Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Florida

EIN 6918: Graduate Seminar
Fall 2008

LIT 109
Thursday, Period 9: 4:05 – 4:55 PM

Schedule of Speakers
Date	Speaker	Topic (Click Title for Abstract)
08/28/08	Dr. Panos Pardalos	From Local to Global in Numerical Optimization
09/04/08	Dr. Stanislav Uryasev	Multi-Sensor Scheduling for Multi-Site Surveillance
09/11/08	No Seminar	No Seminar
09/18/08	Dr. Vladimir Bugera	Credit Card Industry Today: Impact of Slowing Economy on Consumer Behavior
09/25/08	No Seminar	No Seminar
10/02/08	Dr. Ravindra K. Ahuja	Optimal Routing of Locomotives to Shops for Quarterly Maintenances
10/09/08	Dr. Amar Sapra	Inventory Renewal and Demand Management for a Perishable Product: Economies of Scale and Age-Dependent Demand
10/16/08	No Seminar	No Seminar
10/23/08	Dr. J. Cole Smith	New Product Introduction Against a Predator: A Bilevel Mixed-Integer Programming Approach
10/30/08	Dr. Toi Lawphongpanish	Exact and Approximate Pareto-Improving Congestion Tolls
11/06/08	Dr. Joseph Geunes	Stochastic Customer Demand Assignment in a Network of Facilities
11/13/08	Dr. Farid AitSahlia	American Option Pricing Under Stochastic Volatility: An Efficient Numerical Technique
11/20/08	Dr. Timothy Middelkoop	The Impact of Multi-Core Computing on Algorithm Design and Implementation
11/27/08	No Seminar	No Seminar (Thanksgiving Break)
12/04/08	Dr. Elif Akcali	Optimizing Price and Refund for a Given Product Assortment