UMASS Amherst Student Chapter of INFORMS  

Fall 2009 Activities Calendar

 

 

September 18, 2009 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 128, 11:00 - 12:00

Food Safety in a Global Supply Chain

Dr. Mary Helander

IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Yorktown Heights, NY

The presentation in pdf format

  

October 2, 2009 -  Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00 - 12:00

Joint Seminar with Finance

Kill All the Quants?: Models vs. Mania in the Current Financial Crisis

Professor Andrew Lo

Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

 

October 16, 2009  Newman Center     3:00PM – 5:00PM


Third Annual INFORMS Student Chapter Ping Pong Tournament

 

October 23, 2009 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00 - 12:00

 

Emergency Logistics Issues Impacting the Response to KATRINA: What Went Wrong? What Could We Do to Avoid a Repeat?

Professor Jose Holquin-Veras

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY

The presentation in pdf format

November 6, 2009 -     Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

 

A Decision Support System for Optimizing Reservoir Operations Using Ensemble Streamflow Predictions (ESP)

Professor
Richard N. Palmer

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

 

 November 20, 2009 -  Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

 

The Nature of Wealth and the Dynamics of Inequality from Pre-history to the Knowledge-based Economy

Professor Sam Bowles

Santa Fe Institute and the University of Siena
Professor Emeritus - University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

 

December 4, 2009 -      Isenberg School of Management
Room 112, 11:00  - 12:00

Forensic Investigation of the Internet and Mobile Systems

Professor Brian Levine

Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

December 11, 2009 –   Isenberg School of Management Room 112, 4:00-6:00

 

INFORMS End of Semester Party

 

 

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