Started in 2008, ISyE's Annual Distinguished Lecture Series brings in highly prominent speakers who have made a significant contribution to society through research areas of interest to ISyE faculty and students. The series provides a forum for the students, faculty, staff, and alumni from the Georgia Tech community to interact with these prominent lecturers. Previous lectures include the following:
2011 ISyE Distinguished Lecture
Guest Lecturer: Dr. Avishai "Avi" Mandelbaum
Benjamin and Florence Free Chair Professor of Operations Research,
Statistics and Service Engineering
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology,
Lecture Title: Service Engineering: Data-Based Science in Support of Service
Management, or Empirical Adventures in Call Centers and Hospitals
2010 ISyE Distinguished Lecture
Guest Lecturer: Dr. Bradley Efron
Max H. Stein Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics
School of Humanities and Sciences and the Department of Health Research and Policy with the School of Medicine
Stanford University
Lecture Title: Learning from the Experience of Others
2009 ISyE Distinguished Lecture
Guest Lecturer: Dr. Lawrence Wein
Professor
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University
Lecture Title: Operations Research and Homeland Security: From Models to Implementation
2008 ISyE Distinguished Lecture
Guest Lecture: Dr. William "Bill" Pulleyblank
Vice President
Center for Business Optimization
IBM Global Business Services
Lecture Title: Computing, Business, and Operations Research: The Next Challenges
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