Fall 2008 UMASS Amherst

Operations Research / Management Science Seminar Series


Professor Acemoglu

September 19, 2008 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 210, 11:00 - 12:00
Joint Seminar with Finance

Bayesian Learning in Social Networks

Professor Daron Acemoglu

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

Dr. Grace Lin

October 3, 2008 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00 - 12:00

Enterprise of the Future

Dr. Grace Lin

IBM
Yorktown Heights, NY

Professor Ghoniem

October 24, 2008 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00 - 12:00

Joint Vehicle Assembly-Routing Problems: An Integrated Modeling and Optimization Approach

Professor Ahmed Ghoniem

Department of Finance and Operations Management
Isenberg School of Management

University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Professor Solak
November 7, 2008 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

Air Traffic Flow Management in the Presence of Uncertainty

Professor Senay Solak

Department of Finance and Operations Management
Isenberg School of Management

University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Tom Vanderbilt
November 14, 2008 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)

Mr. Tom Vanderbilt

Author -
Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us)

Kevin Fu

December 5, 2008 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

Implantable Medical Devices: Security and Privacy for Pervasive, Wireless Healthcare

Professor Kevin Fu

Department of Computer Science
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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