Department of Statistics & Operations Technology
News & Events
The department hosts visiting lecturers, who are esteemed statistics practitioners and academicians, to share their research and experiences with students.
The schedule for the 2009-2010 Visiting Lecture series will be posted soon. Please visit the Daniels Events page for additional events.
2008 Visiting Lectures
- October 24, 2008: Dr. Haibo Wang, Texas A&M International University, "Critical Infrastructure Management with Failure Front Prediction for Water Security"
- October 17, 2008: Andy Armacost, Air Force Academy, "Applying Analytics to the Operations of a University"
- October 3, 2008: Phil Beccue, Baxter Bioscience, "From Molecule to Market: Applying Decision Analysis to Improve Strategic Choices in the Biotechnology Arena"
- September 19, 2008: Gary Kochenberger, University of Colorado-Denver and Tom Obremski, University of Denver, "Computationally Attractive Nonlinear Models for Combinatorial Optimization"
- September 12, 2008: Felisa Preciado-Walters, Pennsylvania State University, "Why My Model Did Not Work: Lessons from a Latin American Journey"
- April 25, 2008: Surya Pathak, Vanderbilt University, "Complexity and Adaptivity in Supply Networks and Its Implications on Policy and Decision Making"
- April 11, 2008: Jeff Keisler, University of Massachusetts-Boston, "Value of Information in Portfolio Decision Making"
- March 7, 2008: Palaniappan Vellaisamy, Indian Institute of technology, "On Some Problems in Applied Statistics"
- February 29, 2008: Mesut Yavuz, Shenandoah University, "Fairness Considerations in Operations Management"
- February 15, 2008: Lori Houghtalen, Babson University, "Fairness Considerations in Allocation Mechanisms for Carrier Alliances"
- February 1, 2008: Robert Block, Air Force Academy, "What's an analyst (statistician) do in the Air Force?"
