FALL 2006 UMASS Amherst

Operations Research / Management Science Seminar Series


Dr. Lougee-Heimer
September 29, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00 - 12:00

Advanced Applications of Operations Research at IBM

Dr. Robin Lougee-Heimer

IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY
Professor Hogan
October 13, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

Electricity Market Restructuring, Economics, and Operations Research

Professor William Hogan

Raymond Plank Professor of Global Energy Policy
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

Professor Barnhart
October 27, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

Optimization Approaches to Airline Industry Challenges

Professor Cynthia Barnhart

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Professor MCCallum
November 3, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

Bayesian Models of Social Networks and Text

Professor Andrew McCallum

Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Dr. Servi
November 17, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

Tracking with Maritime Application: An Overview

Dr. Les Servi

Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professor Whitaker
December 1, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 128, 11:00  - 12:00

Some Mathematical Models in Medicine

Professor Nathaniel Whitaker

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

University of Massachusetts at Amherst

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, INFORMS, and the John F. Smith Memorial Fund. The Chapter wishes to thank Professor Anna Nagurney, its Faculty Advisor, for her help and  support of this series.

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For questions, please contact the INFORMS Student Chapter Speaker Series Coordinator, Ms. Trisha Woolley, twoolley@som.umass.edu