FALL 2004 UMASS Amherst Operations Research / Management Science Seminar Series

Date: Friday, November 5, 2004 Time: 11:00 AM Location: Isenberg School of Management, Room 112

Speaker:  Professor Soren Bisgaard Department of Finance and Operations Management Isenberg School of Management University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Biography: Soren Bisgaard is the Eugene M. Isenberg Professor of Technology Management. His research interests include Technology Management, Product Development, Statistics, Design of Experiments, Process Monitoring and Optimization, Quality Technology and Quality Management. Professor Bisgaard joined the Isenberg School of Management the Fall Semester of 2002.  He also holds a part-time position as Professor of Business and Industrial Statistics at University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Before he joined the University of Massachusetts he held positions as Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. His most recent publications have appeared in Journal of Quality Technology, Technometrics, and Quality Engineering. He also is the founding chair of the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics, is currently a Vice President of that Society, and has been the conference chair for its First and Second Annual Conference. Professor Bisgaard is a Fellow of the American Society for Quality and was awarded the Shewhart Medal and the William G. Hunter Award.

TITLE: Technology Management, Innovation and Quality

This series is organized by the UMASS Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter. Support for this series is provided by the Isenberg School of Management, the Department of Finance and Operations Management, and the John F. Smith Memorial Fund. For questions, please contact the INFORMS Student Chapter President, Ms. Tina Wakolbinger, wakolbinger@som.umass.edu