OR590 – OPERATIONS RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM SERIES

Spring Semester 2025

Seminar: 4:50-5:50 PM EST, 102 Leonhard Building (refreshments will be served at 4:35 pm)

January	14	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	21	Dr. Oliver Hinder, Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh. “A Practical First-order Method for Massive-scale Linear Programming Problems.”
January	28	Dr. Saurabh Bansal, Professor of Supply Chain Management in the Smeal College of Business at Penn State. “Optimal Data Collection for Data-driven Optimization.”
February	4	Dr. Alberto Lamadrid, Associate Professor, James T. Kane Faculty Fellow, joint appointment in Economics, and Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University. “Design for Commodity Market Considering Financial Adequacy.”
February	11	Dr. George Kesidis, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Penn State. “Adversarial Deep Learning by Activation-Space Methods.”
February	18	Web Seminar (1)
March	4	Mr. David Sturrock, co-founder and former Vice-President of Products at Simio LLC., Sewickley, PA. “The Business of Developing Digital Twins and Related Technology.”
March	11	Spring Break (March 9th – 15th)
March	18	Dr. Johanna Amaya, Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management in the Smeal College of Business at Penn State. “Sustainable Last Mile Delivery Alternatives: Influencing Factors and Willingness to Use.”
March	25	Dr. Willem-Jan Van Hoeve, Carnegie Bosch Professor of Operations Research, Carnegie Mellon University. “Decision Diagrams for Discrete Optimization.”
April	1	Dr. Kenneth Judd, Paul H. Bauer Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Presentation title: N/A.
April	8	Dr. Prakash Chakraborty, Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering at Penn State. Presentation title: N/A.
April	15	Dr. Earnest Foster, Quality Engineer, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Mukilteo, WA. Presentation title: N/A.
April	22	Dr. Anirudh Subramanyam, Charles and Enid Schneider Early Career Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Penn State. Presentation title: N/A.

(*) 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.