FALL 2007 UMASS Amherst

Operations Research / Management Science Seminar Series


Dr. Brenda Dietrich
September 14, 2007 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00 - 12:00

Services Science: a New Opportunity for Operations Research

Dr. Brenda Dietrich
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY

Dr. Siokos

September 28, 2007 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

Latest Trends of Global Equity Trading: The New Technology, the Players, and the New Legislation; Differences Between the US and the Rest of the World

Dr. Stavros Siokos (UMass - '98 Ph.D.)
Citigroup
London, United Kingdom
(Joint Management Science/Finance Seminar)

Professor Chew 

October 19, 2007 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

Music and Operations Research – The Perfect Match

Professor Elaine Chew
University of Southern California (USC)
and
2007-2008 Science Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA

Professor Jensen
October 26, 2007 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

Learning and Exploiting Statistical Dependencies in Networks

Professor David Jensen
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Dr. Joanne Hill

November 2, 2007 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 210, 1:30  - 3:00

Investment Strategy Design Meets Capital Markets - The Fit and Misfit of Operations Research

Dr. Joanne Hill

Goldman Sachs
(Joint Management Science/Finance Seminar)

Professor Krishnamurty 

November 16, 2007 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 128, 11:00  - 12:00

Decision Model Development in Engineering Design

Professor Sundar Krishnamurty
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Massachusetts at Amherst


Professor Barnett

December 7, 2007 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 128, 11:00  - 12:00

Is it Really Safe to Fly?

Professor Arnold Barnett
George Eastman Professor of Management Science
Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA


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  or the Faculty Advisor, Professor Anna Nagurney.