Colloquium

UW-ISyE looks forward to welcoming Ann Bisantz, a SUNY Distinguished Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University at Buffalo, where she also serves as Vice Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Education. US institutions of higher education are large, complex systems affected by both internal and external factors, answering to multiple stakeholders with often conflicting...

UW-ISyE looks forward to welcoming Itai Gurvich from Northwestern University. Dynamic programming is a canonical tool for solving complex sequential decision problems in operations. Yet, because it suffers from the curse of dimensionality, one often must rely on approximations. Among these, deterministic—or “fluid”—approximations have long served as tractable benchmarks that reveal key structural properties of optimal or near-optimal policies in...

UW-ISyE looks forward to welcoming Pinar Keskinocak from Georgia Tech.  Infectious diseases continue to impact millions of people every year around the world, despite many advances in medicine and technology. Pharmaceutical interventions such as testing, vaccines, or treatment, may not be available, and when they are, resources for their deployment are often very limited. Other...