Research Workshops Workshop in Operations/Management Science

In this workshop, faculty members and others present their latest operations and management science research. Please refer to the weekly announcement for up-to-date room or time changes.

The workshop will be held in-person (in HC C10). Please contact Sidney Tooley to be added to the listserv for weekly updates.

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.

Winter 2026

Date	Time	Location	Topic	Speaker	Institution
Tuesday, January 6, 2026	11:45–1:15 p.m.	Harper C10	Measuring the Heterogeneous Effect of Emergency Department Boarding on Inpatient Length of Stay: Toward Efficient and Equitable Inpatient Bed Assignment	Alyssa Liu	NYU
Tuesday, January 13, 2026	11:45–1:15 p.m.	Harper C10	Scheduling with Uncertain Holding Costs and its Application to Content Moderation	Wentao Weng	MIT
Tuesday, January 20, 2026	11:45–1:15 p.m.	Harper C10	Markets with Heterogeneous Agents: Dynamics and Survival of Bayesian vs. No-Regret Learners∗	Yoav Kolumbus	Cornell
Tuesday, January 27, 2026	11:45–1:15 p.m.	Harper C10	Distributed Load Balancing with Workload-Dependent Service Rates	Wenxin Zhang	Columbia
Tuesday, February 3, 2026	11:45–1:15 p.m.	Harper C10	Auto-Conditioned First-Order and Stochastic Optimization Methods	Tianjiao Li	MIT
Tuesday, February 10, 2026	11:45–1:15 p.m.	Harper C10	Who to Offer, and When: Redesigning Feeding America’s Real-Time Donation Tool	Soonbong Lee	Yale

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