We discuss optimization problems at Amazon Logistics. Amazon is the biggest on-line retailer, fulfilling millions of orders a day. This leads to many classical OR problems. In addition, many of these…
Friday, March 14, 2014 at 12:00pm
Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall, 253
Ezra's Round Table/Systems Seminar: Richard M. David (NewSpace Global) - NewSpace: A Great Innovation Economy Emerges
When NewSpace…
Friday, May 2, 2014 at 12:00pm
Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall, 253
Ezra's Round Table/Systems Seminar: Alexander MacDonald (Cal Tech) - Engineering Economic Development in the Solar System: Lessons…
Abstract:
A general discrete-time framework for deriving equilibrium prices of financial assets is
proposed. It allows for heterogenous agents, unspanned random endowments and convex
trading…
Abstract:
As an “Academic Capitalist”, I will discuss four startups that use Operations Management (OM)
and Operations Research (OR).
1. Enterprise Supply-chain Software: SmartOps…
Friday, November 15, 2013 at 12:00pm
Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall, 253
Ezra's Round Table/Systems Seminar: Don Woodlock (GE Healthcare) - Simulation Models at GE
We will discuss how General Electric…
Margaret Brandeau (Stanford) - Operations Research and Public Health: Practice and Theory
Thursday, October 4, 2012 at 3:00pm
Frank H. T. Rhodes Hall, 253
How can the government of China most…
Abstract: In this talk, we introduce an optimization-based framework called Generalized Low Rank Models designed to uncover structure in big messy data sets. These models generalize…
Abstract: Material science have been rapidly developing in recent years. A variety of particles interacting according to different kinds of pair potentials has been produced in…