Address
University of Roma 'La Sapienza'
Department of Computer Science and Systems
Via Salaria 113
00198 Roma
Italy
leon@dis.uniroma1.it
http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~leon

Lectures
Scheduling to minimize total flow time (Wednesday 09.00 - 09.45)
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Non-clairvoyant scheduling (Wednesday 15.45 - 16.30)
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Short Bio
Stefano Leonardi got his PhD in 1996 at the University of Rome ''La Sapienza'' with Prof. Giorgio Ausiello and he was a post-doc at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI, Berkeley) and Max-Planck-Institute für Informatik (Saarbruecken, Germany).
His main research topic are: on-line and approximation algorithms for scheduling and routing problems. He served in the Program Committee of Several International Conferences on Algorithms and Theory of Computing (Esa, Approx, Icalp, Soda, Spaa.).
 
 

Address
Argonne National Laboratory
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
9700 S. Cass Avenue
Argonne, IL 60439, USA
leyffer@mcs.anl.gov
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~leyffer

Lectures
Modelling with complementarity constraints (Tuesday 11.00 - 11.45)
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Solving optimization problems with complementarity constraints (Wednesday 10.00 - 10.45)
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Short Bio
Sven Leyffer received his PhD from the University of Dundee in 1994. He is interested in the development of reliable methods for solving large-scale nonlinear optimization problems and in the implementation and analysis of filter type algorithms. This forms the basis of his research in which he extends nonlinear optimization methodologies to emerging areas such as mixed-integer nonlinear optimization and optimization problems with complementarity constraints.
He is currently on the editorial board of SIAM Journal of Optimization and Computational Management Science and he is also a member of the editorial board of MINLP World and MPEC World, at www.gamsworld.org.
 
 

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Rice University
Faculty of Economics
6100 Main Street
Houston, Texas 77005, USA
moulin@rice.edu
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~econ/faculty/Pages/Moulin.htm

Lectures
Dividing a commodity according to claims: markovian, consistent and strategyproof methods (Tuesday 15.15 - 16.00)
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Cost and benifit sharing: incentives and axiomatics (Wednesday 11.15 - 12.00)
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Short Bio
Hervé Moulin is George A. Peterkin Professor of Economic Theory at Rice University. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Paris in 1975. He has written 68 articles, 5 books (including a widely-cited text in game theory), 15 chapters in collective volumes, in addition to 15 publications in French at the beginning of his career. He has been a Fellow of the Econometric Society since 1983, and is the past President of the Society for Social Choice and Welfare. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the interdisciplinary journal Mathematical Social Sciences, and has served, or is currently serving, as an associate editor of five other journals. Moulin’s research spans the fields of cooperative and non-cooperative game theory, social choice and voting theory, and fair division. He currently focuses on the design of microeconomic mechanisms of resource allocation, in particular at the interface between their properties of efficiency, equity and incentive-compatibility.
 
 

Address
Georgia Institute of Technology
Groseclose 0205, Room 411
Atlanta, GA 30332-0502, USA
mwps@isye.edu
http://www.isye.gatech.edu/~mwps

Lectures
Decision support for vendor managed inventory replenishment (Tuesday 12.00 - 12.45)
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Decision support for consumer direct grocery initiatives (Wednesday 16.45 - 17.30)
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Short Bio
Martin Savelsbergh received his Ph.D. in 1988 from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. His research focuses on computational logistics and computational integer programming. His current research in computational logistics includes the investigation of inventory routing problems, real-time routing problems, fleet size and mix planning. Current research in computational integer programming includes the investigation and development of sequence independent lifting techniques, primal heuristics, and parallel integer optimizers.
He is the developer of both CAR (Computer Aided Routing) and MINTO (Mixed INTeger Optimizer), an environment for the solution of mixed integer programming models. He has published more than 40 papers and he is on the editorial board of Operations Research.
 
 

Address
Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research
Columbia University
S.W. Mudd Building
500 West 120th Street
New York, NY 10027, USA
ks20@columbia.edu
http://www.ieor.columbia.edu/~sigman

Lectures
Derivative free optimization: constrained and unconstrained approaches (Tuesday 16.15 - 17.00)
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Stochastic networks in the presence of heavy tails: details, results, conjectures (Wednesday 12.15 - 13.00)
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Short Bio
Karl Sigman is Full Professor at the Columbia University and Director of MS Program in Financial Engineering. He received his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research in 1986 from the University of  California at Berkeley.
His research topics include: Stochastic modeling of queues, stochastic networks, regenerative processes, stability theory, heavy-tailed distributions,insurance risk processes, USA Presidential Election modeling. He has awarded the National Science Foundation  Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1998 and the Distinguished Faculty Teaching Award of the Columbia University in 2002.
He is associated editor of the journals Operations Research, Queueing Systems: Theory and Applications, Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences, Journal of Applied Mathematics and Stochastic Analysis and Operations Research Letters. He is author of the book: Stationary Marked Point Processes: An Intuitive Approach, Chapman and Hall, New York (1995). He is Current Chair of the Applied Probability Society of INFORMS.