Optimization, ML and AI in Operations Management September 26, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States UW-ISyE looks forward to welcoming Dr. Georgia Perakis, Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Free
Strong duals for mixed integer programs. October 3, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States UW-ISyE looks forward to welcoming Dr. Santanu Dey, Professor at H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. We develop two general-purpose strong dual formulations for... Free
Understanding Generalization of Diffusion Models: Structured Data and Memorization October 10, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States UW-ISyE looks forward to welcoming Minshuo Chen, assistant professor with the Department of Industrial Engineering & Management Sciences at Northwestern University Diffusion models achieve state-of-the-art performance in various high-dimensional data modeling tasks.... Free
Closing the Loop on Machine Learning: A Perturbation Analysis Approach to Decision-Dependent Distribution Shift November 21, 2025 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States UW-ISyE looks forward to welcoming Roy Dong Assistant Professor in the Industrial & Enterprise Systems Engineering department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As data-driven methods are deployed in real-world... Free
ISyE – Choice-based Operations At Scale: Complementarity and Dynamic Decisions January 12 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States Assortment and inventory decisions lie at the core of supply chain and retail operations. In practice, these decisions face two fundamental challenges arising from complex customer choice behavior. First, customers... Free
ISyE – Auto-Conditioned First-Order and Stochastic Optimization Methods January 15 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States First-order methods are widely used to tackle data science and machine learning problems with complex structures, such as nonconvexity, nonsmoothness, and stochasticity. However, in many real-world scenarios, the problem structure... Free
ISyE – GPU-Accelerated Linear Programming and Beyond January 21 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States The rapid progress in GPU computing has revolutionized many fields, yet its potential in mathematical programming, such as linear programming (LP), has only recently begun to be realized. This talk... Free
ISyE – From Dyads to Teams: Modeling Human Trust Dynamics and Behaviors in Human-Autonomy Interactions January 26 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States Technology is evolving rapidly, and human interaction with autonomous technologies is no longer confined to one-to-one decision-support settings. Intelligent agents are increasingly working alongside groups of people in diverse contexts... Free
ISyE – Finding the needle in the haystack: How gradient descent converges to low-dimensional solutions in over-parameterized models. January 29 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 2188 Mechanical Engineering Building 1513 University Avenue, Madison, WI, United States In contemporary machine learning, realistic models exhibit increasing nonconvexity and overwhelming overparameterization. This nonconvex nature often leads to numerous undesirable or "spurious" local solutions, while overparameterization exacerbates the risk of... Free
ISyE – Advancement of Large-Scale 3D Printing January 30 @ 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM 1163 Mechanical Engineering 1513 Engineering Dr., Madison, WI, United States Most advances for the integration of 3D printing (3DP) into production settings have focused on small-scale 3DP with manufacturing of components such as aerospace fuel nozzles, aircraft’s hydraulic components, and... Free