Spring 2022
Tuesday, April 5, 2022, 11:00 a.m.
INFORMS Distinguished Speaker: Samuel Burer, University of Iowa
"Convexification for Non-Convex Mixed-Integer Quadratic Programming"
Tuesday, March 22, 2022, 11:00 a.m.
Yue Hu, PhD Candidate, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
"Prediction-Driven Surge Planning with Application in the Emergency Department"
Tuesday, March 1, 2022, 11:00 am
Clément W. Royer, Université Paris Dauphine-PSL, France
"Optimization without derivatives in larger dimensions and across networks"
Tuesday, February 15, 2022, 11:00 am
René Vidal, Johns Hopkins University
"Learning Dynamics and Implicit Bias of Gradient Flow in Overparameterized Linear Models"
Tuesday, February 8, 2022, 11:00 am
Farrah Moazeni and Javad Khazaei, Lehigh University
"Optimization Problems in Modern Water, Energy, and Building Systems"
Fall 2021
Tuesday, November 16, 2021, 11:00 am
Kimia Ghobadi, Johns Hopkins University
"COVID-19 Hospital Capacity Management using Math Modeling"
Tuesday, November 9, 2021, 11:00 am
INFORMS Distinguished Speaker: Dr. Jong-Shi Pang, University of Southern California
"Some Nonsmooth Function Classes and Their Optimization"
Tuesday, November 2, 2021, 11:00 am
Nathan Kallus - Cornell Tech
"Smooth Contextual Bandits"
Tuesday, October 19, 2021, 11:00 am
Georg Stadler - NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
"Optimal control of PDEs under uncertainty with joint chance constraints"
Tuesday, October 12, 2021, 11:00 am
Emily Tucker - Clemson University
"Reducing Drug Shortages by Improving Supply Chain Resiliency"
Tuesday, October 5, 2021, 11:00 am
Gabor Pataki - UNC Chapel Hill
"How do exponential size solutions arise in Semidefinite Programming?"
Tuesday, September 28, 2021, 11:00 am
John Wright - Columbia University
"Deep Networks and the Multiple Manifold Problem"
Spring 2021
Tuesday, May 4, 2021, 11:00am
INFORMS Chapter Distinguished Speaker - Dr. Amir Beck, Tel-Aviv University
"Dual Randomized Coordinate Descent Method for Solving a Class of Nonconvex Problems"
Tuesday, April 27, 2021, 11:00am
ISE Seminar Series - Dr. 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
ISE Seminar Series - 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
ISE Seminar Series - Akwum Onwunta, Center for Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, George Mason University
"Optimization Under Uncertainty: Current Approaches and Beyond"
Monday, April 12, 2021, 12:15pm
ISE Seminar Series - 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
ISE Seminar Series - Anirudh Subramanyam, Argonne National Laboratory
"Mitigating Extreme Failures in Complex Infrastructure Systems"
Tuesday, April 6, 2021, 11:00am
ISE Seminar Series -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
ISE Seminar Series -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
ISE Seminar Series - Meisam Razaviyayn, University of Southern California
"Non-convex min-max optimization: challenges and recent advancements"
Tuesday, March 9, 2021 11:00am
ISE Seminar Series - Guanghui (George) Lan, Georgia Institute of Technology
"Advancing Stochastic Optimization for Reinforcement Learning"
Tuesday, February 23, 2021 11:00am
ISE Seminar Series - Andrea Qualizza, Amazon
"Transportation and Fulfillment Optimization at Amazon"
Tuesday, February 9, 2021 11:00am
ISE Seminar Series - 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
ISE Seminar Series - 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
ISE Seminar Series - Raghu Bollapragada, University of Austin (UT)
"Adaptive Sampling Methods for Derivative-Free Stochastic Optimization"
Tuesday, October 27, 2020 11:00am
ISE Seminar Series - Kim-Chuan Toh, National University of Singapore (NUS)
"Exploiting Second Order Sparsity in Big Data Optimization"
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 11:00am
ISE Seminar Series - Albert Del Pia, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Short Simplex Paths in Lattice Polytopes"
Tuesday, October 13, 2020 11:00am
ISE Seminar Series - Coralia Cartis, Oxford University
"Dimensionality Reduction Techniques for Large-Scale Optimization Problems"
Tuesday, October 6, 2020 11:00am
ISE Seminar Series - Miles Lubin, Google NYC
"Placement, Provisioning, Packaging"
Tuesday September 29, 2020 11:00am
ISE Seminar Series - Juan C. Vera, Tilburg University
"The Simplex Way to Obtain Non-Negative Certificates Over Compact Semialgebraic Sets"
Tuesday September 8, 2020 11:00am
ISE Seminar Series - Jeff Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University
"On Local Minima in Polynomial Optimization"
Spring 2020
Tuesday February 18, 2020 11:00am
ISE Seminar Series - Andrew Papanicolaou, New York University
"PCA for Implied Volatility Surfaces"
Tuesday January 30, 2020 4:30pm
ISE Seminar Series - Elaheh Fata, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Multi-stage and Multi-customer Assortment Optimization with Inventory Constraints"
Thursday January 16, 2020 10:45am
ISE Seminar Series - Aida Khajavirad, Rutgers School of Business
"Convexification and Global Optimization of Mixed Integer Nonlinear Optimization Problems"