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Welcome to the CMU/Pitt Applied Decision Modeling Seminar Series home page! This page has information on the purpose of the lecture series, contacts for more information about the series, and details on current and planned speakers.
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This seminar series represents a joint collaboration between the H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Pittsburgh. The series will emphasize modeling and applications within the broad tradition of operations research/management science, though algorithmic details are welcome. This seminar is intended to promote open, creative and challenging interchanges between interested persons from a variety of disciplines having in common interests in: mathematical modeling of complex processes, and policy implications of the solutions to these models. Presenters and attendees may be researchers, practitioners or students, and the topics of seminars may be working papers, reports or manuscripts submitted for publication by scholarly journals. The series will feature speakers from within the Pittsburgh region and beyond.
Application areas for this series include:
Methodology tools for analysis of problems within these application areas include:
The seminar series is open to talks in areas other than the ones listed above as well. We plan to have three seminars in Fall 2003, and three in Spring 2004. The seminars will take place on Thursdays from 3:30-5:00 PM., alternating between the Heinz School/CMU and the Department of Industrial Engineering/Pitt.
These seminar listings also appear in the
Pittsburgh Social Sciences Tracker, a web page that allows users to
choose slots for on-campus appointment with speakers.
This seminar series is managed by:
Please feel free to contact either of us for more information about this series, and especially if:
This seminar series is on hiatus for the 2004 - 2005 academic year. Seminars for the previous year are listed below:
Spring 2004:
February 26, 2004: Marv Mandell, University
of Maryland, Baltimore County
Director, Policy Sciences Graduate Program
"Social
Experimentation and Policy Decisionmaking"
2503
Hamburg Hall, Carnegie Mellon University, 3:30 - 5 PM
Seminar
flyer
Seminar
paper (available on request from Prof. Johnson)
March 18, 2004: Luis
Vargas, University of Pittsburgh, Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business
"Scheduling
Surgical Services: From Bin-Packing to Constraint Programming"
175
Benedum Hall (Kresge Room, 11th floor), University of Pittsburgh, 3:30
- 4:30 PM
Seminar
flyer
April 8,
2004:
Michael Fry, University of Cincinnati, College of Business
Department of Quantitative Analysis and Operations
Management
"Firefighter Staffing with Overtime, Attrition, and Random
Absenteeism"
175 Benedum Hall (Kresge Room, 11th floor), University of Pittsburgh, 3:30 - 4:30
PM
Seminar flyer
Seminar
paper (available on request from Prof. Johnson)
Fall 2003:
September 25, 2003: Thomas Saaty, University of Pittsburgh,
Katz School of Business
"Decision Making in Complex Environments: The Analytic Hierarchy and Analytic
Network Processes"
1175 Benedum Hall (Kresge Room, 11th floor), University of Pittsburgh, 3:30 - 5
PM
Seminar flyer
Seminar paper 1 ("The Decision by the US Congress on China's Trade Status:
A Multicriteria Analysis",
available on request from Prof. Johnson)
Seminar paper 2 (Reprinted by permission, Saaty, T., "How to Make a
Decision: The Analytic Hierarchy
Process", Interfaces 24(6): 19 - 43, 1994. Copyright 1994, the Institute for
Operations Research
and the Management Sciences, 901 Elkridge Landing Road, Suite 400, Linthicum,
MD 21090 USA,
available on request from Prof. Johnson)
October 16, 2003: Stephanie Snyder, United States Department
of Agriculture Forest Service, North Central Research Station, St. Paul, MN
"Making Habitat Preservation Decisions in the Face of Uncertainty"
2503 Hamburg Hall, Carnegie Mellon University, 3:30 - 5 PM.
Seminar flyer
November 13, 2003: Arnold Barnett, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Sloan School of Management
"Airline Security: Where Are We?"
2503 Hamburg Hall, Carnegie Mellon University, 3:30 - 5 PM.
Seminar flyer
Seminar paper (available on request from Prof. Johnson)
Professional Societies:
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management
Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society
Institute for Industrial Engineering
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
Other Local Academic Departments:
Carnegie Mellon University:
Department of Engineering and Public Policy
University of Pittsburgh:
Department of Information Sciences and Telecommunications
Last modified: August 22, 2003
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