reference Groups and Reference Points"

Xuanming Su, Wharton
April 16

"Non-parametric Approximate Dynamic Programming Via the Kernel Method"

Vivek Farias, MIT
*Friday* April 19

Title:  Designing Large-scale Nudge Engines

An Incentive Mechanism for Decongesting the Roads:
A Pilot Program in Bangalore

Steptacular: an incentive mechanism for promoting wellness

Balaji Prabhakar, Stanford
*Monday* April 22

Terror queue staffing and the duration of terror plots

Terror Queues

Ed Kaplan, Yale
April 30 Dynamic Bargaining in a Supply Chain with Asymmetric Demand Information Guoming Lai, UT Austin
May 14

Resolving the Paradox of Discounting Under Risk

The Trojan Horse of Time-Risk Preference Representations

Discounting Axioms Imply Risk Neutrality

Preferences, Risk Neutrality, and Utility Functions

Matt Sobel, Case Western
May 21

Dynamic Assortment Customization with Limited Inventories

 

Fernando Bernstein, Duke
May 28 Optimal Long-Term Supply Contracts with Asymmetric Demand Information Wenqiang Xiao, NYU
June 4

 

Mariana Olvera, IEOR Columbia

 

Winter 2013

 
Date Topic Speaker
January 14 "Social Insurance and the Marriage Market" Petra Persson, Columbia
January 8 Talk: Robust Queueing Theory - A theory of Stochastic Analysis via Robust Optimization Robust Queueing Theory Tractable Stochastic Analysis in High Dimensions via Robust Optimization Chaitanya Bandi, MIT
January 15 Talk: Mixed Integer Optimization: A Solution Methodology Experiments with Two-Row Cuts from Degenerate Tableaux Maximal Lattice-Free Convex Sets in Linear Subspaces Amitabh Basu, UC Davis
January 29
9:00-10:20 a.m. *Room 3A*
"Efficient and Effective Implementation of Electronic Waste Take-back Legislation" Luyi Gui, Georgia Tech
February 5 Talk: The Crowded Emergency Department: Empirical Studies of Patients & Providers Responding to Queue Length Waiting Patiently: An Empirical Study of Queue Abandonment in an Emergency Department Doctors Under Load: An Empirical Study of State-Dependent Service Times in Emergency Care Robert Batt, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania
February 12 Incentives for Experimenting Agents Larry Samuelson, Yale University
February 19 Iterative Auction Design for Graphical Valuations Ozan Candogan, MIT
 

 

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