{"172521":{"#nid":"172521","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; How chromosome fold? What sequencing and Bayesian modeling can tell us about the three-dimensional organization of mammalian genomes\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Dr. Zhaohui Steve Qin\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUnderstanding how chromosomes fold provides insights into transcription regulation hence functional state of the cell. Recently, chromosomal conformation capture (3C)-related technologies have been developed to provide a genome-wide view of chromatin organization. Despite great technologies, multiple layers of noise and uncertainties stem from the sophisticated experiments, coupled with various sequencing-related artifacts, making the analysis of such data extremely challenging. Here using Hi-C as an example, we review the critical issues of analyzing this latest type of genomics data, including normalization, modeling and inference. We describe a novel Bayesian probabilistic approach, denoted Bayesian 3D constructor for Hi-C data(BACH), to infer chromosome three-dimensional (3D) structures from Hi-C data. We also discuss the observations we made when applying BACH to real Hi-C datasets. This is a collaboration with Ming Hu, Ke Deng, Jesse Dixon, Siddarth Selvaraj, Jennifer Fang, Bing Ren and Jun Liu.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EContact: Zhaohui Steve Qin \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-rfc2396E\u0022 href=\u0022mailto:zhaohui.qin@emory.edu\u0022\u003E\u0026lt;zhaohui.qin@emory.edu\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBIO:\u0026nbsp; Dr. Qin is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. He is also a faculty member at the Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University School of Medicine and Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource, Winship Cancer Institute. Dr. Qin received his B.S. degree in Probability and Statistics from Peking University in 1994 and Ph.D. degree in Statistics from University of Michigan in 2000. He was a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Jun Liu\u0027s group in Department of Statistics at Harvard University from 2000 to 2003. He joined the Department of Biostatistics at University of Michigan in 2003. In 2010, he moved to his current position in Emory University. Dr. Qin has more than ten years of experience in statistical modeling and statistical computing with applications in statistical genetics and genomics. Recently, his research is focused on developing Bayesian model-based methods to analyze data generated from applications of next generation sequencing technologies such as ChIP-seq, RNA-seq and resequencing. Dr. Qin also actively collaborates with biomedical scientists and clinicians on various projects that utilizing next generation sequencing technologies to study cancer genomics. Dr. Qin has published more than 50 peer-reviewed research papers covering statistics, bioinformatics, statistical genetics and computational biology. He has severed multiple times as ad hoc member on various NIH study sections and has supervised more than 10 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Statistics Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-11-21 08:13:52","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:01:22","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-11-27T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-11-27T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-11-27T11:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-11-27 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-11-27 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-11-27 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"Roshan Vengazhiyil \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-rfc2396E\u0022 href=\u0022mailto:roshan@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u0026lt;roshan@isye.gatech.edu\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E and Jeff Wu \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-rfc2396E\u0022 href=\u0022mailto:jeffwu@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u0026lt;jeffwu@isye.gatech.edu\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"170691":{"#nid":"170691","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Statistical Process Screening System: An Approach for Identifying Irregular Longitudinal Behavior\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Prof. Peihua Qiu\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn our daily life, we often need to identify individuals whose longitudinal behavior is different from the behavior of those well-functioning individuals, so that some unpleasant consequences can be avoided. In many such applications, observations of a given individual are obtained sequentially, and it is desirable to have a screening system to give a signal of irregular behavior as soon as possible after that individual\u0027s longitudinal behavior starts to deviate from the regular behavior, so that some adjustments or interventions can be made in a timely manner. We propose a statistical process screening system for that purpose, using statistical process control and longitudinal data analysis techniques. Our proposed method is demonstrated using a real-data example about the SHARe Framingham Heart Study of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EContact: Peihua Qiu \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-rfc2396E\u0022 href=\u0022mailto:qiuxx008@umn.edu\u0022\u003E\u0026lt;qiuxx008@umn.edu\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBIO:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Qiu got his Ph.D. in statistics from the Statistics Department at University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1996. He worked as a senior research consulting statistician of the Biostatistics Center at Ohio State University during 1996-1998. Then, he worked as an assistant professor (1998-2002), an associate professor (2002-2007), and a full professor (2007-present) of the School of Statistics at University of Minnesota. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, an elected fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, a senior member of the American Society for Quality, and a lifetime member of the International Chinese Statistical Association. He served as associate editor for Journal of the American Statistical Association (2006-2012), Biometrics (2011-2012),Technometrics (2007-2012), Statistical Papers (2011-2012), and guest co-editor for Multimedia Tools and Applications. He will be the Editor-Elect (2013) and Editor (2014-2016) of Technometrics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Statistics Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-11-12 16:01:44","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:01:17","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-11-15T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-11-15T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-11-15T11:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-11-15 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-11-15 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-11-15 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHost: Roshan Vengazhiyil \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-rfc2396E\u0022 href=\u0022mailto:roshan@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u0026lt;roshan@isye.gatech.edu\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003Eand Jeff Wu \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-rfc2396E\u0022 href=\u0022mailto:jeffwu@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u0026lt;jeffwu@isye.gatech.edu\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"168181":{"#nid":"168181","#data":{"type":"event","title":"OR Colloquium","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Dynamic Control of Service Systems: some challenges, some answers\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER:\u0026nbsp; Mark Lewis\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk, I will present several classical decision-making paradigms revised for today\u0027s environment. In particular, in the service economy models of call centers and health care systems include abandonments. Assuming customer patience is exponential, modeling basic systems with continuous-time Markov processes remains valid, but analyzing them using uniformization is not. This means that discrete-time Markov decision process theory (and the accompanying successive approximations) cannot be used. Similarly, in health care systems arrivals to emergency departments are rarely stationary. We mention how to extend MDP theory to more general state spaces. Finally, can the two challenges be met together? Open problems are discussed.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBIO:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Lewis received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1998. After receiving his doctorate, Lewis spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a postdoctoral fellow in the Center for Operations Excellence. He joined Cornell\u0027s School of Operations Research and Information Engineering in 2005 after teaching Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBroadly speaking Professor Lewis\u0027s research interests are on the dynamic control of service systems. Most often he uses the methodology of stochastic dynamic programming or Markov decision processes to analyze these problems. Along the way he has done fundamental research on the theory of MDPs. In the area of average cost MDPs on general state and action spaces he has studied convergence of discounted cost optimal values and policies and on a refinement of average cost theory called bias optimality he has studied implicit discounting. In terms of applications, Professor Lewis has considered routing in transportation systems, control of inventory systems and allocation of inter-switch handoffs in wireless communications. Despite his versatility in the analysis of such systems his passion is for resource allocation in controlled queueing networks. In doing so, he has considered non-stationary networks, networks with limited capacity and those with varying service capabilities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"OR Colloquium"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-11-05 09:04:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:01:06","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-11-09T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-11-09T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-11-09T11:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-11-09 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-11-09 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-11-09 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDavid Goldberg\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:dgoldberg9@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edgoldberg9@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"165151":{"#nid":"165151","#data":{"type":"event","title":"DCL\/SIAC Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Modeling and Detecting the Propagation of Internet Worm Epidemics\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Dr. Kurt Rohloff\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk we discuss recent approaches to modeling and detecting epidemics of Internet worms. We particularly focus on Random Constant Scanning (RCS) worms that use zero-day exploits for which malware signatures are unknowable. Although these worms propagate by randomly scanning network addresses for hosts that are susceptible to infection, traditional RCS worm models are fundamentally deterministic. We introduce a recent modeling approach based on density-dependent Markov jump process to model worm epidemic propagation across the Internet. This model relies on a computationally simple hybrid deterministic\/stochastic point-process model for locally observed scanning behavior. We use this behavior as the basis of a worm epidemic detection strategy. We discuss the benefits and drawbacks of a mathematically optimal hypothesis-testing detection approach under idealized conditions and possible other approaches to model, detect and mitigate this class of malware.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBIO: Dr. Kurt Rohloff is a senior scientist in the Distributed Systems research group at BBN Technologies. Dr. Rohloff\u2019s areas of research expertise include supervisory control, stochastic modeling and large-scale distributed computing. Dr. Rohloff is the PI on the DARPA PROCEED program where he leads a team developing a Fully Homomorphic Encryption implementation which will enable secure cloud computing. Dr. Rohloff is the Chief Designer and Lead Architect of the SHARD triple-store, a high-performance, massively scalable graph data storage system. Dr. Rohloff received his MS and PhD degrees from the University of Michigan and was a post-doc at the Coordinated Sciences Lab at UIUC. Dr. Rohloff is very proud of his Bachelor\u0027s degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech (and the ISYE classes on statistical failure modeling.) \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"DCL\/SIAC Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-10-25 10:47:48","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:00:53","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-11-07T14:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-11-07T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-11-07T15:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-11-07 19:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-11-07 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-11-07 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Kamran Paynabar\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kamran.paynabar@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekamran.paynabar@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"165741":{"#nid":"165741","#data":{"type":"event","title":"DOS Opt Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Complexity results of some partial cut and covering problems\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Pierre Le Bodic\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn classical cut problems, the input consists of a graph and some set S to cut. Partial cut problems are a generalization of cut problems, in which, given an additional integer k, only a subset of S of cardinality at least k must be cut. The archetypal example is the partial multicut problem, in which S is a set of pairs of vertices. The focus of this article is on partial cut problems for which the classical version is easily solvable on some class of graphs. A variant of multiterminal cut is proven to become \\NPhard{} when its partial version is considered. The major part of this talk is dedicated to designing a unified dynamic programming algorithm for partial cut problems. Using this result, many partial cut problems are proven to be FPT w.r.t. some parameters including the treewidth of the input graph, or, for the generalized version, pseudopolynomial if these parameters are fixed. A partial cover problem, namely partial dominating set, is also solved using this unified algorithm. Using these algorithms, FPTASs are then designed for generalized partial versions of multicut and multiterminal cut on bounded treewidth graphs. A (2+\\epsilon)-approximation is also provided for the generalized partial multiterminal cut problem on general graphs, and adapted, with different ratios, to other variants.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"DOS Opt Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-10-29 07:18:24","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:00:53","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-11-07T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-11-07T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-11-07T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-11-07 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-11-07 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-11-07 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"165791":{"#nid":"165791","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Robust Association Studies using Density Power Divergences\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Professor T.N. Sriram\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk, we will introduce a family of multivariate association measures based on density power divergences that help recover both linear and nonlinear relationships between multiple sets of random vectors. This approach not only characterizes independence, but also provides a smooth bridge between well-known distances that are inherently robust against outliers. Algorithmic approaches are developed for dimension reduction and selection of the optimal robust association index. Extensive simulation studies are performed to assess the robustness of these association measures under different types and proportions of contamination. We illustrate the usefulness of our methods in applications. Some theoretical properties, including the consistency of the estimated coefficient vectors, are investigated and computationally efficient algorithms for our nonparametric methods are provided.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Statistics Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-10-29 09:51:42","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:00:53","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-11-01T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-11-01T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-11-01T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-11-01 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-11-01 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-11-01 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor J.C. Lu\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jclu@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejclu@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"163631":{"#nid":"163631","#data":{"type":"event","title":"SIAC Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Big Data and Process Quality-relevant Monitoring\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Dr. Joe Qin\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProcess monitoring provides supervision of process operations so that abnormal operating conditions can be detected, diagnosed, and proper adjustment can be implemented as needed. The ultimate purpose is to reduce process variability under real-world operating conditions with the use of real time data. A focus of this seminar is on the recently rising interest of big data and the use of multivariate statistical methods for efficient data-driven quality-relevant process monitoring.\u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp; \u003Cbr \/\u003E As an improvement over principal component analysis, a concurrent projection to latent structures is presented for the monitoring of output-relevant faults that affect the quality and input-relevant process faults. The input and output data spaces are concurrently projected to five subspaces, a joint input-output subspace that captures co-variations between input and output, an output-principal subspace, an output-residual subspace, an input principal subspace, and an input-residual subspace. Hotelling\u2019s and residuals-based indices are developed for various fault detection alarms based on these subspaces. The proposed monitoring method offers complete monitoring of faults that happen in the predictable output subspace and the unpredictable output residual subspace, as well as faults that affect the input spaces only.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBIO:\u0026nbsp; Dr. S. Joe Qin is the Fluor Professor of Process Engineering and Vice Dean at the Viterbi School of Engineering at University of Southern California. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Automatic Control from Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, in 1984 and 1987, respectively, and his Ph.D. degree in Chemical Engineering from University of Maryland at College Park in 1992. Dr. Qin\u2019s research interests include statistical process monitoring and fault diagnosis, model predictive control, system identification, run-to-run control, semiconductor process control, and control performance monitoring. He is a Co-Director of the Texas-Wisconsin-California Control Consortium where he has been principal investigator for 17 years. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the 2011 Northrop Grumman Best Teaching award at Viterbi School of Engineering, the DuPont Young Professor Award, Halliburton\/Brown \u0026amp; Root Young Faculty Excellence Award, NSF-China Outstanding Young Investigator Award, a Chang Jiang Professor by the Ministry of Education of China from 2007-2010, and an IFAC Best Paper Prize for the model predictive control survey paper published in \u003Cem\u003EControl Engineering Practice.\u003C\/em\u003E He is currently an Associate Editor for \u003Cem\u003EJournal of Process Control, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, \u003C\/em\u003Eand \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics\u003C\/em\u003E, and a Member of the Editorial Board for \u003Cem\u003EJournal of Chemometrics\u003C\/em\u003E. He served as an Editor for \u003Cem\u003EControl Engineering Practice\u003C\/em\u003E and an Associate Editor for \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology\u003C\/em\u003E. He is a Fellow of IEEE. He has published over 100 papers in SCI journals, with over 3600 ISI citations and an ISI h-index of 30. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"SIAC Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-10-19 10:56:46","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:00:47","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-10-26T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-10-26T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-10-26T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-10-26 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-10-26 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-10-26 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKamran Paynabar\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:kamran.paynabar@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ekamran.paynabar@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"164001":{"#nid":"164001","#data":{"type":"event","title":"OR Colloquium","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: A nonparametric on-line quality control procedure for vectorial observations\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: David McDonald\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe goal of an on-line quality control procedure is to rapidly detect an out-of-control situation; i.e., to detect a change in the sampling distribution after a change point. We first review a nonparametric Cusum procedure based on the sequential ranks for univariate data.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMany attempts have been made to assign sequential ranks to multivariate data. For instance ranks based on the Tukey depth have been used but the computations are prohibitive in high dimension. Instead we will score observations based on where they fall relative to previous observations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEach successive observation creates a Voronoi cell indexed by the observation number. Suppose observation $n+1$ falls into the Voronoi cell with index $i$ where $i$ ranges from $1$ to $n$. Then observation $n+1$ has associated score $i\/(n+1)$ and becomes the center of a new Voronoi cell with index $n+1$.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBefore the change point, the scores are uniformly distributed. After the change point, the scores tend to be large since the observations tend to clump together. We use these scores in a Cusum procedure. We find we can approximately predict the on-target average run length of our procedure, and we get reasonable off-target run lengths for any kind of structural break like a change of mean or a change of dispersion.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBIO:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDavid Mcdonald is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Ottawa. He received his Ph.D. from U. de Montreal, and a Masters from King\u0027s College (London). He has held several visiting positions, including a stay at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Ecole Normale Superieure. 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Labner, Asst. Prof., NC State\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPenalized maximum likelihood methods that perform automatic variable selection have been developed, studied, and deployed in almost every area of statistical research. A prominent example is the LASSO Tibshirani (1996) with its numerous variants. It is now well-known, however, that these estimators are nonregular and consequently have limiting distributions that can be highly sensitive to small perturbations of the underlying generative model. This is the case even for the fixed \u201cp\u201d framework. Hence, the usual asymptotic methods for inference, like the bootstrap and series approximations, often perform poorly in small samples and require modification. Here, we develop locally asymptotically consistent confidence intervals for regression coefficients when estimation is done using the Adaptive LASSO (Zou, 2006) in the fixed \u201cp\u201d framework. We construct the confidence intervals by sandwiching the nonregular functional of interest between two smooth, data-driven, upper and lower bounds and then approximating the distribution of the bounds using the bootstrap. We leverage the smoothness of the bounds to obtain consistent inference for the nonregular functional under both fixed and local alternatives. The bounds are adaptive to the amount of underlying non- regularity in the sense that they deliver asymptotically exact coverage whenever the underlying generative model is such that the Adaptive LASSO estimators are consis- tent and asymptotically normal, and conservative otherwise. The resultant confidence intervals possess a certain tightness property among all regular bounds. Although we focus on the case of the Adaptive LASSO, our approach generalizes to other penalized methods including the elastic net and SCAD.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Statistics Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-10-22 10:21:04","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:00:47","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-10-25T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-10-25T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-10-25T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-10-25 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-10-25 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-10-25 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMing Yuan\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:myuan@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emyuan@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"162741":{"#nid":"162741","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: \u0022Sports Analytics -- An Officiating Perspective\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Major General Ronald Johnson, US Army, (retired)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this presentation, MG Johnson will discuss three areas of focus - including data gathering, forming the team to optimize performance, and training\/development for sustained excellence - using NBA officiating sports analytics as \u0022case study\u0022. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMG Ronald Johnson is a candidate for the Director of the Tennenbaum Institute at Georgia Tech and Professor of the Practice in the School of ISyE. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-10-17 07:42:44","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:00:42","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-10-23T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-10-23T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-10-23T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-10-23 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-10-23 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-10-23 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDave Goldsman\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:sman@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Esman@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJennifer Harris\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jennifer.harris@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejennifer.harris@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"160781":{"#nid":"160781","#data":{"type":"event","title":"QCF Day","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EWe are pleased to announce the Georgia Tech QCF Day Fall Symposium which will be held on October 19 at the Georgia Tech Global Learning \u0026amp; Conference Center (GLCC). (For our finance faculty, please note that Phil Dybvig at WUSTL will present at our symposium at 11:30am).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EGT QCF Day\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E*8:30* Welcome, Dr. Shijie Deng\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E*8:40 -- 9:25* Dr. Jain, Sandeep, Managing Director, Macro Rates, UBS \u0022A practitioner\u0027s approach to model development (with focus on Inflation Modeling)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E*9:30 -- 10:15* Dr. Steven Zhu, Director, Credit Risk Management, Morgan Stanley \u0022Financial Crisis and Risk Management -- Lessons and Challenges\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E*10:15 -- 10:45* BREAK\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E*10:45 -- 11:30* Dr. Kevin Kindall, Director, Quant Analysis in Commercial Division, Conoco Phillips \u0022Overcoming Data Shortfalls\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E*11:30 -- 12:15* Dr. Philip H. Dybvig, Boatmen\u0027s Bancshares Professor of Banking and Finance, Washington University in Saint Louis \u0022The new risk management: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E*12:15 -- 13:40* LUNCH\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E*13:40 -- 14:25* Ms. Savita Subramanian, Head of US Equity \u0026amp; Quantitative Strategy, Global Macro Research, Bank of America - Merrill Lynch \u0022The Changing Landscape for Quants\u0022 *14:30 -- 15:15* Mr. Mark Matthews, Head of Global Quantitative Research, Fixed Income Division, Invesco \u0022Asset Allocation Models and Forecasts\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E*15:15 -- 16:00* BREAK\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E*16:00 -- 16:45* Dr. Premal Shah, VP, Credit Quantitative Analytics, Barclays \u0022Managing Capital Costs for Centrally Cleared Derivative Transactions\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E*16:45 -- 17:00* Closing Remarks, Dr. Shijie Deng\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERegistration is required - please do so at your earliest convenience so we can have an accurate count.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo register and find out more information about the event (speakers\u0027 bios, direction to the venue, etc.), go to \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-freetext\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.qcf.gatech.edu\/qcfday\/program\/index.php\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.qcf.gatech.edu\/qcfday\/program\/index.php\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"QCF Day"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-10-09 11:28:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:00:34","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-10-19T09:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-10-19T18:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-10-19T18:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-10-19 13:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-10-19 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-10-19 22:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1789","name":"Conference\/Symposium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHarry Sharp\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:harry.sharp@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eharry.sharp@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"161181":{"#nid":"161181","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Keynote Address","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Ben Wang and the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute invite you to attend the\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKeynote Address at the External Advisory Board Meeting of the Georgia Tech Manufacturing Institute:\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cem\u003E\u003Cem\u003EInnovation Imperative and the 21st Century University\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWednesday, October 17, 2012\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003E1:30 -2:30 p.m.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFuller E. 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These metrics need to be quantitatively evaluated and monitored in real time to continuously improve the system performance. However, QPMs are often highly stochastic, and hence are difficult to monitor using existing methods. In this paper, we propose the cumulative sum (CUSUM) schemes to efficiently monitor the parameters of typical queueing systems. We compared the CUSUM schemes with several alternative methods, and demonstrated that the performance of CUSUM is superior, responding faster to many shift patterns. We also investigate the performance of the CUSUM schemes based on different sampling schemes. We illustrated that more information from complete observations can indeed improve the monitoring performance of CUSUM charts. At last, we used a case study to demonstrate the application of our approach.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBio:\u0026nbsp; Dr. Nan Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at National University of Singapore. 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This imbalance between the supply and the demand, coupled with intrinsic problems in health care industry, is a major cause of financial struggles as well as a significant challenge to achieve research and education missions in academic medical centers. This talk is motivated by such struggles at the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC). To address adverse effects of limited capacity, UCMC started providing care by partitioning the bed capacity into specialized wings. Each wing has a specific designation of the types of patients it can admit, and the number of beds it is allocated. A patient requesting hospital services can be admitted only if a bed is available in the appropriate wing. The fundamental trade-off included in wing formation decisions is between the advantages of pooling in large wings and the advantages of focused care in smaller wings. In this talk, I will present a model to help hospital administrators make wing formation decisions and a novel approach to solve the hard problem of forming wings. I will also share a number of managerial insights through numerical results based on data from UCMC as well as national databases.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBIO:\u0026nbsp; Burhan Sandikci is an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the University of Chicago\u2019s Booth School of Business. He received his PhD in industrial engineering in 2008 from the University of Pittsburgh. His research interests span decision-making problems under uncertainty with particular focus on problems in medical decision-making and healthcare operations. His methodological interests include Markov decision processes (MDPs), partially observed MDPs, stochastic games, stochastic programming, and simulation. His research has been published in leading academic journals such as \u003Cem\u003EOperations Research\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EManagement Science\u003C\/em\u003E, and \u003Cem\u003EMathematical Programming\u003C\/em\u003E. 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Overall, the United States consumes a staggering 97 Quadrillion BTUs of energy annually. (EIA, Sept. 2012) To meet this demand, numerous resources are utilized, e.g., coal, natural gas and petroleum, which come from domestic and foreign sources based on pricing, availability and public policy. While new sources of domestic energy supply have entered and are entering the market\u2014shale gas and oil, and wind and solar\u2014do scale, economics and the commodities\u2019 intrinsic qualities allow flexible, fungible use? Is American energy independence possible given the country\u2019s seemingly insatiable appetite for energy?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch4\u003ESpeakers Include:\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.deloitte.com\/view\/en_US\/us\/Insights\/Browse-by-Content-Type\/people_profiles\/sorter\/branko_terzic\/index.htm\u0022\u003EBranko Terzic\u003C\/a\u003E, executive director, Deloitte Center for Energy Solutions\u003C\/strong\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EAn international consultant to corporations, multilateral lending agencies and governments on energy, infrastructure and network industry issues, Dr. Terzic has extensive experience in the oil and gas industry in valuation, management and regulation having regulated natural gas distribution companies at retail, interstate natural gas and oil pipelines at the FERC and serving as CEO of a natural gas distribution company. Dr. Terzic is a former Commissioner of the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Commissioner on the State of Wisconsin Public Service Commission (WPSC) and Chairman, CEO and President of the holding company Yankee Energy System Inc. and subsidiary Yankee Gas Services Company (Meriden, CT). Dr. Terzic also serves as Chairman of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN ECE) and Ad Hoc Group of Experts on Cleaner Electricity Production from Coal and Other Fossil Fuels (Geneva, Switzerland). In 2010 he was appointed to The National Coal Council, the advisory body to the U.S. Secretary of Energy having previously served on the DOE Secretary\u2019s National Petroleum Council.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www2.isye.gatech.edu\/people\/faculty\/Valerie_Thomas\/\u0022\u003EValerie Thomas\u003C\/a\u003E, Anderson Interface Associate Professor of Natural Systems, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003EDr. Thomas\u2019 current research projects include the environmental impacts of biofuels and electricity system policy and planning. Her research interests are energy and materials efficiency, sustainability, industrial ecology, technology assessment, international security, and science and technology policy. She has a joint appointment in the School of Public Policy. From 1989 to 2004, she was a Research Scientist at Princeton University, in the Princeton Environmental Institute and in the Center for Energy and Environmental Studies. Thomas was a Member of the U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board from 2003 to 2009.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.energy.gatech.edu\/research\/profile.php?id=188\u0022\u003ESam Shelton\u003C\/a\u003E, principal research engineer,Strategic Energy Institute; Georgia Tech\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDr. Shelton\u2019s primary area of teaching, research, and development is innovative energy systems assessment, design and optimization. As its first director, Dr. Shelton founded the Georgia Tech Strategic Energy Initiative in 2004 with a mission to actively engage industry to facilitate short term, high impact energy technology development and commercialization. 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Our meeting location is the Executive Classroom of Georgia Tech\u0027s School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. A reception will precede the meeting at 5:30. Dr. Peter Oburu, Senior Statistician with Equifax, will be our guest speaker. Dr. Oburu\u0027s presentation topic will be How Predictive Analytics Can be Used for Data Quality Work\u009d. Peter\u0027s BIO is below for your review.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe meeting is open to all interested parties, and is free of charge. Refreshments will be served, and there will also be time to network with fellow OR\/MS and other professionals in the Atlanta community. Please pass this email along to any associates whom you think might be interested. Please let me know if you plan to attend the meeting and your number of invited guests. I want to try and make sure I have the proper amount of food and drinks. The meeting will be in the Executive Classroom (Room 228) of the ISyE main building located at 755 Ferst Drive. This is the same location as most of our previous meetings. Here\u0027s a link to a map of the campus and the ISyE Visitor Parking Lot: \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-freetext\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/visitors\/maps\/isye-map.php\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/visitors\/maps\/isye-map.php\u003C\/a\u003E. There is plenty, but no longer free, parking. We look forward to seeing you there.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBio:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Oburu has over 9 years of analytics and consulting experience with the telecommunication, insurance and retail industries specializing in predictive modeling, CRM analysis, design of experiments and data mining. He is currently a senior statistician with the Strategic Data Analytics group of Equifax. 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The goal is to detect such a signal as soon as possible after it occurs, and rarely make false alarm when there is not one. A challenge is that the subset of sensors affected by the change-point is typically unknown and small, i.e., the fraction p of sensors affected is very small. Without taking this signal sparsity into account, we may end up including much noise from the unaffected sensors and hurt detection performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe model this sparsity by assuming that each sensor has a probability p0 to be affected by the changepoint, and p0 is a guess for p. Based on this model, we develop a mixture procedure for monitoring parallel streams of data for a change-point that affects only a subset of them, without assuming a spatial structure relating the data streams to one another. Observations are assumed initially to be independent standard normal random variables. After a change-point the observations in a subset of the streams of data have unknown non-zero mean values. The procedure we study uses specific generalized likelihood ratio statistics. An analytic expression is obtained for the average run length (ARL) when there is no change and is shown by simulations to be very accurate. Similarly, an approximation for the expected detection delay after a change-point is also obtained. Numerical examples are given to compare the suggested procedure to other procedures for unstructured problems and in one case where the problem is assumed to have a well defined geometric structure. We discuss sensitivity of the procedure to the assumed value of p0, and extend this to a parallel mixture procedure. 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Nonlinear mixed integer programming models and linearized formulations are presented. To solve these difficult problems, Lagrangian relaxation and Branch-and-Bound methods are developed to efficiently obtain optimal solutions. Numerical studies of proposed solution methods on practical instances are reported, along with a few insights of system design.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBio:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Yu Zhang is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of South Florida. Dr. Zhang\u2019s research interests include (1) Air traffic flow management; (2) multimodal transportation systems; (3) Air traffic safety; (4) Sustainable transportation planning. Her research projects are funded by government agencies, such as NSF, FAA, FHWA, FDOT and also local industry companies. Dr. Zhang is also conducting international collaboration research with professionals from Europe and East Asia. \u003Cbr \/\u003EDr. Zhang obtained Ph.D. and Master of Science degrees from the University of California Berkeley. She worked briefly for Jacobs Consultancy (now Leigh Fisher) prior to her joining of USF. Dr. Zhang is the member of two Transportation Research Board (TRB) committees (1) Airfield and Airspace Capacity and Delay (AV060), and (2) Aviation System Planning (AV020). She is the Committee Research Coordinator (CRC) for TRB Av060. Dr. Zhang serves as the Board Director for Chinese Overseas Transportation Association (COTA) and Program Committee for Transportation Research Forum (TRF). Dr. Zhang is the author\/co-author of numerous manuscripts that published in prestigious professional journals. She has been invited to serve as the reviewer for journals such as Transportation Science, Transportation Research Part C and the Journal of Transportation Research Record. She also serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Conference Management System and Area Editor for COTA International Conference for Transportation Professionals.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EDr. Zhang is the recipient of the 2010 Fred Burggraf Award, Aviation, for excellence in transportation research by researchers 35 years of age or younger, presented by TRB of the National Academies of Science. She received the Best Paper Award in Airline Operations, Quality of Service and Marketing track, in 5th International Conference on Research in Air Transportation held at University of California, Berkeley from May 22- May 24, 201\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"DCL\/SIAC Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-09-19 08:57:31","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 02:00:01","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-09-21T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-09-21T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-09-21T17:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-09-21 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-09-21 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-09-21 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Nagi Gebraeel\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:nagi@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Enagi@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"155751":{"#nid":"155751","#data":{"type":"event","title":"SIAC Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Metamodel-Assisted Input Model Uncertainty Characterization\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Dr. Russell Barton\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDiscrete-event simulation input model uncertainty affects the process of constructing confidence intervals for the mean response of a system represented by a stochastic simulation. Uncertainty is introduced when input models have been estimated from \u201creal-world\u201d data. The confidence interval should account for both uncertainty about the input models and stochastic noise in the simulation output, but standard practice only accounts for the stochastic noise. Bootstrapping has been used to characterize input model uncertainty, but bootstrap approaches that use simulation replications can be computationally expensive and may fail a requirement for the asymptotic validity of the bootstrap. This talk presents a metamodel-assisted bootstrapping strategy, and compares its performance relative to other approaches for dealing with input uncertainty. This talk presents joint work with Barry Nelson and Wei Xie.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERussell Barton is a professor in the Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems at the Pennsylvania State University. He recently completed a two-year assignment as Program Director for Manufacturing Enterprise Systems and Service Enterprise Systems at the U.S. National Science Foundation. Before entering academia, he spent twelve years in industry. He is a past president of the INFORMS Simulation Society and serves on the advisory board for the INFORMS Quality Statistics and Reliability section. He is a senior member of IIE and IEEE. 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(2006) and Bordes and Vandekerkhove (2010). Namely we consider a two-component mixture of regressions model in which one component is entirely known while the Euclidean parameters and the error distribution of the other component, the mixing ratio, and the distribution of the design data are unknown. Our model is said to be semiparametric in the sense that the probability density function (pdf) of the error involved in the unknown regression model cannot be modeled adequately by using a parametric density family. When the pdf\u0027s of the errors involved in each regression model are supposed to be zero-symmetric, we propose an estimator of the various (Euclidean and functional) parameters of the model, and prove under mild conditions its convergence. We prove in particular that, under semiparametric technical conditions all satisfied in the Gaussian case, the Euclidean part of the model is estimated at the rate $o_{a.s}(n^{-1\/4+\\gamma})$, $\\gamma\u0026gt;0$. Finally the implementation and numerical performances of our method are discussed using several simulated datasets and one real microarray dataset (ChipMIX model).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor Pierre VANDEKERKHOVE received his Ph.D. in 1998 in Biostatistics at the university Montpellier II, France. His field of research includes Statistics and Applied probability focusing on missing data models and stochastic algorithms, Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithms.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EContact: \u0022VANDEKERKHOVE Pierre\u0022 \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-rfc2396E\u0022 href=\u0022mailto:Pierre.Vandekerkhove@univ-mlv.fr\u0022\u003E\u0026lt;Pierre.Vandekerkhove@univ-mlv.fr\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Statistics Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-09-10 15:10:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:59:49","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-09-13T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-09-13T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-09-13T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-09-13 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-09-13 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-09-13 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessors Ming Yuan \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-rfc2396E\u0022 href=\u0022mailto:myuan@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u0026lt;myuan@isye.gatech.edu\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E and Jeff Wu \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-rfc2396E\u0022 href=\u0022mailto:jeffwu@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u0026lt;jeffwu@isye.gatech.edu\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"151531":{"#nid":"151531","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESpeaker: Richard K. Archibald, staff scientist, Computational Mathematics at ORNL\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETitle: High performance computer algorithms for function approximation and error estimation on arbitrary sparse samples\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EStochastic collocation methods are an attractive choice to characterize uncertainty because of their non-intrusive nature. High dimensional stochastic spaces can be approximated well for smooth functions with sparse grids. There has been a focus in extending this approach to non-smooth functions using adaptive sparse grids. We have developed a fast method that can capture piecewise smooth functions in high dimensions with high order and low computational cost. This method can be used for both approximation and error estimation of stochastic simulations where the computations can either be guided or come from a legacy database.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERichard K. Archibald is a staff scientist in the Computational Mathematics group at ORNL. He held the Alston S. Householder Fellowship in Scientific Computing from 2005 until his staff appointment in 2007. Archibald received both his BS in physics and his MS in mathematics from the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada in 1996 and 1998, respectively. He obtained his PhD in mathematics from the University of Alberta-Edmonton in 2002.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArchibald\u00b9s current research interests include developing uncertainty quantification algorithms for climate models, designing algorithms for the next generation of high-performance architecture, and establishing long-time integration steps for the dynamical core of climate models at high resolution. He is presently involved in the Center for Advanced Architecture\u00b9s HOMME project, as well as \u00b3Ultra-High Resolution Global Climate Simulations\u00b2 with principal investigator Jim Hack and researcher Kate Evans. This project seeks to develop the scientific framework to ascertain the benefit of employing very-high-resolution global models to investigate regional-scale phenomena.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Statistics Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-09-05 06:34:42","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:59:45","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-09-06T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-09-06T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-09-06T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-09-06 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-09-06 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-09-06 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-abbreviated\u0022 href=\u0022mailto:Roshan@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ERoshan@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-abbreviated\u0022 href=\u0022mailto:Jeffwu@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EJeffwu@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"149681":{"#nid":"149681","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Stop by the SCL Booth at CSCMP\u0027s Annual Global Conference 2012","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESCL will be at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals\u0027 Annual Global Conference 2012 at the Georgia World Conference Center in Atlanta, GA. Stop by our booth (#905) during the Supply Chain of the Future exhibition September 30th through October 2nd where SCL will be answering questions about its professional education offerings as part of this\u0026nbsp; real-time, fully-integrated functional supply chain where you can see, first-hand, the technologies, processes, and solutions provided by high-performing supply chains. 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Refreshments will be served, and there will also be time to network with fellow OR\/MS and other professionals in the Atlanta community.\u0026nbsp; Please pass this email along to any associates whom you think might be interested.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe meeting will be in the Executive Classroom (Room 228) of the ISyE main building located at 755 Ferst Drive. This is the same location as most of our previous meetings.\u0026nbsp; Here\u2019s a link to a map of the campus and the ISyE Visitor Parking Lot: \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-freetext\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/visitors\/maps\/isye-map.php\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/visitors\/maps\/isye-map.php\u003C\/a\u003E.\u0026nbsp; There is plenty, but no longer free, parking.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E Please RSVP to:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJohn M. Harris, Ph.D. President INFORMS - Atlanta 404.506.0198\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Siddhartha Maheshwary\u2019s BIO:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESid got his PhD from the Georgia Tech School of ISyE in 2008 under the advisement of Eva K. Lee. His thesis focused on theory related to cutting planes derived from hypergraph structures found in 0-1 integer programs, and parallel computation for solving integer programming instances. As part of his graduate research, he also developed the RealOpt Simulation-Optimization system used for disaster planning and emergency response preparation. This work received the INFORMS Pierskalla Award in 2005. Upon graduation, he worked for a year at a small startup company in Atlanta where he developed manufacturing and logistics optimization applications. 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I will first review some major ideas in RPD, focusing on its engineering origin and statistical methodology. I will then discuss more recent work that expands the original approach, including the use of feedback control and operating window. To have an effective solution, the subject matter knowledge often needs to be incorporated. Techniques for fusing data with knowledge will be presented. For advanced manufacturing and high-tech applications, there are new challenges and possible paradigm shift posed by three features: large varieties, small volume and high added value. I will speculate on some new directions and technical development. Throughout the talk, the ideas will be illustrated with real examples, ranging from the traditional (autos and chips) to the modern (nano and bio).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ENote: This would be a rehearsal talk for the Deming lecture to be given on July 31, JSM.\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Statistics Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-07-24 08:27:59","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:59:16","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-07-25T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-07-25T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-07-25T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-07-25 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-07-25 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-07-25 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Jeff Wu\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jeffwu@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ejeffwu@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"139851":{"#nid":"139851","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Poverty Free","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u201cOvercoming Urban Poverty: France and the U.S. Talk action\u201d Public roundtable discussion\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;WHEN: Tuesday November 6, 2012 from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E WHERE: The TSRB Auditorium at Georgia Tech (Technology Square Research Building - 85 Fifth Street NW - Atlanta, GA 30308) \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E With a poverty rate in both France and the United States of about 14%, urban poverty in developed countries is an unfortunate reality. When poverty affects our neighbor, it affects us all. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E During France-Atlanta 2012, members of the French-American community will tackle this problem hands-on. Following two community projects in the metropolitan areas of Atlanta and Metz, in partnerships with Atlanta Habitat for Humanity and the French NGO Habitat et Humanisme, a roundtable discussion by these leading NGOs will put the focus on the fight against urban poverty. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E On November 6, guest speakers from Habitat for Humanity and Habitat et Humanisme will come together for a public discussion at Georgia Tech to share their organization\u2019s models through a recap of the two French-American community projects and discuss the current and upcoming challenges of access to housing in developed countries as well as urban poverty in general. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Guest Speakers include Bernard Usquin, President of Habitat et Humanisme (Paris region), Ms. Larrie Del Martin, President and CEO of Atlanta Habitat for Humanity and Ms. Patricia Decker, the U.S. Operations Director with Habitat for Humanity International. The roundtable discussion will be moderated by Dr. Pinar Keskinocak, co-founder and co-director of the Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics at Georgia Tech. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E TO REGISTER:\u0026nbsp; To register for this public roundtable discussion:\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-freetext\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.france-atlanta.org\/spip.php?article182\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.france-atlanta.org\/spip.php?article182\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Poverty Free"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-07-12 08:13:42","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:59:12","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-11-06T13:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-11-06T16:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-11-06T16:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-11-06 18:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-11-06 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-11-06 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFOR MORE INFORMATION:\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-abbreviated\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.france-atlanta.org\u0022\u003Ewww.france-atlanta.org\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"133911":{"#nid":"133911","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Health Systems\/IE Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: \u003Cstrong\u003EPushing the Envelope of Operations Research: Applying Management Science to Optimize Health Care Decisions \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESPEAKER: Mark S. Roberts, MD MPP\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor and Chair, Department of Health Policy and Management\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProfessor of Medicine, Industrial Engineering and Clinical and Translational Science\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EUniversity of Pittsburgh Schools of Public Health, Medicine and Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT: \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHistorically, the application of operations research in health care has focused on the process and delivery of care.\u0026nbsp; Viewing health care delivery as a production process, operations research and industrial engineering techniques have been use to optimize operating room and ambulance schedules, eliminate bottlenecks in emergency rooms, and re-organize the delivery of radiological services.\u0026nbsp; There have been some applications in optimizing clinical care; most notable perhaps in the development of algorithms to optimize the delivery of radiation therapy, but these remain rare.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOver the past 15 years, we have been applying methods from operations research to optimize the treatment of disease. The preferred methodology in medicine for acquiring this type of knowledge is the randomized controlled trial.\u0026nbsp; However, randomized trials are designed to answer simple questions such as \u201cIs A better than B?\u201d when, in fact, most clinical and policy questions are much more complex, and involve picking the best treatment out of a wide array of possibilities, or understanding under what conditions is A better than B. Operations research methods are designed to inform these types of optimization questions, but have been rare in the medical literature.\u0026nbsp; This talk will describe our efforts to advance and apply operations research techniques to clinical patient care decision and policies, using examples from liver transplantation and HIV care.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHost: \u003C\/strong\u003EDr. Barbara Boyan, Biomedical Engineering\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Health Systems\/IE Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-06-05 08:48:42","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:59:02","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-06-19T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-06-19T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-06-19T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-06-19 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-06-19 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-06-19 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELorraine Shaw\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:lshaw@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elshaw@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"128541":{"#nid":"128541","#data":{"type":"event","title":"INFORMS-Atlanta Meeting","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Atlanta Chapter of INFORMS, the national society for Operations Research and Management Science professionals, will meet on Wednesday, May 16th, at 6:00 PM. Our meeting location is the Executive Classroom of Georgia Tech\u2019s School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. A reception will precede the meeting at 5:30. Mr. Justin Eggart, General Manager, Monitoring \u0026amp; Diagnostics for GE Energy, will be our guest speaker. Mr. Eggart will discuss how GE Energy leverages analytics to monitor and manage the performance of nearly 1500 power generating units throughout the world and the challenges it presents. The presentation abstract and Mr. Eggart\u2019s BIO is below for your review. The meeting is open to all interested parties, and is free of charge. Refreshments will be served, and there will also be time to network with fellow OR\/MS and other professionals in the Atlanta community. Please pass this email along to any associates whom you think might be interested. Please let me know if you plan to attend the meeting and your number of invited guests. I want to try and make sure I have the proper amount of food and drinks. The meeting will be in the Executive Classroom (Room 228) of the ISyE main building located at 755 Ferst Drive. This is the same location as most of our previous meetings. Here\u2019s a link to a map of the campus and the ISyE Visitor Parking Lot: \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-freetext\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/visitors\/maps\/isye-map.php\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/visitors\/maps\/isye-map.php\u003C\/a\u003E. There is plenty, but no longer free, parking. We look forward to seeing you there.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPresentation Abstract: \u0026nbsp; GE Energy Monitoring \u0026amp; Diagnostics, based in Atlanta, Georgia, monitors the operation of ~1500 Power Generation units located throughout the world. The M\u0026amp;D center is the \u201cfront line\u201d for managing the health of and the information about the GE power generation fleet. To accomplish this task, the M\u0026amp;D team relies heavily on analytics. Today, GE Energy M\u0026amp;D runs over 150 \u201canalytics\u201d continuously on real-time data streaming from the power plant. These \u201canalytics\u201d range from simple rules to complex algorithms, but all are key to how we provide value to GE and our customers. This presentation explores the challenges in managing applied analytics methods in this environment and discusses the significant opportunity that lies ahead.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMr. Justin Eggart\u2019s BIO:\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Justin Eggart is General Manager of Technology for the GE Energy Monitoring and Diagnostics Center in Atlanta, Georgia. Justin and his team are responsible for both operations and technology development for monitoring the health and operation of the GE Thermal power Generation fleet (~1500 units) around the world. The M\u0026amp;D team is the \u201cfront line\u201d for operational and maintenance support of the fleet and provides data and analytics services across GE Energy. Justin has over 20 years of experience in developing hardware and software technology for data acquisition applications. Justin joined General Electric in 2002 and has held Engineering, Six Sigma, and Sourcing leadership roles within GE. Prior to joining GE, Justin held various engineering design and management positions at Bently Nevada Corporation including Systems Engineering Leader and Product Line Manager. Justin is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt. Justin holds a B.S. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Montana State University. Justin is active in the community, working with the United Way and GE Volunteers. Justin serves on the Executive Advisory Board for Georgia FIRST and the Industrial Advisory Board for Montana State University. 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The workshop will bring together acquisition leaders from U.S. government, academia and industry that have common interests in supply chain analysis and advancing the availability of domestic sources for lightweight material solutions for government systems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAdditionally, senior leadership and staff representing the interagency Defense Production Act Committee (DPAC) have been invited to participate. The DPAC is a congressionally established body of cabinet secretaries and other agency leaders who are focused on ensuring that the U.S. industrial base can meet government needs. Proceeding of the workshop will be specifically designed to advice the DPAC\u0027s newly formed Lightweight Materials Study Group.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EKeynote speakers include Hon. Sharon E. 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We reduce the contracting problem into a dynamic programming problem with one state variable, and characterize the optimal contract with an ordinary differential equation. In the benchmark case of Holmstrom and Milgrom (1987) without learning, the optimal effort is constant, and the optimal contract is linear. In contrast, in our model with endogenous learning, the optimal effort policy becomes history dependent, and decreases over time on average. Moreover, we show that the optimal contract exhibits an option-like feature in that the incentives rise after good performance shocks. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EShort bio: \u003Cbr \/\u003E Dr. Bin Wei is currently an economist at the Capital Markets section of Research \u0026amp; Statistics Division at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Before joining the Board in September 2011, he had been an assistant professor of finance at Baruch College, the City University of New York for four years between 2007 and\u0026nbsp; 2011. He is interested in a broad range of topics, such as, optimal contracting, delegated portfolio management, liquidity and credit risk modeling, market microstructure. He has published two papers in one of the top finance journals, Review of Financial Studies. Dr. Bin Wei got his Ph.D. in finance from Duke University in 2007 and M.A. in statistics from University of Pennsylvania in 2002.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"QCF Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-04-25 09:33:24","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:49","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-05-03T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-05-03T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-05-03T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-05-03 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-05-03 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-05-03 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Shijie Deng\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:deng@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edeng@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"127821":{"#nid":"127821","#data":{"type":"event","title":"SIAC\/Statistics Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: \u003Cstrong\u003EResearch Issues on Life Data Analysis and Life Test Design\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Dr. Huairui (Harry) Guo \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EReliaSoft is a leading software company providing statistical analysis and project management tools for reliability and quality engineers. We have over 10 major software packages, such as Weibull++ for life data analysis, ALTA for accelerated life test design and analysis, and DOE++ for general experimental designs. In the development of our products, we have encountered many research issues and also received many requirements from our customers. In this talk, I will present several of these issues related to life data analysis and experimental design. I hope we can get input on these matters from experts like you. The possible research topics are:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E1)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; How to adjust the bias of the maximum likelihood estimates (MLE) of the shape parameter of the Weibull distribution. The bias not only affects reliability prediction, it also affects the standard error of the estimated parameters, which can lead to incorrect conclusions from significance tests such as the likelihood ratio chi-squared test and the approximated standard normal test.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;2)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; With censored data, it is sometimes impossible to get the MLE solution for a generalized linear model with the Weibull, exponential or lognormal distribution. How can we determine the existence of the MLE solution for a model by simply examining the data before calling the optimization routine to solve it?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E3)\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Optimal designs have been widely used in Design of Experiments (DOE). However, with possible censored data from a life test, the traditional optimal design methods that utilize the information matrix cannot be applied directly. Research for designing optimal accelerated life tests with one and two stresses has been conducted, but we would like to explore the possibility of developing a general method for optimal life tests with any number of stresses. All of the current methods are based on the approximated Fisher information bounds (also called Wald confidence bounds); is it possible to design tests based on likelihood ratio bounds, which have been proved more accurate than the Fisher information bounds?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp; Dr. Huairui (Harry) Guo is the Director of Theoretical Development at ReliaSoft Corporation. He received his Ph.D. in Systems and Industrial Engineering from the University of Arizona. His research involves many areas of quality and reliability engineering, including SPC, ANOVA, DOE, repairable and non-repairable system reliability modeling, accelerated life and degradation testing, and warranty prediction. He has been invited to give presentations and seminars for NASA, ASQ, NREL and commercial companies. He has conducted consulting projects for companies from various industries, including renewable energy, oil and gas, automobile, medical devices and semi-conductors. As the leader of the theory team, he is deeply involved in the development of Weibull++, ALTA, DOE++, RGA, BlockSim, Lambda Predict and other products from ReliaSoft. Dr. Guo was the recipient of the Stan Ofsthun Award from the Society of Reliability Engineers (SRE) in 2008 and 2010. 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Christensen (Director of RIM, GaTech)\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EObjective\u003Cbr \/\u003EThe objective of this workshop is to bring together leading researchers\/developers from industry \u003Cbr \/\u003Ewith leading researchers from academia to discuss challenges, opportunities and new trends in logistics, material handling, optimization, and related algorithms.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAgenda\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E08:45-09:15\u003C\/strong\u003E Registration\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E09:15-10:45\u003C\/strong\u003E Logistics\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Christian Wurll, KUKA Systems; Chandrashekar Natarajan, Anheuser-Busch; John J. Bartholdi III, Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E10:45-11:00\u003C\/strong\u003E Break\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E11:00-12:30\u003C\/strong\u003E Optimization\u003Cbr \/\u003EKunal Talwar, Microsoft Research; Vahab Mirrokni, Google Research; Alan Erera, Georgia Tech\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E12:30-01:15\u003C\/strong\u003E Lunch\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E01:15-02:45\u003C\/strong\u003E Beyond the Horizon\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Larry Sweet, Symbotic\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Aranyak Mehta, Google Research\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Kamal Jain, E-Bay\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E02:45-03:15\u003C\/strong\u003E Break\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E03:15-04:00\u003C\/strong\u003E Panel Discussion\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E04:00-05:00\u003C\/strong\u003E Reception\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003ESponsors: Algorithms \u0026amp; Randomness Center, Robotics \u0026amp; Intelligent Machines (Ga Tech)\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ARC-RIM Industry Day"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-04-16 09:36:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:45","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-05-04T13:45:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-05-04T22:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-05-04T22:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-05-04 17:45:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-05-05 02:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-05-05 02:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor additional information please contact Ms. Nina White - \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:nwhite@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Enwhite@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"124161":{"#nid":"124161","#data":{"type":"event","title":"In celebration of Dr. Ellis Johnson","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003EThe H. Milton Stewart School\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003Eof Industrial and Systems Engineering cordially invites you to attend a celebration for\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003EProfessor Ellis Johnson as he retires from\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003EWednesday the 2nd of May 2012\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003ESpeakers: 1:00pm - 4:30pm\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003EReception: 4:30pm - 6:00pm\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003ERespond by Tuesday the 25th of April\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003ELisa Basnight\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003E404-385-3888\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp align=\u0022center\u0022\u003Elisa@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In celebration of Dr. Ellis Johnson"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-04-16 09:49:11","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:45","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-05-02T18:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-05-02T23:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-05-02T23:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-05-02 22:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-05-03 03:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-05-03 03:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Basnight\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:lisa@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elisa@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"124241":{"#nid":"124241","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Joint Stats-Quant Finance seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Knightian Uncertainty and Nonlinear Expectations\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Professor Shige Peng, Shandong University\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA. N. Kolmogorovs Foundations of the Theory of Probability published in 1933, has established the modern axiomatic foundations of probability theory. Since then this theory has been profoundly developed and widely applied to situations where uncertainty cannot be neglected. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EBut in 1921 Frank Knight has been already clearly classified two types of uncertainties: the first one is for which the probability is known; the second one, now called Knightian uncertainty, is for cases where the probability itself is also uncertain. The situation with Knightian uncertainty has become one of main concerns in the domain of data processing, economics, statistics, and specially in measuring and controlling financial risks. A long time challenging problem is how to establish a theoretical framework, comparable to the Kolmogorovs one, to treat these more general situations with Knightian uncertainties. Motivated from the measure of risk, the objective of the theory of nonlinear expectation rapidly developed in recent years is to solve this problem. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EThis is a huge program. Some fundamental results have been established and well-understood such as law of large numbers, central limit theorem, martingales, G-Brownian motions, G-martingales and the corresponding stochastic calculus of It?os type, nonlinear Markov processes, as well as the calculation of measures of risk in finance. But many intersting problems are still to be explored, e.g., statistics in the framework nonlinear expectations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBio: \u003Cbr \/\u003E Shige Peng is one of the most original and active contributors to the field of probability theory and financial mathematics. Recognized around the world as a leading figure for his work on backward stochastic differential equations and nonlinear expectations, he has had a profound impact in both mathematics and financial engineering. A member of the Chinese Academy of Science, he has been a plenary speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians, one of the highest honors given to mathematicians. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EAs a prominent figure in the Chinese mathematics and financial engineering communities he has held numerous visiting professorships and lectured at major institutions and research conferences worldwide, including the Ecole Polytechnique, as well as Osaka, Tokyo, Columbia, Brown, and Princeton universities. He is a Professor First Class at the Institute of Mathematics, Shandong University, and a Distinguished Professor of Ministry of Education of China. \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the course of his visits to Princeton as a Global Scholar in the departments of Mathematics, Operations Research and Financial Engineering, and the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics, Peng will help nucleate collaborative activities and research interests in the area of stochastic analysis and applications to financial mathematics. He will teach short courses on backward stochastic differential equations and the theory of nonlinear expectations, help organize formal and informal seminars on probability theory and financial mathematics, co- advise undergraduate independent work and graduate students in Mathematics, ORFE and PACM, and collaborate on research with colleagues on campus.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Joint Stats-Quant Finance seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-04-16 11:10:32","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:45","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-04-17T15:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-04-17T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-04-17T16:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-04-17 19:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-04-17 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-04-17 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Shijie Deng\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:deng@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edeng@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"124251":{"#nid":"124251","#data":{"type":"event","title":"DOS Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Storing Fresh Produce for Fast Retrieval in an Automated Compact Cross-dock System\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Nima Zaerpour, Visiting Scholar from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe study temporary storage of fresh produce in a cross-dock center. In order to minimize cooling cost, compact storage systems are used. A major disadvantage of such compact systems is additional retrieval time needed, caused by necessary reshuffles due to the improper storage sequence of unit loads. In practice therefore, a dedicated-storage policy is used in which every storage lane in the system accommodates only one product. However, this policy does not use the planned arrival time information of the products. To make use of this information, this paper proposes a mathematical model considering a shared-storage policy minimizing the total retrieval time. The policy allows different products to share the same lane. In order to solve real-sized problems an effective and efficient heuristic is proposed, based on a greedy construction and an improvement part, which provides near optimal solutions, and which is robust against disturbances in arrival or departure times. The gaps between the results of the heuristic and the lower bound are often zero and mostly less than 1%. Our results, tested for a major distributor of fresh produce, show that the shared-storage policy can reduce the retrieval time by 16% on average as compared to the dedicated-storage policy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is a joint work with Dr. John Bartholdi.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"DOS Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-04-16 11:16:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:45","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-04-18T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-04-18T18:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-04-18T18:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-04-18 21:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-04-18 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-04-18 22:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EQie He\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:qie.he@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eqie.he@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"124281":{"#nid":"124281","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Comparing Network Dynamics over Finite Fields\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Professor Ian H. Dinwoodie, Portland State Univ.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAn iterative method is given for computing the polynomials that vanish on the basin of attraction of a steady state in discrete polynomial dynamics with finite field coefficients. The algorithm is applied to dynamics of a T cell survival network where it is used to compare transition maps conditional on a basin of attraction.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EContact: Ian Dinwoodie \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-rfc2396E\u0022 href=\u0022mailto:ihd@pdx.edu\u0022\u003E\u0026lt;ihd@pdx.edu\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Statistics Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-04-16 15:26:20","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:45","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-04-18T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-04-18T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-04-18T17:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-04-18 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-04-18 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-04-18 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"Host: \u0022Kobi Ako Abayomi\u0022 \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-rfc2396E\u0022 href=\u0022mailto:kabayomi3@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u0026lt;kabayomi3@isye.gatech.edu\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"124291":{"#nid":"124291","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: The Effect of Omitted Variables in the Multilevel Mediation Model\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Professor Davood Tofighi, GT School of Psychology\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMediational analysis is a statistical approach that examines the effect of treatment (e.g., prevention) on an outcome (e.g., substance use) achieved by targeting and changing one or more intervening variable(s) (e.g., risk and protective factors such as peer drug use norms). Multilevel (mixed model) mediation analysis examines the indirect effect of an independent variable on an outcome achieved by targeting and changing an intervening variable (mediator) in clustered (multilevel) data. We study analytically and through simulation the effects of an omitted variable at Level 2 (cluster level) on a 1-1-1 multilevel mediation model for a randomized experiment conducted within clusters in which the treatment, mediator, and outcome are all measured at Level 1 (individuals). When the residuals in the equations for the mediator and the outcome variables are fully orthogonal, the two methods of calculating the indirect effect (ab, c \u2013 c\u0027 ) are equivalent at the between- and within-cluster levels. Omitting a variable at Level 2 changes the interpretation of the indirect effect and will induce correlations between the random intercepts or random slopes. The equality of within-cluster ab and c \u2013 c\u0027 no longer holds. Correlation between random slopes implies that the within-cluster indirect effect is conditional, interpretable at the grand mean level of the omitted variable.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Statistics Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-04-16 15:29:02","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:45","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-04-26T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-04-26T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-04-26T17:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-04-26 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-04-26 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-04-26 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"Host: Dr. Roshan Vengazhiyil \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-rfc2396E\u0022 href=\u0022mailto:roshan@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u0026lt;roshan@isye.gatech.edu\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"124381":{"#nid":"124381","#data":{"type":"event","title":"APS Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EApplied Probability and Stochastics (APS) seminar\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFriday, April 20, 2012 Instructional Center (IC) room 105\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBob Foley, Professor in ISyE at Georgia Tech, will be speaking on:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERare events and Markov chains: a constructive large deviations theory\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe talk will be held on Friday, April 20 from 12:00 to 1:00 PM in the Instructional Center (IC) room 105. Lunch will be served before the talk, from 11:45 \u2013 12:00 pm, in the same room. For directions to the venue, please use the following link: \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-freetext\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/visitors\/maps\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/visitors\/maps\/\u003C\/a\u003E .\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAbstract: \u0026nbsp; Rare events are events that have small probabilities of occurring. Even though the probabilities are small, rare events can be important. Rare events might correspond to queue lengths exploding or buffers overflowing in a manufacturing system. Even though these \u0022large deviations\u0022 are rare, it can be important to know just how rare.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EConsider a system that can be modelled as a Markov process and has a stationary distribution that cannot be computed explicitly. We are developing methods for deriving exact asymptotic expressions of the stationary distribution. Furthermore, the methodology gives insight into how various large deviations develop, which allows system designers to know how to improve the system.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDuring the seminar, I will illustrate the methodology by analyzing a particular queueing system. I will also point out how some of the ideas in this research can be used in rare event simulation.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"APS Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-04-17 09:54:32","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:45","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-04-20T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-04-20T18:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-04-20T18:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-04-20 21:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-04-20 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-04-20 22:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDave Goldberg \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-rfc2396E\u0022 href=\u0022mailto:dgoldberg9@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u0026lt;dgoldberg9@isye.gatech.edu\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E email or by calling: (201) 723-4314.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"122781":{"#nid":"122781","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Sr Design Finalist Competition","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESenior Design Finalist Competition\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E The ISyE Senior Design Finalist Competition showcases the Senior Design teams who rose to the top of the class by finding the best solutions to a complex problem faced by the team\u0027s partner company or organization.\u0026nbsp; Finalist teams generally show unusual creativity, innovation, insight, and\/or technique in designing their engineering solutions. This event, a must see for any IE student who will eventually take Senior Design, is a great way to celebrate these exceptional students, their advisors, and the companies who sponsored the project.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E All are welcome to attend!\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Competition Date: May 2, 2012\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Competition Time:\u003Cbr \/\u003E 5:45 p.m. \u2013 Pizza and Reception \u003Cbr \/\u003E 6:15 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. \u2013 Competition\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Competition Location:\u003Cbr \/\u003E The Klaus Advanced Computing Building, Room 1443\u003Cbr \/\u003E Map and directions: \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-freetext\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/about\/directions\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/about\/directions\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Senior Design Finalist Competition"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-04-09 08:52:27","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:41","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-05-02T22:45:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-05-03T01:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-05-03T01:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-05-03 02:45:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-05-03 05:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-05-03 05:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EYvonne Smith\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:yvonne.smith@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eyvonne.smith@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"123081":{"#nid":"123081","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Inference in multivariate Archimedean copula models\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER:\u0026nbsp; Johanna Neslehova\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EArchimedean copulas are popular dependence structures which may be regarded as extensions of shared multiplicative frailty models, frequently used in biostatistics. This talk is concerned with new rank-based estimators for these copulas. The approach stems from a recent representation of these copulas as the survival copulas of simplex distributions. The procedures are based on a reconstruction of the radial part of the simplex distribution from the so-called Kendall distribution, which arises through the multivariate probability integral transformation of the data. In the bivariate case, the methodology is justified by the well known fact that an Archimedean copula is in one-to-one correspondence with its Kendall distribution. It turns out that this property continues to hold in the trivariate case, and strong evidence is provided that it extends to any dimension. A convenient criterion for the convergence of sequences of multivariate Archimedean copulas will be presented and used to show consistency of the proposed estimators.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EContact: \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-abbreviated\u0022 href=\u0022mailto:johanna@math.mcgill.ca\u0022\u003Ejohanna@math.mcgill.ca\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Statistics Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-04-10 08:25:33","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:41","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-04-13T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-04-13T18:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-04-13T18:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-04-13 21:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-04-13 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-04-13 22:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EKobi Ako Abayomi \u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-rfc2396E\u0022 href=\u0022mailto:kabayomi3@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u0026lt;kabayomi3@isye.gatech.edu\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"123761":{"#nid":"123761","#data":{"type":"event","title":"OR Colloquium","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Mean Field Equilibria of Dynamic Auctions with Learning\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Ramesh Johari\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe study learning in a dynamic setting where identical copies of a good are sold over time through a sequence of second price auctions. Each agent in the market has an \u0027unknown\u0027 independent private valuation which determines the distribution of the reward she obtains from the good; for example, in sponsored search settings, advertisers may initially be unsure of the value of a click. Though the induced dynamic game is complex, we simplify analysis of the market using an approximation methodology known as \u0027mean field equilibrium\u0027 (MFE). The methodology assumes that agents optimize only with respect to long run average estimates of the distribution of other players\u0027 bids.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe show a remarkable fact: in a mean field equilibrium, the agent has an optimal strategy where she bids truthfully according to a \u0027conjoint valuation\u0027. The conjoint valuation is the sum of her current expected valuation, together with an overbid amount that is exactly the expected marginal benefit to one additional observation about her true private valuation. Under mild conditions on the model, we show that an MFE exists, and that it is a good approximation to a \u0027rational\u0027 agent\u0027s behavior as the number of agents increases. Formally, if every agent except one follows the MFE strategy, then the remaining agent\u0027s loss on playing the MFE strategy converges to zero as the number of agents in the market increases.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe conclude by discussing the implications of the auction format and design on the auctioneer\u0027s revenue. In particular, we establish a dynamic version of the revenue equivalence theorem, and discuss optimal selection of reserve prices in dynamic auctions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is joint work with Krishnamurthy Iyer and Mukund Sundararajan.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp; Ramesh Johari is an Associate Professor at Stanford University and the Cisco Faculty Scholar in the School of Engineering, with a full-time appointment in the Department of Management Science and Engineering (MS\u0026amp;E), and courtesy appointments in the Departments of Computer Science (CS) and Electrical Engineering (EE). He is a member of the Operations Research group in MS\u0026amp;E, the Information Systems Laboratory in EE, and the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. He received an A.B. in Mathematics from Harvard (1998), a Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics from Cambridge (1999), and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT (2004).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EHe is the recipient of a British Marshall Scholarship (1998), First Place in the INFORMS George E. Nicholson Student Paper Competition (2003), the George M. Sprowls Award for the best doctoral thesis in computer science at MIT (2004), Honorable Mention for the ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award (2004), the Okawa Foundation Research Grant (2005), the MS\u0026amp;E Graduate Teaching Award (2005, 2010), the INFORMS Telecommunications Section Doctoral Dissertation Award (2006), and the NSF CAREER Award (2007). He has served on the program committees of ACM Electronic Commerce (2007, 2009-2011), ACM SIGCOMM (2006, 2011), IEEE Infocom (2007-2011), and ACM SIGMETRICS (2008-2009).\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"OR Colloquium"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-04-12 14:42:46","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:41","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-04-17T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-04-17T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-04-17T17:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-04-17 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-04-17 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-04-17 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDavid Goldberg\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:dgoldberg9@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edgoldberg9@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"123791":{"#nid":"123791","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Advisory Board Meeting","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESpring Advisory Board Meeting\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EApril 19, 2012 3:00pm\u0026nbsp; Nanotechnology Building tour\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; 6:00pm\u0026nbsp; Dinner\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EApril 20, 2012\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; 8:00am - 3:00pm\u0026nbsp; Meeting Executive Classroom\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Advisory Board Meeting"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-04-12 15:01:28","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:41","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-04-19T20:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-04-20T20:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-04-20T20:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-04-20 00:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-04-21 00:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-04-21 00:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Basnight\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:lisa.basnight@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elisa.basnight@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFelicia Goolsby\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:felicia.goolsby@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Efelicia.goolsby@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"123801":{"#nid":"123801","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Strategic Planning Retreat","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EISyE Strategic Planning Retreat\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDear ISyE Colleagues,\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWith the recent publication of Georgia Tech\u2019s Strategic Vision and Plan (\u003Cem\u003EDesigning The Future\u003C\/em\u003E) and the ongoing development process for the College of Engineering\u2019s strategic plan, it is timely and appropriate for the School of Industrial \u0026amp; Systems Engineering to likewise re-develop its own strategic plan.\u0026nbsp; Thus ISyE will be undertaking its own strategic planning process over the next few months, which will yield a plan that shall be congruent with both the Institute\u2019s and College\u2019s visions, yet be uniquely attuned to the aspirations of the School.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe first major step in that process will be an ISyE visioning retreat.\u0026nbsp; The retreat will enable us to discuss the various aspects of a strategic plan for the School, including its vision, mission, objectives, goals, strategies, and measures.\u0026nbsp; The retreat will be held on April 30, 2011 at Georgia Tech\u2019s Global Learning Center (more details to follow soon).\u0026nbsp; You are hereby invited to participate in the retreat.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Strategic Planning Retreat"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-04-12 15:07:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:41","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-04-30T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-04-30T22:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-04-30T22:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-04-30 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-05-01 02:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-05-01 02:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Basnight\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; 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In this talk, I shall discuss adaptive covariance matrix estimation where the goal is to construct a single procedure which is minimax rate optimal simultaneously over each parameter space in a large collection. The estimator is constructed by carefully dividing the sample covariance matrix into blocks and then simultaneously estimating the entries in a block by thresholding. 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These bounds are useful in determining whether methods other than SSM need to be employed to achieve contractual targets for response times, and for helping determine when to stop looking for SSM improvements because policies are near optimal. Joint work with Matt Maxwell, Chaoxu Tong and Huseyin Topaloglu.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E Shane G. Henderson is a professor in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1997, and has held academic positions in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan and the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Auckland. His research interests include discrete-event simulation, simulation optimization, and emergency-services planning. 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The data-generating mechanism as well as the scientific objective can have important influence on the way in which the design is generated, and the estimated response model. For example, if the objective is to maximize response, we may only be interested in accurate estimates near the maximum. In computer experiments, Gaussian process models are a common approach, and have been used for sequential design and optimization. Instead we use an adaptive nonparametric regression model (\u0022Bayesian Additive Regression Trees\u0022, or BART) to deal with nonstationarities and other complex relationships. By providing both point estimates and uncertainty bounds for prediction, BART provides a basis for sequential design criteria to ?nd optima with few function evaluations. 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A typical (real-world) problem would be choosing between an 8 hr or 10 hr workday given a mean \u00b1 standard deviation of workload = 8.6 \u00b1 0.6 hr. The specific application is simple because: (a) there is complete knowledge of the demand and (b) fixed and few different container sizes (e.g., 8 hr and 10 hr days) so that how the optimization is solved has little effect on the quality of the solution. Furthermore, data sources, amount of data to use, and other details are not major issues. Rather, the practical challenges are different. (1) Psychological biases and anesthesia-hospital contracts influence implementation. (2) Lack of use is evident months later when anesthesiologists, nurse anesthetists, and operating room nurses are assigned to cases and there is a mismatch between staff scheduled to work that day with the caseload.\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio: \u003C\/strong\u003EDuring the past 15 years, Franklin Dexter, MD PhD, and his colleagues have developed much of the science in anesthesia group and operating room management. Dr. Dexter completed a Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics \u0026amp; Biology with Honors from Brown University; Masters Degree \u0026amp; Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, with specialization in biomathematics, from Case Western Reserve University; M.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine; and Anesthesiology residency at the University of Iowa. He is Professor in the Department of Anesthesia at the University of Iowa. Several times a year, he teaches a four-day intensive course in operating room management. He has given more than more than 135 invited presentations in the United States and abroad. He is Statistical Editor of Anesthesia \u0026amp; Analgesia, as well as Section Editor for Economics, Education, and Policy. Annually he reviews more than 700 papers and grant applications. As Director of the Division of Management Consulting in the Department of Anesthesia, he has performed more than 315 consultations, for more than 130 corporations. He has published more than 325 papers in the fields of operating room management and anesthesia. Details of his background, expertise, contact information, as well as the comprehensive bibliography of scientific papers in OR management, are at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.franklindexter.net\/\u0022\u003Ewww.FranklinDexter.net\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Newsvendor, Behavior, and the Importance of Agreements (Contracts) in Operating Room Management"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-03-26 07:10:18","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:29","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-03-30T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-03-30T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-03-30T17:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-03-30 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-03-30 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-03-30 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Pinar Keskinocak\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:pinar@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Epinar@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPengyi Shi\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:pengyishi@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Epengyishi@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"116301":{"#nid":"116301","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar - Bayesian Computation Using Design of Experiments-based Interpolation Technique","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Bayesian Computation Using Design of Experiments-based Interpolation\nTechnique\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Dr. Roshan Vengazhiyil\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA new deterministic approximation method for Bayesian computation, known\nas Design of Experiments-based Interpolation Technique (DoIt), is\nproposed. The method works by sampling points from the parameter space\nusing an experimental design and then fitting a kriging model to\ninterpolate the unnormalized posterior. The approximated posterior\ndensity is a weighted average of normal densities and therefore, most of\nthe posterior quantities can be easily computed. DoIt is a general\ncomputing technique which is easy-to-implement and can be applied to\nmany complex Bayesian problems. Moreover, it does not suffer from the\ncurse of dimensionality as much as some of the quadrature methods. 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Join Dean Gary May, Intel Corporation President \u0026amp; CEO \nPaul Otellini, mtvU, Facebook, and other prominent engineering alumni and guests \nas we celebrate engineering with fun events, music, food, giveaways, and more! \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETech Lounge \u2013 11:30 a.m. \u2013 1:30 p.m.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003ETent near \nCampanile\u003C\/em\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003ERain Location: Student Center Ballroom \u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents can drop by the Tech Lounge tent to speak to employment \nprofessionals about job search strategies and receive r\u00e9sum\u00e9 advice. While \nthere, you\u0027ll have the opportunity to chat with prominent engineering alumni and \nspecial guests from technology and entertainment, as well as receive free prizes \nfor correctly answering engineering trivia. Free drinks and giveaways will be \nprovided, as well as the opportunity to win an Ultrabook\u2122, inspired by Intel\u00ae. \nmtvU will also be nearby filming an upcoming segment showcasing Georgia Tech and \nthe Day of Engineering.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFacebook Live \u2013 2:45 p.m. \u2013 4:00 p.m.\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFerst Center \nfor the Arts\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EGrab your friends and attend the STAY WITH IT\u2122 Facebook Live panel discussion \nhosted by Montel Williams, television personality, radio talk show host, actor, \nand engineer, and featuring Paul Otellini, President \u0026amp; CEO, Intel \nCorporation, Charles Bolden, NASA Administrator, executives from Facebook, \nGoogle, and Comcast along with a special message from President Barack Obama. Be \none of the select few to ask the panelists a question that will be streamed to \neleven other peer institutions in the U.S. and across the Web. Participants will \nhave the chance to win one of five Ultrabooks. A free ticket is required to \nattend. 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Throughout the years, Nash equilibrium has\nhad a most significant impact in economics and many other areas.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003EHowever, more than 60 years later, its dynamic foundations - how are\nequilibria reached in long-term interactions - are still not well\nestablished.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn this talk we will overview a body of work of the last decade on\ndynamical systems in multi-player environments. On the one hand, the\nnatural informational restriction that each participant may not know the\npayoffs and utilities of the other participants - \u0022uncoupledness\u0022 -\n\u003Cbr \/\u003Eturns out to severely limit the possibilities to converge to Nash\nequilibria. On the other hand, there are simple adaptive heuristics -\nsuch as \u0022regret matching\u0022 - that lead in the long run to correlated\nequilibria, a concept that embodies full rationality. We will also\nmention connections to behavioral and neurobiological studies, to\ncomputer science concepts, and to engineering applications.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ACO Distinguished Lecture Series"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-02-29 14:36:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:15","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-03-01T20:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-03-01T21:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-03-01T21:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-03-02 01:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-03-02 02:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-03-02 02:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"114091":{"#nid":"114091","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar - Dr. Howard Bondell","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Efficient Robust Estimation via Two-Stage Generalized Empirical Likelihood\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Dr. Howard Bondell\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe triumvirate of outlier resistance, distributional robustness, and\nefficiency in both small and large samples, constitute the Holy Grail\nof robust statistics. We show that a two-stage procedure based on\nan initial robust estimate of scale followed by an application of\ngeneralized empirical likelihood comes very close to attaining that goal.\nThe resulting estimators are able to attain full asymptotic efficiency at\nthe Normal distribution, while simulations point to the ability to\nmaintain this efficiency down to small sample sizes. Additionally, the\nestimators are shown to have the maximum attainable finite-sample\nreplacement\nbreakdown point, and thus remain stable in the presence of heavy-tailed\ndistributions and outliers. Although previous proposals with full\nasymptotic efficiency exist in the literature, their finite sample\nefficiency can often be low. The method is discussed in detail\nfor linear regression, but can be naturally extended to other areas,\nsuch as multivariate estimation of location and covariance.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Efficient Robust Estimation via Two-Stage Generalized Empirical Likelihood"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-03-05 12:49:21","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:15","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-03-08T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-03-08T16:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-03-08T16:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-03-08 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-03-08 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-03-08 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMing Yuan\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:myuan@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Emyuan@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"112011":{"#nid":"112011","#data":{"type":"event","title":"U.S. Manufacturing Competitiveness Initiative Dialogue on Next Generation Supply Networks and Logistics","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhen:\u003C\/strong\u003E February 28 (2:00 p.m.- 6:00 p.m.) and February 29 (8:00 a.m.- 3:00 p.m.)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat:\u003C\/strong\u003E This two-day, invitation only Forum will bring together U.S. \nbusiness, labor, academic and government leaders to discuss how \ninnovations in supply chain and logistics infrastructure and services \ncan stimulate the U.S. Manufacturing global competitiveness and growth. \n \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E Registration is complimentary, but seating is \nlimited. Registrants will be informed within 36 hours if seating is  \navailable.\u0026nbsp; Preference will be given to registrants from Council on  \nCompetitiveness member organizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWho:\u003C\/strong\u003E Sponsored by:  \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.compete.org\/\u0022\u003EThe Council on Competitiveness\u003C\/a\u003E, U.S. Manufacturing Competitiveness Initiative and the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27511","created_gmt":"2012-02-23 14:15:31","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:10","author":"Ashley Daniel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-02-28T13:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-02-29T14:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-02-29T14:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-02-28 18:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-02-29 19:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-02-29 19:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"2239","name":"Council on Competitiveness"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1789","name":"Conference\/Symposium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:usmciforum@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EYvonne Smith\u003C\/a\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E404-385-1655\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"110101":{"#nid":"110101","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar - Variable selection using dimension reduction model","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Variable selection using dimension reduction model\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Dr. Wenxuan Zhong\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk, a forward screening selection procedure will be discussed\nunder the sufficient dimension reduction framework, in which the response\nvariable is influenced by a subset of predictors through an unknown\nfunction of a few linear combinations of them. Unlike linear model, our\nproposed method does not  impose a special form of  relationship (such as\nlinear) between the response variable and the predictor variables. Our\nmethod selects variables that attain the maximum correlation between the\ntransformed response and the linear combination of the variables. Various\nasymptotic properties, and in particular, its variable selection\nperformance under diverging number of predictors and sample size has been\ninvestigated and will be discussed in this talk. The empirical performance\nof the procedure will be demonstrated in functional genomic analysis.\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EContact: Wenxuan Zhong \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wenxuan@illinois.edu\u0022\u003E\u0026lt;wenxuan@illinois.edu\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Variable selection using dimension reduction model"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-02-17 12:52:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:05","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-02-22T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-02-22T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-02-22T11:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-02-22 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-02-22 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-02-22 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMing Yuan \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:myuan@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u0026lt;myuan@isye.gatech.edu\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"110121":{"#nid":"110121","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar - DD-Classifier and Other Applications of DD-Plots","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: DD-Classifier and Other Applications of DD-Plots\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Professor Regina Liu\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EData depth and its induced center-outward ordering have given rise to many useful tools in nonparametric multivariate analysis. A DD-plot (depth vs depth plot) is the two dimensional scatter plot of depth values of the given sample points with respect to the two underlying distributions. It can be a useful tool to visualize the difference of two distributions. We discuss some of the utilities of DD-plots in this presentation. In particular, we discuss approaches devised from DD-plots to classification (thus named DD classifier) and testing the difference between two samples. The approaches are completely data driven and the classification or test outcomes can be easily visualized on the two-dimensional DD-plot regardless how high the dimension of the data. Moreover, these approaches are easy to implement and they bypasses the task of estimating underlying parameters such as means and scales, often required by the existing statistical approaches.  We show that DD-classifier is asymptotically equivalent to the Bayes rule under suitable conditions, and it can achieve Bayes error for a family broader than elliptical distributions. Overall, DD-classifier performs well across a broad range of settings, and compares favorably with existing methods, including KNN and SVM. It can also be robust against outliers or contamination.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\nThis is joint work with Juan Cuesta-Albertos (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain) and Jun Li (University of California, Riverside).\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Statistics Seminar - Regina Liu"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-02-17 13:01:12","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:05","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-03-02T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-03-02T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-03-02T11:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-03-02 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-03-02 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-03-02 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Roshan Vengazhiyil\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:roshan@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Eroshan@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"107821":{"#nid":"107821","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar - Parameters Auto-Tuning in Three Dimensional Photonic Crystal Simulations","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Parameters Auto-Tuning in Three Dimensional Photonic Crystal\n       Simulations\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Professor Weichung Wang\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENumerical simulations of three-dimensional photonic crystals\nhave gathered great importance in the investigations of their physical\nproperties and real world applications. A main purpose of the\nsimulations is to predict particular lattice structures to achieve\nmaximal bandgaps. This target is a challenge as the computations are\nhighly time-consuming and many tuning parameters are involved. These\ntuning parameters include structure parameters in the photonics\ncrystal lattices and algorithmic performance parameters in the\neigenvalue solvers. To identify the optimal lattice structures and the\noptimal algorithm combinations, we use several statistical tools to\nmodel the unknown response functions of the tuning parameters. Tools\narising in design and analysis of computer experiments will be\ndiscussed to show the details of the schemes. Promising numerical\nresults will also be presented to justify the proposed schemes.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Parameters Auto-Tuning in Three Dimensional Photonic Crystal Simulations"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-02-08 16:43:58","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:58:00","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-02-13T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-02-13T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-02-13T11:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-02-13 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-02-13 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-02-13 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EHost: Jeff Wu \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jeffwu@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u0026lt;jeffwu@isye.gatech.edu\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"106541":{"#nid":"106541","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar - Valid Post-Model Selection Inference****","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Valid Post-Model Selection Inference****\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Professor Linda Zhao\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIt is common practice in statistical data analysis to perform data-driven\nmodel selection and derive statistical inference from the selected model.\nSuch inference is generally invalid. We propose to produce valid \u201cpost-\nselection inference\u201d by reducing the problem to one of simultaneous\ninference. We describe the structure of the simultaneous inference problem\nand give some asymptotic results. We also develop an algorithm for\nnumerical computation for the width of our new confidence intervals.\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is joint work with Richard Berk, Lawrence Brown, Andreas Buja, and Kai\nZhang.\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Valid Post-Model Selection Inference****"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-02-06 11:32:19","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:57:52","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-02-09T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-02-09T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-02-09T11:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-02-09 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-02-09 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-02-09 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E Drs. Ming Yuan \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ming.mingyuan@gmail.com\u0022\u003E\u0026lt;ming.mingyuan@gmail.com\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ming.mingyuan@gmail.com\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\n            Jeff Wu \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jeffwu@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u0026lt;jeffwu@isye.gatech.edu\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"106581":{"#nid":"106581","#data":{"type":"event","title":"APS Seminar - Inpatient Flow Management in a Singaporean Hospital","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Inpatient Flow Management in a Singaporean Hospital\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Pengyi Shi\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe study patient flow management in an inpatient department of a\nSingaporean hospital. We focus on understanding the effect of an\n\u0022early discharge\u0022 policy, implemented in late 2009, on ward\noverflow rate and on fraction of ED patients who have to wait six hours\nor longer to get a bed. We propose a new stochastic network model\nwhose service times are not independent, identically distributed (iid)\nand are dictated by a discharge distribution. We discuss a number of\nother key features that need to be built into the model. We show, via\na simulation study, that our model is able to capture the hourly\nperformance of the inpatient operation. The model allows one to\nevaluate the impact of operational policies such as early\ndischarge and overflow policies. \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is joint work with Jim Dai\n(Georgia Tech), Ding Ding (University of International Business \u0026amp;\nEconomics, Beijng), and James Ang and Mabel Chou (NUS).\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Inpatient Flow Management in a Singaporean Hospital"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-02-06 11:39:27","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:57:52","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-02-10T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-02-10T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-02-10T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-02-10 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-02-10 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-02-10 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. David Goldberg\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:dgoldberg9@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Edgoldberg9@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"97881":{"#nid":"97881","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar - Multifunctional Composite Systems","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Multifunctional Composite Systems\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Dr. Ben Wang\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis talk covers some of Dr. Wang and his colleagues\u2019 recent research and\na path forward. The purpose is to seek collaborations with experts in\nstatistics, reliability, quality, process control and optimization.\nGen I composites, made with fiberglass and early carbon fibers,\nserved as metal replacements in secondary, non-load bearing parts.\nThe Gen I success fostered the development and progressive use of modern\ncarbon fibers in load bearing structures to replace metals. Gen II\ncomposites, built on intermediate-modulus carbon fibers and\nimproved matrix resins, brought about a broader use in selected structures.\nAdvancements in the 1980\u2019s-90\u2019s resulted in innovative uses of composites\nin commercial aerospace, auto, marine, space and sporting goods and\nexpanded military applications. This growth was largely driven to achieve\nadditional weight saving due to the materials\u2019unparalleled ability\nto solve seemingly contradictory requirements, such as reducing weigh\nwhile increasing mechanical properties. The potential of composites is\nclear and the trend of continued use of composites is unstoppable.\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETreated as metal replacement, total performance improvements at the\nsystem\u2019s level has largely been \u201clinear\u201d over the past 50 years spanning\nGen I and the current Gen II, despite a tremendous body of knowledge in\nmaterials science and impressive engineering developments.\nHowever, if we continue this linear trend and extrapolate into out years,\ncan composites meet much more stringent requirements for tomorrow\u2019s\nlightweight engineered systems characterized by unprecedented requirements\nfor performance, quality, energy efficiency, reliability, safety,\nenvironmental compatibility and life cycle affordability?\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe define Generation III composite systems as ultra-lightweight, energy\nefficient, high-performance composite structures where multiple functions\nco-exist symbiotically without requiring parasitic components. Such a\nparadigm-changing endeavor obviously requires enormous multidisciplinary\nteamwork over a long period of time.\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe presentation is intended to stimulate a discussion on the following\ntopics:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\n\n1.  Can synergistic materials with intrinsic properties be developed,\n    scaled and integrated to realize effective Gen III multifunctional\n    structural systems of the highest possible quality, reliability and\n    performance throughout their life cycles?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\n\n2.  Can the Gen III multifunctional structural systems exceed the\n    performance of today\u2019s best composites and if so, by how much?\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\n\n3.  What are the barriers, challenges and possible solutions at the basic\n    science and enabling technology levels and how can these solutions be\n    embodied in an integrated engineered system?\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jclu@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Multifunctional Composite Systems"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-01-30 09:31:03","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:57:44","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-02-02T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-02-02T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-02-02T11:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-02-02 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-02-02 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-02-02 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EProfessor J.-C. Lu \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jclu@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u0026lt;jclu@isye.gatech.edu\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"81141":{"#nid":"81141","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar - Control Charts for Coefficient of Variation","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Control Charts for Coefficient of Variation\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Dr. Chang W. Kang\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn some manufacturing processes, the variance can change, depending on\nthe process mean. For example, if the output value reflects process\nyield, an increased mean might naturally lead to an increase in variance.\nWhen the variance is a function of the mean, the coefficient of variation\n(CV) is an appropriate measure for process variability. Since the CV\ncontrol chart was first introduced by Kang et al (2007), there were some\ntrials to improve the performance of CV control charts depending on the\nshift size.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\nIn this research, we present some CV related control charts and compare\nthe performance of those control charts for better use in the field.\nThe CV control chart shows good sensitivity to large shift in CV.\nThe CV-EWMA control chart(2008), the CV-DEWMA control chart(2011)\nand the CV-GWMA control chart(2011) were developed to control\nprocesses sensitively responding to small shifts of CV.\nThe FIR CV-GWMA control chart is more effective control chart\nto detecting off-target processes in the stage of set-up or start-up of\nprocess.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\nHost:  Professor Paul Kvam \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:paul.kvam@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u0026lt;paul.kvam@isye.gatech.edu\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Control Charts for Coefficient of Variation"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-01-23 10:50:49","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:57:11","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-01-26T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-01-26T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-01-26T11:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-01-26 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-01-26 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-01-26 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Paul Kvam\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:paul.kvam@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Epaul.kvam@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"85801":{"#nid":"85801","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Faculty Candidate Seminar - Information and Entropy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Information and Entropy\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Sebastian Pokutta\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELimits of system performance can often understood in the context of \ninformation and entropy. In the talk we give two examples. One \ntheoretical one where a strong bound on the size of a smallest possible \nrepresentation is obtained via an entropy argument. The second deals \nwith an application where the goal is to eliminate information \nasymmetries using optimization methods.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003EMore precisely:\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the first part, we solve a 20-year old problem posed by M. \nYannakakis and prove that there exists no polynomial-size linear program\n (LP) whose associated polytope projects to the traveling salesman \npolytope, even if the LP is not required to be symmetric. Moreover, we \nprove that this holds also for the maximum cut problem and the stable \nset problem.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003EIn the second part, we consider a real-world energy market coupling \nproblem which aims for a more balanced and consistent determination of \nprices in adjacent markets in presence of coupling mechanisms. By doing \nso the amount of possible arbitrage is minimized.\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E(The first part is joined work with: Samuel Fiorini, Serge Massar, \nHans Raj Tiwary, and Ronald de Wolf \/\/ the second part is joined work \nwith: Alexander Martin and Johannes M\u00fcller)\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Information and Entropy"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-01-24 09:42:36","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:57:11","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-01-26T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-01-26T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-01-26T11:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-01-26 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-01-26 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-01-26 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Shabbir Ahmed\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:sahmed@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Esahmed@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"77951":{"#nid":"77951","#data":{"type":"event","title":"India\u0027s Supply Chain: Markets and Opportunities Conference (ISCMOC)","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch4\u003EWhy Should You Attend? \u003C\/h4\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EIndia is one of the world\u0027s most dynamic countries and is designated as a priority market by the U.S. Department of Commerce.  India\u0027s economy grew on average 8 percent over the last ten years and growing dynamism in several of its regional markets have created wide and diverse business prospects for U.S. companies. The country\u0027s supply chains are responsible for its continued growth and globalization. The sector is valued by official studies at $500 billion.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EIndia\u0027s infrastructure needs present an unprecedented opportunity for U.S. firms in developing supply chains, warehouses, cold chain storage, ports, roads, railroads, airports, and power grids. India will invest $1 trillion in its infrastructure during the 12th Five-Year Plan (2012-2017) and looks for private sector participation to fund half of this massive expansion through the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model. India\u0027s highly entrepreneurial and rapidly globalizing private sector is investing in infrastructure projects and is actively looking for suitable partners in USA.\u003C\/p\u003E\n  \n\u003Ch4\u003EWho Should Attend?\u003C\/h4\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThis one-day global business forum is designed to be intensive and specific for business decision-makers, strategic business planners, export, marketing and operations managers, top professionals, legal practitioners, consultants, and academics with a special interest in India\u0027s  Supply Chain and the business impacts of its continuing growth and globalization.  We suggest sending a team of executives to the Forum.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\u003Ch5\u003EForum\u0027s Major Emphases:\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EIdentifying market opportunities in India for U.S.-based firms in various promising sectors\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EWhere, when, and how to build your India market\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EMarket entry and joint venture strategies\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003Cli\u003EOvercoming regulatory and cultural obstacles\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPlus!\u003C\/strong\u003E - Candid Industry and Business Case Panels with experienced executives.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Ch4\u003EOrganized By\u003C\/h4\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.usaindiabusinesssummit.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EUSA India Business Summit (UIBS)\u003C\/a\u003E, the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ciber.gatech.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia Tech Center for International Business Education \u0026amp; Research (CIBER)\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gcsu.edu\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EGeorgia College \u0026amp; State University\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cem\u003EWith Support of\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/h5\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EThe U.S. Commercial Service, The Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD), The Metro Atlanta Chamber, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), Am Cham India, Georgia Tech Supply Chain and Logistics Institute and MM Activ\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Ch4\u003ESponsored by\u003C\/h4\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EOther ISCMOC sponsors include USIBRC, Georgia College, Infosys, Manhattan Associates, DACHSER Intelligent Logistics, Metro Atlanta Chamber and USIII.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Ch2\u003EProgram\u003C\/h2\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E8:30-9:15am \u003Cstrong\u003ERegistration and Continental Breakfast\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n9:15-9:30am \u003Cstrong\u003EWelcoming Remarks\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EAni Agnihotri, Program Chair, India\u0027s Supply Chain: Markets and Opportunities Conference\u003C\/li\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EMs. Gretchen Corbin, Deputy Commissioner, Global Commerce , Georgia Department of Economic Development\u003C\/li\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EHonorable Ajit Kumar, Consul General, Indian Consulate, Atlanta\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E9:30-10:15am  \u003Cstrong\u003EKeynote Address - India\u0027s Integration with Global and USA Supply Chain\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EMr. L. Radhakrishnan, I.A.S., Chairman, Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust, Mumbai, India\u003C\/li\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EDr. John McIntyre, Prof. of Intl. Business and Director, GaTech, CIBER  - Session Moderator\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E  \n\n\u003Cp\u003E10:15-11:00am  \u003Cstrong\u003EMorning Special Session - A Perspective on US and Georgia\u2019s Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Industry\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EMr. Page Siplon, Executive Director, Center of Innovation for Logistics, Georgia Department of Economic Development\u003C\/li\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EMr. Tom Singh, Vice President, Global Supply Chain, CIRCOR International, Inc. - Session Moderator\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECoffee Break\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E11:15-12:15pm  \u003Cstrong\u003EPanel A - Building Supply Chain and Logistics Infrastructure in India\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPorts, Airports and other opportunities\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EMr. David R. Gault, Director Business Development India, DACHSER USA\u003C\/li\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EMr. Steve Mulaik, Partner, The Progress Group\u003C\/li\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EMr. Warren Jones, Aviation Development Manager, Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta Intl Airport\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n  \n\u003Cp\u003E11:15-12:15pm   \u003Cstrong\u003EPanel B - India opportunities in Logistics Sector\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWarehousing and Cold Chain, Freight forwarder and Air Freight\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EMs. Jaymie C. Forrest, Managing Director, Georgia Tech Supply Chain and Logistics Institute \u2013 Session Moderator\u003C\/li\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EMr. J.D. Schwefler, Vice President, International Business Development, Americold\u003C\/li\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EMr. Chris Barnes, President, Warehouse Education and Research Council Atlanta Chapter\u003C\/li\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EMr. Jayant Bharadwaj, President,  Swift Freight (USA) Inc\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E12:30-2:00pm  \u003Cstrong\u003ELuncheon Keynote Address - Opportunities and Challenges in India\u0027s Supply Chain and Logistics Sector\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EDr. S.B. Agnihotri*, I.A.S., Director General of Shipping, India\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EMr. Thomas Strauss, Southern Regional Director, U.S. Department of Commerce \u2013 Session Moderator\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n  \n\u003Cp\u003E2:15-3:00pm  \u003Cstrong\u003EAfternoon Special Session - Challenges and Opportunities for Global Multinationals: How New Business Models, Scale, Technology and Frugal Innovation\nCan Combine to Create Real Breakthroughs in India\u0027s Supply Chains\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EMr. Sandeep Dadlani, VP \u0026amp; Head Americas, Retail, CPG and Logistics, Infosys, India\u003C\/li\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EDr. Matthew Liao-Troth, Dean, J. Whitney Bunting College of Business, Georgia College \u0026amp; State Univ. - Session Moderator\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cem\u003ECoffee Break\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E3:15-4:15pm \u003Cstrong\u003EPanel C - Indian Supply Chain and Logistics Sector\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAgriculture and Food, Mergers \u0026amp; Acquisitions and Business Partnerships\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EMr. Bret Douglas, Vice President, Global Trade \u0026amp; Supply Chain, HSBC Bank\u003C\/li\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EMr. Dharmendra Gangrade, Head \u2013 Logistics, Pidilite Industries Ltd., India\u003C\/li\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EDr. Douglas F. Britton, Manager, Agricultural Technology Research Program, Food Processing Technology Division, GTRI\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E3:15-4:15pm \u003Cstrong\u003EPanel D - IT and Other Services\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EIT and Allied Technologies, Enterprise Resource Planning and Warehouse Management Systems\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EMr. Vivek Sehgal, Senior Director, Manhattan Associates\u003C\/li\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EMr. Michael Stolarczyk, President, Kontane Logistics\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\n  \n\u003Cp\u003E4:15-5:00pm \u003Cstrong\u003ECase Studies - Case studies of Warehousing and distribution in India\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EFood, Retail and Technology\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EMr. Bill Bastian II, President, Bastian Solutions\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E  \n\n\u003Cp\u003E5:15-7:30pm \u003Cstrong\u003EReception\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EConference Fees:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cul\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003EEarly Registration: $175\/person (subject to availability)\u003C\/li\u003E\n  \u003Cli\u003ERegistration: $225\/person\u003C\/li\u003E\n\u003C\/ul\u003E \n\n\u003Cp\u003ERegistration Link: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.usaindiabusinesssummit.com\/registration.php\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.usaindiabusinesssummit.com\/registration.php\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis one-day global business forum is designed to be intensive and specific for business decision-makers, strategic business planners, export, marketing and operations managers, top professionals, legal practitioners, consultants, and academics with a special interest in India\u0027s Supply Chain and the business impacts of its continuing growth and globalization.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2012-01-12 14:31:52","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:57:02","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-01-23T07:45:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-01-23T18:30:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-01-23T18:30:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-01-23 12:45:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-01-23 23:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-01-23 23:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.usaindiabusinesssummit.com\/registration.php","title":"Conference Registration Link"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.usaindiabusinesssummit.com\/ISCC_Pre_Event.pdf","title":"Conference Program (PDF)"}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"2998","name":"India"},{"id":"167074","name":"Supply Chain"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1789","name":"Conference\/Symposium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"78091":{"#nid":"78091","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Manufacturing Enterprise Systems and Service Enterprise Systems Research: Topics and Winning Strategies","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Manufacturing\n        Enterprise Systems and Service Enterprise Systems Research:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        Topics\n        and Winning Strategies\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Dr. Russell\n        Barton\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        Program\n        Director, Manufacturing Enterprise Systems and Service\n        Enterprise Systems\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n        National\n        Science Foundation\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis\n        talk will provide a broad survey of research areas supported by\n        the Manufacturing\n        Enterprise Systems (MES) and Service Enterprise Systems (SES)\n        programs at NSF.\n        It will also cover a number of NSF-wide initiatives related to\n        systems\n        engineering issues in health care and manufacturing that are\n        also important for\n        prospective proposers, and present a crystal-ball view of\n        possible future\n        initiatives. The talk will conclude with a characterization of\n        winning and\n        losing strategies for proposal writing for the MES and SES\n        programs.\u003C\/p\u003E\n    \u003Cp\u003EBiography\u003C\/p\u003E\n    \u003Cp\u003ERussell\n        Barton is Program Director for manufacturing management and\n        services management\n        research in the MES and SES programs. These areas have a\n        combined annual budget\n        of over $9 million. He is on assignment at NSF from the Smeal\n        College of\n        Business at Penn State, where he is a professor in the\n        Department of Supply\n        Chain and Information Systems. He previously served as\n        co-director for the Penn\n        State Master of Manufacturing Management degree program, and as\n        associate dean\n        for research and Ph.D.\/M.S. programs for the Smeal College. He\n        holds a B.S. in\n        electrical engineering from Princeton University and M.S. and\n        Ph.D. degrees in\n        operations research from Cornell University.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Manufacturing Enterprise Systems and Service Enterprise Systems Research: Topics and Winning Strategies"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-01-13 09:28:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:57:02","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-01-17T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-01-17T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-01-17T11:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-01-17 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-01-17 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-01-17 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ELisa Basnight\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:lisa@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Elisa@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E404-385-3888\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"78181":{"#nid":"78181","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IE Seminar: Games and Risk Analysis: Four cases involving Management and National Security","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Games and Risk Analysis: Four cases involving Management and\n    National Security\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Dr Elisabeth\n    Pate-Cornell\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA presentation of four models of risk and decision analyses\n    involving games, designed to support strategic decisions. The first\n    is a single-move game, in which the US faces risks of terrorist\n    attacks by several possible groups. The result is a probabilistic\n    ranking of the threat posed by different types of weapons.\u0026nbsp; The\n    second is a dynamic counter-terrorism analysis designed to compare\n    the stabilizing effects of different short- and long-term government\n    strategies. It is based on the simulation of an alternate game\n    between a government and a terrorist group. The third is a dynamic\n    evaluation of US nuclear counter-proliferation strategies for a\n    single country. It involves an analysis of the weapon development\n    program given the country\u0027s evolving intent and capabilities, and\n    the effectiveness of different US strategies to prevent or delay its\n    success.\u0026nbsp; The fourth is a principal-agent model of the development\n    of an engineered system, in which an agent in charge of part of the\n    project may consider meeting a deadline by cutting corners if he\n    falls behind schedule. This generally increases the system failure\n    probability and the goal is to support the decisions of the manager\n    in setting constraints and incentives to decrease the total costs.\n    These four cases are based on systems analysis and probability but\n    present a spectrum of models, assumptions and results.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    Biography:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    Dr. M. Elisabeth Pat\u00e9-Cornell was born in Dakar, Senegal, in 1948.\n    Her undergraduate degree is in mathematics and physics (BS,\n    Marseilles, France, 1968), and her first graduate degrees are in\n    applied mathematics and computer science (MS and Engineer Degree,\n    Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, 1970; 1971).\u0026nbsp; She\n    received a Masters degree in Operations Research (OR) in 1972 and a\n    Ph.D. in Engineering-Economic Systems (EES) in 1978, both from\n    Stanford University.\u0026nbsp; She joined the Stanford faculty in 1981, and serves as Chair (since\n    1997) of the now Department of Management Science and Engineering.\u0026nbsp;\n    In 1999, she was named the Burt and Deedee McMurtry Professor in the\n    School of Engineering, and she is also a Senior Fellow (by courtesy)\n    of the Stanford Institute for International Studies.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    Dr. Pat\u00e9-Cornell was elected to the National Academy of Engineering\n    in 1995, and is currently a member of its Council. She has served on\n    the President\u2019s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from December\n    2001 to December 2004.\u0026nbsp; Dr. Pat\u00e9-Cornell is a world leader in\n    research related to engineering risk analysis, risk management,\n    decision analysis under uncertainty, and more generally, the use of\n    Bayesian probability to process incomplete information. In recent\n    years, her research and that of her Engineering Risk Research Group\n    at Stanford have focused on the inclusion of both technical and\n    organizational factors in probabilistic risk analysis models. These\n    models have been applied to a wide variety of topics, ranging from\n    the risk management of the NASA shuttle tiles to that of offshore\n    oil platforms and medical systems such as anesthesia during surgery.\n    She is currently working on risk management processes for complex\n    projects and programs, with application to space, industrial and\n    medical systems. Since 2001, she has applied risk analytic methods\n    to the study of different types of terrorist attacks on the United\n    States, the assessment of intelligence information and the\n    effectiveness of counter measures.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n    Dr. Pat\u00e9-Cornell is the author or co-author of more than a hundred\n    papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. She has\n    received several best-paper awards from professional organizations\n    such as the American Nuclear Society and the Decision Analysis\n    Society of INFORMS (for her work on the shuttle tiles), and\n    peer-reviewed journals such as Military Operations Research in 2002\n    for a paper on the assessment of terrorist threats.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Games and Risk Analysis: Four cases involving Management and National Security"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-01-13 13:46:07","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:57:02","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-01-19T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-01-19T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-01-19T11:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-01-19 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-01-19 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-01-19 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Alan Erera\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:alerera@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ealerera@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"76631":{"#nid":"76631","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar-Localising Temperature Risk","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Localising Temperature Risk\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Professor Wolfgang Haerdle\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOn the temperature derivative market, modeling temperature volatility is\nan important issue for pricing and hedging. In order to apply pricing\ntools of financial mathematics, one needs to isolate a Gaussian risk\nfactor. A conventional model for temperature dynamics is a stochastic\nmodel with seasonality and intertemporal autocorrelation.\nEmpirical work based on seasonality and autocorrelation correction reveals\nthat the obtained residuals are heteroscedastic with a periodic pattern.\nThe object of this research is to estimate this heteroscedastic function\nso that after scale normalisation a pure standardised Gaussian variable\nappears. Earlier work investigated this temperature risk in different\nlocations and showed that neither parametric component functions nor a\nlocal linear smoother with constant smoothing parameter are flexible\nenough to generally describe the volatility process well. Therefore, we\nconsider a local adaptive modeling approach to find at each time point, an\noptimal smoothing parameter to locally estimate the seasonality and\nvolatility. Our approach provides a more flexible and accurate fitting\nprocedure of localised temperature risk process by achieving\nexcellent normal risk factors.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\nContact: \u0022Wolfgang Haerdle\u0022 \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:wolfgang.k.haerdle@me.com\u0022\u003Ewolfgang.k.haerdle@me.com\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Localising Temperature Risk"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-01-09 10:08:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:56:57","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-01-19T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-01-19T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-01-19T11:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-01-19 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-01-19 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-01-19 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJeff Wu\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"76641":{"#nid":"76641","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar - Non-sparse methods for out-of-sample prediction in high-dimensional linear models","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Non-sparse methods for out-of-sample prediction\n       in high-dimensional linear models\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER:\u0026nbsp; Dr. Lee Dicker\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMotivated by questions about dense (non-sparse) signals in\nhigh-dimensional data analysis, we study the unconditional out-of-sample\nprediction error (predictive risk) associated with three classes of dense\nestimators for high-dimensional linear models: Ridge regression\nestimators, scalar multiples of the ordinary least squares estimator\n(which we refer to as James-Stein estimators), and marginal regression\nestimators. Our results require no assumptions about sparsity and imply\nthat in linear models where the number of predictors is roughly\nproportional to the number of observations:\n(i) If the population predictor covariance is known (or if a\nnorm-consistent estimator is available), then the ridge estimator\noutperforms the James-Stein estimator; (ii) both the ridge and James-Stein\nestimators outperform the ordinary least squares estimator, and the\nimprovements offered by these estimators are especially significant when\nthe signal-to-noise ratio is small; and (iii) the marginal estimator has\nserious deficiencies for out-of-sample prediction. We derive new\nclosed-form expressions for the asymptotic predictive risk of the\nestimators, which allow us to precisely quantify the previous claims.\nAdditionally, minimax ridge and James-Stein estimators are identified.\nFinally, we argue that the ridge estimator is, in fact, asymptotically\noptimal among dense estimators for out-of-sample prediction in\nhigh-dimensional linear models.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\nContact: Lee Dicker \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:ldicker@stat.rutgers.edu\u0022\u003E\u0026lt;ldicker@stat.rutgers.edu\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Non-sparse methods for out-of-sample prediction in high-dimensional linear models"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-01-09 10:12:15","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:56:57","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-01-20T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-01-20T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-01-20T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-01-20 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-01-20 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-01-20 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMing Yuan\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"112821":{"#nid":"112821","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar - Spatiotemporal Event detection in Mobility Network","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Spatiotemporal Event detection in Mobility Network\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Rong Duan\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ELearning and identifying events in network traffic is crucial for service\nproviders to improve their mobility network performance. In fact, large\nspecial events attract cell phone users to relative small areas, which\ncauses sudden surge in network traffic. To handle such increased load,\nit is necessary to measure the increased network traffic and quantify\nthe impact of the events, so that relevant resources can be optimized\nto enhance the network capability. However, this problem\nis challenging due to several issues: (1) Multiple periodic temporal\ntraffic patterns (i.e., nonhomogeneous process) even for normal traffic;\n(2) Irregularly distributed spatial neighbor information;\n(3) Different temporal patterns driven by different events even for\nspatial neighborhoods; (4) Large scale data set.\n\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis paper proposes a systematic event detection method that deals\nwith the above problems. With the additivity property of Poisson process,\nwe propose an algorithm to integrate spatial information by aggregating\nthe behavior of temporal data under various areas. Markov Modulated\nNonhomogeneous Poisson Process (MMNHPP) is employed to estimate the\nprobability with which event happens, when and where the events take\nplace, and assess the spatial and temporal impacts of the events.\nLocalized events are then ranked globally for prioritizing more\nsignificant events. Synthetic data are generated to illustrate our\nprocedure and validate the performance. An industrial example from a\ntelecommunication company is also presented to\nshow the effectiveness of the proposed method.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\n\nContact: \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rongduan@research.att.com\u0022\u003Erongduan@research.att.com\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Statistics Seminar - Rong Duan"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-02-28 08:24:45","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:56:41","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-03-01T15:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-03-01T16:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-03-01T16:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-03-01 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-03-01 21:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-03-01 21:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJan Shi \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:jianjun.shi@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003E\u0026lt;jianjun.shi@isye.gatech.edu\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"72615":{"#nid":"72615","#data":{"type":"event","title":"The emergence of cooperation in the evolutionary spatial prisoners\u0027 dilemma on a path or cycle","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: The emergence of cooperation\n          in the evolutionary spatial prisoners\u0027 dilemma on a path or\n          cycle\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Prof. Jan van Vuuren, Univ. of Stellenbosch, South Africa\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;In\n              this talk we consider the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EEvolutionary Spatial\n                Prisoners\u0027 Dilemma\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;(ESPD) in which players are\n              modelled by the vertices of an underlying graph\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EG\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;representing\n              some spatial organisational structure amongst the players.\n              During each round of the ESPD every pair of adjacent\n              players in\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EG\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;play a classical prisoners\u0027 dilemma\n              against each other, and they update their strategies from\n              one round to the next based on the perceived success (as\n              measured by pay-off values) achieved by the strategies of\n              their neighbours during the previous round. In this way\n              players are able to adapt and learn good strategies from\n              each other as the game progresses, without understanding\n              why these strategies are good. We characterise all steady\n              states of the ESPD for the two cases where\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003EG\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;is a\n              path or a cycle, and we also characterise those initial\n              states that lead to the emergence of persistent substates\n              of cooperation over time. We finally determine\n              analytically (\u003Cem\u003Ei.e.\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;without using simulation) the\n              probability that the game\u0027s states will evolve from a\n              randomly generated initial state towards a steady state\n              which accommodates some form of persistent cooperation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoint work with Alewyn Burger \u0026amp; Martijn\n          van der Merwe\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The emergence of cooperation in the evolutionary spatial prisoners\u0027 dilemma on a path or cycle"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2011-11-10 12:23:56","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:56:37","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-01-10T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-01-10T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-01-10T11:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-01-10 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-01-10 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-01-10 16:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJohn Bartholdi\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"69932":{"#nid":"69932","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Cancer Patient Scheduling","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Cancer\nPatient Scheduling \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Marty Puterman\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis talk\nwill highlight research carried out by the CIHR (Canadian Institutes of Health\nResearch) Team on Operations in Quality Cancer Care which I head up.\u0026nbsp; In this talk, I will focus on two very\ndifferent scheduling applications, one applied study which uses multi-criteria\ndiscrete optimization to schedule chemotherapy patient\u2019s daily appointments and\na more fundamental study which uses approximate dynamic programming to\ndetermine effective patient scheduling rules for radiotherapy treatments.\u0026nbsp;\nA brief description of each topic follows:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E1. Chemotherapy Appointment\nScheduling Process Redesign:\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003EManual booking\npractices\u0026nbsp;in place at the start of this study limited effective demand\nmanagement and\u0026nbsp;resulted in last-minute\u0026nbsp;rescheduling\u0026nbsp;of\nappointments.\u0026nbsp; The consequence of this\nwas heightened stress for patients and staff and operational challenges for the\npharmacy and outpatient clinics.\u0026nbsp;The implementation in June 2011 of more\nflexible booking\u0026nbsp;procedures combined with a custom-built computerized\nscheduling program based on a multi-criteria discrete optimization model, has\nalleviated these\u0026nbsp;problems by providing a reasonable timeframe to notify\npatients of their appointments.\u0026nbsp; This has\nreduced unnecessary changes to pre-booked appointments, supported\nthe\u0026nbsp;complex task of organizing the\u0026nbsp;daily treatment schedule and\nbalanced nurse\u0026nbsp;and pharmacy workload.\u0026nbsp;\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E2. Dynamic Radiotherapy (RT) Appointment Scheduling:\u0026nbsp; This research sought to develop good policies\nfor the dynamic scheduling of patients for radiation therapy.\u0026nbsp; A unique feature of this problem is that\nscheduling a patient means committing capacity over a course of treatments that\ncan range from 1 to 28 days depending on cancer site and treatment\nprotocol.\u0026nbsp; Further patients differ with\nrespect to the degree of urgency for their treatment and which RT machines can\ndeliver their therapy.\u0026nbsp; The practical\nproblem motivating the research involved scheduling 11,000 patients per year on\n9 RT machines. To address it, we formulated and solved a discounted\ninfinite-horizon Markov decision process (MDP). We used an affine architecture\nto approximate the MDP value function and solved an equivalent linear\nprogramming model through column generation to obtain an approximate optimal policy\nfor this problem. The benefits of the proposed method are evaluated by simulating\nits performance for a practical example based on data provided by the BCCA in\nwhich relative costs of delays were assessed by RT professionals.\u0026nbsp; We hope this research will provide the basis\nfor development of a scheduling application. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003ECo-authors\ninclude Antoine Saure, Jonathan Patrick, Scott Tyldesley, John French, Pablo\nSantibanez, Ruben Aristizabal, Vincent Chow, Kevin Huang and Nancy Runzer\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EBio:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMartin\nL. Puterman is Advisory Board Professor of Operations in UBC\u2019s Sauder School of\nBusiness.\u0026nbsp; He was founder and director of\nthe Centre for Operations Excellence (in Sauder), the UBC Centre for Health\nCare Management,\u0026nbsp; and the Biostatistical\nConsulting Service at BC Children\u2019s Hospital. He is co-principal investigator\nof the CIHR Team for Operations Research in Quality Cancer Care. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;His research focuses on health care operations\nresearch especially pertaining to cancer care delivery and decision making,\nMarkov decision processes and statistical modeling of golf performance and\nPGAtour structure.\u0026nbsp; He has consulted\nwidely on health care operations, statistical modeling, inventory control,\nforecasting, operations management, program evaluation and management strategy. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EHe received the prestigious INFORMS\nLanchester Prize for his book \u003Cem\u003EMarkov\nDecision Processes\u003C\/em\u003E.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; He is an\nINFORMS Fellow and recipient of the Canadian Operations Research Society (CORS)\nAward of Merit, the CORS Practice Prize and the INFORMS case prize. \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;He has been an editorial board member of \u003Cem\u003EMathematics of Operations Research\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EOperations Research, Management Science,\nProduction and Operations Management, Manufacturing and Service Operations\nManagement \u003C\/em\u003Eand \u003Cem\u003EThe\u003C\/em\u003E \u003Cem\u003EJournal of the American Statistical\nAssociation\u003C\/em\u003E. \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EHe\nreceived his PhD in Operations Research and an MS in Statistics from Stanford\nUniversity and AB in Mathematics from Cornell. \u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Cancer Patient Scheduling"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2011-09-09 11:30:40","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:55:42","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-04-03T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-04-03T14:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-04-03T14:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-04-03 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-04-03 18:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-04-03 18:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"166896","name":"seminar"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"68972":{"#nid":"68972","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Physician Workload and Hospital Reimbursement: Overworked Servers Generate Lower Income","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETITLE:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp; Physician Workload and Hospital Reimbursement: Overworked Servers Generate Lower Income\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESPEAKER:\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/strong\u003ESergei Savin\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EABSTRACT: \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe\n study the impact of physician workload on hospital reimbursement \nutilizing a detailed data set from the trauma department of a major \nurban hospital. We find that the proportion of patients assigned a \u0026nbsp;\u0022high-severity\u0027\u0027 status for reimbursement purposes, which maps, on \naverage, to a 27.8% higher payment for the hospital, is substantially \nreduced as the workload of the discharging physician increases. This \neffect persists after we control for a number of systematic differences \nin patient characteristics, condition and time of discharge. \nFurthermore, we show\u0026nbsp; that it is not caused by selection bias or \nendogeneity in either discharge timing or allocation of discharges to \nphysicians. Finally, we find that the impact of workload on the \nprobability that a patient is assigned the high-severity designation is \nmoderated by the department\u0027s past experience in handling certain \npatient conditions. We attribute this phenomenon to a workload-induced \nreduction in diligence of paperwork execution. We estimate the \nassociated monetary loss to be approximately 0.9% (with a 95% confidence\n interval of 0.3% and 1.5%) of the department\u0027s annual revenue.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Physician Workload and Hospital Reimbursement"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2011-07-27 11:06:54","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:55:18","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-03-06T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-03-06T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-03-06T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-03-06 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-03-06 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-03-06 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDr. Pinar Keskinocak, 404-894-2325\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"69143":{"#nid":"69143","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Optimal Design of Prostate Cancer Screening Policies","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Optimal Design of Prostate Cancer Screening\nPolicies\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESPEAKER: Brian Denton\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProstate\ncancer is the most common solid tumor that affects American men. Screening\ntypically involves the use of prostate specific antigen (PSA) tests. However,\nthe imperfect nature of PSA tests, and the potential for subsequent harm from\nunnecessary biopsies and treatment, has raised debate about whether and when to\nscreen. In this talk I will provide some background on prostate cancer, current\nscreening guidelines, and a summary of the recent controversy over PSA testing.\nNext, I will discuss a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP)\nmodel to investigate the optimal design of screening policies. Screening policies are defined by the patient\u2019s probability of having\nprostate cancer which is estimated from their history of PSA tests results\nusing Bayesian updating. The core states are the patients\u2019 prostate cancer\nrelated health states. Transition probabilities among health states are\nestimated using a large longitudinal dataset from Olmsted County, the Mayo\nClinic Radical Prostatectomy Registry (MCRPR) and the medical literature.\u0026nbsp; Reward functions that are considered include\nquality adjusted survival (patient perspective) and costs (third party payer\nperspective). \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESome\ntheoretical properties that define the optimal policy will be discussed, and a\nnew approximation method suited to solving finite horizon non-stationary POMDPs\nwill be presented. \u0026nbsp;The\nresults of computational experiments will be used to\nillustrate the use of the model for making screening decisions, such as if and\nwhen to recommend a patient for a PSA test, and when to refer patients for\nbiopsy and subsequent treatment.\u0026nbsp; Sensitivity\nanalysis will be presented to demonstrate the relative importance of factors\nthat define patient specific preferences and risk factors. Finally, future\nresearch directions in the area will be discussed. \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Optimal Design of Prostate Cancer Screening Policies"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2011-08-03 07:54:14","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:55:18","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-02-16T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2012-02-16T12:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-02-16T12:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-02-16 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-02-16 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-02-16 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"166896","name":"seminar"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"125821":{"#nid":"125821","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ACO\/DOS Seminar","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETitle:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Some properties of convex hulls of mixed integer points contained in general convex sets\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u0026nbsp; Diego Mor\u00e1n, ISyE - Georgia Tech\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA mixed integer point is a vector in $\\mathbb{R}^n$ whose first $n_1$ coordinates are integer. We present necessary and sufficient conditions for the convex hull of mixed integer points contained in a general convex set to be closed. This leads to useful results for special classes of convex sets such as pointed cones and strictly convex sets.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFurthermore, by using these results, we show that there exists a polynomial time algorithm to check the closedness of the convex hull of the mixed integer points contained in the feasible region of a second order conic programming problem, for the special case this region is defined by just one Lorentz cone and one rational matrix.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is joint work with Santanu Dey.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPizza and\u0026nbsp;refreshments will be served. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ACO\/DOS Seminar"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2012-04-24 08:24:10","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:54:38","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-04-25T17:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-04-25T18:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-04-25T18:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-04-25 21:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-04-25 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-04-25 22:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERodolfo Carvajal\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:rocarvaj@gatech.edu\u0022\u003Erocarvaj@gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"113811":{"#nid":"113811","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Supply Chain Executive Forum Spring 2012 Meeting","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Supply Chain Executive Forum will hold its\nspring meeting May 1 - 2, 2012. With the theme \u0022The Impact of International Trade in 2012\u0022, the forum will include presentations that discuss:\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EThe Impact of The Panama Canal Expansion\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ELeveraging Canada\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECollaboration in Mexico\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EInternational Freight\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGlobal Trade and Country Trade\/Logistics Reviews for\nCanada, Mexico, China, Panama, Singapore and India\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe forum will include speakers from Worley Parsons Group, CSX, Florida East Coast Railway,\nTransport Canada, Transplace Mexico, DB Schenker Logistics, Home Depot,\nWal-Mart and Carters. Also included is a joint-session with the\nAtlanta CSCMP Chapter on the afternoon of May 1st which will provide a rich\nnetworking opportunity!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EABOUT THE SCEF\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EGeorgia Tech\u0027s Supply Chain Executive Forum (SCEF), an unit of the Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute, represents THE most relevant and valuable opportunity for senior supply chain executives to enhance the strategic impact of their supply chain processes and activities. The SCEF meets twice each year at Georgia Tech in Atlanta and helps its members to identify new and compelling ways to streamline operations to enhance profitability, integrate supply chain strategy with corporate strategy, and grow professionally within and beyond their current organizations.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETo learn more about Georgia Tech\u2019s Supply Chain Executive Forum, visit \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/professional-education\/scef\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/scef\u003C\/a\u003E and read about our \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/news-events\/release.php?id=65927\u0022\u003ESpring 2011\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/news-events\/release.php?id=72395\u0022\u003EFall 2011\u003C\/a\u003E meetings.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Supply Chain Executive Forum will hold its Spring meeting May 1-2, 2012 at the Georgia Tech Global Learning Center. 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The conference is\n      co-organized by the KLU-INSEAD Research Center on Humanitarian\n      Logistics, the Georgia Tech Health and Humanitarian Logistics\n      Center, and the Humanitarian Logistics Association (HLA).\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n      \u003Cstrong\u003EWhat\u003C\/strong\u003E: The focus of this year\u0027s conference is \u0022Creating\n      Sustainable Health and Humanitarian Systems\u0022 and brings together\n      high level speakers from across the health and humanitarian\n      sectors, including non-governmental organizations (NGOs),\n      industry, government, etc.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\n      \u003Cbr \/\u003E\n      For more information about the conference program, please visit\n      \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/humlog2012.the-klu.org\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/humlog2012.the-klu.org\/\u003C\/a\u003E or \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.humanitarian.gatech.edu\/humlog2012\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.humanitarian.gatech.edu\/humlog2012\/\u003C\/a\u003E or email \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:humlog2012@the-klu.org\u0022\u003Ehumlog2012@the-klu.org\u003C\/a\u003E or \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:humlog@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehumlog@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe focus of this year\u0027s conference is \u0022Creating Sustainable Health and Humanitarian Systems\u0022 and brings together high level speakers from across the health and humanitarian sectors, including non-governmental organizations (NGOs), industry, government, etc.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"2012 Conference on Health and Humanitarian Logistics: Creating Sustainable Health and Humanitarian Systems"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2011-12-19 10:09:22","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 01:49:28","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2012-03-21T08:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2012-03-23T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2012-03-23T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2012-03-21 12:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2012-03-23 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2012-03-23 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/humlog2012.the-klu.org\/","title":"Kuhne Logistics University"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.humanitarian.gatech.edu\/","title":"Georgia Tech Center for Health and Humanitarian Logistics"}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"},{"id":"1250","name":"Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS)"},{"id":"1250","name":"Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1789","name":"Conference\/Symposium"}],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEmail: \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:humlog2012@the-klu.org\u0022\u003Ehumlog2012@the-klu.org\u003C\/a\u003E or \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:humlog@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Ehumlog@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWebsite: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/humlog2012.the-klu.org\/\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/humlog2012.the-klu.org\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}