PAST EVENTS OF 2009
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 2009
January 9, 2009
Invited Speaker: Dr. Shiyu Zhou
Invited Guest of Jan Shi's
January 15, 2009
Self-Normalized Processes
January 15, 2009
Challenges & Opportunities for Technologies for Chronic Care
Challenges & Opportunities for Technologies for Chronic Care Management
January 22, 2009
Evaluation of Hotel Demand Forecasting Techniques
January 22, 2009
Machine Learning: Active Learning & Covariance Matrix Estimation
Research in Machine Learning: Active Learning and Covariance Matrix Estimation
January 27, 2009
CPLEX Technology Update
January 27, 2009
Research in Healthcare and Public Health Surveillance
Research in Healthcare and Public Health Surveillance
January 29, 2009
Graphical Model Selection: Polynomial-time Schemes
Graphical model selection in high dimensions: Polynomial-time schemes and information-theoretic limits
January 29, 2009
On the stationary measure of a reflected Brownian motion in a wedge
On the stationary measure of a reflected Brownian motion in a wedge
January 30, 2009
Reliable Facility Location under Probabilistic Disruptions
Reliable Facility Location under Probabilistic Disruptions
January 30, 2009
Verifiable sufficient conditions for good L1-recovery
Verifiable sufficient conditions for good L1-recovery in Compressed Sensing
February 2009
February 6, 2009
Finding Significant Large-Average Submatrices in High Dimensional
Finding Significant Large-Average Submatrices in High Dimensional Data
February 6, 2009
Methods for dynamic scheduling of home health practitioners
Methods for dynamic scheduling of home health practitioners
February 12, 2009
Infinite Virtual Queues (IVQ) and the Control of Multi Class Queueing Networks (MCQN)
February 13, 2009
Simplex algorithm for continuous linear programs
Simplex algorithm for continuous linear programs
February 13, 2009
A decision model for assembly line feeding
A decision model for assembly line feeding
February 17, 2009
Discussion on Informatics & Control for Multi-Stage Systems
Systems Informatics and Control for Multi-Stage Systems: Some Discussion on Research Topics and Open Issues
February 18, 2009
Atlanta INFORMS Meeting February 18th at 6:00 PM in the ISyE Executive Classroom
February 19, 2009 - February 20, 2009
2009 Humanitarian Logistics Conference
Natural and man-made disasters swept through various parts of the world and received much attention over the past decade. The Humanitarian Logistics Conference will focus on various topics relevant to planning, preparing, and responding to them.
February 19, 2009
Local Composite Quantile Regression
Local Composite Quantile Regression
February 20, 2009
Minimal subadditive characterization of facets
Minimal subadditive characterization of facets
February 26, 2009
Large deviations for a random sign Lindley recursion
Large deviations for a random sign Lindley recursion
February 26, 2009
Familial aggregation of multivariate traits: testing & var. selection
Familial aggregation of multivariate traits: testing and variable selection
March 2009
March 5, 2009
Operations Research & Homeland Security: Models to Implementation
The H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering’s 2009 Distinguished Lecture will be held will feature Lawrence M. Wein, PhD, of Stanford University and Philip McCord Morse Lecturer as this year’s guest lecturer.
March 6, 2009
Improved Load Plan Design through IP Based Local Search
Improved Load Plan Design Through Integer Programming Based Local Search
March 6, 2009
Analysis of Marked Pt Patterns wSpatial & Nonspatial Covariate Info
Analysis of Marked Point Patterns with Spatial and Nonspatial Covariate Information
March 12, 2009
Tail Asymptotics of Queueing Networks with Subexponential Service Time
Tail Asymptotics of Queueing Networks with Subexponential Service Times
March 13, 2009
Exploring Semiparametric Models and Likelihood
Exploring Semiparametric Models and Likelihood
March 13, 2009
Logistics Network Design with Inventory Stocking for Low-demand Parts
Logistics Network Design with Inventory Stocking for Low-demand Parts: Modeling and Optimization
March 19, 2009
The High Performance Supply Chain in a Volatile World
The High Performance Supply Chain in a Volatile World
March 24, 2009
Modeling Product Variety Induced Manufacturing Complexity
Modeling Product Variety Induced Manufacturing Complexity for Mixed Model Assembly Systems
March 26, 2009
Parametric Change-point Models for the Identification of DNA
Parametric Change-point Models for the Identification of DNA Copy Number Variations
March 26, 2009
Customer Abandonment in Critically Loaded Many-Server Queues
Customer Abandonment in Critically Loaded Many-Server Queues
March 27, 2009
Decomposition of Multi-Period Inventory Routing Problems Via ADP
Decomposition of Multi-Period Inventory Routing Problems Via ADP
March 31, 2009
Parallel server queueing systems in the heavy traffic regime
Parallel server queueing systems in the heavy traffic regime
March 31, 2009
Emulating Computer Simulators Using Compactly Supported Correlation Functions
April 2009
April 2, 2009
Splitting Randomized Stationary Policies in Markov Decision Processes
Splitting Randomized Stationary Policies in Markov Decision Processes
April 3, 2009
Computing the joint spectral radius for some of nonnegative matrices
Computing the joint spectral radius for some sets of nonnegative matrices
April 7, 2009
One shot schemes for decentralized quickest change detection
One shot schemes for decentralized quickest change detection and quickest detection in coupled systems
April 7, 2009
Fast gradient methods for network flow problems
Fast gradient methods for network flow problems
April 14, 2009
Estimating the Patient's Price of Privacy in Liver Transplantation
Estimating the Patient’s Price of Privacy in Liver Transplantation
April 16, 2009
Dynamic Server Allocation for Tandem Queues with Flexible Servers
Dynamic Server Allocation for Tandem Queues with Flexible Servers
April 16, 2009
Massive Data Analysis and Visual Analytics
Massive Data Analysis and Visual Analytics: FODAVA activities and Georgia Tech Center Plans
April 17, 2009
The Gurobi Solver
April 22, 2009 - April 23, 2009
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.
April 28, 2009
Stoch. dynamic predictions using kriging for nanoparticle synthesis
Stochastic dynamic predictions using kriging for nanoparticle synthesis
May 2009
May 12, 2009
Feasibility in Combinatorial Optimization
Feasibility in Combinatorial Optimization
May 14, 2009
Optimal Policies in Sequential Medical Decision Making
Optimal Policies in Sequential Medical Decision Making
May 14, 2009
Quality Risk in Outsourcing and Offshoring
Quality Risk in Outsourcing and Offshoring
May 14, 2009
Optimal Policies in Sequential Medical Decision Making
Optimal Policies in Sequential Medical Decision Making
June 2009
June 3, 2009
Solving Constraint Integer Programs
Solving Constraint Integer Programs
June 26, 2009
Space Shuttle Mission
August 2009
August 10, 2009 - August 13, 2009
New ISyE MS Student Information Session
New ISyE MS Student INFORMATION SESSION PLEASE SIGN UP IN ACADEMIC AREA OR EMAIL graduate.studies@isye.gatech.edu YOU MUST ATTEND ONE OF THESE SESSIONS MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2 PM TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2 PM THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 2 PM ROOM 217 INST
August 14, 2009
New ISyE PHD Student Orientation
New ISyE PHD Student Orientation Friday, August 14, 2009 10:00 a.m. Executive Classroom 228 Main Building Pizza lunch at noon ISYE Main Building Atrium
August 18, 2009
Two-Parameter Heavy-Traffic Limits for Infinite-Server Queues
Two-Parameter Heavy-Traffic Limits for Infinite-Server Queues with Delayed Feedbacks
August 25, 2009
MODELING DATA NETWORK SESSIONS BY THE CONDITIONAL EXTREME VALUE MODEL
MODELING DATA NETWORK SESSIONS BY THE CONDITIONAL EXTREME VALUE MODEL
August 25, 2009
Modeling Data Network Sessions by the Conditional Extreme Value Model
Modeling Data Network Sessions by the Conditional Extreme Value Model
September 2009
September 1, 2009
On the Rate of Convergence to Stationarity of the $M/M/n$ Queue
On the Rate of Convergence to Stationarity of the $M/M/n$ Queue in the Halfin-Whitt Regime
September 3, 2009
Infinite Horizon Optimization
September 4, 2009
Min. Schemes of Component Allocation in an Assemble-To-Order System
Minimization Schemes of Component Allocation in an Assemble-To-Order System
September 8, 2009
Modeling and simulating non-stationary, non-Poisson arrival processes
Modeling and simulating non-stationary, non-Poisson arrival processes
September 9, 2009
A Polyhedral Study of the Mixed Integer Cut
A Polyhedral Study of the Mixed Integer Cut
September 10, 2009
Deciding the Dimension of Effective Dimension Reduction Space
Deciding the Dimension of Effective Dimension Reduction Space for Functional and High Dimensional Data
September 14, 2009
Math at Top Speed: Exploring Myths in Drag Racing Folklore
In this talk, the speaker uses his mathematical training to identify rather elementary mathematical frameworks for the study of popular beliefs about drag racing, applying mathematics to better understand the principles at hand.
September 14, 2009
Does the Early Exercise Premium Contain Information
Does the Early Exercise Premium Contain Informationabout Future Underlying Returns?
September 16, 2009
Polyhedral Stochastic Integer Programming
Polyhedral Stochastic Integer Programming
September 17, 2009
The Role of Changepoints in Climate Change Studies
The Role of Changepoints in Climate Change Studies
September 22, 2009
Linear convergence of modified Frank-Wolfe algorithms
Linear convergence of modified Frank-Wolfe algorithms for ellipsoid optimization algorithms
September 23, 2009
Statistics for Business Analytics at IBM Research
Statistics for Business Analytics at IBM Research
September 25, 2009
Estimation of Multiple Noncrossing Quantile Regression Functions
Estimation of Multiple Noncrossing Quantile Regression Functions
September 29, 2009
Customer abandonment in many-server queues
Customer abandonment in many-server queues
October 2009
October 2, 2009
Innovations in Quantitative Equity Research
An introduction into quantitative equity investment process as well as the challenges and opportunities faced by today\'s quantitative investors.
October 7, 2009
Design of a Collaboration Mechanism based on Capacity Exchange Prices
Design of a Collaboration Mechanism based on Capacity Exchange Prices in Multicommodity Flow Networks
October 8, 2009
Length Bias in the Measurements of Carbon Nanotubes
Length Bias in the Measurements of Carbon Nanotubes
October 12, 2009
Book Signing with Ray Anderson (IE '56)
Ray Anderson (IE 1956), CEO of Interface Inc., will be at the Georgia Tech Bookstore on October 12th at 5pm for a book signing to promote Confessions of a Radical Industrialist, his latest book about sustainability and environmental challenges.
October 16, 2009
Sustainable Globally Integrated Enterprise
Sustainable Globally Integrated Enterprise
October 20, 2009
Impact of size and occupancy of hospital on the extent of ambulance
The impact of size and occupancy of hospital on the extent of ambulance diversion: Theory and evidence
October 22, 2009 - October 23, 2009
ISyE's fall Advisory Board Meeting will be held on October 22- 23, 2009
October 23, 2009
Dependency/Competition among Corn Yield fractions
Dependency/Competition among Corn Yield fractions: Proxies for Land Use Change
October 26, 2009
Capacity Sharing and Cost Allocation among Independent Firms
Capacity Sharing and Cost Allocation among Independent Firms in the Presence of Congestion
October 27, 2009
Surprising Results on Task Assignment in Server Farms
Surprising Results on Task Assignment in Server Farms under High Variability Workloads
October 30, 2009
Brownian Covariance and DISCO Analysis
Brownian Covariance and DISCO Analysis
November 2009
November 2, 2009
Feasibility and potential benefits of a population-wide
Feasibility and potential benefits of a population-wide passive immunotherapy program during an influenza pandemic
November 3, 2009
Using eigenvalue techniques to obtain better bounds for convex
Using eigenvalue techniques to obtain better bounds for convex objective, non-convex optimization problems
November 3, 2009
The Knowledge Gradient Policy for Optimal Learning
The Knowledge Gradient Policy for Optimal Learning
November 3, 2009
A Tale of Two Options
November 5, 2009
Recent Developments in the Use of Kriging Response Surfaces
Recent Developments in the Use of Kriging Response Surfaces for Black-Box Global Optimization
November 6, 2009
Approaches for the Order-Picking Problem in Parallel-Aisle Warehouses
Approaches for the Order-Picking Problem in Parallel-Aisle Warehouses
November 10, 2009
Local Gaussian Process Models for Real-time Performance Prediction
Local Gaussian Process Models for Real-time Performance Prediction in Nonlinear Nonstationary Systems
November 10, 2009
Rare events & asymptotics for stationary distribution of Markov chains
Rare events and asymptotics for the stationary distribution of Markov chains
November 10, 2009
Fundamental Relations in Risk Management: Theory and Case Studies
Fundamental Relations in Risk Management: Theory and Case Studies
November 12, 2009
Military Logistics
November 12, 2009 - November 14, 2009
The 7th Georgia Tech-ORNL International Conference on Bioinformatics
The 7th Georgia Tech-ORNL International Conference on Bioinformatics
November 12, 2009
Directional Dependence in Multivariate Distributions
Directional Dependence in Multivariate Distributions
November 17, 2009
The Transfer Learning Exploratory Graphical Models
The Transfer Learning Exploratory Graphical Models with Application in Alzheimer’s Disease
November 18, 2009
Split Rank of Triangle and Quadrilateral Inequalities
Split Rank of Triangle and Quadrilateral Inequalities
November 19, 2009
Strategic safety stocks in supply chains: update on recent research
Strategic safety stocks in supply chains: update on recent research
November 19, 2009
HOW MANY DISCOVERIES ARE LOST BY IGNORING MODERN STATISTICAL METHODS? AN UPDATE WHEN COMPARING GROUPS AND STUDYING ASSOCIATIONS
November 24, 2009
Quality and Flexibility: Coupled or Independent?
Quality and Flexibility: Coupled or Independent?
