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IROM Speakers and Seminars

Visiting Speakers

Talk InformationSpeakerPaper TopicSeminar Series
January 27
GSB 3.104
10-11:30 a.m.		 Diwakar Gupta
University of Minnesota		 On the Choice of Incentives in
Procurement Auctions		 SCOM Seminar
January 27
GSB 3.130
10-11:30 a.m.		 Chris Parker
London Business School		 Is IT Access Enough?
Evidence from a Natural Experiment in
India's Agriculture Markets		 IM Seminar
February 3
GSB 3.104
10-11:30 a.m.		 Wen Wen
Georgia Tech		 Patent Pools, Thickets, and Open Source
Software Entry by Start-Up Firms		 IM Seminar
February 6
CBA 3.304
10-11:30 a.m.		 Yingda Lu
Carnegie Mellon University		 Learning from Peers on Social Media Platform IM Seminar
February 10
GSB 3.104
10-11:30 a.m.		 Hailiang Chen
Purdue University		 IT-Enabled Broadcasting in Social Media:
An Empirical Study of Artists' Activities
and Music Sales		 IM Seminar
February 13
CBA 3.304
10-11:30 a.m.		 Lin Hao
University of Washington		 The Economics Value of Rating in App Market IM Seminar
February 17
GSB 3.104
10-11:30 a.m.		 Steven Shechter
University of British Columbia		 Optimal Screening Strategies of Patients
on the Kidney Transplant Waiting List		 RADM Seminar
February 24
ETC 5.132
10-11:30 a.m.		 Jason Merrick
Virginia Commonwealth University		 Managing Oil Spill Risk RADM Seminar
March 2
GSB 5.153
10-11:30 a.m.		 Prabuddha De
Purdue University		 An Empirical Investigation of the Effects of
Product-Oriented Web Technologies on
Product Returns		 IM Seminar
March 23
GSB 3.104
10-11:30 a.m.		 Vishal Gaur
Cornell University		 Operational Investment and Capital Structure
Under Asset Based Lending: A One Period Model		 OM Seminar
March 23
GSB 3.106
10-11:30 a.m.		 Gal Oestreicher-Singer
Tel Aviv University		 The Quest for Content: How User-Generated
Links Can Facilitate Online Exploration		 IM Seminar
March 23
CBA 4.304
2-3 pm		 Larry Carin
Duke University		 Inferring Latent Structure from Mixed Real and
Categorical Relational Data		 RADM/SSC Seminar
March 30
NHB 1.720
1-2 pm		 David Blei
Princeton University		 Scalable Topic Models and Stochastic
Variational Inference		 RADM/SSC Seminar
April 6
GSB 3.104
10-11:30 a.m.		 Sarah Rice
University of Connecticut		 Trust, Reciprocity and the Strength of Social Ties:
Economic Experiments on an Online Social Network		 IM Seminar
April 13
GSB 3.104
10-11:30 a.m.		 Leon Zhu
University of Southern California		 Bundled Procurement for (Free) Technology
Acquisition and Future Competition		 OM Seminar
April 13
UTC 1.116
2-3 p.m.		 David Madigan
Columbia University		 Statistical Methods for Drug Safety Surveillance RADM/SSC Seminar
April 27
GSB 3.130
10-11:30 a.m.		 Anindya Ghose
New York University		 Designing Ranking Systems for Hotels on Travel Search
Engines by Mining User-Generated and Crowd-Sourcing Content		 IM Seminar

SCOM Informal Seminar Series

Talk InformationSpeakerPaper Topic
February 7
CBA 6.420
12:30-1:30 p.m.		 Steve Gilbert The Role of Revenue-Focused Managerial Performance
Measures in Supply Chain Coordination
February 14
CBA 6.420
12:30-1:30 p.m.		 Sridhar Seshadri Analysis of Tailored Base-Surge Policies in
Dual Sourcing Inventory Systems
February 21
CBA 6.420
12:30-1:30 p.m.		 Qi Wu An Analysis of Inventory Financing Cost and Performance
February 28
CBA 6.420
12:30-1:30 p.m.		 Ying Chen To Be Announced
March 6
CBA 6.420
12:30-1:30 p.m.		 Edward Anderson Managing Distributed Product Development Projects:
Integration Strategies for Language and Geographic Barriers
March 20
CBA 6.420
12:30-1:30 p.m.		 Annabelle Feng To Be Announced
March 27
CBA 6.420
12:30-1:30 p.m.		 Vivek Vasudeva A Computational Study on the Effectiveness of Piecewise
Linear Approximation in Solving Non-linear Optimization Problems
April 3
CBA 6.420
12:30-1:30 p.m.		 Wen Chen On Inventory-Based Pricing Policy
April 10
CBA 6.420
12:30-1:30 p.m.		 Patrick Downes Optimization and Simulation Modeling of Army Manpower Systems
April 17
CBA 6.420
12:30-1:30 p.m.		 Seung-Jae Park Supply Chain Design and Carbon Penalty:
Monopoly vs. Monopolistic Competition
April 24
CBA 6.420
12:30-1:30 p.m.		 Canan Ulu Learning Consumer Tastes from Dynamic Assortments: A
Nonparametric Bayesian Model
May 1
CBA 6.420
12:30-1:30 p.m.		 Sebastian Souyris A Robust Optimization Approach to Schedule Ads in
Television Programming

Previous Visiting Speakers

Talk InformationSpeakerPaper TopicSeminar Series
September 16
WCH 1.108
2-3 pm		 Bobby Gramacy
University of Chicago		 Dynamic Trees for Response Surface Learning
and Optimization		 Statistics Seminar
October 14
WCH 1.108
2-3 pm		 Erik Sudderth
Brown University		 Improving the Flexibility and Reliability of
Nonparametric Topic Models		 Statistics Seminar
October 18
CBA 6.420
2:30-4 pm		 Alok Gupta
University of Minnesota		 Real-time Tactical and Strategic Sales
Management for Intelligent Agents Guided by
Economic Regimes		 IM Seminar
October 18
UTC 2.102A
5-6 pm		 John Humphrey
Pariveda Solutions, Inc.		 Leadership and Success IM Speaker
October 19
UTC 2.102A
5-6 pm		 Rob Borrego
Credera		 The Life of a Consultant IM Speaker
October 20
UTC 3.124
11-12:30 pm		 Russell Barton
National Science Foundation
Penn State		 Manufacturing Enterprise Systems and
Service Enterprise Systems Research:
Topics and Winning Strategies		 SCOM Seminar
October 21
GSB 5.154
10-11:30 am		 Jay Swaminathan
University of North Carolina		 Retail Traffic Uncertainty and its Impact on Labor
Planning, Conversion and Sales		 SCOM Seminar
October 21
GSB 5.154
1:30-3 pm		 Dharma Kwon
University of Illinois		 Employee Retention and Job Assignment Strategies
in Entrepreneurial Firms under Uncertainty
in Employee Capability		 RADM Seminar
October 28
GSB 5.153
10-11:30 am		 De Liu
University of Kentucky		 Information Asymmetry and Hybrid Advertising IM Seminar
October 28
GSB 3.106
9:45-11:15 am		 Raj Rajagopalan
University of Southern California		 Pricing and Operational Performance in
Discretionary Services		 SCOM Seminar
October 28
GSB 3.130
11-12:30 pm		 Mark Broadie
Columbia University		 Risk Estimation via Regression
Assessing Golfer Performance on the PGA Tour		 RADM Seminar
October 28
WCH 1.108
3-4 pm		 Kristen Grauman
University of Texas at Austin		 Capturing Human Insight for Large-Scale Visual
Category Learning		 Statistics Seminar
November 4
GSB 5.154
10-11:30 am		 Sethil Veeraghavan
University of Pennsylvania		 Filling Seats at a Theater: Estimating the Impact
of Posted Prices and Dynamic Discounts		 SCOM Seminar
November 4
WCH 1.108
2-3 pm		 Peter Hoff
University of Washington		 Separable Models for Multiway Array Data Statistics Seminar
November 11
GSB 3.106
10-11:30 am		 Karl Lang
City University of New York		 Consumer Co-Creation of Digital Culture Products:
Business Threat or New Opportunity?		 IM Seminar
November 11
WCH 1.108
2-3 pm		 Edo Airoldi
Harvard University		 Statistical Analysis of Populations with
Interacting and Interfering Units		 Statistics Seminar
November 15
WEL 1.308
5-6 pm		 Bob Metcalfe
University of Texas at Austin		 How Ethernet Started 3Com: The intersection of
technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship		 IM Speaker Series
November 18
GSB 3.130
10-11:30 am		 Xiuli Chao
University of Michigan		 Optimal Control Policy for Capacitated Inventory
Systems with Remanufacturing		 SCOM Seminar
November 18
GSB 5.154
10-11:30 am		 Anand Gopal
University of Maryland		 Product Market Competition and Corporate Venture
Capital: Evidence from the US IT Industry		 IM Seminar
November 18
WCH 1.108
2-3 pm		 David Rossell
Institute for Research in Biomedicine		 Non-local priors for high dimensional Bayesian
model selection		 Statistics Seminar
December 2
WCH 1.108
2-3 pm		 Stephen Jessee
University of Texas at Austin		 A Latent Traits Model of Survey Responses to
Political Knowledge Questions		 Statistics Seminar

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