Colloquium Series
2021 Colloquium Schedule
A Career of Risk and Uncertainty
Speaker: Dr. Vicki Bier, Professor (retired), UW-Madison Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Date: Friday, Jan. 29, 12:00 pm CST
Colloquium Recordings
2020
Active Preference Elicitation via Adjustable Robust Optimization
Speaker: Pheve Vayanos, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California
Date: Dec. 4, 2020
Duration: 1:01:08
Transportation Polytopes and the Hirsch Conjecture
Speaker: Edward D. Kim, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
Date: January 31, 2020
Duration: 46:12
The rest of our Spring 2020 Colloquium Series has been postponed. Please check back with us in the Fall!
2019
Speaker: Mark S. Roberts, University of Pittsburgh
Date: September 13, 2019
Duration: 1:00:18
Mixed-Integer Conic Programming for Learning Directed Acyclic Graphs from Continuous Data
Speaker: Simge Kucukyavuz, Northwestern University
Date: October 4, 2019
Duration: 57:47
Tactical Design of Same-Day Delivery Systems
Speaker: Alan Erera, Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: October 25, 2019
Duration: 1:04:21
A Formal Analysis of Masking Between Alarm Sounds of the International Medical Alarm Standard
Speaker: Matthew Bolton; University at Buffalo
Date: November 8, 2019
Duration: 1:01:49
Human Factors and Systems Engineering Approaches to Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections
Speaker: Nasia Safdar
Date: December 6, 2019
Duration: 50:11
Liver Transplant Equity Through Redistricting Optimization
Speaker: Sommer Gentry, Professor US Naval Academy
Date: April 26, 2019
Duration: 56:28
Thoughtful Purposeful Leadership
Speaker: Janis Terpenny, Penn State
Date: April 19, 2019
Duration: 53:38
Partial Symmetries and Grid-Free Algorithms for Cut-Generating Functions in the Gomory-Johnson Model
Speaker: Matthias Koeppe, UC-Davis
Date: March 29, 2019
Duration: 1:02:52
Efficient Training and Inference for Deep Learning
Speaker: Ji Liu, University of Rochester
Date: March 27, 2019
Duration: N/A
Challenges and Opportunities in Dense Warehousing
Speaker: Don Taylor, Professor Virginia Tech
Date: March 8, 2019
Duration: 51:35
Overcoming the Cost Challenge of the Current Fleet of Nuclear Power Plants
Speaker: Ahmad Al Rashdan, Research and Development Scientist – Idaho National Laboratory
Date: March 5, 2019
Duration: N/A
Optimizing the Regional Trauma Network via Bi-Level Integer Programming
Speaker: Nan Kong, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University
Date: March 1, 2019
Duration: 1:01:49
Effectively Using Negative Curvature in Optimizations and Scalable Methods for Subspace Clustering
Speaker: Daniel Robinson
Date: February 14, 2019
Duration: N/A
Data Analytics for Order Assignment in Last Mile Delivery
Speaker: Sheng Liu
Date: February 11, 2019
Duration: 59:29
Gradient Boosting Machines: New Insights, Algorithms, and Improved Complexity
Speaker: Haihao Lu
Date: February 7, 2019
Duration: 57:53
Physics-Based and Data-Driven Pattern Analysis for Improved Manufacturing Equipment and Process Modeling
Speaker: Peng Wang
Date: February 4, 2019
Duration: 58:05
Power System Planning in Disparate Systems: Modeling Sustainability and Electricity Access
Speaker: Destenie Nock, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Date: January 29, 2019
Duration: 57:28
Spatio-Temporal Modeling for Engineering Systems: An Example from Wind Energy Analytics
Speaker: Aziz Ezzat, Texas A&M University
Date: January 24, 2019
Duration: 1:10:00
Reinforcement Learning for Solving the Vehicle Routing Problem
Speaker: Reza Azari, Lehigh University
Date: January 17, 2019
Duration: 1:06:53
2018
From Automated Vehicles To Inclusive Mobility: Challenges and Opportunities
Speaker: Clive D’Souza, Assistant Professor, Center for Ergonomics, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan
Date: November 30, 2018
Duration: 01:03:53
Algorithmic, Combinatorial, and Geometric Aspects of Linear Optimization
Speaker: Antoine Deza, Professor, Department of Computing and Software, McMaster University
Date: November 2, 2018
Duration: 49:56
Two Stage Invest-Defend Game: Balancing Strategic and Operational Decisions
Speaker: Melike Baykal-Gürsoy, Associate Professor, Graduate Director, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Rutgers University
Date: October 26, 2018
Duration: 54:21
Journey After Graduation – Engineer’s Day Seminar
Speaker: Rahul Shinde
Date: October 19, 2018
Duration: 44:20
Wind Turbine Reliability and Performance Assessment, and the Data Science Relevance
Speaker: Yu Ding, Mike and Sugar Barnes Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Texas A&M University
Date: October 5, 2018
Duration: 01:10:28
Optimizing the Interaction between Residents and Attending Physicians
Speaker: Hayriye Ayhan, Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech
Date: September 28, 2018
Duration: 01:03:27
Dynamic Learning in Strategic Pricing Games
Speaker: John Birge, Jerry W. and Carol L. Levin Distinguished Service Professor of Operations Management, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Date: September 7, 2018
Duration: 01:01:58
Leveraging Network Structure in Covering Path Problems: An Application to School Bus Routing
Speaker: Karen Smilowitz, Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University
Date: Friday, April 27, 2018
Duration: 00:56:30
Spatial-Temporal Kriging and Navier-Stokes Equations: A Prominent Example of Engineering Analytics
Speaker: Jeff Wu, Professor and Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Date: Thursday, April 19, 2018
Duration: 01:00:21
Game Theory Network Models for Disaster Relief (Recording coming soon)
Speaker: Anna Nagurney, John F. Smith Memorial Professor, Director of Virtual Center for Supernetworks, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Date: Friday, April 6, 2018
Time and Location: 12:00 PM in ME 1163
Binary Decision Diagrams, Consistent Paths, and Combinatorial Optimization
Speaker: J. Cole Smith, Professor and Department Chair, Department of Industrial Engineering, Clemson University
Date: Friday, March 16, 2018
Duration: 00:58:42
Cognitive Systems Engineering and Health Informatics: Analysis Outcomes and Design Implications
Speaker: Ann Bisantz, Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Buffalo
Date: Friday, March 2, 2018
Duration: 01:02:52
Modeling and Implementation Challenges in Scheduling Medical Residents
Speaker: Amy Cohn, Associate Professor and Thurnau Professor, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan College of Engineering
Date: Friday, February 2, 2018
Duration: 01:02:43
Patient Type Bayes-Adaptive Treatment Plans: The Case of Chronic Kidney Disease
Speaker: Reza Skandari, Center for Translational and Policy Research of Chronic Diseases at the University of Chicago
Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Duration: 01:02:57
Emergency Medical Response Optimization in Developing Urban Centers
Speaker: Justin Boutilier, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto
Date: Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Duration: 01:02:45
Speaker: Bing Si, School of Computing, Informatics and Decision Systems Engineering at Arizona State University
Date: Thursday, January 18, 2018
Duration: 00:59:05
Using a Human Factors Approach to Improve Health Equity: A Study in Understanding and Improving Communication with Patients with Language Barriers
Speaker: Natalie (Nat) Benda, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University at Buffalo
Date: Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Duration: 00:56:54
2017
Towards the Development of Adaptive Multimodal Displays
Speaker: Dr. Sara Riggs, Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering, Clemson University
Date: Friday, December 8, 2017
Duration: 01:01:13
Speaker: Dr. Linsey Steege, Assistant Professor, School of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Date: Friday, November 10, 2017
Duration: 00:58:46
Cash Conversion Systems in Corporate Subsidiaries
Speaker: Dr. Weiwei Chen, Assistant Professor, Department of Supply Chain Management, Rutgers Business School
Date: Friday, November 3, 2017
Duration: 01:06:08
Direct Digital Manufacturing of High Performance Mechanical Parts
Speaker: Dr. Richard Wysk, Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at North Carolina State University
Date: Friday, October 27, 2017
Duration: 00:57:07
College to Career
Speaker: Denita Willoughby (’88), 2017 Distinguished Achievement Award Recipient and Vice President of Procurement at Sempra Energy utilities
Date: Friday, October 20, 2017
Duration: 01:08:09
Meta-ergonomics: A Concept whose time has come
Speaker: Dr. Najmedin (Najm) Meshkati, Professor, Industrial and Systems Engineering and Civil/Environmental Engineering at the University of Southern California
Date: Friday, October 6, 2017
Duration: 01:02:50
Sports Scheduling Meets Business Analytics
Speaker: Michael Trick, Senior Associate Dean, Faculty and Research; and Professor of Operations Research at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business
Date: Friday, September 29, 2017
Duration: 01:01:08
Innovations in Virtual Reality – The Changing Face of Simulation based Education
Speaker: T. Kesh Kesavadas, Professor, Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Date: Friday, September 22, 2017
Duration: 01:06:30
The Impact of Structure: From Optimization to Game Theory
Speaker: Carla Michini, Postdoctoral Researcher, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
Date: Thursday, August 10, 2017
Duration: 00:49:13
Attention Management in Complex Data-Rich Domains
Speaker: Nadine Sarter, Professor, Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan
Date: Friday, April 28, 2017
Duration: 01:08:39
Sequential Analysis of Functional Data for Online Anomaly Detection
Speaker: Dr. Kamran Paynabar, Assistant Professor, Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech
Date: Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Duration: 00:59:35
Network Dynamics and Systemic Risks: From financial systems to trade to supply chains
Speaker: Dr. Elena Rovenskaya, Program Director, Advanced Systems Analysis Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria
Date: Thursday, April 20, 2017
Duration: 00:55:37
Speaker: Dr. Vittal Prabhu, Professor in Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, Penn State University
Date: Friday, April 14, 2017
Duration: 00:57:15
*Due to technical difficulties the slides are not included in the recording but are in this document: PowerPoint presentation.
Navigating NSF: Funding Opportunities for Operations Research
Speaker: Georgia-Ann Klutke, Service, Manufacturing and Operations Research Program Director at the National Science Foundation
Date: Friday, April 7, 2017
Duration: 00:54:54
On Cutting Planes for Cardinality-Constrained Linear Programs
Speaker: Jean-Philippe P. Richard, Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida
Date: Friday, March 10, 2017
Duration: 00:55:05
A Multidisciplinary Technology-based Approach to Improving the Lives of Older Adults
Speaker: Sara J. Czaja, Professor in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences and Industrial Engineering at the University of Miami and Director of the Center for Aging at the University of Miami; Director of the Center on Research and Education for Aging and Technology Enhancement (CREATE)
Date: Friday, March 3, 2017
Duration: 01:00:34
Learning, Optimization and Incentive Design for Cyber-Physical Energy Systems
Speaker: Dr. Dileep Kalathil, Postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley
Date: Thursday, February 23, 2017
Duration: 00:54:22
Mathemathical Classification of Bipolar Disorder
Speaker: Amy Louise Cochran, T.H. Hildebrandt Research Assistant Professor (post-doc) in the Mathematics Department at the University of Michigan
Date: Tuesday, February 21, 2017
Duration: 01:01:04
Mitigating Hard Capacity Constraints in Facility Location Modeling
Speaker: Kayse Maass, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan
Date: Monday, January 30, 2017
Duration: 01:04:12
Speaker: Dr. Nathan J. McNeese, Postdoctoral Research Associate and Scholar in Human Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
Date:Thursday, January 26, 2017
Duration:00:55:02
Dynamic Control of a Single Server System When Jobs Change Status
Speaker: Dr. Gabriel Zayas-Cabán, Postdoctoral Fellow/Assistant Professor at the Center for Healthcare Engineering and Patient Safety, Department of Industry and Operations Research, University of Michigan
Date: Monday, January 23, 2017
Duration: 00:57:05
Data-Driven Algorithms for Complex Supply Chain Systems with Censored Demand
Speaker: Huanan (Robert) Zhang, Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan
Date: Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Duration: 00:59:46
2016
Perception and Use of a Novel Health IT Application to Improve Care and Family Engagement in Pediatrics ICU
Speaker: Onur Asan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin
Date: Friday, November 18, 2016
Duration: 00:55:20
Ten Things You Could Do with Your ISyE Degree
Speaker: Kim Christopher, 2016 UW-Madison College of Engineering Distinguished Achievement Award Recipient, Director of Product Management, Optum Solutions and Technology at UnitedHealth Group
Date: Friday, November 11, 2016
Duration: 00:76:17
When Will My Order be Done?: Approximate Analysis of Queueing Networks with Nonstationary Demand
Speaker: Ron Askin, Ph.D., Professor in Industrial Engineering in the School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
Date: Friday, November 4, 2016
Duration: 00:60:03
A Sequential Algorithm for Solving Nonlinear Optimization Problems with Chance Constraints
Speaker: Andreas Wächter, Associate Professor in Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences, Northwestern University
Date: Friday, September 30, 2016
Duration: 00:60:49
Elective Surgery Scheduling Considering Time-Dependent Patient Health Conditions
Speaker: Dr. Yuehwern Yih, Ph.D., Professor in the School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University and Associate Director of the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering
Date: Friday, September 16, 2016
Duration: 00:52:18
Distributionally Robust Chance-Constrained Bin Packing
Speaker: Siqian Shen, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, and Associate Director for Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery & Engineering,University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Date: Friday, September 9, 2016
Duration: 00:50:14
Intellectual Property Basics and Technology Transfer for UW Researchers
Speaker: Leah Haman, Intellectual Property Associate, Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation
Date: Friday, January 29, 2016
Duration: 00:55:04
Valuing Prearranged Paired Kidney Exchanges: A Stochastic Game Approach
Speaker: Murat Kurt, Merck & Co.
Date: Friday, February 12, 2016
Duration: 00:59:44
Demand Modeling with Forecast Evolution: An Application to Production Planning
Speaker: Dr. Reha Uzsoy, North Carolina State University
Date: Friday, February 26, 2016
Duration: 00:58:43
Interactive Team Cognition: From Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems Control to Healthcare
Speaker: Dr. Nancy J. Cooke, Arizona State University
Date: Friday, March 4, 2016
Duration: 00:55:10
Collaborative Quality Improvement in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty
Speaker: Dr. Richard Hughes, University of Michigan
Date: Friday, March 18, 2016
Duration: 00:56:12