{"470841":{"#nid":"470841","#data":{"type":"event","title":"SCL Course: Pre-planning Strategy for Health and Humanitarian Organizations","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch4\u003ECOURSE DESCRIPTION\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERelief requirements for public health and humanitarian events are in general both unknown in size and type, and are affected by dynamic and hard to measure factors such as geographic location, local economy, infrastructure, social and political conditions, etc. Preparing for long-term development and response to emergent events often involves uncertainty in timing, scope, or scale. Pre-planning for these situations requires an understanding of forecasting, distribution network design, and strategies for managing the uncertainty. This course will examine methods and models for making pre-planning decisions and explore the significant value that is obtained through informed decision-making in advance of an unpredictable event.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003EWHO SHOULD ATTEND\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETactical and strategic members of non-governmental organizations and\u0026nbsp;private corporations involved in the humanitarian relief efforts, U.S. federal government employees, U.S. state or local government employees, humanitarian foundation members, program managers, directors of field operations, disaster relief managers, director of logistics and inventory, and logistics officers\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003EHOW YOU WILL BENEFIT\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDevelop and apply analytical models to aid in distribution and routing decisions under uncertain conditions.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EIdentify and apply the appropriate forecasting technique considering characteristics such as seasonality and trends.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EProvide immediate impact to their organization through learnings gained from applied and real-world case studies.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ELearn to bring NGOs, businesses or government entities together to enhance collaboration, cooperation and communication.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDiscover current trends and procedures to help their organizations and team members get ahead and stay ahead of the curve.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EBuild a critical knowledge base to make tactical decisions around inventory, routing and distribution.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDeliver best-practices to measure and evaluate outcomes of humanitarian relief efforts.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EUltimately transform the humanitarian sector with increased capacity to participate in planning and strategic decision-making for effective supply chain management.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003EWHAT IS COVERED\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003EPre-Course Activities (2.5 hrs) - Online via HELIX platform\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nClassroom Activities (2 days) - Georgia Tech Global Learning Center\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENOTE: Pre-course activities will conducted online using the HELIX online learning management system. Access instructions will be provided to registrants when details become available.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003EPre-Course Activities - Conducted online via HELIX\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDistribution Network Design \u0026ndash; 2 hours\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EForecasting \u0026ndash; 1.5 hours\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003EClassroom Activities\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDay 1\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EOverview of Systems Design for Humantiarian Logistics\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDistribution and Network Design\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EPre-positioning\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDay 2\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EForecasting\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EManaging Uncertainty\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003ECOURSE MATERIALS\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProvided\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EParticipants receive readings, case studies, spreadsheet files, and lecture slides, and will be given access to the pre-course web-based activities.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERecommended\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EStudents need a laptop with Microsoft Excel and the ability to connect to a high-speed internet connection (internet access is provided for onsite portions of course).\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003ESTUDENT REQUIREMENTS\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStudents need a laptop with Microsoft Excel and the ability to connect to a high-speed internet connection (internet access is provided for onsite portions of course).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003ECOURSE PREREQUISITES\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor those interested in earning the Health and Humanitarian Supply Chain Management Certificate,\u0026nbsp;this course is the first\u0026nbsp;of the three-course certificate program. To earn the certificate, participants must register and complete the following courses within three years:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Col\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EPre-planning Strategy for Health and Humanitarian Organizations\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/education\/professional-education\/course\/humtdm\u0022\u003ETactical Decision Making in Public Health and Humanitarian Response\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/education\/professional-education\/course\/humso\u0022\u003ESystems Operations in Health and Humanitarian Response\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ol\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ECOURSE INSTRUCTORS\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/users\/julie-swann\u0022\u003EJulie Swann\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/users\/ozlem-ergun\u0022\u003EOzlem Ergun\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/users\/pinar-keskinocak\u0022\u003EPinar Keskinocak\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDuring this course, examine methods and models for making preplanning decisions and explore the significant value that is obtained through informed decision-making in advance of an unpredictable event or long-term development.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Explore the significant value that is obtained through informed decision-making in advance of an unpredictable event or long-term development"}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2015-11-17 15:45:15","changed_gmt":"2019-10-21 12:53:59","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-05-09T13:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-05-10T22:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-05-10T22:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-05-09 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-05-11 02:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-05-11 02:30:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/humpps","title":"Course webpage within the SCL website"},{"url":"https:\/\/pe.gatech.edu\/courses\/pre-planning-strategy-for-health-and-humanitarian-organizations","title":"Course registration page"}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"10377","name":"Career\/Professional development"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78771","name":"Public"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003Einfo@scl.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"470871":{"#nid":"470871","#data":{"type":"event","title":"SCL Course: Systems Operations in Health and Humanitarian Response","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECOURSE DESCRIPTION\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDespite having common goals, often the lack of cooperation and coordination between humanitarian organizations results in procurement and allocation inefficiencies. As a result, a systems view of a humanitarian effort is needed to ensure appropriate use of scarce resources to meet the goals at hand. This course will focus on conceptual and modeling skills to understand and effectively manage humanitarian response from a systems perspective. Models will address system characteristics (e.g. demand dependencies) that drive system dynamics and policies to regulate performance. Course topics include methods for improving coordination and collaboration, addressing demand dependencies, and reliably measuring and evaluating system performance.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003EWHO SHOULD ATTEND\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETactical and strategic members of non-governmental organizations, private corporations involved in the humanitarian relief efforts, U.S. federal government employees, U.S. state or local government employees, humanitarian foundation members, program managers, directors of field operations, disaster relief managers, director of logistics and inventory, and logistics officers\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003EHOW YOU WILL BENEFIT\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EUpon completion of this course, you will be able to:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDescribe and model the impact of demand dependencies among the many partners within a health or humanitarian response.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EIdentify methods for mitigating or reducing inventory variability and costs through information sharing among supply chain partners.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EIdentify opportunities for coordination within organizations and collaboration across organizations for increased efficiency and improved outcomes.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDescribe the strategic behavior of decision makers and the impact of the market (or contract) structure on the participant\u0026#39;s actions and the overall system dynamics.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDefine evaluation metrics in alignment with the system goals and structure system operations and incentives that address and evaluate these metrics.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EProvide immediate impact to their organization through learnings gained from applied and real-world case studies\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ELearn to bring NGOs, businesses, and\/or government entities together to enhance collaboration, cooperation, and communication\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDiscover current trends and procedures to help their organizations and team members get ahead and stay ahead of the curve\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EBuild a critical knowledge base to make tactical decisions around inventory, routing, and distribution\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EDeliver best-practices to measure and evaluate outcomes of humanitarian relief efforts\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EUltimately transform the humanitarian sector with increased capacity to participate in planning and strategic decision-making for effective supply chain management\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003EWHAT IS COVERED\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003EPre-Course Activities (5 hrs) - Online via HELIX platform\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nClassroom Activities (2 days) - Georgia Tech Global Learning Center\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ENOTE: Pre-course activities will conducted online using the HELIX platform online learning management system. Access instructions will be provided to registrants when details become available.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003EPre-Course Activities - Conducted online via HELIX platform\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECoordination and Collaboration \u0026ndash; 2 hours\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nGame Theory\/Incentives \u0026ndash; 1 hour\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSystem Dynamics - 2 hours\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch5\u003EClassroom Activities\u003C\/h5\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDay 1\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ECoordination and Collaboration\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDay 2\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EPerformance and Measurements\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EGame Theory\/Incentives\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDay 3\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ESystem Dynamics\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003ECOURSE MATERIALS\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EProvided\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EParticipants receive readings, case studies, spreadsheet files, and lecture slides, and will be given access to the pre-course web-based activities.\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERecommended\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EStudents need a laptop with Microsoft Excel and the ability to connect to a high-speed internet connection (internet access is provided for onsite portions of course).\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003ECOURSE PREREQUISITES\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFor those interested in earning the Health and Humanitarian Supply Chain Management Certificate,\u0026nbsp;this course is the third and final\u0026nbsp;of the three-course certificate program. To earn the certificate, participants must register and complete the following courses within three years:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Col\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/education\/professional-education\/course\/humpps\u0022\u003EPre-planning Strategy for Health and Humanitarian Organizations\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/education\/professional-education\/course\/humtdm\u0022\u003ETactical Decision Making in Public Health and Humanitarian Response\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ESystems Operations in Health and Humanitarian Response\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ol\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch4\u003ECOURSE INSTRUCTORS\u003C\/h4\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/users\/julie-swann\u0022\u003EJulie Swann\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/users\/ozlem-ergun\u0022\u003EOzlem Ergun\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/users\/pinar-keskinocak\u0022\u003EPinar Keskinocak\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EDespite having common goals, often the lack of cooperation and coordination between humanitarian organizations results in procurement and allocation inefficiencies. As a result, a systems view of a humanitarian effort is needed to ensure appropriate use of scarce resources to meet the goals at hand. 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Many of these decisions are concerned with the timely and efficient procurement, allocation and distribution of resources (e.g. funds, supplies, volunteers) through a supply chain. 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With continued pressures from globalization, market volatility, and innovation expectations, companies are extending their reliance on lean principles to outside the four walls of the manufacturing facility. Lean inbound logistics requires strategic coordination to synchronize suppliers, transportation providers and multiple supply chain partners. And like all complex multi-party operations, the road to improvement will have its challenges. Such hurdles could include balancing inventory cost with transportation cost, the lack of leadership understanding and support, and the realities of incumbent manufacturing and procurement contracts and systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis course focuses on the why and how to implement lean logistics to support the lean supply chain operations \u2013 both in manufacturing and distribution. Areas of focus include: lean strategy development, identifying and overcoming operational realities, and learning the tools necessary for successful implementation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpecial Note:\u0026nbsp;Includes a tour of the port of Savannah\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Ch3 class=\u0022views-label views-label-field-course-attendees gt-ed-blue-underline\u0022\u003EWho Should Attend\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECompany owners, consultants, logistics service providers, chief supply chain officers, vice presidents of sales operations, vice presidents and directors of process improvement, and executive, senior, vice presidents, and directors of supply chain, logistics, procurement, manufacturing, or distribution\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3 class=\u0022views-label views-label-field-course-benefits gt-ed-blue-underline\u0022\u003EHow You Will Benefit\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMap the current inbound logistics network.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EAppreciate the distinct nature of the inbound logistics network as a link to suppliers and manufacturing facilities and part of the overall value chain.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECalculate total logistics costs.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EDesign a future state network based on lean principles.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELearn techniques in transportation management, supplier management, and materials planning to achieve improved material flow balances and reduced overall costs.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELearn the keys to strategic supplier management.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EUnderstand how lean guiding principles serve as the strategic pathway to lean inbound logistics.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMilk Run development and mode selection.\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch3 class=\u0022views-label views-label-field-course-agenda gt-ed-blue-underline\u0022\u003EWhat Is Covered\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EStrategic value of lean inbound logistics and total logistics cost\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGetting started \u2013 Current state map\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELean logistics network design \u2013 Desired state and planning for implementation\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMaterial ordering and\u0026nbsp;supplier management\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELean logistics engineering and\u0026nbsp;transportation management\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EYard control and\u0026nbsp;material receiving\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EImplementing, sustaining, improving\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETour of port operations\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThis course focuses on the why and how to implement lean logistics to support the lean supply chain operations \u2013 both in manufacturing and distribution. 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Dress is business casual.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2 class=\u0022article-title\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/supplychainday\/students\u0022\u003EREGISTER ONLINE\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eby January 19! \u003Cstrong\u003ESeating is limited!\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEVENT SPONSOR\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe event is sponsored through the generosity and support of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.apicsatlanta.org\/\u0022\u003EAPICS - Atlanta Chapter\u003C\/a\u003E. APICS is a non-profit educational organization addressing operations management and supply chain management issues, and providing professional development opportunities to its members.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAPICS Membership is free for full time students\u003C\/strong\u003E. 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The Center also hosts the annual Georgia Logistics Summit, which had over 2,000 attendees in 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPreviously, Ms. Miller served as the Senior Manager of Finance for The Home Depot; the Executive Director of the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA), Transportation Policy Adviser to Governor Purdue, Policy and Programs Consultant for the Georgia State Road and Tollway Authority, and as Senior Transportation Planner with the Atlanta Regional Commission.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3\u003ERegister Online\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/apicspdmfeb\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAttendees must register online\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E to attend.\u0026nbsp;GT students are free, non-members $35. 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He is broadly interested in the theory and applications of mathematical optimization, and more generally in the mathematical and computational aspects of problems in information and decision sciences.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Seminar - Hamza Fawzi"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2016-01-25 10:00:51","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:16:58","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-02-11T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2016-02-11T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-02-11T10:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-02-11 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-02-11 15:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-02-11 15:00:00","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":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"489821":{"#nid":"489821","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ISyE Seminar - Steven Low","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETBA\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Seminar - Steven Low"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2016-01-25 11:25:03","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:16:58","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-02-10T14:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2016-02-10T14:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-02-10T14:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-02-10 19:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-02-10 19:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-02-10 19:00:00","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":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"489831":{"#nid":"489831","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ISyE Seminar - Alexander Tartakovsky","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Nearly Optimal Multistream Sequential Tests: The Non-i.i.d. Case\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe consider the problem of sequential signal detection in a multistream setup assuming that there is a multichannel system where the number and location of signals (if any) is a priori unknown. We suppose that the data in each stream\/channel follow a very general non-i.i.d. stochastic model. Under the assumption that the local log-likelihood ratio processes in the channels converge r-completely to positive and finite numbers, we establish the asymptotic optimality property of a generalized sequential likelihood ratio test and a mixture-based sequential likelihood ratio test. Specifically, we show that both tests minimize the first r moments of the stopping time distribution asymptotically as the probabilities of false alarm and missed detection approach zero. The general detection theory is illustrated by several practical examples. 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In this talk we will survey a number of problem areas, survey previous work, and discuss challenges.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBio:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDaniel Bienstock is Professor of Operations Research and of Applied Mathematics at Columbia University, where he has been since 1989. \u0026nbsp;He received the PhD in Operations Research from MIT. \u0026nbsp;His work focuses on mathematical optimization and on problems related to critical infrastructure, in particular the power grid; \u0026nbsp;he is the author of two books on these topics. He received the Presidential Young Investigator award, was the recipient of an IBM Faculty Research Partnership award, is an INFORMS fellow, was plenary speaker at the 2004 SIAM Optimization Conference and semi-plenary speaker at the 2005 ISMP. \u0026nbsp;He is the Editor-in-Chief of Mathematical Programming Computation.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Seminar - Daniel Bienstock"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2016-01-25 11:27:31","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:16:58","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-02-24T14:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2016-02-24T14:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-02-24T14:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-02-24 19:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-02-24 19:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-02-24 19:00:00","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":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"489851":{"#nid":"489851","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ISyE Seminar - Elsayed A. 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The computational effort in estimating the reliability of such systems for large number of pairs is discussed. We provide numerical examples for demonstration. Other topics in reliability engineering will be briefly presented.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBio:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EE. A. 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Revenue Management for Outpatient Care Service\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Affordable Care Act expands health insurance coverage for Americans, and will increase patient volumes and visits significantly.\u0026nbsp; However, a tremendous amount of provider time is wasted due to the inefficiency of appointment scheduling systems currently in use.\u0026nbsp; Our research proposes and demonstrates that, by factoring patient choice behavior into the design of appointment scheduling systems, providers can significantly improve their service efficiency with only minimal changes to their current practice.\u0026nbsp; Specifically, we develop models that account for heterogeneous patient preferences in appointment choice offering.\u0026nbsp; The provider has a certain number of appointment slots to fill in a day.\u0026nbsp; We consider two possible ways that the provider may interact with patients.\u0026nbsp; First, the provider offers a set of appointment choices to patients, who then choose according to their preferences.\u0026nbsp; This resembles an online appointment scheduling system (e.g., zocdoc.com), which has become increasingly popular among patients and providers.\u0026nbsp; Second, the scheduler may sequentially offer several sets of appointment choices.\u0026nbsp; Imagine in the telephone scheduling context, the scheduler may offer additional choices to patients if the initial offers are not accepted.\u0026nbsp; This may also work for online settings designed in a way that patients do not see all choices in their first attempt of booking appointments.\u0026nbsp; We will discuss the forms and structures of the optimal non-sequential offering and sequential offering policies.\u0026nbsp; We also propose effective heuristics to solve large-scale instances and for practical use.\u0026nbsp; We estimate that, based on medical reimbursement data, the efficiency gains by adopting these policies as opposed to ignoring patient choice behavior can translate into additional revenues of $26-150k per year for a primary care provider that sees 30 patients a day.\u0026nbsp; Theoretically, our work is related to assortment planning in revenue management, bipartite matching in graph theory and admission control in queueing theory.\u0026nbsp; This is joint work with Peter van de Ven (CWI, Netherlands) and Bo Zhang (IBM Watson Research Center).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E Nan Liu is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University\u2019s Mailman School of Public Health.\u0026nbsp; His research focuses on stochastic models, dynamic decision making and applied statistical analysis, with applications to the (health) service industry.\u0026nbsp; Much of his work bridges data analytics and systems modeling, and has focused on the design and control of service systems facing complex customer behaviors.\u0026nbsp; His recent work investigates customer preference and choice in the healthcare market and their impact on healthcare management.\u0026nbsp; In addition, he has done extensive work on health policy research using data-driven operations modeling.\u0026nbsp; His research has been published in leading journals in both fields of operations management and health administration\/policy, including Manufacturing \u0026amp; Service Operations Management, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, Health Services Research, Medical Care Research and Review, and Public Administration Review.\u0026nbsp; His work has received a wide range of media attention including the Washington Post and Crain\u0027s New York Business.\u0026nbsp; He received a third prize in the INFORMS Junior Faculty Interest Group (JFIG) Paper Competition and the Calderone Junior Faculty Research Prize awarded by Mailman School of Public Health.\u0026nbsp; Dr. Liu has a B.E. in Civil Engineering from Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) and receives his Ph.D. in Operations Research and M.S. in Statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Seminar - Nan Liu"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2016-01-25 11:29:44","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:16:58","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-03-09T14:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2016-03-09T14:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-03-09T14:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-03-09 19:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-03-09 19:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-03-09 19:00:00","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":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"489901":{"#nid":"489901","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ISyE Seminar - Greg Fasshauer","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Some Recent Insights into Computing with Positive Definite Kernels\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk I will discuss recent joint work with Mike McCourt (SigOpt, San Francisco) that has led to progress on the numerically stable computation of certain quantities of interest when working with positive definite kernels to solve scattered data interpolation (or kriging) problems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn particular, I will draw upon insights from both numerical analysis and modeling with Gaussian processes which will allow us to connect quantities such as, e.g., (deterministic) error estimates in terms of the power function with the kriging variance. This provides new kernel parametrization criteria as well as new ways to compute known criteria such as MLE. Some numerical examples will illustrate the effectiveness of this approach.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBio:\u0026nbsp; Greg\u0026nbsp;Fasshauer is a professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. He earned his PhD in Mathematics from Vanderbilt University in 1995 and joined IIT in 1997 after spending two years as a visiting assistant professor at Northwestern University.\u0026nbsp; His research focuses on numerical analysis, computation and approximation theory with a special emphasis on kernel-based approximation. Among other things, he has published two monographs on this subject, most recently a joint publication with Mike McCourt entitled \u201cKernel-based Approximation Methods using MATLAB\u201d.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Seminar - Greg Fasshauer"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2016-01-25 11:34:03","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:16:56","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-04-13T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-04-13T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-04-13T16:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-04-13 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-04-13 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-04-13 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":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"489911":{"#nid":"489911","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ISyE Seminar - Vivek Farias","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Learning Preferences with Side-Information: Recovering 3-Dimensional Tensors\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EA number of recent problems of great interest in e-commerce (such as context and location aware recommendations, personalized \u2019tag\u0027 learning, etc.) can be cast as large-scale problems of tensor recovery in three dimensions. Thus motivated, we consider the problem of recovering \u2018simple\u2019 tensors from their noisy observations in three dimensions.\u0026nbsp;We provide an efficient algorithm to recover structurally \u2018simple\u0027 tensors given noisy (or missing) observations of the tensor\u2019s entries; our definition of simplicity subsumes low-rank tensors for a variety of definitions of tensor rank. Our algorithm is practical for large datasets and provides a significant performance improvement over state of the art incumbent approaches to Tensor completion. Further, we establish theoretical recovery guarantees that under certain assumptions are order optimal. Joint work with Andrew Li (MIT ORC).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBio:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EVivek\u0026nbsp;is interested in the development of new methodologies for large scale dynamic optimization and applications in revenue management, finance, marketing and healthcare.\u0026nbsp;He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 2007 and has been at MIT since.\u0026nbsp;Vivek\u0026nbsp;is a recipient of an IEEE Region 6 Undergraduate Student Paper Prize (2002), an INFORMS MSOM Student Paper Prize (2006), an MIT Solomon Buchsbaum Award (2008), an INFORMS JFIG paper prize twice (2009, 2011), the NSF CAREER award (2011), a finalist for the Pierskalla\u0026nbsp;award (2011), MIT Sloan\u2019s Outstanding Teacher award (2013), the INFORMS Simulation Society Best Publication Award (2014), and the INFORMS Pricing and Revenue Management Best Publication Award (2015).\u0026nbsp;Outside of academia,\u0026nbsp;he has contributed\u0026nbsp;to the design of the algorithmic trading strategies of GMO\u0027s (a USD 100B + money manager) first high frequency venture and is the co-founder and CTO of a venture-backed predictive analytics startup.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Seminar - Vivek Farias"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2016-01-25 11:35:09","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:16:56","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-04-20T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-04-20T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-04-20T16:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-04-20 20:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-04-20 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-04-20 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":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"489921":{"#nid":"489921","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ISyE Seminar - Patrick Jaillet","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Satisficing Awakens: Models to Mitigate Uncertainty\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk we consider satisficing models, which, as an approach to decision-making under uncertainty, aims at achieving solutions that satisfy a problem\u2019s constraints as much as possible. Mathematical optimization problems that are related to this form of decision-making include the P-model of Charnes and Cooper (1963), where satisficing is the objective, as well as chance-constrained and robust optimization problems, where satisficing is articulated in the constraints. We first introduce a most general framework of a satisficing model, termed the S-model, which seeks to maximize a satisficing decision criterion in its objective, and the corresponding satisficing-constrained optimization problem that generalizes robust optimization and chance-constrained optimization problems. We then focus on a specific family of a tractable probabilistic S-model, termed the T-model, which, for several different settings of practical interests, leads to efficient and effective ways to mitigate uncertainty. We conclude by illustrating the power of this approach on a class of stochastic maximum coverage problems.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBio:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EPatrick Jaillet is the Dugald C. Jackson Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and a member of the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at MIT. He is also one of the two Directors of the MIT Operations Research Center. Before MIT, he held faculty positions at the University of Texas at Austin and at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, Paris. He received a Dipl\u00f4me d\u0027Ing\u00e9nieur from France, and a PhD in Operations Research from MIT. His current research interests include on-line and data-driven optimization under uncertainty. 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For this type of problem, controlling the false discovery rate (FDR) guarantees that most of the discoveries are truly explanatory and thus replicable. In this talk, we propose a new method named SLOPE to control the FDR in sparse high-dimensional linear regression. This computationally efficient procedure works by regularizing the fitted coefficients according to their ranks: the higher the rank, the larger the penalty. This is analogous to the Benjamini-Hochberg procedure, which compares more significant p-values with more stringent thresholds. Whenever the columns of the design matrix are not strongly correlated, we show empirically that SLOPE obtains FDR control at a reasonable level while offering substantial power.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAlthough SLOPE is developed from a multiple testing viewpoint, we show the surprising result that it achieves optimal squared errors under Gaussian random designs over a wide range of sparsity classes. An appealing feature is that SLOPE does not require any knowledge of the degree of sparsity. This adaptivity to unknown sparsity has to do with the FDR control, which strikes the right balance between bias and variance. The proof of this result presents several elements not found in the high-dimensional statistics literature.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWeijie Su is a fifth-year Ph.D. student in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/statistics.stanford.edu\/\u0022\u003EStanford Statistics Department\u003C\/a\u003E, advised by \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/statweb.stanford.edu\/~candes\/\u0022\u003EEmmanuel Cand\u00e8s\u003C\/a\u003E. In 2011, he received a B.S. in Mathematics and a B.A. in Economics (minor) from \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/english.pku.edu.cn\/\u0022\u003EPeking University\u003C\/a\u003E. He spent three summers as an intern at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/research.microsoft.com\/en-us\/\u0022\u003EMicrosoft Research \u003C\/a\u003E(Beijing, 2010; Redmond, 2013; and Silicon Valley, 2014).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWeijie is broadly interested in high-dimensional statistics, convex optimization, and applied probability. 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In contrast to the classical perishable inventory literature, we assume that the firm does not know the demand distribution a priori but makes the replenishment decision in each period based only on the past sales (censored demand) data. It is well-known that even with complete information about the demand distribution a priori, the optimal policy for this problem\u0026nbsp; does not possess a simple structure. Motivated by the studies in the literature showing that base-stock policies perform near-optimal in these systems, in this paper we focus on finding the best base-stock policy.\u0026nbsp; We first establish an important convexity result, showing that the total holding, lost-sales and outdating cost is convex in the base-stock level. Then, we develop a nonparametric learning algorithm that generates a sequence of order-up-to levels whose running average cost converges to the cost of the\u0026nbsp; optimal base-stock policy. We establish a square-root convergence rate of the proposed algorithm, which is the best possible for this class of problems. The analysis of our algorithm requires a novel method of computing the cycle gradient, and the construction of a bridging problem, which significantly departs from previous studies. We also discuss the strongly convex extension, and conduct numerical experiments to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed algorithm. This is a joint work with Huanan Zhang and Xiuli Chao (IOE, UMICH).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBio:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECong Shi is an assistant professor in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan. 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Papers and posters will be made widely available on \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.pi.events\u0022\u003Ewww.pi.events\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/physicalinternetinitiative.org\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ephysicalinternetinitiative.org\u003C\/a\u003E. \u003Cstrong\u003EVisit\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.pi.events\/call-for-papers\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewww.pi.events\/call-for-papers\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for guidelines, templates, and more information relating to paper submission\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPlease join us for the 3rd International Physical Internet Conference taking place June 29-July 1, 2016 on the Georgia Tech campus.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"June 29-July 1, 2016 on the Georgia Tech campus"}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2016-02-01 18:30:57","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:16:48","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-06-29T09:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-07-01T18:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-07-01T18:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-06-29 13:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-07-01 22:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-07-01 22:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"493701":{"id":"493701","type":"image","title":"3rd International Physical Internet Conference (IPIC 2016)","body":null,"created":"1454436000","gmt_created":"2016-02-02 18:00:00","changed":"1475895251","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:11","alt":"3rd International Physical Internet Conference (IPIC 2016)","file":{"fid":"205858","name":"hg-ipic2016.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hg-ipic2016.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/hg-ipic2016.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":98768,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/hg-ipic2016.jpg?itok=IBw0w4pi"}}},"media_ids":["493701"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.pi.events\/","title":"IPIC 2016 conference website"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.pi.events\/call-for-papers","title":"IPIC 2016 Call for Papers"}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"122741","name":"physical internet"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1789","name":"Conference\/Symposium"},{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EPlease direct questions relating to the conference to \u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:pi.events@isye.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Epi.events@isye.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"497261":{"#nid":"497261","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar - Pengsheng Ji","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Flexible Spectral Methods for Community Detection\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe propose a class of flexible spectral methods for community detection in directed and undirected networks. These methods extract the clustering information by taking the entry-wise ratios of the\u003Cbr \/\u003E eigenvectors, and can be adapted for different purposes including exploring substructures, incorporating covariates.\u0026nbsp; Some practical guidance about the choice of the number of communities will also be provided. 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The 3-hour session will host supply chain representatives from\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.barkawi.com\/index.php?id=179\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EBarkawi Management Consultants\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.incomm.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EInComm\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.lockheedmartin.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ELockheed Martin\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.naed.org\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ENAED (National Association Electrical Distributor)\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.panalpina.com\/www\/global\/en\/home.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EPanalpina\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.penske.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EPenske\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.purolator.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EPurolator\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;and\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.systemlogistics.com\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003ESystem Logistics\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;who will be on campus to educate ISyE students about their organizations and available employment opportunities.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWe \u003Cem\u003Estrongly encourage \u003C\/em\u003Estudents to act \u003Cem\u003Enow\u003C\/em\u003E to seek internships, capstones, and full-time employment (rather than waiting until the end of the semester)\u003C\/strong\u003E.\u0026nbsp;Supply Chain Day is a terrific opportunity to pursue opportunities.\u0026nbsp;Plus, enjoy a free pizza lunch!\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3 class=\u0022article-title\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEVENT DETAILS\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhere\u003C\/strong\u003E: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/about\/maps-directions\/isye-building-complex\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE Main Bldg\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, 2nd Floor Atrium\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhen\u003C\/strong\u003E: Tuesday, March 15, 11:15AM-2:15PM\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat\u003C\/strong\u003E: The session will include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ENetworking opportunities in the ISyE atrium\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EFood and refreshments\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPlease plan on staying for the duration of the event and bring copies of your resume and business cards\u003C\/strong\u003E. Dress is business casual.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch2 class=\u0022article-title\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/supplychainday\/students\u0022\u003EREGISTER ONLINE\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/strong\u003Eby March 11! \u003Cstrong\u003ESeating is limited!\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h2\u003E\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEVENT SPONSOR\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe event is sponsored through the generosity and support of \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.apicsatlanta.org\/\u0022\u003EAPICS - Atlanta Chapter\u003C\/a\u003E. APICS is a non-profit educational organization addressing operations management and supply chain management issues, and providing professional development opportunities to its members.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003EAPICS Membership is free for full time students\u003C\/strong\u003E. Join today at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.apics.org\/join\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003Ewww.apics.org\/join\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E and start networking at local APIC Atlanta events. Also\u0026nbsp;make sure to stop by the APICS table at the event and check out the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/bit.ly\/about-APICS\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAPICS overview video\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EISyE students, please join us for our second spring \u003Cstrong\u003ESupply Chain Day\u003C\/strong\u003E! 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Conventional approaches, such as stochastic approximation, online convex optimization, and continuum-armed bandit algorithms, cannot be employed since neither the realized values of the profit function nor its derivatives are known. A major difficulty of this problem lies in the fact that the estimated profit function from observed sales data is multimodal even when the expected pro\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003Efit function is concave. We develop a nonparametric data-driven algorithm that actively integrates exploration and exploitation through carefully designed cycles. The algorithm searches the decision space through a sparse discretization scheme to jointly learn and optimize a multimodal (sampled) profit function, and corrects the estimation biases caused by demand censoring. We show that the algorithm converges to the optimal policy as the planning horizon increases, and obtain the convergence rate of regret.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBoxiao (Beryl) Chen is a Ph.D. candidate from the department of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research focuses on data-driven optimization with applications in supply chain management and revenue management. 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Whole blood is typically collected over a 6 to 8 hour collection window from volunteer donors at sites, e.g., schools, universities, churches, companies, that are a significant distance from the blood products processing facility and then transported from collection site to processing facility by a blood mobile.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe length of time between collecting whole blood and processing it into cryoprecipitate (\u0022cryo\u0022), a critical blood product for controlling massive hemorrhaging, cannot take longer than 8 hours (the 8 hour collection to completion constraint), while the collection to completion constraint for other blood products is 24 hours. In order to meet the collection to completion constraint for cryo, it is often necessary to have a \u0022mid-drive collection\u0022; i.e., for a vehicle other than the blood mobile to pickup and transport, at extra cost, whole blood units collected during early in the collection window to the processing facility.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this dissertation, we develop analytical models to: (1) analyze which collection sites should be designated as cryo collection sites to minimize total collection costs while satisfying the collection to completion constraint and meeting the weekly production target (the non-split case), (2) analyze the impact of changing the current process to allow collection windows to be split into two intervals and then determining which intervals should be designated as cryo collection intervals (the split case), (3) insure that the weekly production target is met with high probability.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThese problems lead to MDP models with large state and action spaces and constraints to guarantee that the weekly production target is met with high probability. These models are computationally intractable for problems having state and action spaces of realistic cardinality.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EWe consider two approaches to guarantee that the weekly production target is met with high probability: (1) a penalty function approach and (2) a chance constraint approach. For the MDP with penalty function approach, we first relax a constraint that significantly reduces the cardinality of the state space and provides a lower bound on the optimal expected weekly cost of collecting whole blood for cryo while satisfying the collection to completion constraint. We then present an action elimination procedure that coupled with the constraint relaxation leads to a computationally tractable lower bound. We then develop several heuristics that generate sub-optimal policies and provide an analytical description of the difference between the upper and lower bounds in order to determine the quality of the heuristics.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the multiple decision epoch MDP model with chance constraint approach, we first note by example that a straightforward application of dynamic programming can lead to a sub-optimal policy. We then restrict the model to a single decision epoch. We then use a computationally tractable rolling horizon procedure for policy determination. We also present a simple greedy heuristic (another rolling horizon decision making procedure) based on ranking the collection intervals by mid-drive pickup cost per unit of expected cryo collected, which results in a competitive sub-optimal solution and leads to the development of a practical decision support tool (DST). Using real data from the American Red Cross (ARC), we estimate that this DST reduces total cost by about 30% for the non-split case and 70% for the split case, compared to the current practice. 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Although current frameworks are general and model a large variety of settings, they cannot accurately describe problems with changing uncertainties. This is instrumental in many applications, because our knowledge about the uncertainties changes throughout the process.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk, we take a step toward generalizing robust optimization approaches to problems with varying uncertainty sets. Extending the pioneering work of Ben-Tal, Goryashko, Guslitzer, and Nemirovski (2004), we provide tractable reformulations for both types of uncertainties, namely for exogenous and endogenous sets. For the first type, we discuss the optimization of radiation therapy plans in the presence of changing hypoxia in clinical cancer cases. For the second type, we discuss a two-stage shortest path application, where the first-stage decisions affect the second-stage uncertainties. This framework encompasses a broad range of real-world applications, in which the first-stage decisions are typically from a countable set, e.g., in machine learning, facility location, knapsack, and routing problems, to name a few.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBio:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOmid Nohadani is an Associate Professor in the department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences at Northwestern University. His primary area of research is robust optimization in convex and nonconvex problems. Nohadani\u2019s applied work addresses a variety of settings: statistics, machine learning, nano-technology, ultrafast optics, cancer therapy, high-performance computing, and vehicle routing. More recently, his interests have focused on the area of healthcare engineering, both from the methodological as well as treatment design aspect. 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I will show recent results based on polyhedral methods that range from binary quadratic programming to algorithmic game theory. The goal is to relate the computational complexity of different problems to the structure of the underlying polyhedra, and to unveil new classes of polynomially solvable instances.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn unconstrained binary programming, the use of polyhedral methods dates back to Padberg, who introduced the boolean quadric polytope. A well-known relaxation of the boolean quadric polytope is the cycle relaxation, on which one can optimize in polynomial time. I will present a characterization of the sign patterns of the objective function that always yield an integral optimal solution over the cycle relaxation.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;Next, I will explore Nash equilibrium problems. For congestion games, I will describe a polyhedral reformulation of this equilibrium problem and show that total unimodularity is a key property to find a Nash equilibrium in polynomial time.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;I will also discuss results that address more fundamental questions in linear programming. In particular, I will show a new bound on the diameter of lattice polytopes. This bound is tight if the vertices have components in {0,1,2}.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECarla Michini received a PhD in Optimization in 2012 from University of Rome La Sapienza. In 2011, she was a visiting scholar at CMU Pittsburgh, and from 2012 to 2014 she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Operations Research at ETH Z\u00fcrich. Currently, she is a postdoctoral researcher in the Optimization group at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery of UW-Madison.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECarla\u2019s research focuses on different topics in combinatorial optimization, polyhedral combinatorics and integer programming, and spans both theoretical and algorithmic issues. 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In this talk, I will present a novel methodology of designing robust scheduling policies for stochastic networks with applications to emerging sectors such as data centers and intelligent transportation systems. In the first part, I present a robust scheduling policy with performance guarantee, for a new stochastic model of job scheduling in data centers, where jobs are represented as directed acyclic graphs (DAG). I will then visit a long-standing open problem on the stability of the longest-queue-first scheduling policy for open multiclass queueing networks, and resolve this problem for an important special case.\u0026nbsp;In the second part of the talk, I focus on transportation networks. I develop the first exact analysis of fixed-time control for urban networks, and briefly mention a few opportunities and challenges in exploiting feedback control policies.\u0026nbsp;I will conclude the talk with an overview of my research agenda and future research directions.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E: Ramtin Pedarsani is a postdoctoral researcher in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department at UC Berkeley. He obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from UC Berkeley in 2015. He received his M.Sc. degree at EPFL in 2011 and his B.Sc. degree at the University of Tehran in 2009. His research interests include stochastic systems, network control, and transportation systems. He is the recipient of the best paper award in the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) in 2014.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Seminar - Ramtin Pedarsani"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2016-02-19 09:01:34","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:16:35","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-03-01T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2016-03-01T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-03-01T10:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-03-01 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-03-01 15:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-03-01 15:00:00","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":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"504801":{"#nid":"504801","#data":{"type":"event","title":"SCL Course: Lean Implementation for the Supply Chain Professional","body":[{"value":"\u003Ch3 class=\u0022views-label views-label-field-course-overview gt-ed-blue-underline\u0022\u003ECourse Description\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOne of the most misunderstood elements of Lean thinking is that Lean is primarily about effective supply chain management. Therefore, we need to be able to answer the question \u0022How does Lean apply to the supply chain?\u0022 Connecting Lean to supply chain management is the core purpose of Module 2. Students will build upon their knowledge in module one and learn how to apply Lean principles and problem solving to supply chain functions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe overarching theme for module 2 is \u0022systems thinking,\u0022 where we understand how \u0022pull and one piece flow\u0022 will lead to reductions to \u0022total cost\u0022 of the supply chain. Students will once again be challenged to questions mental models such as economies of scale and replace them with mental models such as economies of time. Having completed module 2, students will not only be Lean problem solvers, they will understand how to connect lean and waste reduction to supply chain functions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3 class=\u0022views-label views-label-field-course-attendees gt-ed-blue-underline\u0022\u003EWho Should Attend\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESupply chain professionals, logistics professionals, material managers, production control managers, transportation managers, warehousing managers and purchasing managers\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Ch3 class=\u0022views-label views-label-field-course-benefits gt-ed-blue-underline\u0022\u003EHow You Will Benefit\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EReduce total cost of ownership\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EReduce inventory levels\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EReduce logistics costs\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EReduce space requirements\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EReduce lead time\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIncrease fill rates\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EImprove supplier performance and accountability\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EImprove customer satisfaction and customer relationships\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EReduce overall organizational and operational waste\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch3 class=\u0022views-label views-label-field-course-agenda gt-ed-blue-underline\u0022\u003EWhat Is Covered\u003C\/h3\u003E\u003Ch6 class=\u0022gt-ed-blue\u0022\u003EDay 1 - Setting the Corporate Stage\u003C\/h6\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EGetting Organized\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELean Chain Guiding Principles\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EValue Steam Mapping - Supply Chain Current State\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELean Logistics Network Design\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMoving from Push to Pull\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch6 class=\u0022gt-ed-blue\u0022\u003EDay 2- Tactical Implementation\u003C\/h6\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECustomer Focus - Takt Time and SKU Stability\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELean Outbound Logistics\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESupermarket - Push Pull Kanban\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EShipping - Receiving - Yard Management\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMaterial and Parts Ordering\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELean Inbound Logistics\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ELean Supplier Management \u0026amp; Collaboration\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Ch6 class=\u0022gt-ed-blue\u0022\u003EDay 3 - Learning from Case Studies\u003C\/h6\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECase Study - Lean Transportation\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECase Study - Lean Distribution\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ECase Study - Lean Supplier Management\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EOne of the most misunderstood elements of lean thinking is that lean is primarily about effective supply chain management. Therefore, we need to be able to answer the question, \u0022How does lean apply to the supply chain?\u0022 Connecting lean to supply chain management is the core purpose of this second course in a 3-course series on becoming a Lean Supply Chain professional. 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Machine learning researchers exploit various nonconvex formulations to gain modeling flexibility, estimation robustness, adaptivity, and computational scalability. Although classical computational complexity theory has shown that solving nonconvex optimization is generally NP-hard in the worst case, practitioners have proposed numerous heuristic optimization algorithms, which achieve outstanding empirical performance in real-world applications.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E To bridge this gap between practice and theory, we propose a new generation of model-based optimization algorithms and theory, which incorporate the statistical thinking into modern optimization. Particularly, when designing practical computational algorithms, we take the underlying statistical models into consideration (e.g. sparsity, low rankness). Our novel algorithms exploit hidden geometric structures behind many nonconvex optimization problems, and can obtain global optima with the desired statistics properties in polynomial time with high probability.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E: Tuo Zhao is a PhD student in Department of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University (\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/~tour\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/www.cs.jhu.edu\/~tour\u003C\/a\u003E). His research focuses on high dimensional parametric and semiparametric learning, large-scale optimization, and applications to computational genomics and neuroimaging. He was the core member of the JHU team winning the INDI ADHD 200 global competition on fMRI imaging-based diagnosis classification in 2011. He received Siebel scholarship in 2014 and Baidu\u2019s research fellowship in 2015.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Seminar - Tuo Zhao"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2016-02-24 10:27:05","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:16:31","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-03-03T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2016-03-03T10:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-03-03T10:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-03-03 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-03-03 15:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-03-03 15:00:00","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":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"507591":{"#nid":"507591","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ISyE Seminar - Yannis Paschalidis","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Predictive Health Analytics\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn 2014, the United States spent $3 trillion in health care, equivalent to 17.2% of the US GDP. About one third of this amount ($971.8 billion) is attributed to hospital care.\u0026nbsp;Evidently, even modest efforts for preventing and\/or streamlining care in a hospital setting matter.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk, I will outline our recent work leveraging Electronic Health Records at the Boston Medical Center to predict hospitalizations and re-hospitalizations. Our current work makes hospitalization predictions within the next year for heart-disease patients and patients with diabetes, as well as, re-hospitalization predictions within 30 days of general surgery. There are interesting lessons to be learned by working with such data. Specifically, very sparse classifiers that focus on a small feature subset for each patient perform remarkably well. Yet, there are no features that can be eliminated for all patients. In fact, our methods substantially outperform classifiers based on a small set of medically recommended risk factors. It is also true that there are patients with very similar features. This has led us to develop a new joint clustering and sparse classification method which produces strong predictions while discovering hidden patient clusters. Cluster membership of positive predictions can be used to justify them, which is particularly useful to clinicians.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EI will also briefly outline work with the Brigham and Women\u0027s Hospital on predicting the effect of hard to titrate ICU medications and developing an automated controller, using ideas from adaptive control methods, to optimally infuse such medications.\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBIO:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYannis Paschalidis is a Professor and Distinguished Faculty Fellow of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Systems Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. He is the Director of the Center for Information and Systems Engineering (CISE). He obtained a Diploma (1991) from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and an M.S. (1993) and a Ph.D. (1996) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), all in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He has been at Boston University since\u0026nbsp;1996. His current research interests lie in the fields of\u0026nbsp;systems and control, networks, applied probability, optimization, operations research, computational biology, medical informatics, and bioinformatics.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EProf. Paschalidis\u0027 work on communication and sensor networks has been recognized with a CAREER award (2000) from the National Science Foundation, the second prize in the 1997 George E. Nicholson paper competition by INFORMS, and the best student paper award at the 9th Intl. Symposium of Modeling and Optimization in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Networks (WiOpt 2011) won by one of his Ph.D. students for a joint paper. His work on protein docking (with his collaborators) has been recognized for best performance in modeling selected protein-protein complexes against 64 other predictor groups (2009 Protein Interaction Evaluation Meeting). He was an invited participant at the 2002 Frontiers of Engineering Symposium organized by the National Academy of Engineering, and at the\u0026nbsp;2014 National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAFKI) Conference.\u0026nbsp; Prof. Paschalidis is a Fellow of the IEEE and the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Control of Network Systems.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ISyE Seminar - Yannis Paschalidis"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2016-03-01 07:33:43","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:16:27","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-03-07T14:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2016-03-07T14:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-03-07T14:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-03-07 19:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-03-07 19:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-03-07 19:00:00","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":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"508311":{"#nid":"508311","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Seminar - Huan Xu","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Practicable robust Markov decision processes\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EMarkov decision processes (MDP) is a standard modeling tool for sequential decision making in a dynamic and stochastic environment. When the model parameters are subject to uncertainty, the \u0022optimal strategy\u0022 obtained from MDP can significantly under-perform than the model\u0027s prediction. To address this, robust MDP has been developed which is based on worst-case analysis. However, several restrictions of the robust MDP model prevent it from practical success, which I will address in this talk. The first restriction of standard robust MDP is that the modeling of uncertainty is not flexible and can lead to conservative solution. In particular, it requires that the uncertainty set is \u0022rectangular\u0022 - \u0026nbsp;i.e., it is a Cartesian product of uncertainty sets of each state. To lift this assumption, we propose an uncertainty model which we call \u201ck-rectangular\u0022 that generalizes the concept of rectangularity, and we show that this can be solved efficiently via state augmentation. The second restriction is that it does not take into account the learning issue - i.e., how to adapt the model in an efficient way to reduce the uncertainty. To address this, we devise an algorithm inspired by reinforcement learning that, without knowing the true uncertainty model, is able to adapt its level of protection to uncertainty, and in the long run performs as good as the minimax policy as if the true uncertainty model is known. 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His research interests include machine learning, robust optimization, planning and control, and statistics. 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Stop by to learn more about our initiatives or just drop by to say hello.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EMain booth (#2253) on the general tradeshow floor\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ESCL educational booth (#L2-4)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EPhysical Internet Center educational booth (#L2-5)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EATTEND OUR EDUCATION SEMINARS\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E SCL faculty will be speaking as part of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.modexshow.com\/education\/summit.aspx?ref=attendees\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMODEX Supply Chain Education Summit Seminars\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E which are free to all attendees.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETuesday, April 5,\u0026nbsp;11:00 am \u2013 12:00 pm\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EInnovations in Last Mile Delivery\u003C\/strong\u003E (Room B208)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003ETuesday, April 5,\u0026nbsp;12:00 pm \u2013 1:00 pm\u0026nbsp;\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EThe Physical Internet Vision\u003C\/strong\u003E (Room B207)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWednesday, April 6,\u0026nbsp;11:00 am \u2013 12:00 pm\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003ENext Generation Logistics Challenges (\u003C\/strong\u003ERoom B212)\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESTUDENT DAYS \u2013 April 6 \u0026amp; 7\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.modexshow.com\/education\/student-days.aspx\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EStudent Days\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E will be located in rooms B302-B304. Student Days is a two-day event for academia and industry professionals to engage in real-world discussions about the technologies and the skill sets required for future influencers within the supply chain, material handling and logistics industry.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EABOUT MODEX\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E There\u0027s a reason we call MODEX \u0022the Greatest Supply Chain Show on Earth.\u0022 It\u0027s where \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.modexshow.com\/directory.aspx\u0022\u003E850 of the leading manufacturing and supply chain providers\u003C\/a\u003E gather to showcase their latest and greatest solutions. If your business needs to maximize operational efficiency and cut costs, your solutions will be waiting at MODEX.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe industry\u0027s brightest minds will gather to network and share their perspectives on the ever-evolving state of the supply chain \u2013 where it\u0027s headed, new ideas, innovation and more. With four powerful keynotes, a supply chain education summit and more than \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.modexshow.com\/education\/seminars.aspx\u0022\u003E100 hands-on education sessions\u003C\/a\u003E, you\u2019re sure to find your edge.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EMODEX is FREE to attend\u003C\/strong\u003E. \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.modexshow.com\/register.aspx\u0022\u003ERegister today!\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EMODEX 2016, to\u0026nbsp;be held April 4-7 at the Georgia World Congress Center, is one the largest expositions for manufacturing, distribution and supply chain solutions in the Americas.\u0026nbsp;At MODEX, you\u0027ll find the solutions you need to solve tough manufacturing and supply chain challenges, identify best practices, exceed customer demands and gain competitive edge.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"SCL will be hosting three booths with faculty speaking as part of educational sessions"}],"uid":"27233","created_gmt":"2016-03-02 14:00:28","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:16:24","author":"Andy Haleblian","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-04-04T11:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-04-07T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-04-07T16:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-04-04 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-04-07 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-04-07 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"508501":{"id":"508501","type":"image","title":"2016MODEX_Logo","body":null,"created":"1457114400","gmt_created":"2016-03-04 18:00:00","changed":"1475895270","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:30","alt":"2016MODEX_Logo","file":{"fid":"205942","name":"modex2016_logo.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/modex2016_logo_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/modex2016_logo_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":822694,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/modex2016_logo_0.jpg?itok=zsRrRj9Z"}}},"media_ids":["508501"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.modexshow.com\/default.aspx","title":"MODEX 2016"}],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"},{"id":"1243","name":"The Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (SCL)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"6141","name":"material handling"},{"id":"167074","name":"Supply Chain"},{"id":"75361","name":"tradeshow"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"26411","name":"Training\/Workshop"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:info@scl.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Einfo@scl.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"510511":{"#nid":"510511","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Seminar - Yuri Faenza","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Discrete optimization problems: from combinatorial properties to geometric approaches\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDiscrete optimization problems naturally appear in science, engineering, and many other areas of technological everyday life. Numerous effective methods for tackling these problems build on the existence of strong convex relaxations, mainly obtained using linear (LP) and semidefinite programming (SDP). Producing these relaxations is by no means trivial, and it is the subject of much classical and recent research.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn this talk, I will show some combinatorial techniques for producing exact LP formulations, and apply them to important problems from the literature. I will also briefly talk about geometric techniques to strengthen non-exact formulations and challenging open problems in the area.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E: Yuri Faenza received a M.Sc. in Mathematical Engineering in 2006 from the University \u0022Tor Vergata\u0022 of Rome, and a Ph.D. in Operations Research in 2010 from the University \u0022Sapienza\u0022 of Rome. He has then been a post-doc in the Mathematics Departments of the University of Padua, EPFL, and University of Brussels.\u003Cbr \/\u003E In 2014 he was awarded an Ambizione fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation for his project Tight formulations of 0-1 optimization problems. He decided to pursue his project at EPFL, which he then re-joined in 2015.\u003Cbr \/\u003E His main research interests lie in polyhedral combinatorics, combinatorial optimization, and integer programming.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Seminar - Yuri Faenza"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2016-03-08 10:49:19","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:16:23","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-03-14T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-03-14T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-03-14T12:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-03-14 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-03-14 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-03-14 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":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"511551":{"#nid":"511551","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Seminar - Karthyek Murthy","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Unraveling risks in stochastic models: The \u201cknown unknowns\u201d and \u201cunknown unknowns\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EEvents that model risk are typically characterised by rare occurrences. While designing engineering and financial systems, we want to keep the probability of their failure to be low. This necessitates the study of rare events that represent risk in stochastic models commonly used in operations research and financial engineering. In this talk, we first consider one of the classical models in stochastic operations research, namely, many server queues, and discuss how large delays happen in the presence of heavy-tailed jobs. We shall discuss in depth the two types of effects that dominate the tail asymptotics across various loading regimes. While the quantitative distinction between these two manifests itself only in the slowly varying components in a half-loaded two server queue, we shall see that the two effects arise from qualitatively very different phenomena (arrival of one extremely big job (or) two big jobs). This type of classical large deviation analysis accounts for the type of risk fully represented by the model, commonly referred as \u201cknown unknowns\u201d. However, there is an alternate type of risk posed by mis-specifying a model, also referred as \u201cmodel risk\u201d or \u201cunknown unknowns\u201d. In the second part of the talk, we quickly see how new tools, built on the foundations of mass transportation theory, help us address model risk.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E: \u003C\/strong\u003EKarthyek Murthy is a post-doctoral research scientist in the Department of Industrial Engineering \u0026amp; Operations Research at Columbia University. He completed his PhD at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, where his PhD work on rare events was awarded with best PhD dissertation award for the year 2015. His research interests lie broadly in applied probability \u0026amp; stochastic processes, with special emphasis on models that arise in operations research, insurance and mathematical finance. Building on his PhD work on rare events, he has been recently investigating stochastic modeling techniques that are robust to model risk. His works have been recognized with IBM International PhD fellowship and TCS Research fellowships.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Seminar - Karthyek Murthy"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2016-03-10 10:34:35","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:16:21","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-03-16T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-03-16T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-03-16T12:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-03-16 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-03-16 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-03-16 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":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"511621":{"#nid":"511621","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar - David Wood","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Bayesian design of experiments via Gaussian process emulation\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe design of any experiment is implicitly Bayesian, with prior knowledge being used informally to aid decisions such as which factors to vary and the choice of plausible causal relationships between the factors and measured responses. Bayesian methods allow uncertainty in these decisions to be incorporated into design selection through prior distributions that encapsulate information available from scientific knowledge or previous experimentation. Further, a design may be explicitly tailored to the aim of the experiment through a decision-theoretic approach with an appropriate loss function.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EWhen designing experiments for nonlinear parametric models, finding a Bayesian optimal design is typically analytically intractable and often computational infeasible. The expected loss usually involves an intractable and high dimensional integral. We will present methodology for mitigating the computational expense of design through combining an application of Gaussian Process (GP) regression models with a cyclic descent (coordinate exchange) optimisation algorithm. We adopt methodology from the field of computer experiments and build a GP emulator for the expected loss. The methods allow optimal designs to be found for previously infeasible problems. We will describe the methodology and demonstrate it on a variety of examples.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003EBio:\u0026nbsp;Dave Woods is a Professor of Statistics at the University of Southampton with research interests in the design of experiments and the modelling of the resultant data. He holds a five-year research fellowship from the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to develop new Bayesian design of experiments methods for nonparametric and mechanistic models. He gained his PhD from Southampton in 2003, and since then he has developed research programmes in design for nonlinear models, especially for discrete data and generalised linear models, screening experiments, and computer experiments and uncertainty quantification. He works extensively with industry and government, particularly in chemical development with the pharmaceutical industry, and he is an Associate Editor for Technometrics. 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The Moore\u0027s law, however, continues to apply -- not to the single-thread performance -- but the number of cores in each computer. Today,\u0026nbsp;at affordable prices, we can buy\u0026nbsp;64 CPU-cores\u0026nbsp;workstations, thousand-core GPUs, and even eight-core cellphones. To take advantages of multiple cores, we must parallelize our algorithms -- otherwise, our algorithms won\u0027t run any faster on newer computers. For\u0026nbsp;iterative parallel algorithms to have\u0026nbsp;the strong performance,\u0026nbsp;asynchrony is critical. Removing the\u0026nbsp;synchronizations among different cores will eliminate core idling and reduce memory-access\u0026nbsp;congestion. However, some cores now compute with out-of-date information. We study fixed-point iterations\u0026nbsp;of\u0026nbsp;a nonexpansive operator\u0026nbsp;and show that randomized async-parallel iterations will almost surely converge to a fixed point, provided that the operator has a fixed point and the step size is properly chosen.\u0026nbsp;As special cases, novel algorithms for linear equation systems, machine learning, distributed and decentralized optimization are introduced, and numerical performance will be presented for sparse logistic regression and others. This is joint work with Zhimin Peng (UCLA), Yangyang Xu (IMA), and Ming Yan (Michigan State).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022xmsonormal\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022xmsonormal\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E:\u0026nbsp;Wotao\u0026nbsp;Yin is a professor in the Department of Mathematics of UCLA. His research interests lie in computational optimization and its applications in image processing, machine learning, and other inverse problems. He received his B.S. in mathematics from Nanjing University in 2001, and then M.S. and Ph.D. in operations research from Columbia University in 2003 and 2006, respectively. Before moving to UCLA, he was with Rice University during 2006-13. He won NSF CAREER award in 2008 and Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 2009. 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This supply chain stocks spare parts inventory both in kits that technicians take to the repair sites and at forward stocking locations (FSLs) distributed throughout the region. The investigation was conducted in three parts.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe first part examines the decision of which spare parts to stock in the kit for a single technician who must complete multiple repairs within a single period.\u0026nbsp; The technician has access at the single FSL to all parts not stocked in the kit but at a time penalty which decreases the likelihood of completing a satisfactory number of repairs by the end of the period.\u0026nbsp; This decision is modeled with a binary optimization problem which has a single probabilistic constraint, namely, that the allocation of spare parts between the kit and the FSL allows the technician to complete the required number of repairs in expectation.\u0026nbsp; Formulated as such, the decision problem is NP-hard. Six heuristics are proposed to quickly find spare parts allocations that have low cost. A method to find a lower bound on the optimal value is developed and then used to demonstrate that many of the heuristics can generate solutions whose costs are within ten percent of optimal. The heuristics are also compared against one another on a test suite of problem instances with important parameters varied over ranges of values. Finally, the first part concludes with a case study in which the heuristics are given real-world data from an industry collaborator.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe second part of the thesis broadens the scope of the first part to include the decision of how to sequence the repairs for the technician given that the geographic locations of the customers are incorporated into the model. The total travel time, which depends on the sequence in which customers are visited, affects the expected number of completed repairs, which again must be above a certain required level in expectation. Travel time, however, does not directly impact the objective to minimize total inventory cost. Given a method for sequencing customers, the decision problem is identical to that in part one. The fact that the customers change from one period to the next is accounted for by evaluating the expected fill rate for a repair kit as an average across multiple customer instances. Heuristics for sequencing customers are proposed and heuristics for determining inventory are reused from the first part of the thesis. It is shown that random routing leads to inventory costs twenty percent higher and almost all benefits of smarter routing are captured by a simple greedy heuristic.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe third and final part of the thesis also broadens the scope of the first part but in a different direction to include the decisions of how many technicians to employ and how many FSLs to maintain. Each technician must complete the repairs assigned to him or her, the number of which depends on the total number of technicians employed, and shares access to inventory at all of the FSLs, the number of which influences the time delay needed to retrieve a part not in the repair kit. The objective of the decision problem is to minimize the average total cost of repair kit inventory, FSL inventory, and technician labor per customer repair job in a single period. A straightforward algorithm to find a good solution, completely specified by a kit-or-FSL decision for all part types, a number of technicians, and a number of FSLs, is motivated by the fact that the inventory-setting algorithms developed in the first part of the thesis can run once given the number of technicians and FSLs. Computational testing shows that a single FSL that stocks all part types and many technicians with empty kits is best and that this configuration can save fifty percent of the total costs for a spare parts supply chain without FSL recourse.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Thesis Defense - Brian Kues"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2016-03-24 09:07:15","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:16:13","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-03-31T11:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-03-31T11:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-03-31T11:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-03-31 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-03-31 15:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-03-31 15:00:00","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":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"518771":{"#nid":"518771","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar - Bill Hsin-Hsiung Huang","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; An Affine-Invariant Bayesian Cluster Process with Split-Merge Gibbs Sampler\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EWe develop a clustering algorithm which does not requires knowing the number of clusters in advance. Furthermore, our clustering method is rotation-, scale- and translation-invariant. We call it \u201cAffine-invariant Bayesian (AIB) process\u201d. A highly efficient split-merge Gibbs sampling algorithm is proposed. Using the Ewens sampling distribution as prior of the partition and the profile residual likelihoods of the responses under three different covariance matrix structures, we obtain inferences in the form of a posterior distribution on partitions. The proposed split-merge MCMC algorithm successfully and efficiently estimate the partition. Our experimental results indicate that the AIB process outperforms other competing methods. In addition, the proposed algorithm is irreducible and aperiodic, so that the estimate is guaranteed to converge to the true partition.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EBIO:\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Dr. Hsin-Hsiung is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at University of Central Florida (UCF). Dr. Huang received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago and two MS degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology and National Taiwan University as well as BA and BS from National Taiwan University. His scholarly interests and expertise include Bayesian clustering, classification, genome comparison, robust dimension reduction, and text categorization. His research addresses challenges in analyzing big data in bioinformatics and cybersecurity by developing and evaluating new statistical methods. Examples of his research projects include classifying multiple-segmented viruses, discovering the association of biomarkers and hypertension, as well as business intelligence classification. 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On the other hand, nonparametric models without any structural assumptions could be computationally infeasible and difficult to interpret. We present in this talk some structural nonparametric methods to accomplish the above three objectives, namely estimation, prediction and tracking, based on a class of nonparametric mixed-effects models. Our methods, which use either local kernel-type smoothing or global smoothing via B-splines, have the appropriate model flexibility and computational feasibility, and are useful to answer many scientific questions which could not be properly addressed by parametric or unstructured nonparametric regression models. We demonstrate the application of our methods through a long-term epidemiological study of pediatric cardiovascular risk factors and a series of simulation studies. Asymptotic developments of our methods suggest that the convergence rates of our smoothing estimators depend on the number of subjects as well as the numbers of repeated measurements.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis is the joint work with Xin Tian (OBR\/NHLBI)\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E Colin O. Wu is senior Mathematical Statistician at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health (NHLBI\/NIH). He is also Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University School of Medicine and Professorial Lecturer at The George Washington University. Dr. Wu received Ph.D. in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley. His past academic positions include the University of Michigan, the Johns Hopkins University, and Guest Lecturer at University of Maryland, College Park. His professional activities include serving as Guest Editor for Statistics in Medicine, Associate Editor for Biometrics, Data Monitoring Committee member for the United Sates Department of Veterans Affairs, and Sphygmomanometer Committee member for the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI). He is Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, and Fellow of the American Statistical Association. He has published over 130 peer reviewed articles in statistics, biostatistics and medical journals.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Statistics Seminar - Colin O. 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The arriving customer then chooses whether to take the slip or balk, a decision based on the perceived queue length and associated waiting time. Even after taking a ticket, a customer may abandon the queue, an event that will be unobservable until the abandoning customer would have begun service. In contrast, a standard queue has a physical waiting area so that abandonment is apparent immediately when it takes place and balking is based on the actual queue length at the time of arrival.\u0026nbsp; We prove heavy traffic limit theorems for the generalized ticket and standard queueing processes in the single server setting, discovering that the processes converge together to the same limit, a regulated Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (ROU) process. One conclusion is that for a highly utilized service sys\u0026nbsp; tem with a relatively patient customer population, the ticket and standard queue performances are asymptotically indistinguishable on the scale typically uncovered under heavy traffic approaches. Next, we heuristically estimate several performance metrics of the ticket queue, some of which are of a sensitivity typically undetectable under diffusion scaling. The estimates are tested using simulation and are shown to be quite accurate under a general collection of parameter settings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u0026nbsp; \u003C\/strong\u003EJamol Pender is an assistant professor at Cornell ORIE, having completed his Ph.D. at Princeton ORFE and a postdoc at Columbia IEOR.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Applied Probability Seminar - Jamol Pender"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2016-03-31 13:43:52","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:16:07","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-04-01T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-04-01T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-04-01T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-04-01 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-04-01 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-04-01 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":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"521231":{"#nid":"521231","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar - Nancy Zhang","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Profiling Tumor DNA and inferring its Evolutionary History\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ECancer is a disease driven by rounds of Darwinian selection on somatic genetic mutations, and recent advances in sequencing technologies is offering new opportunities as well as revealing new challenges in this field.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;In this talk, I will describe two statistical problems in the genetic analysis of tumors.\u0026nbsp; In the first part, I will describe the problem of allele-specific copy number estimation.\u0026nbsp; Copy number change is a basic type of DNA alteration in tumors, and understanding how they affect the tumor\u2019s genome at the allelic level is fundamental to understanding the tumor\u2019s genetic signature.\u0026nbsp; I will describe a bivariate binomial mixture process for this problem, and a method for detecting change-points in this process.\u0026nbsp; In the second part, I will describe the problem of inferring a tumor\u2019s clonal evolutionary history through repeated bulk DNA sampling.\u0026nbsp; This is similar to classic phylogenetic inference problems, with the key difference being that the observed data are slices of a mixed population.\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;I will describe a framework that we developed to estimate the underlying evolutionary tree by joint modeling single nucleotide mutation and allele-specific copy number profiles.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EBIO:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENancy R. 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Participants will be introduced to five (5) bully prototypes and contemplate how we might reduce bullying and incivility in the workplace. It is open to all faculty, staff and students.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESpace is limited. To register, please \u003Cstrong\u003ERSVP\u003C\/strong\u003E at the link below.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/events.isye.gatech.edu\/workplace-classroom-dialogue\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/events.isye.gatech.edu\/workplace-classroom-dialogue\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"OID-ADVANCE Workshop"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2016-04-12 09:06:23","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:16:02","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-04-19T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-04-19T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-04-19T12:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-04-19 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-04-19 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-04-19 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":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"523471":{"#nid":"523471","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IIE Spring Picnic","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EOur annual IIE Spring Picnic is just around the corner! This is a great way for IE students to meet each other and have fun. Come hang out with us on for some free food, giveaways, games, and\u0026nbsp;activities on the IC Lawn!\u0026nbsp; \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EIf you\u0027re interested in getting more involved with IIE and would like to help run this event, please e-mail\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:iiegeorgiatech@gmail.com\u0022\u003Eiiegeorgiatech@gmail.com\u003C\/a\u003E with the subject \u0022Spring Picnic 2016 Assistance.\u0022\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ECelebrate Spring with fellow ISyE\u0027s at the IC lawn this Thursday, April 14!\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Celebrate Spring with fellow ISyE\u0027s at the IC lawn this Thursday, April 14!"}],"uid":"27469","created_gmt":"2016-04-12 09:39:47","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:16:02","author":"Kristen Bailey","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-04-14T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-04-14T16:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-04-14T16:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-04-14 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-04-14 20:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-04-14 20:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":["free_food"],"groups":[{"id":"1182","name":"General"},{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"116","name":"food"},{"id":"8099","name":"ie"},{"id":"426","name":"isye"},{"id":"5274","name":"picnic"},{"id":"167058","name":"Student"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"},{"id":"1791","name":"Student sponsored"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s1\u0022\u003EIda Mizani\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p3\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s2\u0022\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:mizani.ida@gmail.com\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022s3\u0022\u003Emizani.ida@gmail.com\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"525151":{"#nid":"525151","#data":{"type":"event","title":"2016 Disaster Response and Mitigation Forum","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EApril 27\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E, 12:30-6PM\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Garage @ Square on Fifth\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E848 Spring Street NW\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EAtlanta, GA 30308\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe Georgia Tech Institute for People and Technology (IPaT) and the Georgia Tech Center for Health and Humanitarian Systems (CHHS) are pleased to host the 2016 Disaster Response and Mitigation Forum on April 27, 2016.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough our keynote and two panel sessions, we are bringing together governmental experts, policy makers, researchers, and decision makers from the public and private sector to share current efforts, research, and new problems identified in the space of disaster and humanitarian response.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E The goal for the Forum relates to understanding ways in which to advance science and technology to improve disaster response. The Forum will feature two panels including federal, state and local agency representatives, as well as speakers from NGOs, industry, and academic researchers.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ETopics we will explore include:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003Ethe current state of the art practices and strategies for disaster response and mitigation\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Eongoing research and technology development to support and enhance our current capabilities\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Ethe role of community in response\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Ethe gaps and opportunities to improve response systems, and\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003Eunderstanding the ways in which to advance science and technology to improve response and mitigation.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThrough this limited engagement, stakeholders will share, learn, and build problem solving coalitions against the many new and rapidly emerging population-level problems affecting our country and the world at-large.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E We are pleased to announce Director Jim Butterworth, Director of the Georgia Emergency Management Agency\/Homeland Security, as our keynote. Please\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/disaster-response-and-mitigation-forum-speakers\u0022\u003Eclick on the Speakers link\u003C\/a\u003Eto learn more about the speakers who will be with us that day to share their insights and experiences.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThose who are interested in submitting posters, please go to: \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/disaster-response-and-mitigation-forum-poster-session\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/disaster-response-and-mitigation-forum-poster-session\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Registration cost is free, however registration is required for participation. Please click on the Registration Tab and sign up to join us! We will follow up with a networking reception featuring a poster session at the end of our day.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"2016 Disaster Response and Mitigation Forum"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2016-04-15 10:33:52","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:15:59","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-04-27T13:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-04-27T19:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-04-27T19:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-04-27 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-04-27 23:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-04-27 23:00:00","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":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/disaster-response-and-mitigation-forum\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/ipat.gatech.edu\/disaster-response-and-mitigation-forum\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"527491":{"#nid":"527491","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar - Yichuan Zhao","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Smoothed Jackknife Empirical Likelihood Inference for the Difference of ROC \u0026nbsp;Curves\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EFor the comparison of two diagnostic markers at a flexible specificity, people apply the difference of two correlated receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves to identify the diagnostic test with stronger discriminant ability. In this paper, we employ jackknife empirical likelihood (JEL) method to construct confidence intervals for the difference of two correlated continuous-scale ROC curves. Using the jackknife pseudo-sample, we can avoid estimating several nuisance variables which have to be estimated in existing methods. We prove that the smoothed jackknife empirical log likelihood ratio is asymptotically chi-squared distribution. Furthermore, the simulation studies in terms of coverage probability and average length of confidence intervals show the good performance in small samples with a moderate computational cost. A real data set is used to illustrated our method.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis\u0026nbsp; is\u0026nbsp; joint\u0026nbsp; work\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; with\u0026nbsp; Dr.\u0026nbsp; Hanfang\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp; Yang\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Statistics Seminar - Yichuan Zhao"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2016-04-21 08:12:11","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:15:58","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-04-21T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-04-21T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-04-21T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-04-21 17:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-04-21 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-04-21 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":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"528051":{"#nid":"528051","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Thesis Defense - Yuan Wang","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Shrinkage in Change Detection and Uncertainty Quantification\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn the information age, many real-world applications such as biosurveillance, manufacturing systems, physical and computer experiments often involve data that are massive, high-dimension or have complicated structures. In some cases it is cheap to collect large-scale data, while in other cases it may be costly or time-consuming to collect them. In either case, it is often non-trivial to extract information from these types of data to make useful decisions.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis dissertation makes methodology contributions to three important subfields of statistics: (i) Large-scale multi-stream quickest change detection, (ii) multichannel profile monitoring and (iii) global optimization of expensive functions. A common feature of the thesis work is the use of shrinkage to the respective subfields to address the challenges of high-dimensional or complicated data. However, since different subfields and applications have different features and challenges, details of the shrinkage techniques vary with the subfield.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis dissertation consists of three chapters. In Chapter 1, we study the problem of online monitoring large-scale data streams, which has many important applications from biosurveillance and quality control to finance and security in modern information age. While many classical quickest change detection methods can be extended from one-dimensional to any K-dimensional, their performances are rather poor when monitoring large K of data streams. This motives us to investigate the effects of dimensionality on the performance of quickest change detection methods. We found out through theoretical analysis that the classical quickest change detection methods often over-emphasize the first-order term of the detection delays and overlook the second-order terms of the detection delays, where the latter often increases linearly as a function of the dimension K. When K is large (e.g., hundreds), the second-order term of the detection delay will likely be comparable to the first-order term, which implies that the nice first-order asymptotic optimality properties have little practical meaning for large K. We propose a novel approach to lessen the dimensionality effects by introducing some shrinkage estimators of the unknown post-change parameters. In addition, we also illustrate the challenge of Monte Carlo simulation of the average run length to false alarm in the context of online monitoring large-scale data streams.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn Chapter 2, we consider the problem of monitoring multichannel profiles that has important applications in manufacturing systems improvement. A concrete motivating example of this work is from a forging process, in which multichannel load profiles measure exerted forces in each column of the forging machine. While various methods have been developed for univariate profile monitoring, they often cannot easily be extended to multichannel profiles. There are two main challenges when monitoring multichannel profiles. The first one is that profiles are high-dimensional functional data with intrinsic inner- and inter-channel correlations, and the second, probably more fundamental, challenge is that the functional structure of multi-channel profiles might change over time, and thus the dimension reduction method should be capable of taking into account the potential unknown change. We develop a novel thresholded multivariate principal component analysis (PCA) method for multi-channel profile monitoring. Our proposed method consists of two steps of dimension reduction: It first applies the functional PCA to extract a reasonable large number of features under the in-control state, and then uses the shrinkage techniques to functional PCAs to further select significant features capturing profile information in the out-of-control state. The choice of tuning parameter for soft-thresholding is provided based on asymptotic analysis, and extensive simulation studies are conducted to illustrate the efficacy of our proposed methodology.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EIn Chapter 3, we study the problem of global optimization of expensive functions. In modern physical and computer experiments, one often deals with expensive functions in the sense that it may take days or months to evaluate their values at a single input setting. An important problem is how to choose an appropriate setting of the input variables so as to optimize the output. To tackle this question, our proposed method involves two main components: one is the construction of a surrogate model to approximate the true function with much cheaper computation, and the other is the determination of a new input setting for function evaluation based on the surrogate model. After iteratively updating these two components, we optimize the latest surrogate model, which yields the approximation to the optima of the original expensive function. To be specific, we propose an adaptive Radial Basis Function (RBF) based global optimization framework via uncertainty quantification. For the surrogate model, we construct an adaptive RBF-based normal mixture Bayesian surrogate model, where the parameters in the RBFs can be adaptively updated each time a new point is explored. It is crucial to employ the normal mixture Bayesian structure which leads to a more stable surrogate model and avoid over-fitting. Its use can be regarded as a ridge-type regression estimate of model coefficients. For the selection of input setting, we propose a novel criterion to assess the input setting based on the surrogate model, and we choose the inputs that maximize the criterion. Our criterion incorporates the expected improvement (EI) of the function prediction to effectively identify promising areas for the global optima, and its uncertainties to efficiently explore the unknown regions. We conduct numerical studies with standard test functions to understand and compare the empirical performance of our proposed method with a prominent existing method.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"PhD Thesis Defense - Yuan Wang"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2016-04-22 10:17:35","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:15:56","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-04-27T11:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-04-27T11:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-04-27T11:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-04-27 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-04-27 15:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-04-27 15:00:00","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":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"528071":{"#nid":"528071","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Thesis Defense - Weihong Hu","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Modeling and Solution of Some Multi-Period Supply Chain Optimization Problems\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThis thesis consists of three parts, each of which contributes to an independent topic in the broad area of multi-period supply chain optimization, and provides modeling and solution approaches for the problem in concern.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Part I studies a strategic health workforce planning problem. Analysts predict impending shortages in the health care workforce, and wages for health care workers already account for over 50% of U.S. health expenditures. It is thus increasingly important to adequately plan to meet health workforce demand at reasonable cost. Using infinite linear programming (LP) methodology, we propose an infinite-horizon model for health workforce planning in a large health system for a single worker class, e.g. nurses. We give a series of common-sense conditions any system of this kind should satisfy, and use them to prove the optimality of a natural lookahead policy. We then use real-world data to examine how such policies perform in more complex systems; in particular, our experiments show that a natural extension of the lookahead policy performs well when incorporating stochastic demand growth.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Part II investigates an integrated inventory routing (IRP) and freight consolidation problem for perishable goods with a fixed lifetime. The problem is motivated by the status-quo of logistics in many U.S. markets, but also adapts to relevant two-echelon supply chain optimization problems e.g. combined production planning and distribution. We formulate the problem as a large-scale mixed-integer programming (MIP) model. We propose an iterative solution framework with a decomposition procedure and a local search scheme. In the decomposition, a freight consolidation subproblem is first solved to obtain crucial shipping decisions, and after fixing these a restrictive model generates the other decisions for the integrated problem. The local search aims at fast identification of good neighborhoods by solving an assignment-style MIP which matches the consolidation decision with an IRP subproblem, and gradually strengthens the incumbent solution pool when executed in an iterative fashion. Experiments with empirical demand distributions based on real data demonstrate that 1) the integration can achieve remarkable efficiency compared to a sequential approach of the subproblems; 2) both the decomposition and the local search are effective in solving moderately-sized problem instances that are already challenging in practice.\u003Cbr \/\u003E \u003Cbr \/\u003E Part III examines a two-echelon distribution problem which can be viewed as a one-warehouse multi-retailer (OWMR) problem reversed in time flows. Unlike the majority of the OWMR literature, where ordering is uncapacitated and the ordering cost is fixed in each period, we assume more realistic volume-dependent cost structures which can be interpreted as multiple transportation modes with batch capacities. The resulting transportation costs are piecewise linear non-convex functions of the shipping volume. Since this breaks classical optimality properties like zero-inventory-ordering, and the LP relaxation of the natural MIP formulation can be very weak, a straightforward application of previous OWMR methods may not be effective. We first introduce a technique that converts our problem to existing OWMR models by bounding the cost functions, and derive the corresponding worst-case approximation guarantees under each type of the transportation costs. We then treat or approximate the transportation costs as concave batch costs, and propose a polynomial-time 2-approximation algorithm by recombining single-echelon lot sizing subproblem solutions for the special case of full truckload costs, where trucks have an identical capacity and each incurs a fixed cost. This improves the best-known result (i.e. a 3.6-approximation) for the same cost structure. Finally, we utilize subproblem structural properties to prove the asymptotic optimality of a decentralized approach for pertinent two-echelon problems in a wider range of settings.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EConsidering the independence of each part, we will focus on the last topic at the defense.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"PhD Thesis Defense - Weihong Hu"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2016-04-22 10:19:48","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:15:56","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-05-04T14:30:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-05-04T14:30:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-05-04T14:30:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-05-04 18:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-05-04 18:30:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-05-04 18:30:00","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":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"528641":{"#nid":"528641","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Statistics Seminar - Yiqiao Song","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE:\u0026nbsp; Porous Media, Magnetic Resonance and Machine Learning\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Statistics Seminar - Yiqiao Song"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2016-04-25 08:46:20","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:15:56","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-03-17T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-03-17T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-03-17T12:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-03-17 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-03-17 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-03-17 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":[{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"529551":{"#nid":"529551","#data":{"type":"event","title":"Collaborative Logistics - Learners and Leaders Breakfast Series","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJoin Georgia Tech faculty members Martin Savelsbergh and Natashia Boland to learn how Savannah\u2019s multimodal supply chain can enable optimal use of resources while being more efficient and cost effective. From rail, ship, storage, and truck, our professors will make innovative freight logistics ideas relatable to our industry in Southeast Georgia. Hear how trends in freight logistics optimization affect our supply chains.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJoin us to learn:\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EHow companies are using logistics collaboration for competitive advantage\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe current trends and advances in freight logistics\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EThe role technology plays in effective transportation management\u003C\/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EWhether \u201cUberization\u201d of shared resources is likely to impact supply chains\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C\/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERegister Today! 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Typically, the goal is to monitor system performance and degradation for numerous purposes, one of which is the prevention of unexpected failures. This talk focuses on how to effectively utilize sensor data to predict future system degradation and remaining lifetime (aka prognostics). The talk will begin by introducing a basic prognostic framework and how it has been implemented.\u0026nbsp; Next, the talk will also focus on the use Big (Sensor) Data in managing system performance. This will be followed by an open discussion about some of the recently developed state-of-the-art modeling techniques that are being used to help predict and prevent system failures.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EDr. Gebraeel is the Chandler Family associate professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.\u0026nbsp; He received his MS and PhD in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, 1998 and 2003, respectively. 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This course can be used as an elective towards our Supply Chain Management (SCM)\u0026nbsp;certificate.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Ch3\u003ECourse Instructors\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/users\/sean-williams\u0022\u003ESean Williams\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/users\/andrew-kwok\u0022\u003EAndrew Kwok\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\u003C\/div\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Ch3\u003ECourse Fees\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cdiv\u003E\r\n\u003Cp\u003EStandard: $950.00, Alumni\/Org Discount: $855.00, Certificate: $807.50 (cost of each course when signing up for and paying for a multi-course certificate program).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFirst time attendees pay the listed course fee. If you are a returning student of the Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute (SCL) courses, you will receive a 10% discount which you will enter at the \u0026quot;Check Out\u0026quot; page. Use Coupon Code\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003ESCL-Alum\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThere are also discounts available for multiple-team member registrations, to those who prepay for all the courses in a specific certificate, to active\/retired military, or to members of certain organizations (\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/education\/professional-education\/discounts\u0022\u003Eclick this link\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;for a listing).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDiscounts cannot be combined. To receive the coupon code for these discounts, call 404-385-8663 or\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scl.gatech.edu\/contact\/Professional_Education_Offerings\u0022\u003Esend us an email\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;prior to registration\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe program fee for LIVE courses (non-online) includes continental breakfasts, lunches, breaks, parking, internet access, and all classroom materials.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIf the Supply Chain \u0026amp; Logistics Institute must cancel a program, registrants will receive a full refund. Georgia Tech, however, cannot assume the responsibility for other costs incurred. Due to program enrollment limits, early registration is encouraged. 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This includes the classical normal location model, popular in signal processing, and the Poisson model, popular in syndromic surveillance.\u0026nbsp; We perform numerical experiments on simulated data further supporting our theory and also on a real dataset from genomics.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EJoint work with Rui M. Castro(1), Ervin T\u0026aacute;nczos(1), and Meng Wang(2)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E(1) Technische Universiteit Eindhoven\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E(2) Stanford University\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe paper is available online at\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1508.03002\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/1508.03002\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Statistics Seminar - Ery Arias-Castro"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2016-09-28 17:51:15","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:14:30","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-10-07T12:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2016-10-07T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-10-07T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-10-07 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-10-07 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-10-07 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":[],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EXiaoming Huo\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"581845":{"#nid":"581845","#data":{"type":"event","title":"DOS Seminar - Rui Gao","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ETITLE: Distributionally Robust Stochastic Optimization with Wasserstein Distance\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nOptimization under uncertainty is often formulated as a stochastic optimization problem. 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(v) Our strong duality result holds in a very general setting, and can be applied to infinite dimensional process control problems and worst-case value-at-risk analysis.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nThis is a joint work with Anton Kleywegt.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERui Gao is a 4\u003Csup\u003Eth\u003C\/sup\u003E\u0026nbsp; year PhD student in our department, working with Prof. Anton Kleywegt. 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We establish the selection consistency of the proposed approach where the penalty parameter depends on several factors, such as the order of approximation of additive components, characteristics of the spatial weight and spatial dependence, etc. An extensive simulation study provides a vivid picture of the impacts of dependent data structures, the choice of a spatial weight as well as the asymptotic behavior of the estimates.\u0026nbsp; We also investigate other regression models in the context of spatially dependent data.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E Dr. Taps Maiti is currently serving as a Professor and Graduate Director in the Department of Statistics \u0026amp; Probability and the Co-director for the Center for Business and Social Analytics at Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. His research interest is in application driven statistical theory and methods. 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We are focusing on promoting the research at the graduate level within ISyE. Our primary goals are i) to present the depth and breadth of research being pursued on the SIAC core themes to the first and second year students, and ii) to provide an opportunity for our senior students to disseminate their research findings through 20-minute oral presentations and posters.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EPlease register if you like to get lunch during the symposium, otherwise,\u0026nbsp;feel free to stop by and\u0026nbsp;attend the particular talks that rouse your interest.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESIAC graduate symposium will consist of oral presentations (20-minutes, similar format to their INFORMS counterparts), posters, and a luncheon address. 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Existing approaches in optimization focus on finding one optimal decision, to perform well on average, or to guarantee a worst-case performance under uncertainty. Although making a single decision given data is key to the operation of any system, additional insights as to how uncertain such solution might be is also important in decision-making. The intuition classical sensitivity analysis can provide is limited for complex systems because there can be a large number of input parameters. We propose a computational framework to empirically estimate the uncertainty by solving the optimization problem for sampled input parameters. In this talk, we focus on solving linear programs (LPs) with varying parameters.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe common approach is solving the LPs for all combinations of given parameter values, called the brute-force, which can be computationally infeasible when the parameter space is high-dimensional and\/or the underlying LP is computationally challenging. We introduce a new approach for solving a large number of LPs that differ only in the right hand side of the constraints ($\\bb$ of $\\A x= \\bb$). The computational approach builds on theoretical properties of the geometry of the space of critical regions, where a critical region is defined as the set of $\\bb$\u0026#39;s for which a basis is optimal. To formally support our computational approach we provide proofs of geometric properties of neighboring critical regions. While these theoretical properties have been stated and applied in the existing literature of parametric programming, their formal proofs have not been provided to the best of our knowledge. Based on the geometric properties of critical regions, we develop an algorithm that solves the LPs in batches by finding critical regions that contain multiple $\\bb$\u0026#39;s. Moreover, we suggest a data-driven version of our algorithm that uses the distribution (e.g., shape) of a sample of $\\bb$\u0026#39;s for which the LPs need to be solved. The experimental results on a benchmark problem show that our approach can be more efficient and scale better in the number of $\\bb$\u0026#39;s than the brute-force, but also indicate some limitations of the algorithm. Possible extensions of the method are also discussed.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Lee is a postdoc researcher in our department working with Dr. Serban. His research interests are in health data analytics and large-scale optimization problems arising in data analytics. 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The 3-hour session will host supply chain representatives from \u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.apicsatlanta.org\/\u0022\u003EAPICS\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.ajilon.com\/\u0022\u003EAjilon Professional Staffing\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/amazon.com\u0022\u003EAmazon\u003C\/a\u003E,\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.fortna.com\/\u0022\u003EFortna\u003C\/a\u003E\u200b, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.llamasoft.com\/\u0022\u003ELlamasoft\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.logility.com\/\u0022\u003ELogility\u003C\/a\u003E, \u200b\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.manh.com\/\u0022\u003EManhattan Associates\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.schneider-electric.com\/ww\/en\/\u0022\u003ESchneider Electric\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.scottlogistics.com\/\u0022\u003EScott Logistics\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u200b\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.smith-nephew.com\/\u0022\u003ESmith \u0026amp; Nephew\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/strong\u003E who will be on campus to educate ISyE students about their organizations and available employment and networking opportunities.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWe strongly encourage students to act now to seek full-time employment\u003C\/strong\u003E, \u003Cstrong\u003Einternships, and projects\u003C\/strong\u003E (rather than waiting until the end of the semester). Plus, enjoy a free pizza lunch!\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Ch3\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EEVENT DETAILS\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/h3\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhere\u003C\/strong\u003E: \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.isye.gatech.edu\/about\/maps-directions\/isye-building-complex\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EISyE Main Bldg\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E, 2nd Floor Atrium\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhen\u003C\/strong\u003E: Wednesday, November 9, 10:30AM-1:30PM\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EWhat\u003C\/strong\u003E: The session will include:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003ENetworking opportunities in the ISyE atrium\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003EFood and refreshments\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EPlease plan on staying for the duration of the event and bring copies of your resume and business cards\u003C\/strong\u003E. 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Some new insight and approach are given on this time honored subject. \u0026nbsp;Start with the very simple two-level fractional factorial designs. Two interactions AB and CD are said to be aliased if both represent and are used to estimate the same effect. In the literature this aliasing is deemed impossible to be \u0026ldquo;de-aliased\u0026rdquo; or estimated. We argue that this \u0026ldquo;impossibility\u0026rdquo; can indeed be resolved by taking a new approach which consists of reparametrization using the notion of \u0026ldquo;conditional main effects\u0026rdquo; (cme\u0026rsquo;s) and model selection by exploiting the properties between the cme\u0026rsquo;s and traditional factorial effects. In some sense this is a shocking result as this has been taken for granted since the founding work of Finney (1945). There is a similar surprise for three-level fractional factorial designs. The standard approach is to use ANOVA to decompose the interactions into orthogonal components, each of 2-d. Then the quandary of full aliasing between interaction components remains. Again this can be resolved by using a non-orthogonal decomposition of the four degrees of freedom for AxB interaction using the linear-quadratic parametrization. Then a model search strategy would allow the estimation of some interaction components even for designs of resolution III and IV. Moving from regular to nonregular designs like the Plackett-Burman designs, most of the interactions are not orthogonal to the main effects. The partial aliasing of the effects and their complexity was traditionally viewed as \u0026ldquo;hazards\u0026rdquo;. Hamada and Wu (1992) \u0026nbsp;recognized that this could be turned into an advantage. Their analysis strategy for effect de-aliasing is a precursor to what was described above. Underlying the three problems is the use of reparametrization and exploitation of non-orthogonality among some effects. 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In binary classification, this essentially means seeking a prediction rule to achieve the lowest probability of misclassification, and computationally it involves minimizing a (difficult) non-convex, 0-1 loss function. To address the intractability, previous methods consider minimizing the cumulative loss \u0026ndash; the sum of convex surrogates of the 0-1 loss of each goal. We revisit this paradigm and develop instead an axiomatic framework by proposing a set of salient properties on functions for goal scoring and then propose the coherent loss approach, which is a tractable upper-bound of the loss over the entire set of goals. We show that the proposed approach yields a strictly tighter approximation to the total loss (i.e., the number of missed goal) than any convex cumulative loss approach while preserving the convexity of the underlying optimization problem. 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(2016).\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Debate: What is the Best Method to Monitor Surgical Performance?\u0026rdquo;,\u0026nbsp;BMC Surgery. 16:15 DOI 10.1186\/s12893-016-0131-8.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWoodall, W. H., Fogel, S. L., and Steiner,\u0026nbsp;S. H. (2015). \u0026ldquo;The Monitoring and Improvement of Surgical Outcome Quality\u0026rdquo;.\u0026nbsp;Journal of Quality Technology\u0026nbsp;47(4),\u0026nbsp;383-399.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nZhang, X. and Woodall, W. H. (2015).\u0026nbsp;\u0026ldquo;Dynamic Probability Control Limits for Risk-adjusted Bernoulli CUSUM Charts\u0026rdquo;.\u0026nbsp;Statistics in Medicine\u0026nbsp;34, 3336-3348.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cstrong\u003EBio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWilliam H. Woodall, Professor of Statistics at Virginia Tech, is a former editor of the\u0026nbsp;Journal of Quality Technology\u0026nbsp;(2001\u0026ndash;2003) and Associate Editor of\u0026nbsp;Technometrics\u0026nbsp;(1987\u0026ndash;1995; 2013). He has published well over 140 papers, most on aspects of process monitoring and health-related surveillance. He is the recipient of the ASQ Shewhart\u0026nbsp;Medal (2002), ENBIS Box Medal (2012), Jack Youden Prize (1995, 2003), ASQ Brumbaugh Award (2000, 2006), Ellis Ott Foundation Award (1987), Soren Bisgaard\u0026nbsp;Award (2012), Lloyd S. Nelson Award (2014), and a best paper award from\u0026nbsp;IIE Transactions on Quality and Reliability Engineering\u0026nbsp;(1997). 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His research focuses on large-scale decision-making, and he has a special interest in risk-aware sequential optimization.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"DOS Seminar - William Haskell"}],"uid":"27187","created_gmt":"2016-11-03 15:05:36","changed_gmt":"2017-04-13 21:14:04","author":"Anita Race","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2016-11-10T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2016-11-10T11:00:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2016-11-10T11:00:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2016-11-10 16:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2016-11-10 16:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2016-11-10 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":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}},"583576":{"#nid":"583576","#data":{"type":"event","title":"ISyE Seminar - Laurence Wolsey","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETITLE: Projection of Shortest Path Extended Formulations\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EABSTRACT:\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESeveral important subproblems, such as switching machines on and off, finding an optimal convex set in 2-D, or buying and selling of a commodity, can be formulated as shortest\/longest path problems in an acyclic graph. The corresponding polyhedron provides an implicit polynomial size description of the convex hull of solutions. A natural question is whether one can find a similar description in the original variables of the problem. In this talk we present several examples, each time using a different technique to obtain the projection. 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A first use involves a combination of optimal transport and Metropolis correction; here, we use continuous transportation to transform typical MCMC proposals into adapted non-Gaussian proposals, both local and global. Second, we discuss a variational approach to Bayesian inference that constructs a deterministic transport map from a reference distribution to the posterior, without resorting to MCMC. Independent and unweighted samples can then be obtained by pushing forward reference samples through the map.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EMaking either approach efficient in high dimensions, however, requires identifying and exploiting low-dimensional structure. We present new results relating the sparsity and decomposability of transports to the conditional independence structure of the target distribution. 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The algorithm is motivated by the scale of problem and significant differences in run times observed among scenario subproblems, which can result in inefficient use of distributed computing resources by synchronous parallel algorithms. Dual iterations are performed asynchronously using a block-coordinate subgradient descent method which allows performing block-coordinate updates using delayed information. We provide convergence guarantees for the asynchronous block-coordinate subgradient method based on previous results for incremental subgradient methods and stochastic subgradient methods. 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In this\u0026nbsp;scenario, traditional\u0026nbsp;approaches for\u0026nbsp;intelligent data analysis (i.e., statistical data\u0026nbsp;modeling, monitoring and\u0026nbsp;control) need to be revised in order to deal with\u0026nbsp;3D quality\u0026nbsp;features,\u0026nbsp;multi-stream signal data, noncontact image point clouds. Starting from real\u0026nbsp;industrial problems, some of the main\u0026nbsp;challenges to be faced in these research\u0026nbsp;fields\u0026nbsp;are discussed. Viable solutions to enhance zero-defect manufacturing via\u0026nbsp;in-line, in-situ\u0026nbsp;statistical process monitoring are presented. 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She spent almost one year at the\u0026nbsp;Pennsylvania State University (PSU) as a post-doc in 2001.\u0026nbsp;Since then, she is cooperating with\u0026nbsp;the\u0026nbsp;Engineering Statistics Laboratory, directed by E. del Castillo\u0026nbsp;(PSU).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nHer\u0026nbsp;research interest is mainly in the area\u0026nbsp;of quality engineering (i.e. statistical process\u0026nbsp;monitoring, control\u0026nbsp;and optimization), with special attention to advanced\u0026nbsp;manufacturing processes.\u0026nbsp;On\u0026nbsp;these topics, she is\u0026nbsp;author of\u0026nbsp;100+\u0026nbsp;contributions, half of which have been\u0026nbsp;published in peer-reviewed international journals and\u0026nbsp;books. 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During his career Prof. Moustakides also held visiting scholar and\/or adjunct professor positions at numerous universities in USA as Princeton University, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, University of Maryland, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and recently Rutgers University. He has served as associate editor for Detection and Estimation (2011-2014) and is currently serving as inaugural associate editor for Sequential Methods (2016-2019) for the IEEE Transactions on Information Theory. His research focuses on Sequential Analysis and Statistical Signal Processing.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Statistics Seminar - George V. 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Furthermore, linear programming (LP) provides very weak bounds on the optimal value. In this talk, we introduce a new decomposition approach using irreducible infeasible subsystem (IIS) inequalities to strengthen the LP-relaxation of PC-SPs. We first establish the theoretical results for determining IIS inequalities for the continuous case, and then extend the results to the binary case and give example illustrations. Next, we present an IIS branch-and-cut algorithm for PC-SP and report on preliminary computational results.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ELewis Ntaimo received his Ph.D. degree in systems and industrial engineering in 2004, his M.S. degree in mining and geological engineering in 2000, and B.S. degree in mining engineering, all from the University of Arizona. He has been with Texas A\u0026amp;M University since 2004. Dr. Ntaimo research interests are in algorithms for large-scale stochastic optimization, systems modeling, and discrete event simulation. Recent applications include wildfire response planning, energy reduction in data centers, wind farm operations and maintenance, and patient and resource management in healthcare. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, Department of Homeland Security, and industry. Dr. Ntaimo is a member of INFORMS and IISE. He served as Vice Chair for the INFORMS Optimization Society from 2008-2010 and is now Vice President for the INFORMS Minority Issues Forum. 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This talk reviews recent results, opportunities and challenges in this area, focusing on strongly interdisciplinary research where humans are inextricably \u0026quot;in the loop.\u0026quot; Examples are drawn from the Infrastructure Management and Extreme Events (IMEE) program, as well as from recently-released solicitation in Critical Resilient Infrastructure Systems and Processes (CRISP) and Smart and Connected Communities (S\u0026amp;CC). The talk will include ample opportunity for discussion.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDavid Mendonca currently directs the IMEE program at NSF and participates in the administration of a number of others. While at NSF, he is on leave from the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where he is an Associate Professor. 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