PAST EVENTS OF 2008
Following are upcoming events, including seminars, lectures, and miscellaneous offerings. Click on the title of the event for additional information or choose a link to view specific types of events.
January 2008
January 15, 2008
ISyE Faculty Candidate Seminar - Dr. Maria Vlasiou
Dr. Maria Vlasiou is interviewing for a faculty position in the Stewart School of Indsutrial and Systems Engineering on Tuesday, February 15, 2008 at 11:00 AM in the Executive Classroom. Abstract and title to be announced.
January 22, 2008
Professor Chih-Ling Tsai: Selections
Professor Tsai is a recognized expert in the practical application of statistics in business, including regression analysis, model selection, high dimensional data, time series, biostatistics, and application of statistics in business.
January 24, 2008
DOS Optimization Seminar: Bernardo K. Pagnoncelli
Bernardo K. Pagnoncelli will be speaking at the DOS Optimization Seminar on January 24, 2008. In his talk, he will provide an introduction to chance-constrained programming, showing an example and motivating the subject. The talk will be aimed at a broa
January 25, 2008
DOS Optimization Seminar: Doug Altner
Two Interesting Problems Involving Maximum Flows
January 29, 2008
Potential for Renewable Energy in Georgia
Dr. Valerie Thomas will be speaking on "Potential for Renewable Energy in Georgia" on Tuesday, January 29th from 6-7 p.m. in D.M. Smith room 105. She is the first speaker in a series of eight GT professors who will be lecturing about various issues re
January 31, 2008
ISyE Faculty Candidate Seminar - Dr. Kobi Abayomi
ISyE Faculty Candidate Seminar with Dr. Kobi Abayomi on Thursday, January 31 at 11:00 AM.
January 31, 2008
ISyE Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Kobi Abayomi
ISyE faculty candidate Dr. Kobi Abayomi is presenting his research entitled Copula Based Independent Component Analysis in on January 31, 2008.
February 2008
February 5, 2008 - February 8, 2008
Material Handling Short Course:
Georgia Tech\'s Supply Chain and Logistics Institute is offereing the Material Handling Short Course on February 5-8, 2008. In it\'s 57th year, the world\'s most comprehensive work course on material handling prepares participants to organize, plan, and l
February 5, 2008
The Logistics of Humanitarian Aid
The Georgia Tech Business Network and the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering present an expert panel to discuss the intricate logistics networks behind humanitarian aid and relief efforts.
February 13, 2008 - February 22, 2008
DOS Optimization Seminar: Ellis L. Johnson
Any integer program may be relaxed to a group problem.We define the master cyclic group problem and several master knapsack problems, show the relationship between the problems, and give several classes of facet-defining inequalities for each problem, as
February 14, 2008
Faculty Seminar with Dr. Jun Xu
Jun Xu is an associate professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. His talk is entitled "Network Data Streaming - A Computer Scientist's Journey in Signal Processing".
February 19, 2008 - February 22, 2008
Logistics Performance, Cost, and Value Measures
Logistics Performance, Cost, & Value Measures is an essential course for logistics professionals that describes and demonstrates how improving logistics performance in customer service, fill rate, response time, inventory turns, receivables, transportatio
February 19, 2008 - February 20, 2008
Stochastic Systems Group Workshop
Stochastic Systems Group Workshop
February 21, 2008
Faculty Candidate Seminar: Ning Cai
Stewart School of ISyE is having a faculty candidate seminar on Thursday, February 21 at 11:00 AM featuring Ning Cai. Cai is completing his Ph.D. in Operations Research at Columbia University in New York, expected completion in 2008.
February 26, 2008
Faculty Candidate Seminar: Itay Gurvich
Stewart School Faculty Candidate Seminar featuring Itay Gurvich. Gurvich is currently working on his PhD in Decisions, Risk and Operations at Columbia University (expected completion 2008).
February 26, 2008
Model-Robust and Model-Discriminating Designs
Professor William Li, Operations and Management Science Department, University of Minnesota will present a lecture on model-robust and model-discrimination design.
February 28, 2008
ISyE Faculty Candidate Seminar: Benjamin Armbruster
ISyE Faculty Candidate Seminar: Benjamin Armbruster
March 2008
March 3, 2008 - March 7, 2008
The Global Supply Chain Management Program
Georgia Tech\'s Supply Chain and Logistics Institute and the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals present the Global Supply Chain Management Program. This program focuses on effective planning and management of highly integrated product and
March 6, 2008
Faculty Candidate Seminar: Mustafa Akan
Mustafa Akan, who is working with Baris Ata at Kellogg, will discuss his work on Thursday, April 6, 2008.
March 11, 2008
Faculty Candidate Seminar: Judy Jin
Judy Jin, University of Michigan, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, will give a presentation on data fusion for quality improvements in complex systems.
March 12, 2008
Seminar: Robust Operational Aircraft Routing
Executive in Residence, Barry Smith, will present a seminar on robuting operational aircraft routing.
March 13, 2008
Lecture: Dynamic Risk-based Scheduling
Mark L. Spearman, Factory Physics, Inc., will lecture on dynamic risk-based scheduling.
March 13, 2008
Seminar: Tests of Unit Roots in Time Series Data
Sastry G Pantula, North Carolina State University, Department of Statistics, will present a lecture on "Tests of Unit Roots in Time Series Data."
March 18, 2008
Primal-dual interior-point methods with asymmetric barriers
Dr. Yuri Nesterov, from the Catholic University at Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, will present a lecture on primal-dual interior-point methods with asymmetric barriers Executive Classroom Tuesday March 18 11:00 - 12:00
March 19, 2008
Faculty Candidate Seminar: Santanu Dey
Faculty Candidate Seminar: Santanu Dey
March 22, 2008 - March 24, 2008
Sparsity in High Dimensional Statistics
2008 Workshop on Sparsity in High Dimensional Statistics and Learning Theory
March 24, 2008
QCF Seminar: What Is A Good External Risk Measure
Professor Steve Kou, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, will give a presentation on, "What Is A Good External Riskj Measure: Bridging the Gaps Between Robustness, Subadditivity, and Insurance Risk Measures.
March 25, 2008
Model Selection/Estimation: Multiple Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces
In this talk, we consider the problem of learning a target function that belongs to the linear span of a large number of reproducing Kernel Hilbert spaces.,
March 27, 2008
Improving the Performance of Distribution Supply Chains
Improving the Performance of Distribution Supply Chains By Using Scheduled Synchronized Ordering with Information Sharing
March 27, 2008
Risk Analysis Services at Southern Company
Risk Analysis Services at Southern Company
March 31, 2008 - April 2, 2008
Supply Chain and Logistics Optimization
The Supply Chain and Logistics Optimization is a 3-day course that dedicates one day to three critical areas: Supply Chain Modeling, Transportation Planning and Management, and Demand Planning and Pricing.
April 2008
April 1, 2008
Markov Chains & Optimality of the Hamiltonian Cycle
Markov Chains & Optimality of the Hamiltonian Cycle
April 3, 2008
DOS Optimization Seminar: Dylan Shepardson
This talk presents LP and IP formulations that are used to answer a small open question in voting theory.
April 4, 2008
This symposium will showcase the newest and most innovative approaches to quantitative finance used today.
April 8, 2008
Perspectives of Supply Chain in China, and Survey Results
In this talk, Prof. Lin will first provide an overview of logistics and the evolvement of distribution systems in China.
April 10, 2008
Control of Complex Integrated Automated Systems
This seminar addresses trends in control system development, especially agent-based approaches, which offer benefits over classical rule-based approaches.
April 10, 2008
DOS Optimization Seminars: Modeling Disjunctive Constraints
Modeling Disjunctive Constraints with a Logarithmic Number of Binary Variables and Constraints.
April 10, 2008
Statistics Seminar:Analysis of Monthly Mean Temperature Trends in U. S
Lynne Seymour. Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator Department of Statistics, The University of Georgia. will discuss an analysis of monthly mean temperature trends in U. S.
April 15, 2008
Statistical work for the development of an automotive OBD
Statistical work for the development of an automotive OBD
April 17, 2008
Computing, Business, & Operations Research
The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering is hosting Dr. William Pulleyblank, vice president of the Center for Business Optimization at IBM Business Consulting Services, on Tuesday, April 17, 2008 as the 2008 Annual Distinguished
April 17, 2008
Statistical work for the development of automotive On-Board Diagnostic
Statistics Seminar: Statistical work for the development of an automotive On-Board Diagnostics (OBD)
April 17, 2008
Two Problems on the Intersection of Revenue Management and Statistics
We will describe two problems (well, maybe closer to one & a half...) that lie at the heart of revenue management practices, and are addressed by suitably blending ideas from operation research and statistics. The first is testing the validity of a de
April 23, 2008 - April 24, 2008
Georgia Tech\'s Supply Chain Executive Forum (SCEF) represents the most relevant and valuable opportunity for senior supply chain executives to enhance the strategic impact of their supply chain processes and activities. The SCEF meets twice each year at
April 24, 2008
DOS Optimization Seminar: Moving Robots
DOS Optimization Seminar: Moving Robots
April 24, 2008
Dr. Andrew Lim: Robust Portfolio Selection with Benchmarked Objectives
Andrew Lim is a faculty candidate in ISyE in the area of QCF.
April 25, 2008
Dynamic Supply Routing for a Make-To-Order Manufacturing Network
Dynamic Supply Routing for a Make-To-Order Manufacturing Network
May 2008
May 6, 2008
Faculty Candidate Seminar: Dr. Steven Kou
Faculty candidate seminar
May 13, 2008 - May 16, 2008
World-Class Logistics and Supply Chain Strategy
World-Class Logistics & Supply Chain Strategy presents world-class practices and systems in a comprehensive and systematic format to address the changing and increasingly important role of logistics in business; logistics performance measures and benchmar
May 14, 2008
Frontiers in Design and Simulation
A Workshop with Georgia Tech's Product and Systems Lifecycle Management Center
May 15, 2008
Biofuels Production & Trade: U.S. Energy Independ/Security Act of 2007
Dr. Audrey Lee is an economist in the Office of Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Department of Energy, where she began as a Presidential Management Fellow. Her work focuses on economic and policy analysis of energy and climate change policies,
May 19, 2008 - May 21, 2008
2008 Spring Research Conference (Statistics)
The 15th Annual Spring Research Conference (SRC) on Statistics in Industry and Technology will be held May 19-21, 2008 in Atlanta, Georgia. The purpose of this conference to promote research in statistical methods that address problems in industry and tec
June 2008
June 2, 2008 - June 6, 2008
The Logistics Short Course is the flagship short course for the Supply Chain & Logistics Institute (SCL) at Georgia Tech. As the foundation for SCL\'s professional certificate in logistics, the Logistics Short Course provides an overview of contemporary l
June 3, 2008
A Sample Path Approach to Stochastic Fluid Flow Models
On June 3rd,V. Ramaswami from AT&T Reseach, will present a lecture on a sample path approach to stochastic fluid flow models.
June 24, 2008
Lessons Learned from Development of a Simulation-Based Scheduling Tool
Professor Oliver Rose, Dresden University of Technology, will present a seminar on, \"Lessons learned from the development of a simulation-based scheduling tool\" on June 24th at 11 a.m.
July 2008
July 8, 2008 - July 11, 2008
World-Class Warehousing and Material Handling
World-Class Warehousing and Material Handling is the methodology for warehouse problem solving across all areas of the supply chain. The course objective is to equip students to develop a warehouse master plan to support the corporation’s overall logistic
July 14, 2008
Outsourcing: All, Some or None?
Speaker: Andy Dishner, Director of Client Solutions, TMSi Logistics, presentation will focuses on answering four questions: (1) How do I know if I should Outsource all, some or none? (2)How do I assess my company’s readiness? (3)How do I find the right 3
