2006 Seminars

2007-08-14

Industry-Propelled Evolution of Teaching and Research in Supply Chain Management
Speaker: Prof. Hau L. Lee
Graduate School of Business
Stanford University

2007-08-08

Inventory Rationing for Multiple Class Demand under Continuous Review
Speaker: Prof. Qing Ding
Lee Kong Chian School of Business
Singapore Management University

2007-07-27

Accuracy Certificates for Computational Problems with Convex Structures
Speaker: Prof. Uriel G. Rothblum
Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management
Technion, Haifa, Israel

2007-07-26

Cost Allocation for Joint Replenishment Models
Speaker: Dr. Jiawei Zhang
Stern School of Business
New York University

2007-07-24

Policy Making and Reform of Chinese Economic Development
Speaker: Prof. Kunrong Shen
Nanjing University
China

2007-07-09

Convergence on Communication and Broadcasting Systems
Speaker: Prof. Hong-Goo Kang
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Yonsei University

2007-07-06

Cardinality Constraints for XML Data Trees: Algorithms and Complexity
Speaker: Prof. Sven Hartmann
Department of Information Systems
Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand

2007-06-01

Balancing Terrorism and Natural Disasters --- Defensive Strategy with Endogenous Attacker Effort
Speaker: Jun Zhuang
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison

2007-05-25

Quickest Detection Problems
Speaker: Prof. Albert Shiryayev
Steklov Mathematical Institute
Russian Academy of Sciences
Moscow, Russia

2007-05-18

Modeling the Use of Public Transport in Evacuations
Speaker: Prof. Mark Hickman
Department of Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
The University of Arizona

2007-05-17

A Model for Reversible Investment Capacity Expansion
Speaker: Prof. Mihail Zervos
Department of Mathematics
London School of Economics

2007-05-09

Volatility Smile and the Informational Content of Implied Volatility
Speaker: Dr. GuanJun Wang
Whitman School of Management
Syracuse University

2007-05-08

Chaotic Behavior in Optimization
Speaker: Prof. Kees Roos
Technical University Delft
The Netherlands

2007-04-27

Estimating Quantile Sensitivities
Speaker: Prof. Jeff Hong
Industrial Engineering and Logistics Management
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

2007-04-20

Intermediation and Value Creation in an Incomplete Market: Implications for Securitization
Speaker: Prof. Sridhar Seshadri
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
New York University

2007-04-13

Optimal Spectrum Management: Complexity, Duality and Approximation
Speaker: Prof. Shuzhong Zhang
Department of Systems Engineering & Engineering Management
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
(Joint work with Zhi-Quan Luo)

2007-03-30

Duality of Convex Objects
Speaker: Prof. Jan Brinkhuis
Econometric Institute
Erasmus University Rotterdam

2007-03-23

Almost Surely Exponential Stability of Numerical Methods for SDEs
Speaker: Prof. Xuerong Mao
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow

2007-03-16

Mean-Variance Analysis for the Supply Chain Sales Rebate Contract
Speaker: Dr. Chun-Hung Chiu
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2007-03-09

Recent Developments in Long Memory Continuous-Time Series Analysis
Speaker: Dr. Tina Marquardt
Munich University of Technology

2007-03-02

Optimal Road User Charging Scheme Design
Speaker: Prof. Agachai Sumalee
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

2007-02-13

Theory of Semidefinite Programming for Euclidean Distance Geometry Problems
Speaker: Mr. Anthony Man-Cho So
Stanford University

2007-02-09

Stochastics in Optimization Models - Will Sensitivity Analysis Do?
Speaker: Prof. Stein W. Wallace
Molde University College

2007-02-05

Effective Contracts in Supply Chains
Speaker: Mr. Stephen Shum
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2007-01-26

Distributed Signal Processing in a Bandwidth Constrained Sensor Network
Speaker: Prof. Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo
University of Minnesota

2007-01-10

Pricing Participating Products Under a Generalized Jump-Diffusion
with a Markov-switching Compensator
Speaker: Prof. Ken Tak-kuen Siu
Department of Actuarial Maths & Statistics
Heriot-Watt University, UK

2007-01-08

Multiple-Item Dynamic Pricing under a Common Pricing Constraint
Speaker: Ms. Binbin Liu
University of Toronto

2006-12-20

Privacy-Preserving Collaborative Data Mining
Speaker: Dr. Justin Zhan
Carnegie Mellon University

2006-12-15

Life, Knowledge and Information (PDF)
Speaker: Prof. Yanda Li, Fellow, National Academy of Science
Department of Automation
Tsinghua University

2006-12-15

Decentralized Demand Management in Logistics Systems and Supply Chains
Speaker: Ms. Ozgun Caliskan Demirag
H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

2006-12-15

Graph-Theoretic Methods for Web Document Categorization
Speaker: Dr. Mark Last
Department of Information Systems Engineering
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Beer-Sheva, Israel

2006-12-14

Continuous-time Mean-Variance Portfolio Selection
Speaker: Dr. Li Xun
Department of Mathmatics
National University of Singapore

2006-12-13

Duality Approach to Inventory Centralization Games
Speaker: Prof. Xin Chen
Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2006-11-27

Unsupervised discriminative training
Speaker: Dr. Lan Wang
Machine Intelligence Laboratory
Cambridge University Engineering Department(CUED)

2006-11-22

Classification without Providing Negative Examples
Speaker: Dr. Gabriel Pui Cheong Fung
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
The Chinese University of Hong Kong

2006-11-15

RFID: How it works, what it's for & some examples
Speaker: Prof. Jerry Banks
School of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology

2006-11-09

Blog Mining: Applying Web Mining Techniques to Blogs
Speaker: Prof. Michael Chau
School of Business
University of Hong Kong

2006-11-01

Nash Certainty Equivalence in Large Population Stochastic Dynamic Games: Connections with the Physics of Interacting Particle Systems
Speaker: Prof. Peter E. Caines
Department of ECE and Centre for Intelligent Machines
McGill University, Montreal

Minyi Huang, Research Fellow
Deparmtment of Information Engineering
School of Information Sciences and Engineering
The Australian National University

2006-10-25

A Revenue Optimization Problem for Perishable Products Tradable in a Competitive Market
Speaker: Prof. Youyi Feng
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
CUHK

2006-10-18

Malliavin Greeks without Malliavin Calculus
Speaker: Prof. Nan Chen
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
CUHK

2006-10-11

Settling the Complexity of Bimatrix Game Nash Equilibrium
Speaker: Prof. Xiaotie Deng
Department of Computer Science
City University of Hong Kong

2006-10-04

Hybrid commodities, equities, credit and rate derivatives, the challenges in product and model development from a practitioner's view point
Speaker: Chak Wong, Executive Director, UBS

2006-9-27

Path Relinking for the Vehicle Routing Problem
Speaker: Dr. Sin-Cheung Ho
Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
the Chinese University of Hong Kong

2006-9-19

Generalized convexity and separation theorems (Abstract)
Speaker: Prof. Kazimierz Nikodem
Department of Mathematics
University of Bielsko-Biala

On embedding of diffeomorphisms on Banach space in regular iteration semigroup (Abstract)
Speaker: Prof. Marek Cezary Zdun
Full Professor and Dean of Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Engineering
Pedagogical University

2006-9-6

Theoretical and Practical Findings on Mass Customization Manufacturing Systems
Speaker: Dr. Janet Efstathiou
Reader in Engineering Science
Department of Engineering Science
University of Oxford

2006-9-1

The Brain, the Universe, and Random Processes on Manifolds
Speaker: Prof. Robert J. Adler
Technion, Israel

2006-8-25

Part Based Object Retrieval in Cluttered Environment
Speaker: Maylor K.H. Leung, Associate Professor
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

2006-8-23

Duality Bound Methods in Global Optimization
Speaker: Nguyen Van Thoai, Professor
Department of Mathematics, University of Trier,
D-54286 Trier, Germany