Spring 2024
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, 11:00am
Mateo Diaz, Johns Hopkins University
"Clustering a mixture of Gaussians with unknown covariance"
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 11:00am
Weijun Xie, Georgia Tech
"Distributionally Fair Stochastic Optimization using Wasserstein Distance"
Tuesday, April 9, 2024, 11:00am
Rebekah Ann Herrman, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
"Combinatorics techniques in variational quantum algorithms"
Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 11:00am
INFORMS Student Chapter Distinguished Speaker: Mark E. Lewis, Cornell University
"A stochastic model for when to invoke telemedicine visits in a minute clinic"
Tuesday, March 19, 2024, 11:00am
Lu Lu, Yale University
"Accurate, efficient, and reliable learning of deep neural operators for multiphysics and multiscale problems"
Tuesday, February 27, 2024, 11:00am
David E. Bernal Neira, Purdue University
"Discrete nonlinear optimization: Modeling and solutions via novel hardware and decomposition algorithms"
Tuesday, February 20, 2024, 11:00am
Alberto Del Pia, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Minimizing quadratics over integers"
Thursday, February 8, 2024, 11:00am
Osman Ozaltin, North Carolina State University
"Knowledge Discovery in EHRs: Septic Shock Prediction through Temporal Pattern Mining"
Tuesday, February 6, 2024, 11:00am
Liyan Xie, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
"Navigating Online Data: Bridging Efficiency and Robustness in Change Monitoring"
Tuesday, January 30, 2024, 11:00am
Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
"Optimization methods for tensor decomposition"
Fall 2023
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 11:00am
Phebe Vayanos, University of Southern California
"Learning Optimal and Fair Policies for Allocating Scarce Housing Resources to People Experiencing Homelessness"
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, 11:00am
Sara Shashaani, North Carolina State University
"Adaptive Sampling with Trust-region Methods for Simulation"
Tuesday, November 7, 2023, 11:00am
Kaizheng Wang, University of Columbia
"A Stability Principle for Learning under Non-Stationarity"
Tuesday, October 31, 2023, 11:00am
Marcos Medeiros Raimundo, Institute of Computing at the University of Campinas
"Multi-Objective Learning - Using Conflicts to Learn"
Tuesday, October 24, 2023, 11:00am
Tianyi Chen, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
"On Computational and Statistical Challenges of Learning with Multiple Objectives"
Tuesday, September 26, 2023, 11:00am
Dong An, University of Maryland
"Quantum algorithms for linear differential equations beyond Hamiltonian simulation"
Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 11:00am
Bao Wang, University of Utah
"Implicity Methods for Deep Learning on Graphs"
Spring 2023
Tuesday, May 2, 2023, 11:00am
Kristin Bennett, RPI
"AI for Health Equity"
Tuesday, April 25, 2023, 11:00am
Mahyar Eftekhar, Arizona State University
"Improving the Quality of In-Kind Donations: A Field Experiment"
Tuesday, April 18, 2023, 11:00am
Victor Blanco, Universidad de Granada, Spain
"Math Optimization and Data Science: A Facility Location Perspective to Supervised Learning"
Tuesday, April 4, 2023, 11:00am
INFORMS Chapter Distinguished Speaker Series - Sridhar Tayur, Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University
"Quantum Operations Research Applications, Hardware, Algorithms (QOR:AHA)"
Tuesday, March 21, 2023, 11:00am
Antonio DeRosa, University of Maryland
"Solutions to two conjectures in branched transport: stability and regularity of optimal networks"
Tuesday, March 7, 2023, 11:00am
Yangyang Xu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
"Decentralized gradient methods for composite minimax problems"
Tuesday, February 21, 2023, 11:00am
Bo Shen, New Jersey Institute of Technology
"Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Additive Manufacturing"
Tuesday, February 7, 2023, 11:00am
Dmitriy (Tim) Kunisky, Yale University
"What average-case optimization can tell number theory"
Fall 2022
Tuesday, November 29, 2022, 11:00am
Alfredo Garcia, Texas A&M University
"Trading between Electricity Markets: Incentives and Learning"
Tuesday, November 15, 2022, 11:00am
Ryan Cory-Wright, Herman Goldstine postdoctoral fellow at IBM Research
"A New Perspective on Low-Rank Optimization"
Tuesday, November 1, 2022, 11:00am
INFORMS Chapter Distinguished Speaker Series - Yinyu Ye, Stanford University
"DRSOM: A Dimension-Reduced Second-Order Method for Nonconvex Optimization"
Tuesday, October 18, 2022, 11:00am
Yuejie Chi, Carnegie Mellon University
"Coping with Heterogeneity and Privacy in Communication-Efficient Nonconvex Federated Optimization"
Tuesday, October 4, 2022, 11:00am
Carleton Coffrin, Senior Scientist Los Alamos National Laboratory
"On the Emerging Potential of Quantum Annealing Hardware for Combinatorial Optimization"
Tuesday, September 6, 2022, 11:00am
Ashok Viswanathan, Director of Supply Chain Analytics, Best Buy
"Analytics - Key to Supply Chain Digital Transformation"
Spring 2022
Tuesday, April 19, 2022, 11:00am
Ruiwei Jiang, University of Michigan
"Convex Chance-Constrained Programs with Wasserstein Ambiguity"
Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 11:00am
INFORMS Chapter Distinguished Speaker Series - Samuel Burer, University of Iowa
"Convexification for Non-Convex Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming"
Tuesday, March 22, 2022, 11:00am
Yue Hu, PhD Candidate, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
"Prediction-Driven Surge Planning with Application in the Emergency Department"
Tuesday, March 1, 2022, 11:00am
Clément W. Royer, Université Paris Dauphine - PSL, France
"Optimization without derivatives in larger dimensions and across networks"
Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 11:00am
René Vidal, Johns Hopkins University
"Learning Dynamics and Implicit Bias of Gradient Flow in Overparameterized Linear Models"
Tuesday, February 8, 2022, 11:00am
Farrah Moazeni and Javad Khazaei, Lehigh University
"Optimization Problems in Modern Water, Energy, and Building Systems"
Fall 2021
Tuesday, November 16, 2021, 11:00am
Kimia Ghobadi, Johns Hopkins University
"COVID-19 Hospital Capacity Management using Math Modeling"
Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 11:00am
INFORMS Chapter Distinguished Speaker Series - Jong-Shi Pang, University of Southern California
"Some Nonsmooth Function Classes and Their Optimization"
Tuesday, November 2, 2021, 11:00am
Nathan Kallus - Cornell Tech
"Smooth Contextual Bandits"
Tuesday, October 19, 2021, 11:00am
Georg Stadler - NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
"Optimal control of PDEs under uncertainty with joint chance constraints"
Tuesday, October 12, 2021, 11:00am
Emily Tucker - Clemson University
"Reducing Drug Shortages by Improving Supply Chain Resiliency"
Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 11:00am
Gabor Pataki - UNC Chapel Hill
"How do exponential size solutions arise in Semidefinite Programming?"
Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 11:00am
John Wright - Columbia University
"Deep Networks and the Multiple Manifold Problem"
Spring 2021
Tuesday, May 4, 2021, 11:00am
INFORMS Chapter Distinguished Speaker Series - Amir Beck, Tel-Aviv University
"Dual Randomized Coordinate Descent Method for Solving a Class of Nonconvex Problems"
Tuesday, April 27, 2021, 11:00am
Swati Gupta, Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech
"Bridging Classical and Quantum Computing with Warm-starts and Coupling Graphs"
Tuesday, April 20, 2021, 11:00am
Andrés Medaglia, Department of Industrial Engineering, Universidad de los Andes, Columbia
"Exact Bidirectional (pulse) Algorithm for Constrained Shortest Path Extensions"
Monday, April 19, 2021, 12:15pm
Akwum Onwunta, Center for Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, George Mason University
"Optimization Under Uncertainty: Current Approaches and Beyond"
Monday, April 12, 2021, 12:15pm
Wesley Marrero Colón, Harvard Medical School
"Flexible Treatment Plans and Genetic Testing Strategies for the Management of Cardiovascular Diseases"
Thursday, April 8, 2021, 12:15pm
Anirudh Subramanyam, Argonne National Laboratory
"Mitigating Extreme Failures in Complex Infrastructure Systems"
Tuesday, April 6, 2021, 11:00am
John F. Raffensperger, RAND Corp., Santa Monica, CA USA
"A price on warming with a supply chain directed market"
Tuesday, March 30, 2021 11:00am
Siqian Shen, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan
"Facilty Location Involving Competition or Decision-dependent Uncertainty: New Models, Solution Approaches and Insights"
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 11:00am
Meisam Razaviyayn, University of Southern California
"Non-convex min-max optimization: challenges and recent advancements"
Tuesday, March 9, 2021 11:00am
Guanghui (George) Lan, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Advancing Stochastic Optimization for Reinforcement Learning"
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 11:00am
Andrea Qualizza, Amazon
"Transportation and Fulfillment Optimization at Amazon"
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 11:00am
Samantha Keppler, University of Michigan Stephen M. Ross School of Business
"On the Use of Operations Management in Public Education Systems"
Fall 2020
Tuesday, December 1, 2020 11:00am
Ilya Safro, University of Delaware
"Multiscale Methods in Action: From Machine Learning and Graphs to Realistic Future for Quantum Computing"
Tuesday, November 17, 2020 11:00am
Raghu Bollapragada, University of Austin (UT)
"Adaptive Sampling Methods for Derivative-Free Stochastic Optimization"
Tuesday, October 27, 2020 11:00am
Kim-Chuan Toh, National University of Singapore (NUS)
"Exploiting Second Order Sparsity in Big Data Optimization"
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 11:00am
Albert Del Pia, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Short Simplex Paths in Lattice Polytopes"
Tuesday, October 13, 2020 11:00am
Coralia Cartis, Oxford University
"Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for Large-Scale Optimization Problems"
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 11:00am
Miles Lubin, Google NYC
"Placement, Provisioning, Packaging"
Tuesday, September 29, 2020 11:00am
Juan C. Vera, Tilburg University
"The Simplex Way to Obtain Non-Negative Certificates Over Compact Semialgebraic Sets"
Tuesday September 8, 2020 11:00am
Jeff Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
"On Local Minima in Polynomial Optimization"
Spring 2020
Tuesday February 18, 2020 11:00am
Andrew Papanicolaou, New York University
"PCA for Implied Volatility Surfaces"
Tuesday January 30, 2020 4:30pm
Elaheh Fata, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Multi-stage and Multi-customer Assortment Optimization with Inventory Constraints"
Thursday January 16, 2020 10:45am
Aida Khajavirad, Rutgers School of Business
"Convexification and Global Optimization of Mixed Integer Nonlinear Optimization Problems"