SPRING 2006 UMASS Amherst

Operations Research / Management Science Seminar Series


Professor Lazer
February 10, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00 - 12:00
 
The Parable of the Hare and the Tortoise:
Small Worlds, Diversity, and System Performance

(co-sponsored by the National Center for Digital Government)


Professor David  Lazer
Program on Networked Governance
Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University

Cambridge, MA
Professor Perakis
February 24, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

Multi-Period Pricing of Perishable Products; Competition, Uncertainty and Learning

Professor Georgia Perakis
Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

Professor Kaplan
March 3, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

Getting Started

Professor  Edward Kaplan
Yale School of Management and
Yale School of Medicine

Yale University
New Haven, CT
Professor Barabasi
March 17, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

The architecture of real networks: from the Web to social networks

Professor Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Department of Physics
University Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN
Professor Braess
April 7, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

A Paradox of Traffic Planning

Professor Dietrich
Braess
Faculty of Mathematics
Ruhr University Bochum
Bochum, Germany

Professor Hsu
April 21, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

Inventory and Production Decisions for an Assemble-to-Order System with Uncertain Demand and Limited Assembly Capacity

Professor Vernon Hsu
School of Management
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
Professor Dechter
April 28, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

Advanced Reasoning in  Graphical Models

Professor Rina Dechter
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science
University of California at Irvine


Dr. Irv Lustig
May 12, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

Computational Progress in Optimization

Dr. Irv Lustig

Manager of Technical Services
ILOG Direct

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 Representative,
 Ms. Tina Wakolbinger, wakolbinger@som.umass.edu