Spring 2009 UMASS Amherst

Operations Research / Management Science Seminar Series



Professor Johnson

February 20, 2009 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00 - 12:00

Major Airline Challenges and OR (Operations Research)

Professor Ellis Johnson
Coca-Cola Chaired Professor
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA

Professor Balasubramanian

March 6, 2009 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00 - 12:00

Healthcare Operations Research: Examples from the Mayo Clinic

Professor Hari Balasubramanian
Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Professor Dong

March 27, 2009 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00 - 12:00

Supply Chain Disruptions

Professor June Qiong Dong (UMass PhD '94)
School of Business
State University of New York
Oswego, NY

Professor Pentland

April 3, 2009 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

Honest Signals and Reality Mining

Professor Alex Pentland
Toshiba Professor of Media Arts & Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

Hillel

April 24, 2009 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

Traffic Assignment by Paired Alternative Segments (TAPAS)

Professor Hillel Bar-Gera

Department of Industrial Engineering and Management
Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Israel

Professor Pollin

May 8, 2009 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

How Green Growth Can Revive the Economy

Professor Robert Pollin
Co-Director - Political Economy Research Institute (PERI)
Department of Economics
University of Massachusetts 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. Professor Anna Nagurney is the Faculty Advisor for this Speaker Series.

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