OR590 – OPERATIONS RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM SERIES
Fall Semester 2024
Seminar: 4:50-5:50 PM EST, 102 Leonhard Building (refreshments will be served at 4:35 pm)
| August | 27 | Dr. Jose A. Ventura, Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Operations Research Graduate Program, Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Penn State. “Introduction to OR 590 and Requirements.” |
| September |
3 |
Web Seminar (1) |
| September | 17 | Dr. Hui Zhao, Professor of Supply Chain Management in the Smeal College of Business at Penn State, “Reimbursement Policy and Drug Shortages.” |
| September | 24 | Dr. Jia Li, Professor of Statistics at Penn State, “Optimization for Learning in Wasserstein Metric Space.” |
| October | 1 | Dr. Jourdain Lamperski, Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, “Calibrating Markov Chain Models of Individual-Level Disease Progression.” |
| October | 15 | Dr. Paul Griffin, Professor of Industrial Engineering at Penn State, “Community-Based Approaches to Mitigating the Effects of Opioid Use Disorder.” |
| October | 22 | Dr. James Noble, Professor and Chair, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Missouri-Columbia, “The Good, Bad, and … Improving.”. |
| October | 29 | Web Seminar (1) |
| November | 5 | Web Seminar (1) |
| November | 12 | Dr. Russell R. Barton, Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems in the Smeal College of Business at Penn State, “Fourier Methods for Statistical Monitoring of Queues.” |
| November | 19 | Dr. Ben Moseley, Associate Professor of Operations Research in the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University, “New Directions on Algorithms with Predictions.” |
| November | 26 | Thanksgiving Holiday |
| December | 3 | Dr. Kostas Papakonstantinou, Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Penn State, “Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes and multi-agent deep reinforcement learning for optimal decision-making under uncertainty: Theoretical developments, applications, and future challenges.” |
(*) An email will be sent to you about one week prior to the web seminar with a choice of two seminar options. You will need to select one of the seminars, watch it, complete the one-page assessment report, and upload it on Canvas by the date stated in the email.
(**) This talk will be given in remote mode. Note that the zoom link is provided.