Operations Research Seminar Schedule

Winter 2008

All seminars are held on Thursdays at 15:00-16:00 in GL-115; exceptions are marked by an asterisk.

Next Quarter

Date	Speaker	Title and Abstract	Remark
1/7*	James R. Wilson Professor North Carolina State University	Responsible Authorship and Peer Review	Monday 12:00-13:00 GL-122
1/10	No Seminar
1/17	Alan Washburn Distinguished Professor Naval Postgraduate School	The Battle of the Atlantic and IED Warfare in Iraq: Is There an Analogy?	GL-118*
1/22*	Hong Wan Assistant Professor Purdue University	Stochastic Trust Region Gradient Method (STRONG): A Design-of-Experiment-Based Simulation Optimization Framework	Tuesday 15:00-16:00 GL-115
1/24	Douglas Burton CDR, Navy Naval Postgraduate School	A Tour of Duty in Al Anbar Province, Western Iraq: One Navy Helicopter Pilot’s Perspective
1/31	Paul Kvam Professor Georgia Tech	Length Bias in the Measurements of Carbon Nanotubes
2/7	J. George Shanthikumar Professor UC Berkeley	Model Uncertainty in Operations Management
2/14	Neil Jenkins Research Analyst Center for Naval Analyses	Modeling Fleet Forward Presence Using the Fleet Response Plan and the Latest PERSTEMPO Rules
2/21	Douglas Burton CDR, Navy Naval Postgraduate School	Operational and Tactical Analysis in Al Anbar Province, Western Iraq
2/28	Douglas Burton CDR, Navy Naval Postgraduate School	Analysts on the Battlefield, Iraq
3/6	Roberto Szechtman Assistant Professor Naval Postgraduate School	Why It Is Hard to Defeat Insurgencies: The Effect of Intelligence in Counterinsurgency Operations—a Best Case Scenario
3/10*	Brad Pippin LTC, Army TRAC Fort Leavenworth	Operation Iraqi Freedom: Analytical Support to Campaign Assessment	Monday 15:00-16:00 GL-118
3/13	No Seminar		MORS Thesis Competition
3/20	Daniel Solow Professor Case Western Reserve University	Factors That Affect the Optimal Amount of Central Control in Complex Systems
3/27	No Seminar		Final Exam

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