Address
INRIA Sophia-Antipolis &
Department of Informatics,
University of Montpellier II
161 Rue ADA
F-34392 Montpellier
France
ajm@lirmm.fr
http://www.lirmm.fr/~ajm
Lectures
On overloaded queues (Tuesday 11.15 - 12.00)
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Markov-modulated arrival processes in queueing theory (Wednesday 11.15 - 12.00)
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Short Bio
Alain Jean-Marie received his PhD degree from the University of Paris XI at Orsay in 1987. Since then, he has been a member of the Performance Evaluation group at INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France. From 1999 to 2003, he was professor of Informatics at the University of Montpellier. His research interests include stochastic modeling and performance evaluation for real-time systems and communication networks as well as control theory and game theory. He is co-author of a monograph on Conjectural Variations Equilibria. He is a member of the editorial board of RAIRO/Operations Research.
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MARK SQUILLANTE
Address
Mathematical Sciences Department
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
P.O. Box 704
Yorktown Heights
NY 10598-0704
USA
mss@us.ibm.com
http://www.research.ibm.com/people/m/mss/
Parallel-server systems with dynamic affinity scheduling and load balancing (Tuesday 16.15 - 17.00)
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Decentralized optimization, stochastic-process limits, and system dynamics (Wednesday 12.15 - 13.00)
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Short Bio
Mark S. Squillante received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, in 1990. He has been a Research Staff Member at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, since 1990, where he currently is a member of the Mathematical Sciences Department. He has been an adjunct faculty member of the Department of Computer Science at Columbia University, New York, NY, from 1991 through 1996, and a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, from 1982 to 1985. His research interests concern the mathematical analysis, modeling and optimization of the design and control of stochastic systems, with applications in the areas of computer, business, call center, finance, manufacturing and communication systems and services. He is a Fellow of IEEE, and a member of ACM, AMS, IFIP W.G. 7.3, INFORMS and SIAM. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Operations Research and Performance Evaluation.
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RAKESH VOHRA
Address
MEDS Department
J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management
Northwestern University
2001 Sheridan Road
Evanston IL 60208-5428
r-vohra@kellogg.northwestern.edu
http://www.kellogg.nwu.edu/faculty/vohra/htm/vohra.htm
Linear inequalities and mechanism design 1 (Tuesday 12.15 - 13.00)
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Linear inequalities and mechanism design 2 (Wednesday 10.00 - 10.45)
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Short Bio
Rakesh Vohra received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of
Maryland in 1985. From 1985 to 1998 he was on the faculty of the Fisher
School of Business of the Ohio State University. Since 1998 he has been
Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences at the
Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University. His
research interests are in auction and game theory.
He is associate editor of the journals Management Science, Networks and
the International Journal of Game Theory.
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DAVID YAO
Address
IEOR Department
Columbia University
302 Mudd building, MC 4704
500 W120 St, New York, NY 10027
USA
yao@columbia.edu
http://www.ieor.columbia.edu/~yao/
Stochastic knapsacks and dynamic pricing (Tuesday 17.15 - 18.00)
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Stochastic networks with concurrent resource occupancy (Wednesday 16.15 - 17.00)
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A stochastic control approach to financial tracking problems (Thursday 10.10 - 10.50)
Short Bio
David Yao received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Toronto in 1983, and started his academic career at Columbia University, where he became a full professor in 1988. In addition, he is the founding and current director of the Center for the Advancement of E-Commerce Technologies (AECT) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has done extensive research and consulting work in stochastic networks, semiconductor manufacturing, and supply chain management. He is author/co-author of over 160 refereed publications, three books and five edited volumes. He is a recipient of numerous honors and awards, an IEEE Fellow, and a holder of four U.S. patents in manufacturing operations and supply-chain logistics. He is the Stochastic Models Area Editor of Operations Research, and Editor-in-Chief of Foundations and Trends in Stochastic Systems.
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YINYU YE
Address
Terman Engineering Center 316
Department of Management Science and Engineering
School of Engineering
Stanford University
USA
yinyu-ye@stanford.edu
http://www.stanford.edu/~yyye
Theory and computation of semidefinite programming for sensor network localization and other distance geometry problems (Wednesday 09.00 - 09.45)
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A strongly polynomial-time algorithm for solving the Markov decision problem with fixed discount factor (Wednesday 17.15 - 18.00)
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Short Bio
Yinyu Ye is Professor of Management Science and Engineering and,
by courtesy, Electrical Engineering and the Director of the MS&E
Industrial Affiliates
Program at Stanford's School of Engineering. He holds a Ph.D. in
Engineering Economic
Systems and Operations Research from Stanford University. Prior to
coming to Stanford in 2002,
Ye served for fourteen years in the Management Science Department of
the University of Iowa
as the Henry Tippie Research Professor. He has been or was on the
editorial board of
Management Science, Operations Research, Mathematics of Operations
Research,
SIAM J Optimization; and the area editor of Optimization &
Engineering. He was the recipient
numerous international and national awards, fellowships and research
grants, a semi-plenary speaker
and member of the International Advisory Committee of the International
Symposium on
Mathematical Programming, the Section Officer (Linear Programming) of
the Institute
for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, the co-organizer
of the 1999 DIMACS Princeton
workshop on discrete optimization, and the Distinguished Speaker in
High Performance Computation
for Engineered Systems of MIT. He was also selected as a highly cited
mathematical researcher on
http://www.ISIhighlycited.com.
Ye teaches courses on Optimization, Network and Integer Programming,
Semidefinite Programming, etc. He has written extensively on
Interior-Point Methods, Approximation
Algorithms, Conic Optimization, and their applications. Ye is currently
working on Markov Decision Algorithm,
Computational Game Theory and Graph Localization. He has served
as a consultant to a variety of industries.
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