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SPRING 2006 Activities Calendar

February 10, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management

Room 112,
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

The Parable of the Hare and the Tortoise:
Small Worlds, Diversity, and System Performance
(co-sponsored by the National Center for Digital Government)


Professor David  Lazer

Program on Networked Governance
Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Slides Available

February 17, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management

Room 112,
4:00 - 6:00 PM


Valentine’s Party

February 24, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management

Room 112,
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Multi-Period Pricing of Perishable Products; Competition, Uncertainty and Learning

Professor Georgia Perakis

Sloan School of Management
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

March 3, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management

Room 112,
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Getting Started

Professor  Edward Kaplan
Yale School of Management and
Yale School of Medicine
Yale University
New Haven, CT

Slides Available

March 10, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management

Room 112,
11:00  AM - 12:00 PM

On the Integration of Production, Transportation and Inventory Control

Yue Jin
Ph.D. Candidate
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
University of Massaschusetts

March 17, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management

Room 112,
11:00  AM - 12:00 PM

The architecture of real networks: from the Web to social networks

Professor Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Department of Physics
University Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN

Slides Available

April 7, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management

Room 112,
11:00  AM - 12:00 PM

 

A Paradox of Traffic Planning

Professor Dietrich Braess
Faculty of Mathematics
Ruhr University Bochum
Bochum, Germany

April 21, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management

Room 112,
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Inventory and Production Decisions for an Assemble-to-Order System with Uncertain Demand and Limited Assembly Capacity

Professor Vernon Hsu
School of Management
George Mason University
Fairfax, VA

April 28, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112,
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Advanced Reasoning in  Graphical Models

Professor Rina Dechter
Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science
University of California at Irvine

May 12, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112,
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM

Computational Progress in Optimization

Dr. Irv Lustig
Manager of Technical Services
ILOG Direct

May 18, 2006 - Isenberg School of Management
Room 112,
16:00 PM - 18:00 PM

Year-end Party

 

 

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