OR 590 Colloquium Series Speaker Schedule Spring 2009
The OR 590 Operations Research Colloquium Series speaker schedule for the Spring semester has been released. This series includes presentations by speakers from industry, outside faculty, and Penn State faculty members. Seminars are held on Tuesdays in 102 Leonhard Building, with refreshments served at 4:15 p.m. and the speaker presentations from 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. This semester's speakers include:
January 13 - Dr. M. Jeya Chandra,
Chair, OR program
Introduction, requirements
January 20 - Dr. Dennis Pegden,
Chairman & CEO, Simio LLC,
Introduction to Simio: An Object-Based Modeling System
January 27 - Dr. Russell Barton,
Professor, Supply Chain and Information Systems, Smeal College of Business, Penn State University
Quality Metrics and Monitoring for Supply Chain
February 17 - Dr. Antonios Armaou, Associate Professor, Chemical Engineering, Penn State University
February 24 - Dr. Amanda Schmitt,
Postdoctoral Associate, MIT Center for Transportation and Logistics
Modeling and Mitigating Supply Chain Disruptions
March 3 - Dr. Hoang Pham,
Professor and Department Head, Department of Industrial Engineering, Rutgers University
Research and Challenges in Reliability
March 17 - Dr. Joseph Wilck,
Department of Industrial and Information Engineering, University of Tennessee
Solving the Split Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem
March 24 - Dr. Jeffrey Kharoufeh,
Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh
Unreliable Retrial Queues in a Random Environment
March 31 - Dr. Robert Weaver, Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Penn State University
April 14 - Dr. Gautam Natarajan,
Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Texas A&M University
Operations Research for Energy Efficiency with Applications to Data Centers
April 28 - Ms. Deborah Montague,
Walt Disney World
Revenue and Profit Management at Walt Disney World