Brown Bag Seminars

Brown bag is a lunch seminar series designed exclusively for first-year students of the MS and PhD programs at IEMS Department. It provides an opportunity for the 1st years to hear invited speakers on a wide range of subjects that will definitely interest them. The motivation behind the series is two-fold: to help orient the 1st years for their new roles as graduate students, and to help settle them into the IEMS Department, into Northwestern University and into the field of industrial engineering and management sciences at large. 1st year students are encouraged to go to each of the BB sessions. The potential subjects for this one-year series include the following:

• IEMS faculty members introducing their research interests and opening projects (they will be held mainly in the latter half of the year);
• Creating IEMS student web page;
• Job and internship finding help;
• Improving presentation skills;
• Advice from senior students;
• Other topics that students are interested in.

Brown Bag of the 2007-2008 Academic Year

The following students are in the brown bag group of the INFORMS Student Chapter this year to organize the brown bag events:

• Yao Cheng and Wendy Lu Xu – prepare for the fliers.
• Michael Huang and Yao Cheng: communicate with the professors to schedule the meetings.
• Yunpeng Sun and Lingfei Li: communicate with the 1st years, encourage them to come to brownbag meetings.
• Yunpeng Sun: take photos during each meeting.
• Lingfei Li: take care of the Sign-up Sheet for each meeting.

Brown Bag Schedule

May 13: Prof. Iravani
May 29: Prof. Linetsky