Past TOPS-OM Research Seminars
2024-2025 Academic Year
| Fall 2024 | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Mohsen Bayati (Stanford) | September 25th, 1:30 PM | KMC 3-80 | Causal Message Passing: A Method for Experiments with Unknown and General Network Interference |
| Hongseok Namkoong (Columbia) | October 9th, 1:30 PM | TBA | TBA |
| Lawrence Wein (Stanford) | October 30th, 1:30 PM | TBA | Analysis of the genealogy process in forensic investigative genetic genealogy |
| Nicole Immorlica (Microsoft Research) | November 20th, 1:30 PM | TBA | TBA |
2022–2023 Academic Year
| Spring 2023: | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Yaron Shaposhnik (Rochester Simon) | September 13, 12:30-1:30 PM | TBA | TBA |
| Jeannette Song (Duke) | September 20, 12:30-1:30 PM | TBA | TBA |
| Jose Blanchet (Stanford) | October 4, 12:30-1:30 PM | TBA | TBA |
| Daniel Freund (MIT) | October 25, 12:30-1:30 PM | TBA | TBA |
| Assaf Zeevi (Columbia) | November 8, 12:30-1:30 PM | TBA | TBA |
2019-2020 Academic Year | |||
| Fall 2019: | |||
| Ruomeng Cui (Emory University) | November 6, 2019 11:00-12:00pm | KMC 5-80 | Value of High-Quality Logistics: Evidence from a Clash between SF Express Alibaba |
| Hamsa Bastani (University of Pennsylvania) | November 13, 2019 11:00-12:00pm | KMC 5-80 | Transfer Learning: from Fast Fashion to Clinical Trials |
| Mor Harchol-Balter (Carnegie Mellon University) | November 22, 2019 10:00-11:00am | KMC 4-90 | New breakthroughs in scheduling theory |
| Peng Sun (Duke University) | December 4, 2019 11:00-12:00pm | KMC 5-80 | Optimal Monitoring Schedule in Dynamic Contracts |
2018-2019 Academic Year | |||
| Spring 2019: | |||
| Shlomo Globerson (Tel Aviv University) | February 12, 2019 2:00-3:00pm | KMC 4-90 | Measuring productivity in a multi-stage, multi-product environment |
| Jay Swaminathan (UNC) | February 19, 2019 2:00-3:00pm | KMC 4-90 | Blockchain Adoption for Combating Deceptive Counterfeits |
| Brad Staats (UNC) | March 5, 2019 2:00-3:00pm | KMC 4-90 | Task Selection and Workload: A Focus on Completeing Easy Tasks Hurts Performance |
| Haresh Gurnani (Wake Forest) | March 26, 2019 2:00-3:00pm | KMC 4-90 | The Informational Role of Buyback Contracts |
| Damian Beil (UMich) | April 9, 2019 2:00-3:00pm | KMC 4-90 | The Role of Feedback in Dynamic Crowdsourcing Contests: A Structural Empirical Analysis |
| Fall 2018: | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Hummy Song (Wharton) | October 2, 2018 10:30-11:30am | KMC 4-90 | Capacity Pooling in Hospitals: The Hidden Consequences of Off-Service Placement |
| Galit Yom-Tov (Technion) | October 9, 2018 11:00-12:00pm | KMC 3-80 | The Influence of Customer Emotions in Service Operations |
| Wedad Elmaghraby (University of Maryland) | November 13, 2018 11:00-12:00pm | KMC 3-50 | New Product Preferences: Decreasing Ambiguity Aversion via Contracts |
| Itai Gurvich (Cornell Tech) | December 11, 2018 11:00-12:00pm | KMC 4-90 | On the Taylor Expansion of Value Functions |
2017-2018 Academic Year | |||
| Spring 2018: | |||
| Naveed Chehrazi (University of Texas Austin) | February 27, 2018 11:00-12:00 pm | KMC 4-90 | To Be Announced |
| Antoine Desir (Columbia) | March 20, 2018 11:00-12:00 pm | KMC 4-90 | To Be Announced |
| Kris Ferreira (Harvard Business School) | March 27, 2018 11:00-12:00 pm | KMC 4-90 | To Be Announced |
| Karan Girotra (Cornell Tech) | April 3, 2018 11:00-12:00 pm | KMC 3-80 | To Be Announced |
| Negin Golrezaei (Google) | April 17, 2018 11:00-12:00 pm | KMC 3-80 | To Be Announced |
| Morris Cohen (University of Pennsylvania-Wharton) | April 24, 2018 11:00-12:00 pm | KMC 4-90 | To Be Announced |
| Pinar Keskinocak (Georgia Tech) | May 1, 2018 11:00-12:00 pm | KMC 4-90 | To Be Announced |
| Fall 2017: | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Izak Duenyas (University of Michigan) | September 27, 2017 10:00-11:00am | TBA | To Be Announced |
| Achal Bassamboo (Northwestern University) | October 4, 2017 10:00-11:00am | TBA | To Be Announced |
| Sang Kim (Yale University) | October 18, 2017 10:00-11:00am | TBA | To Be Announced |
| Leon Zhu (University of Southern California) | November 1, 2017 10:00-11:00am | TBA | To Be Announced |
| Ruomeng Cui (Emory University) | November 15, 2017 10:00-11:00am | TBA | To Be Announced |
| Pinar Keskinocak (Georgia Institue of Technology) | Rescheduled to Spring 2018 | TBA | To Be Announced |
2016-2017 Academic Year | |||
| Spring 2017: | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Jacob Leshno (Columbia University) | February 1, 2017 11:00am-12:00pm | 3-120 | "The Simple Structure of Top Trading Cycles in School Choice: A Fluid Model" |
| Juan Serpa (McGill University) | March 1, 2017 11:00am-12:00pm | 3-120 | "Oversight and Efficiency in Public Projects: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis" |
| Baris Ata (University of Chicago) | March 22, 2017 11:00am-12:00pm | KMC 3-120 | "Dynamic Staffing of Volunteer Gleaning Operations" "Managing the Callback Option Under Arrival Rate Uncertainty" "OrganJet: Overcoming Geographical Disparities in Access to Deceased Donor Kidneys in the United States" |
| Fuqiang Zhang (Washington University) | April 5, 2017 11:00am-12:00pm | KMC 3-120 | "3D Printing vs. Traditional Flexible Technology: Implications for Manufacturing Strategy" |
| Vikram Tiwari (Vanderbilt University) | April 28, 2017 12:30pm-1:30pm | KMC 8-170 | To Be Announced |
| Karen Zheng (MIT) | May 3, 2017 11:00am-12:00pm | KMC 3-120 | To Be Announced |
| Fall 2016: | |||
| Speaker/Affiliation | Date/Time | Room | Presentation Title |
| Panos Kouvelis (Washington University) | September 14, 2016 10:00am-11:00am | KMC 4-90 | To Hedge or Not To Hedge: Contracts, Hedges and Volatile Commodity Prices |
| Dan Iancu (Stanford University) | September 21, 2016 10:00am-11:00am | KMC 3-80 | Dynamic Pricing under Debt: Spiraling Distortions and Efficiency Losses |
| Mohsen Bayati (Stanford University) | September 30, 2016 10:00am-11:00pm | KMC 3-80 | Online-Decision Making with High-dimensional Covariates |
| Adam Elmachtoub (Columbia University) | October 5, 2016 10:00am-11:00am | KMC 3-80 | The Value of Opaque Products |
| Edieal Pinker (Yale University) | November 2, 2016 10:00am-11:00am | KMC 3-80 | Imminent Mortality Prediction for Advanced Cancer |
| Gah-Yi Ban (London Business School) | December 7, 2016 10:00am-11:00am | KMC 2-80 | The Data-Driven (s, S) Policy: Why You Can Have Confidence in Censored Demand Data |
| Nagesh Gavirneni (Cornell University) | December 14, 2016 10:00am-11:00am | KMC 3-80 | Co-opetition in Services with Waiting-Area Entertainment |
| FALL 2009 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| SPEAKER | DATE | TIME/ LOCATION | TITLE |
| Christopher Tang UCLA | Thursday, September 24 | 12:30-2pm, KMC 3-80 | Project Management Contracts with Delayed Payments |
| Edieal Pinker University of Rochester | Thursday, October 22 | 12:30-2pm, KMC 3-80 | Division of Labor in Medical Office Practices |
| Andreas Schulz MIT | Thursday, October 29 | 12:30-2pm, KMC 3-80 | Order Scheduling: Inapproximability Results and Approximation Algorithms |
| Gad Allon Northwestern | RESCHEDULED Thursday, November 5 | 12:30-2pm, KMC 3-80 | "We Will Be Right With You:" Managing Customers' Expectations With Vague Promises and Cheap Talk ***This seminar has been rescheduled for March 4th, 2010.*** |
| Marshall Fisher Wharton | Thursday, November 19 | 12:30-2pm, KMC 3-80 | Retail Assortment Optimization |
| Soulaymane Kachani Columbia | Thursday, December 3 | 12:30-2pm, KMC 3-80 | Joint Pricing, Innovation, and Product Introduction Strategies under Consumer Reference-Price Effects |
| Francis de Vericourt European School of Management and Technology | Thursday, December 10
| 12:30-2pm,
| Diagonostic Services Under Congestion |
| SPRING 2009 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| SPEAKER | DATE | TIME/ LOCATION | TITLE |
| Gideon Weiss University of Haifa | Friday February 6 | 10:30 am, KMC 5-80 | Infinite Virtual Queues (IVQ) and the Control of Multi Class Queueing Networks (MCQN) |
| Martin A Lariviere Northwestern University | Thursday March 12 | 10:30 am, KMC 3-80 | Saving Seats for Strategic Customers |
| Uriel Rothblum Israel Institute of Technology | Thursday March 26 | 10:30 am, KMC 3-80 | Partition problems: Optimality and Clustering |
| Robert Shumsky Dartmouth | Thursday April 2 | 10:30 am, KMC 3-80 | Revenue Management in Airline Alliances |
| Paul Zipkin Duke University | Friday May 1 | 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 | Quality Snags in the Mortgage-Finance Supply Chain |
| FALL 2007 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| SPEAKER | DATE | TIME/ LOCATION | TITLE |
| Ken Kortanek University of Iowa | Friday September 7th | 10:30 am KMC 5-80 | Optimization Technique for Extracting a Forward **Joint talk with IOMS-Statistics |
| Rakesh Vohra Kellogg School of Management | Friday September 14th | 10:30 am KMC 5-80 | Testing Forecasts
|
| Xuanming Su UC Berkeley | Friday September 28th | 10:30 am KMC 5-80 | Bounded Rationality in Newsvendor Models |
| Amy Ward University of Southern California | Friday October 5th | 10:30 am KMC 5-80 | A Single-Server System with In-line and Off-line Waiting, Generalized Processor Sharing, and Abandonments |
| Victor DeMiguel London Business School | Friday October 12th | 10:30 am KMC 5-80 | A Stochastic Multiple Leader Stackelberg Model: Analysis, Computation, and Application |
| Sergio Chayet Washington University | Friday October 26th | 10:30 am KMC 5-80 | Product Variety and Congested Production Systems: Capacity Investments and Vertical Differentiation |
| Peng Sun Duke University | Friday November 9th | 10:30 am KMC 5-80 | Information Relaxations and Duality in Stochastic Dynamic Programs |
| Serguei Netessine U. Penn Wharton | Friday November 16th | 10:30 am KMC 5-80 | Revenue Management with Strategic Customers: Last-Minute Selling and Opaque Selling |
| Nicholas Hall Ohio State University | Friday November 30th | 10:30 am KMC 5-80 | Capacity Allocation and Scheduling in Supply Chains |
| Avishai Mandelbaum Technion | Monday December 3rd | 12:30 pm KMC 5-80 | Simple Models at the Service of Complex Realities |
| Gabriel Weintraub Columbia University | Friday December 7th | 10:30 am KMC 5-80 | Approximations for Markov Perfect Industry Dynamics |
| Philippe Baptiste The Ecole Polytechnique | Friday December 14th | 10:30 am KMC 5-80 | On Scheduling a Multifunction Radar: Models and Algorithms |
| SPRING 2007 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| SPEAKER | DATE | TIME/ LOCATION | TITLE |
| Uriel Rothblum Technion | Friday, March 2nd | 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 | Risk-Sensitive and Risk-Neutral Multi-Armed Bandits |
| Maria Polukarov Technion | Friday, March 9th | 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 | Congestion Games with (Load-Dependent) Failures |
| Timothy Laseter University of Virginia | Thursday, April 5th | 12:00 pm, KMC 5-80 | Internet Retailing Research and The Long Tail |
| David Simchi-Levi MIT | Friday, April 6th | 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 | An Axiomatic Approach for Product Variety |
| Senthil Veeraraghavan U. Penn Wharton | Friday, April 13th | 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 | Models of Customer Herding Behavior in Choosing Services |
| Greys Sosic USC | Friday, April 20th | 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 | Stable Inventory-Sharing Alliances |
| FALL 2006 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| SPEAKER | DATE | TIME/ LOCATION | TITLE |
| Jan Van Mieghem Northwestern | Friday, September 15th | 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 | Risk Management and Operational Hedging Paper |
| Kevin Shang Duke | Friday, October 6th | 10:30 am KMC 5-85 | Analysis of Serial Inventory Systems with Batch Ordering and Nested Replenishment Schedule |
| Noah Gans UPenn Wharton | Friday, October 13th | 10:30 am KMC 5-85 | Simple Models of Discrete Choice and Their Performance Bandit Experiments Paper |
| Jeannette Song Duke | Friday, October 20th | 10:30 am KMC 5-85 | Bricks and Mortar vs. Clicks and Mortar – An Equilibrium Analysis |
| Gerard Cachon UPenn Wharton | Friday, October 27th | 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 | Purchasing and Pricing in the Presence of Strategic Consumers Paper |
| Terry Taylor Columbia | Friday, November 3rd | 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 | Incentives for Retailer Forecasting: Rebates versus Returns Paper |
| Jay Sethuraman Columbia | Friday, November 10th | 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 | Online Buffer Management in QoS Switches |
| Tim Huh Columbia | Friday, November 17th | 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 | A Non-Parametric Data-Driven Approach to Inventory Planning and Revenue Management |
| Stephen Graves MIT | Friday, December 1st | 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 | The Benefits of Re-evaluating Real Time Fulfillment Decisions |
| Anton Kleywegt Georgia Tech | Friday, December 8th | 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 | Pricing Dynamics of Competitors With Imperfect Models of Competition |
| SPRING 2006 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| SPEAKER | DATE | TIME/ LOCATION | TITLE |
| Li Chen Stanford University | Friday, March 24th | 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 | Dynamic Inventory Management with Learning about the Demand Distribution and Substitution Probability Paper |
| Georgia Perakis MIT | Friday, March 31st | 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 | Multi-Period Pricing of Perishable Products: Competition, Uncertainty and Learning and Substitution Probability |
| Yao Zhao Rutgers University | Friday, April 7th | 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 | Analysis and Evaluation of Assemble-to-Order Systems with Stochastic Sequential Lead-Times |
| Costis Maglaras Columbia University | Friday, April 21st | 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 | Economics of Queues |
| Yigal Gerchak Tel Aviv University | Monday, April 24th | 12:30 pm, KMC 5-80 | Inventory Centralization when Shortage Costs Differ: Priorities and Costs Allocation |
| Roy Radner NYU Stern School | Friday, April 28th | 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 | Self-enforcing Climate-Change Treaties Paper |
| FALL 2005 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| SPEAKER | DATE | TIME/ LOCATION | TITLE |
| Xin Chen U. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign | Tuesday, August 9th | 2:30 pm, KMC 5-80 | A Robust Optimization Perspective of Stochastic Programming |
| Retsef Levi IBM | Friday, September 16th | 2:30 pm KMC 5-80 | Provably Near-Optimal Sampling-Based Policies for Stochastic Inventory Control Models |
| Peter Glynn Stanford | Monday, September 19th | 12:25 pm, KMC 5-85 | Modeling Issues for Queues |
| Peter Glynn Stanford | Friday, September 23rd | 2:30 pm, KMC 5-80 | Distributed Algorithms in the Mean Field Limit |
| Larry Robinson Cornell | Friday, September 30th | 2:30 pm, KMC 5-80 | Improved Base-Stock Approximations for Independent Stochastic Lead Times with Order Crossover Paper |
| John Birge U. Chicago | Friday, October 7th | 10:30 am, KMC 5-90 | Operational Decisions, Capital Structure, and Managerial Compensation Paper |
| Kevin Ross UC Santa Cruz | Friday, October 28th | 10:30 am, KMC 5-90 | Resource Allocation and Optimization in Service Networks |
| William Cooper University of Minnesota | Friday, November 4th | 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 | Dynamic Forecasting and Optimization with Modeling Error: The Spiral-Down Effect in Revenue Management Paper |
| Andres Weintraub University of Chile | Friday, November 18th | 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 | Vehicle Routing with Fixed and Uncertain Repair Times |
| Daniel Corsten University of St. Gallen | Monday, November 21st | 12:30 pm, KMC 8-170 | Do Suppliers Benefit from Collaborative Relationships with Large Retailers?: An Empirical Investigation of ECR Adoption Paper |
| Vinod Singhal Georgia Tech | Friday, December 2nd | 10:30 am, KMC 5-85 | Excess Inventory and Long-Term Stock Price Performance Paper Presentation |
| Tava Olsen Washington U., St. Louis | Friday, December 9th | 10:30 am, 5-85 | Service Level Agreements in Call Centers: Perils and Prescriptions Paper |