Experts in Operations Research and Management Featured in UMass Amherst Lecture Series

Feb. 2, 2009

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Daniel J. Fitzgibbons 413/545-0444

AMHERST, Mass. – Traffic management, healthcare operations and the potential of green economic growth are among the topics to be covered in the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Spring Speaker Series at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Sponsored by the UMass Amherst student chapter of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) in the Isenberg School of Management, the series begins Feb. 20.

All talks take place on scheduled Fridays at 11 a.m. in 112 Isenberg School of Management and are open to the public.

The six speakers are:

• Ellis Johnson, the Coca-Cola Chaired Professor of the school of industrial and systems engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, will discuss “Major Airline Challenges and Operations Research” (Feb. 20).

• Hari Balasubramanian, assistant professor of mechanical and industrial engineering at UMass Amherst, will speak on “Healthcare Operations Research: Examples from the Mayo Clinic” (March 6).

• June Dong of the department of management and marketing at the school of business at SUNY Oswego, will lecture on “Supply Chain Disruptions” (March 27).

• Alex Pentland, the Toshiba Professor of Media Arts & Science at MIT, will speak on “Honest Signals and Reality Mining” (April 3).

• Professor Hillel Bar-Gera of the department of industrial engineering and management of Ben-Gurion University in Israel, who is visiting Purdue University this semester, will speak on “Traffic Assignment by Paired Alternative Segments (TAPAS)” (April 24).

• Robert Pollin, professor of economics and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at UMass Amherst, will discuss “How Green Growth Can Revive the Economy” (May 8).

Support for the speaker series is provided by the Isenberg School of Management and its department of finance and operations management, the John F. Smith Memorial Fund and INFORMS. Anna Nagurney, the John F. Smith Memorial Professor at the Isenberg School of Management, serves as faculty advisor to the speaker series.

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