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The MS Group seminar series has been replaced by the Operations Research Seminar Series, hosted by the Department of Mathematics.
Past MSG seminars are listed below, most recent first.
Approximation algorithms of offline risk-averse combinatorial optimization
Wednesday 2 July 2014
Speaker: Evdokia Nikolova, University of Texas in Austin
Succession of hide-seek and pursuit-evasion at heterogeneous locations
Wednesday 18 June 2014
Speaker: Shmuel Gal, University of Haifa
Project design with limited commitment and teams
Wednesday 11 June 2014
Speaker: Christopher S. Tang, UCLA Anderson School
Star-search problems: new measures, algorithms and techniques
Wednesday 4 June 2014
Speaker: Spyros Angelopoulos, University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
The search value of a set
Tuesday 27 May 2014
Speaker: Robbert Fokkink, TU Delft
Stronger multi-commodity flow formulations for the capacitated vehicle routing problem
Wednesday 21 May 2014
Speaker: Adam Letchford, Lancaster University
The complexity of finite-valued CSPs
Wednesday 30 April 2014
Speaker: Stanislav Živný, University of Oxford
Improved integrality gap upper bounds for TSP with distances one and two
Wednesday 19 March 2014
Speaker: Matthias Mnich, TU Darmstadt
Expanding search on networks
Wednesday 12 March 2014
Speaker: Steven Alpern, Warwick Business School
Adjustable robust optimization with decision rules based on inexact revealed data
Wednesday 5 March 2014
Speaker: Frans de Ruiter, LSE
VCG auction mechanism cost expectations and variances
Wednesday 26 February 2014
Speaker: Greg Sorkin, LSE
Is cash king? A field intervention on mental accounting in a salesforce
Wednesday 12 February 2014
Speaker: Om Narasimhan, LSE
Multi-budgeted matchings via the Ham Sandwich Theorem
Wednesday 5 February 2014
Speaker: Rico Zenklusen, ETH Zurich
Recursive inspection games
Wednesday 29 January 2014
Speaker: Bernhard von Stengel, LSE
Half-integrality, LP-branching and FPT algorithms
Wednesday 22 January 2014
Speaker: Magnus Wahlström, Royal Holloway, University of London
Split cutting planes for mixed-integer programs and stochastic programming problems
Wednesday 20 November 2013
Speaker: Sanjeeb Dash, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York
A more general Pandora's Rule
Wednesday 13 November 2013
Speaker: Professor Richard Weber, University of Cambridge
Optimal search for a small (or well hidden) object
Wednesday 23 October 2013
Speaker: Dr Thomas Lidbetter, LSE
Performance-based regularisation in mean-CVaR portfolio optimization
Wednesday 16 October 2013
Speaker: Professor Gah-Yi Vahn, London Business School
Constrained assortment optimization for the Nested Logit Model
Wednesday 12 December 2012
Speaker: Professor Guillermo Gallego, Columbia University
Improving the public distribution of essential medicines in Sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Zambia
Wednesday 5 December 2012
Speaker: Dr Jérémie Gallien, London School of Business
Concave generalised flows with applications to market equilibria
Wednesday 21 November 2012
Speaker: Dr László Végh, LSE
Practical portfolio optimization
Wednesday 7 November 2012
Speaker: Professor Victor DeMiguel, London School of Business
In-house Globalization: The Role of Globally Distributed Design and Product Architecture on Product Development Performance
Wednesday 30 November 2011
Speaker: Dr Bilil Gokpinar, University College London
Speed Quality Trade-offs in a Dynamic Model
Wednesday 23 November 2011
Speaker: Dr Vasiliki Kostami, London Business School
Competitive Product Positioning through Technological Differentiation
Wednesday 2 November 2011
Speaker: Dr Nektarios Oraiopoulos, University of Cambridge
Warranty Costs Sharing in a Supply Chain
Wednesday 26 October 2011
Speaker: Professor Fangruo Chen, Columbia Business School
Stability in Large Matching Markets with Complementarities
Wednesday 19 October 2011
Speaker: Dr Itai Ashlagi, MIT Sloan School of Management
Ranking Games and Gambling: When to Quit When You're Ahead
Wednesday 5 October 2011
Speaker: Professor Eddie Anderson, University of Sydney Business School
Analytical Results on the PAUSE Auction Procedure
Wednesday 9 March 2011
Speaker: Dr Selin Damla Ahipasaoglu, LSE
Distinguished Speakers in Management Science Lecture: Partition Problems - Optimality and Clustering
Wednesday 23 February 2011
Speaker: Professor Uriel Rothblum, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
On Assessing Poverty, Social Welfare and Inequality with Ordinal Multidimensional Data
Wednesday 2 February 2011
Speaker: Professor Lars Peter Østerdal, University of Copenhagen
Rationalising Concavifiable Preferences
Wednesday 26 January 2011
Speaker: Dr Nikolaos Argyris, LSE
Multivalued Decision Diagrams in Optimization
Wednesday 8 December 2010
Speaker: Professor John Hooker, Carnegie Mellon University
A New Bound for the Cops and Robbers Problem
Wednesday 1 December 2010
Speaker: Professor Alex Scott, University of Oxford
Forza Auctions: A Study of an Artificial Economy
Wednesday 24th November 2010
Speaker: Peter Key, Microsoft Research Cambridge
First Come First Served: Infinite Matching with Applications to Queues with Multi-type Customers and Multi-type Servers
Wednesday 27 October 2010
Speaker: Professor Gideon Weiss, University of Haifa
Securing the Containerized Supply Chain
Wednesday 20 October 2010
Speaker: Dr Nitin Bakshi, London Business School