Spring 2007 UMASS Amherst

Operations Research / Management Science Seminar Series


Profesor Ozdaglar
February 23, 2007 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00 - 12:00

Competition and Efficiency in Congested Networks

Professor Asu Ozdaglar

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Professor Larson
March 9, 2007 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00 - 12:00

Simple Models of Influenza Progression and Control

Professor Richard Larson

Mitsui Professor and Director
Center for Engineering Systems Fundamentals
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA


Professor Polenske
March 16, 2007 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

Coke and Steel: The Strategic Significance of Their Regional Development in China in the Global Supply Chain

Professor Karen R. Polenske

Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

Professor Ni
March 30, 2007 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

Transportation Modeling and Simulation: an Effort of 50+ Years

Professor Daiheng Ni

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering

University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Professor David Parkes
April 13, 2007 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

Adaptive Online Allocation Mechanisms for Single-Valued Domains

Professor David Parkes

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences and
Associate Professor of Computer Science
Division of Engineering and Applied Science
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

Professor McLaughlin
April 27, 2007 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

Chasing Interdisciplinarity while Chasing Tornadoes: an Overview of the CASA Engineering Research Center

Professor David J. McLaughlin

Director, ERC for Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere (CASA)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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