Spring 2010 UMASS Amherst

Operations Research / Management Science Seminar Series


Professor Mangaliso

February 19, 2010 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00 - 12:00

Research Capacity Building as a Prerequisite for the Competitiveness of a National System of Innovation: Perspectives from the National Research Foundation

Professor Mzamo P. Mangaliso

Department of Management
Isenberg School of Management
UMass Amherst

Dr. Brooks

March 5, 2010 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00 - 12:00

Smart Grid Development

Richard Brooks

ISO-New England
Holyoke, MA

Professor Matsypura

March 26, 2010 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 108, 11:00 - 12:00

Combinatorial Analysis of Option Spreads

Professor Dmytro Matsypura

Discipline of Operations Management and Econometrics
Faculty of Economics and Business
University of Sydney
Sydney, Australia

Professor Jacobson

April 2, 2010 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00 - 12:00

An Analysis of Pediatric Vaccine Pricing and Stockpiling Issues

Professor Sheldon Jacobson

Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois
Urbana, IL

(Seminar co-funded by the INFORMS Speakers Bureau)

Professor Bertsimas
April 23, 2010 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00 (Joint Seminar with Finance)

Advances in Multistage Optimization

Professor Dimitris Bertsimas

Boeing Professor of Operations Research
Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Professor Gumus
April 30, 2010 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

Supply Side Story: Risks, Guarantees, Competition and Information Asymmetry

Professor Mehmet Gumus

Desautels Faculty of Management
McGill University
Montreal, Canada

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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