Past Events

ORC IAP Seminar 2022
1/25/22 | 10:00am-4:00pm | Online
Sustainability and Climate Change
Description: Operations Research is a powerful area for applications involving energy process design, waste minimization, climate change mitigation, scarce resources management, and other problems related to creating more sustainable and environmentally responsible operations. In this seminar, we will engage with a wide range of researchers and practitioners tackling these and other topics via data science, optimization, and other contemporary OR methods.

XSTrees: Extended Sampled Tree Ensembles for Classification and Regression
Speaker: Omar Skali Lami12/2/21 | 4:15pm | E25-111

How to Make the Gradients Small in Convex and Min-Max Optimization
Speaker: Jelena Diakonikolas11/18/21 | 4:15pm | E25-111

Finding Global Minima via Kernel Approximations
Speaker: Francis Bach11/4/21 | 1:00pm | E51-149

The Online Convex Optimization Approach to Control
Speaker: Elad Hazan10/7/21 | 4:15pm | E25-111

Algorithmic Tools for Congressional Districting: Fairness via Analytics
Speaker: David Shmoys9/30/21 | 4:15pm | E25-111

Distribution-Free, Risk-Controlling Prediction Sets
Speaker: Stephen Bates9/23/21 | 4:15pm | E51-149

Improving Human Decision-Making with Machine Learning
Speaker: Hamsa Bastani9/9/21 | 4:15pm | E51-149

On Optimal Orderings in Optimal Stopping
Speaker: Jay Sethuraman5/20/21 | 4:15pm | Online only

We used RL but..... Did it work?!
Speaker: Susan Murphy5/13/21 | 4:15pm | Online only