Southeast Asia is a crossroads for trade routes that pass between the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea, historically and in our own time. These pathways (both legal and illegal) transect the…
Europe has a long history of family separation, which includes both violent immigration control and advocacy against these discriminatory practices. In this panel, scholars who have researched…
Abstract: New online platforms are profoundly altering our social and economic interactions by empowering new marketplaces and new collective behavior at increasingly larger scales. Many of these…
Increasingly key elements of society – defense, energy, transportation, water
resources, telecommunications, finance, others – critically depend on the coordinated
functioning of multiple…
Thursday, April 17, 2014 at 4:15pm
Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall, 253
ORIE Colloquium: Bora Keskin (U.Chicago) - Chasing Demand: Learning and Earning in a Changing Environment
We consider a dynamic…
A connected world is vulnerable to cascades and contagions. I will introduce concepts of complex systems science that characterize dependencies and collective behaviors. I will show how these…
In this talk I will present IBM's 2014 Global Technology Outlook (GTO). This year's GTO focuses on infusing cloud computing with intelligence in order for businesses to transform through…
Jim Dai (Cornell ORIE) - Queues in Service Systems: Customer Abandonment and Diffusion Approximations
Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 4:15pm
Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall, 253
Parallel-server queues with…