The Operations Research (OR) seminar series brings together graduate students, faculty and researchers from the University of Toronto community to interact with prominent scholars in the field of OR. Seminars feature visiting scholars from around the world as well as professors and post-docs. Topics include all variants of OR theory and their applications. The OR seminar series is coordinated by Assistant Professor Merve Bodur.
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April 2023
OR Seminar with Prof. Mario Ventresca: A Novel Stochastic Antibody Landscape-based Model of Antigenic Disease Spread
Friday, April 28, 11:00am-12:00pm
Bahen Centre (BA 1240)
OR Seminar with Prof. Jonathan Helm: Delta Coverage: The Analytics Journey to Implement a Novel Nurse Deployment Solution
Friday, April 21, 11:00am-12:00pm
Galbraith Building, GB 220
March 2023
OR Seminar with Prof. Pengyi Shi: Generative Models for Hospital Census Prediction with Cumulative Difference Learning VAE
Friday, March 17, 11:00am-12:00pm
Galbraith Building, GB120
December 2021
OR Seminar with Prof. John Dickerson: Designing Efficient, Fair, & Robust Platform Markets: Case Studies in Worldwide Blood Donation and Organ Exchange
Thursday, December 2, 12:00am-1:00pm
November 2021
OR Seminar with Prof. Illya Hicks: TBD
Thursday, November 4, 12:00pm-1:00pm
October 2021
OR Seminar with Prof. Archis Ghate: Robust Markov Decision Processes with Data-Driven, Distance-Based Ambiguity Sets
Thursday, October 21, 12:00pm-1:00pm
OR Seminar with Prof. Elias Khalil: Deep Reinforcement Learning for Online Combinatorial Optimization: The Case of Bipartite Matching
Thursday, October 7, 12:00pm-1:00pm
April 2020
CANCELLED: OR Seminar: Prof. John Dickerson, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland
Friday, April 24, 12:10pm-1:00pm
TBD
CANCELLED: OR Seminar: Prof. Pengyi Shi, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University
Tuesday, April 7, 12:10pm-1:00pm
Bahen Centre, Room 1220
CANCELLED: OR Seminar with Prof. Archis Ghate
Thursday, April 2, 12:10pm-1:00pm
Bahen Centre, Room 1190
March 2020
CANCELLED: OR Seminar with Rouba Ibrahim: A General Framework to Compare Announcement Accuracy: Static vs LES-based Announcement
Wednesday, March 18, 1:10pm-2:00pm
Mining Building, Room 128
February 2020
OR Seminar with Adam Diamant: Dynamic Multistage Scheduling for Patient-Centered Care Plans
Thursday, February 13, 12:10pm-1:00pm
Bahen Centre, Room 1190
January 2020
OR Seminar: Derivative-Free Nonconvex Stochastic Optimization with Application to an Energy Storage Problem with Saeed Ghadimi
Thursday, January 23, 12:10pm-1:00pm
Bahen Centre, Room 1220
December 2019
OR Seminar: Smart "Predict, then Optimize" with Adam Elmachtoub, Columbia University
Thursday, December 5, 12:10pm-1:00pm
Bahen Centre, Room 1200
November 2019
OR Seminar: Placement Optimization in Refugee Resettlement with Andrew C. Trapp
Wednesday, November 27, 3:10pm-4:00pm
Mechanical Engineering Building, MC102
OR Seminar: Disjunctive Cuts Through the V-Polyhedral Lens with Aleksandr M. Kazachkov
Thursday, November 21, 12:10pm-1:00pm
Bahen Centre, Room 1130
October 2019
OR Seminar: New results and applications for some old search problems with Spyros Angelopoulos
Thursday, October 24, 12:10pm-1:00pm
Bahen Centre, Room 1130
OR Seminar: Adaptive design of personalized dose-finding clinical trials with Amin Khademi
Thursday, October 10, 12:10pm-1:00pm
Bahen Centre, Room 1130
September 2019
OR Seminar: Algorithmic, combinatorial, and geometric aspects of linear optimization with Antoine Deza
Friday, September 27, 1:10pm-2:00pm
Bahen Centre, Room 1220
August 2019
OR Seminar: Gustavo Angulo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile | Matrices with lexicographically-ordered rows
Tuesday, August 20, 12:00pm-1:00pm
Bahen Centre, Room 1240
OR Seminar: Haoxiang Yang, Center for Nonlinear Studies | Decomposing Optimization Problems Under Stochastic Disruptions
Tuesday, August 13, 12:00pm-1:00pm
Bahen Centre, Room 1220
June 2019
OR Seminar: Auyon Siddiq, UCLA | Learning Hidden Action Principal-Agent Models
Thursday, June 20, 12:00pm-1:00pm
Room 128, Mining Building
April 2019
OR Seminar: Taner Bilgiç, Boğaziçi University | Free Shipping and its Direct Causal Effect on Online Sales
Monday, April 29, 12:00pm-1:00pm
Bahen Centre, Room 1240
OR Seminar: Turgay Ayer, Georgia Institute of Technology | An Analytics Approach to Prioritizing Access to Hepatitis C Treatment in U.S. Prisons
Monday, April 8, 12:00pm-1:00pm
Mining Building Room 128
OR Seminar: David Morton, Northwestern University | Models and Algorithms for Multi-stage Stochastic Programming
Thursday, April 4, 12:00pm-1:00pm
Bahen Centre, Room 1170
March 2019
OR Seminar: Il-Chul Moon, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology | Computational Social Science with Latent Information
Wednesday, March 20, 1:00pm-2:00pm
MC331
November 2018
OR Seminar Series: Jamol Pender, Cornell University
Thursday, November 29, 12:00pm-1:00pm
Mining Building Room 128
OR Seminar Series: Warren Powell - Princeton University | Stochastic Modeling and Optimization for Offshore Wind Integration
Friday, November 16, 11:00am-12:00pm
MS2172
OR Seminar Series: Yossi Luzon, Centre of Healthcare Engineering, MIE | Data-Driven Appointment Book Design via Mathematical Programming
Thursday, November 1, 12:00pm-1:00pm
MB 128
October 2018
OR Seminar Series: Andre Cire, University of Toronto Scarborough | Network-based Approximate Linear Programming
Thursday, October 18, 12:00pm-1:00pm
MB 128
