Workshop in Operations/Management Science
Organizer
Johannes de Nova. Please refer to the weekly announcement for up-to-date room or time changes.
When possible, links to the workshop papers are posted to this page for printing. Occasionally, speakers opt not to circulate their papers. Therefore, the link will be unavailable.
Please note that Spring 2020 workshops are currently on hiatus.
Winter 2020
| Tuesday, January 7 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B
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No meeting |
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Tuesday, January 14
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12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Network Revenue Management with Performance Guarantees: An Approximate Dynamic Programming Approach (see related paper) |
Mika Sumida |
Cornell University |
| Tuesday, January 21 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
From affine to threshold policies: a new framework in dynamic robust optimization |
Omar El Housni |
Columbia University |
| Tuesday, January 28 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B
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Large Dimensional Latent Factor Modeling with Missing Observations and Applications to Causal Inference |
Ruoxuan Xiong |
Stanford University |
| Tuesday, February 4 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Online Linear Programming: Dual Convergence, New Algorithms, and Regret Bounds (abstract) (full paper) |
Xiaocheng Li
|
Stanford University |
| Tuesday, February 11 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Large-Scale Optimization and Nonconvexity: From Deep Learning to Energy Markets (abstract) (Paper 1) (Paper 2) |
Navid Azizan |
Caltech |
| Tuesday, February 18 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Predicting with Proxies: Transfer Learning in High Dimension |
Hamsa Bastani |
University of Pennsylvania |
| Monday, February 24 |
12:10–1:10 p.m.
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HC-3B |
CloudEx: Using Accurate Clocks to Build a Financial Exchange in the Cloud (abstract) (Paper 1) (Paper 2) |
Balaji Prabhakar |
Stanford |
| Tuesday, February 25 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Incentive-aware Learning (Paper 1) (Paper 2) |
Negin Golrezaei |
MIT |
| Tuesday, March 3 |
1:30–2:30 p.m. |
C05 |
Efficient Graph Matching: Algorithms and Theory (abstract) (Paper 1) (Paper 2) (Paper 3) |
Jiaming Xu |
Duke University |
Autumn 2019
| Tuesday, September 24 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B
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Data-Pooling in Stochastic Optimization |
Vishal Gupta |
University of Southern California |
Tuesday, October 1
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12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Rent-to-Own Business Models in Developing Economies |
Jose Guajardo |
UC Berkeley |
| Tuesday, October 8 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
3D Printing and the Future of Spare Parts (Abstract) (Relevant Papers:
"3D Printing of Spare Parts via IP License Contracts" and "Stock or Print? Impact of 3-D Printing on Spare Parts Logistics") |
Jeannette Song |
Duke University |
| Tuesday, October 15 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B
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Optimal Genetic Testing for Families |
Kanix Wang |
The University of Chicago |
| Tuesday, October 22 |
No Meeting (INFORMS) |
| Tuesday, October 29 |
No Meeting |
| Tuesday, November 5 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Does crowdfunding benefit entrepreneurs and venture capital investors? |
Volodymyr Babich |
Georgetown University |
| Tuesday, November 12 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Management and Effects of In-Store Promotional Displays |
Ali Parlaktürk |
University of North Carolina |
| Tuesday, November 19 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Dynamic Optimization of Mobile Push Advertising Campaigns |
Van-Anh Truong |
Columbia University |
| Tuesday, November 26 |
No Meeting |
| Tuesday, December 3 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Seeding the Herd: Pricing and Welfare Effects of Social Learning Manipulation |
Yiangos Papanastasiou |
UC Berkeley |
Spring 2019
| Tuesday, April 2 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B
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Market Design for Uber's Ride-Hailing Platform |
Hamid Nazerzadeh |
University of Southern California |
Tuesday, April 9
|
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
The Price and Variety Effects of Vertical Mergers |
Awi Federgruen |
Columbia University |
| Tuesday, April 16 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Learning and Efficiency of Outcomes in Games |
Eva Tardos |
Cornell University |
| Tuesday, April 23 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B
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Achieving High-Service Level without Safety Stock? Optimal Rationing Policy of Pooled Resources |
Jiawei Zhang |
New York University |
| Tuesday, April 30 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Improving Welfare in Agricultural Supply Chains in Developing Countries |
Karen Zheng |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Tuesday, May 7 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Learning in Repeated Auctions with Budgets: Regret Minimization and Equilibrium |
Santiago Balseiro |
Columbia University |
| Tuesday, May 14 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Adaptive Sequential Experiments with Unknown Information Flows |
Yonatan Gur |
Stanford University |
| Tuesday, May 21 |
No Meeting |
| Tuesday, May 28 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Models and Methods for Omni-channel Fulfillment (CANCELLED) |
R Ravi |
Carnegie Mellon University |
| Tuesday, June 4 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Business Models for Technology-Intensive Supply Chains |
Hyoduk Shin |
University of California, San Diego |
| Tuesday, June 11 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Managing inventory for a multi-divisional corporation with cash pooling |
Kevin Shang |
Duke University |
Winter 2019
| Tuesday, Jan 8 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B
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A Primal-Dual Approach to Analyzing ATO Systems |
Levi DeValve |
Duke University |
Tuesday, Jan 15
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12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Learning Models with Uniform Subpopulation Performance |
Hongseok Namkoong |
Stanford University |
| Tuesday, Jan 22 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Gradient Boosting Machines: New Insights, Algorithms, and Improved Complexity
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Haihao (Sean) Lu |
MIT |
| Tuesday, Jan 29 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B
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Learning to Make Decisions in Statistical and Strategic Environments (See: paper) |
Zhengyuan Zhou |
Stanford University |
| Tuesday, Feb 5 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Spatial Capacity Planning |
Francisco Castro |
Columbia University |
| Thursday, Feb 7 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
C25 |
The Impact of Medication Delays on Patient Health in the ICU: Estimating Marginal Effects Under Endogenous Delays |
Lesley Meng |
University of Pennsylvania |
| Tuesday, Feb 12 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Data, Markets, and Structured Online Learning |
Rad Niazadeh |
Stanford University |
| Tuesday, Feb 26 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Dynamic Disruption Management in Airline Networks under Airport Operating Uncertainty |
Lavanya Marla |
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Tuesday, March 5 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Zero-Order Methods for the Optimization of Noisy Functions |
Jorge Nocedal |
Northwestern University |
| Tuesday, March 12 |
1:30–2:30 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Optimized Pricing in Advert markets and in Insurance (Abstract) (Paper) |
Neil Walton |
University of Manchester |
| Tuesday, March 19 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Nonlinear Dynamics in Queueing Theory: Determining the Size of Oscillations in Queues with Delay and A Stochastic Analysis of Queues with Customer Choice and Delayed Information |
Jamol Pender |
Cornell University |
Autumn 2018
| Tuesday, Sept 25 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B
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Three Operations Management Problems in Criminology |
Lawrence Wein |
Stanford University
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Tuesday, Oct 2
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12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
On the Regret of Dynamic and Stochastic Knapsack Problems
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Alessandro Arlotto |
Duke University
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| Tuesday, Oct 9 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Sustaining Smallholders and Rainforests by Eliminating Payment Delay in a Commodity Supply Chain—It Takes a Village |
Dan Iancu
|
Stanford University
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| Tuesday, Oct 16 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B
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Optimal worst-case pricing for a logit demand model with network effects |
William Cooper |
University of Minnesota
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| Tuesday, Oct 23 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Persuading Customers to Buy Early: The Value of Personalized Information Provisioning |
Kimon Drakopoulos |
University of Southern California |
| Tuesday, Oct 30 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B
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Non-Stationary Streaming Principal Component Analysis, Variance-Aware Optimal Power Flow, and Stochastic Defense Against Complex Grid Attacks |
Daniel Bienstock |
Columbia University
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| Tuesday, Nov 6 |
No Meeting |
| Tuesday, Nov 13 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
A Queueing Model and Analysis for Autonomous Vehicles on Highways
|
Soo-Haeng Cho |
Carnegie Mellon University
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| Tuesday, Nov 20 |
No Meeting |
| Tuesday, Nov 27 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B
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Prophet Inequalities and Posted Price Mechanisms |
Jose Correa
|
University of Chile |
| Tuesday, Dec 4 |
12:10–1:10 p.m. |
HC-3B |
Discounted Regret Minimization and Expert Selection |
Vijay Kamble
|
University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Tuesday, Dec 11 |
No Meeting |