On Friday, January 31st, we had five great visiting PhD students from University of Michigan, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering. We had the opportunity to learn much about their research and graduate school life. In the morning, with a warm welcome by Professor Dave Morton, our Chair of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, we
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Today, Northwestern faculty and students had the chance to listen Professor Bernardo K. Pagnoncelli’s inspiring talk on revisiting Lane’s algorithm in mining. Special thanks to Professor Bernardo.
On January 13th, 2020, professor Jorge Norcedal gave a speech on the weekly Brown Bag to all the first year IEMS graduate students. Thanks for the attendance. Professor Norcedal is the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences and (by courtesy) Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics. He is also the Director, Center for
Lun Yu gave a wonderful presentation in the IEMS-OM seminar on 11/22/2019. The title is: “A Fluid-Diffusion Hybrid Limit for Priority System with Fast and Slow Customers”. Thanks for the wonderful speech.
Congratulation to the winner of the 2019 Nemhauser Dissertation Prize: Raghu Bollapragada, for his dissertation titled, “Methods for Deterministic and Stochastic Optimization.” The following from professor Norcedal’s nomination letter summarizes the dissertation’s contributions well, “This thesis is outstanding because of its depth and novelty. The most innovative aspect of his research relates to the topics of dynamic sampling and
Congratulations to Pol Boada-Collado, who just won the Nemhauser Prize for Best Paper: “Demand Visibility and Capacity Pooling Given Commitments,” co-authored with Sunil Chopra and Karen Smilowitz. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3452915 Thanks to the Nemhauser Paper Prize Committee: Simge (Chair), Ohad, and Matt.
The IEMS INFORMS held an interesting and relaxing game night in the Norris Student Center. Thanks for showing up. Board Game, Pool, Ping-Pong, Switch are provided there and dinner are served.
Guyi Chen Where are you from? I am from Hangzhou, China. I have a bachelor degree in Industrial and Operations Engineering and Data Science from University of Michigan. What is your first impression of Evanston/Northwestern? It is a lovely city with a lot of nice restaurants and coffee places. The lakefill at Northwestern
On Monday and Wednesday this week, seven students presented their works on the INFORMS practice talk event. Many students and professors gave constructional suggestions. Special thanks to our presenters; Pol Boada, Collado, Lun Yu, Yi Chen, Linda Pei, Eugene Wickett and Yuchen Xie. Good luck with the 2019 INFORMS presentations!
On October 11 at Willens Wing Atrium, five PhD students who interned this past summer come and share their experience with other IEMS students. Thanks again to our IEMS PhD students Michael, Daniel, Suraj, Wendy, Ruby, and Muchen for sharing their Internship experiences with their colleagues in our Internship round-table event! It was a very