IPC Short Course: Operations Research or the Mathematics of Strategic Decision Making

March 18, 2010

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Thursday, March 18, 2010
Morning Session
9:00 - 9:30	Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:30 - 9:45	Welcome to IPAM - Russ Caflisch
9:45 - 10:00	William Massey (Princeton University) Overview of Operations Research
10:00 - 10:45	Illya Hicks (Rice University) Discrete Optimization and Social Networks
10:45 - 11:00	Break
11:00 - 11:45	Monica Jackson (American University) Detecting global clustering patterns and outliers on spatially correlated data for disease surveillance
11:45 - 12:00	Break
12:00 - 12:45	Mariana Olvera-Cravioto (Columbia University) An OR perspective on ranking information
12:45 - 1:45	Lunch (Hosted by IPAM)
Afternoon Session
1:45 - 2:30	Julie Ivy (North Carolina State University) Partially Observable Markov Decision Process Models for Medical Decision Making
2:30 - 2:45	Break
2:45 - 3:30	William Massey (Princeton University) Queueing Theory and the Operations of Communication Systems
3:30 - 3:45	Break
3:45 - 4:45	William Massey (Princeton University) Closing Comments and Discussion
5:00 - 7:00	Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)
7:00	Yoga Class