OR590 – OPERATIONS RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM SERIES
Spring Semester 2024
Seminar: 4:50-5:50 PM EST, 102 Leonhard Building (refreshments will be served at 4:35 pm)
January | 9 | 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.” |
January | 16 | Dr. Peter Frazier, Eleanor and Howard Morgan Professor of Engineering at Cornell. “Grey-box Bayesian Optimization.” |
January |
23 |
Web Seminar (1) |
January | 30 | Dr. Qiushi Chen, Assistant Professor in Industrial Engineering at Penn State. “Prioritization of Peer Recovery Specialist Services with Limited Capacity: Take a New Patient or Follow Up Existing Patients?” |
February | 6 | Dr. Joseph M. Perla, Assistant Research Professor, Department of Energy and Mineral Engineering, Penn State. “Will Excess Generation Capacity in the Western U.S. Provide Power System Resiliency Against Climate Change-Induced Stressors?” |
February | 13 | Web Seminar (1) |
February | 20 | Dr. Zachary C. Lipton, Assistant Professor of Machine Learning and Operations Research at CMU. “Deploying Generative AI Solutions in the US Healthcare System.” |
February | 27 | Dr. Hui Yang, Professor in Industrial Engineering at Penn State. “Digital Twin for Quality Innovations: Manufacturing and Health Applications.” |
March | 5 | Spring Break (March 3rd – 9th) |
March | 12 | Dr. Taewoo Lee, Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh. “Data-Driven Inverse Optimization through the Lens of Machine Learning.” |
March | 26 | Dr. Yue Zhang, Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management, Smeal College of Business, Penn State. “Modeling 3D Printing in Spare Parts Logistics.” |
April | 2 | Dr. Marshall L. Fisher, Professor of Operations, Information and Decisions, Wharton School of Business, UPenn. “The Value of Social Media Data in Fashion Forecasting.” |
April | 9 | Dr. Hui Zhao, Professor of Supply Chain Management, Smeal College of Business, Penn State. “Reimbursement Policy and Drug Shortages.” |
April |
16 |
Dr. Rajan Batta, Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Human Resources, and Diversity at the University at Buffalo. “On a Generalization of the Information Collection Problem.” |
(*) 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.