Seminars

Seminars are held in Y2E2, Room 101, unless otherwise noted.

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Fall/Winter 2011 Operations Research Seminars
Wednesday
October 19, 2011
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Stochastic Control Methods in Epidemics Management

Mike Ludkovski
Department of Statistics and Applied Probability
University of California Santa Barbara


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Wednesday
November 16, 2011
4:30 - 5:30 PM
The Kelly Investment Criterion: Theory and Practice

William T Ziemba
Emeritus Professor, UBC
Visiting Professor Reading, Oxford, Rome and Cyprus


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Wednesday
November 17, 2011
11 AM - 12 PM
Y2E2-300
Stock Market Crashes in 2007-2009: were we able to predict them?

William T Ziemba
Emeritus Professor, UBC
Visiting Professor Reading, Oxford, Rome and Cyprus


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Wednesday
December 7, 2011
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Axiomatic Attribution for Multilinear Functions

Mukund Sundararajan
Research Scientist, Google Inc.


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Tuesday
February 21, 2012
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Nano 232
On Finite AR Approximations for Second Order Stochastic Processes

Ravi R. Mazumdar
University Research Chair Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Waterloo

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Tuesday
February 22, 2012
4:30 - 5:30 PM
On Foams with Convex Cells Each Containing a Unit Ball

Karoly Bezdek
Computational & Discrete Geometry Professor
Centre for Computational & Discrete Geometry Pure Mathematics
University of Calgary

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Wednesday
March 14, 2012
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Measuring the Performance of Large-Scale Combinatorial Auctions: A Structural Estimation Approach

Gabriel Weintraub
Associate Professor
Decision, Risk and Operations
Columbia Business School

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Wednesday
April 11, 2012
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Stability of functionals of Markov chains and of stochastic recursions

Sergey Foss
Professor
School of Mathematical & Computer Sciences; Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
SL Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, Novosibirsk, Russia

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Thursday
April 26, 2012
4:00 - 5:00 PM
Huang 305
Subgame Perfect Consistent Stability

Daniel Granot
Professor
Operations and Logistics Division
Sauder School of Business
University of British Columbia

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Wednesday
May 23, 2012
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Optimal Sequential Exploration: Bandits, Clairvoyants and Wildcats

David B. Brown
Associate Professor
The Fuqua School of Business
Duke University

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Wednesday
May 30, 2012
4:30 - 5:30 PM
Social Computing and User Generated Content: A Game-theoretic Approach

Arpita Ghosh
Microeconomics and Social Systems Group
Senior Research Scientist
Yahoo! Research

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Seminar Archives
The OR seminar series gratefully acknowledges support from Yahoo! Inc, Infanger Investment Technology and the Dantzig and Diener-Vienott families.

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