Spring 2021 Seminar Schedule
Friday, January 29, 2021, 1:25pm – 2:15pm, Zoom
Hamed Rahimian (Clemson University, Department of Industrial Engineering): Contextual Chance-Constrained Programming
Friday, February 12, 2021, 1:25pm – 2:15pm, Zoom
David Kaber (University of Florida, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering): Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida and a Focus on Human-Automation Interaction Research
Friday, February 26, 2021, 1:25pm – 2:15pm, Zoom
Retsef Levi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management): Food and Agriculture Supply Chain Analytics and Sensing: Managing Risks on Human Health
Friday, March 12, 2021, 1:25pm – 2:15pm, Zoom
Karina Liles (Claflin University, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science): Ms. An (Meeting Students’ Academic Needs): A Socially Adaptive Robot Tutor for Student Engagement in Math Education
Friday, March 26, 2021, 1:25pm – 2:15pm, Zoom
Rhonda Righter (University of California Berkeley, Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research): Service and Matching Systems with Compatibility Constraints
Friday, April 2, 2021, 1:25pm – 2:15pm, Zoom
Saif Benjaafar (University of Minnesota, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering): Dimensioning On-Demand Vehicle Sharing Systems
Friday, April 16, 2021, 11:15am – 12:05pm, Zoom
Benjamin Grimmer (Cornell University, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering): The Landscape of the Proximal Point Method for Nonconvex-Nonconcave Minimax Optimization
Friday, April 16, 2021, 1:25pm – 2:15pm, Zoom
Guzin Bayraksan (Ohio State University, Department of Integrated Systems Engineering): Residuals-Based Stochastic Optimization Approaches with Covariate Information
Monday, April 19, 2021, 11:15am – 12:05pm, Zoom
Mingyi Hong (University of Minnesota, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering): Towards Efficient, Versatile, and Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning Algorithms
Friday, April 23, 2021, 1:25pm – 2:15pm, Zoom
Barrett Caldwell (Purdue University, School of Industrial Engineering)
Fall 2020 Seminar Schedule
Friday, October 9, 2020, 11:15am-12:05pm, Zoom
Qi-Ming He (University of Waterloo, Department of Management Science): “Multi-layer Markov modulated fluid flow processes and Applications to Queues with Customer Abandonment “
Summer 2020 Online Seminar Schedule
Wednesday, May 20, 2020, 1:00pm-2:00pm, Zoom
Zirou Qiu (Clemson University, School of Computing): “ELRUNA: Elimination Rule-based Network Alignment“
Wednesday, May 27, 2020, 1:00pm-2:00pm, Zoom
Saeid Delshad (Clemson University, Department of Industrial Engineering): “Adaptive Design of Personalized Dose-Finding Trials“
Wednesday, June 3, 2020, 1:00pm-2:00pm, Zoom
Trevor Squires (Clemson University, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences): “Sliding Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers“
Wednesday, June 10, 2020, 1:00pm-2:00pm, Zoom
Murwan Siddig (Clemson University, Department of Industrial Engineering): “Computational Perspectives on Multi-stage Stochastic Programming“
Wednesday, June 17, 2020, 1:00pm-2:00pm, Zoom
(Open Time Slot)
Wednesday, June 24, 2020, 1:00pm-2:00pm, Zoom
(Open Time Slot)
Wednesday, July 8, 2020, 1:00pm-2:00pm, Zoom
Xin (Sophie) Liu (Clemson University, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences): “Asymptotically Optimal Allocation Policies for Transplant Queueing Systems“
Wednesday, July 15, 2020, 1:00pm-2:00pm, Zoom
(Open Time Slot)
Wednesday, July 22, 2020, 1:00pm-2:00pm, Zoom
Yuyuan (Lance) Ouyang (Clemson University, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences): “Lower oracle complexity bounds of first-order methods for structured convex optimization“
Wednesday, July 29, 2020, 1:00pm-2:00pm, Zoom
Brian Fralix (Clemson University, School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences): “A Quick Introduction to Quasi-Birth-Death Processes“
Spring 2020 Seminar Schedule
Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2020, 11:15am-12:05pm, Martin Hall M-103
Dr. Caglar Caglayan (Clemson University): “Physician Staffing in Emergency Rooms (ERs): Opening the Black Box of ER Care via a Multi-class Multi-Stage Network“
Friday, Feb. 8, 2020, 11:15am-12:05pm, Martin Hall M-103
Dr. Xu Sun (University of Florida): “Dynamic Scheduling of a Battery-Operated Queue“
Fall 2019 Seminar Schedule
Friday, Sep. 6, 2019, 1:25-2:15pm, Freeman Hall 078
Dr. John Hasenbein (University of Texas-Austin): “Toll Pricing in Queueing Models: Economics, Parameter Uncertainty, and Heterogeneity”
Friday, Sep. 13, 2019, 1:25-2:15pm, Freeman Hall 078
Timo Gersing (RWTH Aachen, Germany): “Equitable Planning of Out-of-Hours Services for Pharmacies”
Tuesday, Sep. 17, 2019, 12:30-1:45pm, Freeman Hall 078
Dr. Cole Smith (Associate Provost of Academic Initiatives, Clemson University): “Formulations Accounting for Uncertainty: Robustness, Interdiction, Expectation, VaR, and CVaR“
Friday, Sep. 20, 2019, 11:15-12:15pm, Martin M-104
Dr. Guanglin Xu (University of North Carolina at Charlotte): “Multi-Stage Robust Optimization via Copositive Programming“
Friday, Sep. 20, 2019, 1:25-2:15pm, Freeman Hall 078
Dr. Andrew Schaefer (Rice University): “Optimal Lung Transplantation Patient Selection from a Transplant Program’s Perspective” (CANCELLED)
Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2019, 1:25-2:15pm, Freeman Hall 078
Dr. Boshi Yang (Clemson): “What is Conic Programming?”
Spring 2019 Seminar Schedule
Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019, 2:30-3:30pm, Watt Family Innovation Center Room 203
Dr. Yunan Liu: “Staffing and Scheduling to Differentiate Service in Multiclass Time-Varying Service Systems“
Thursday, Jan. 24, 2019, 2:30-3:30pm, Watt Family Innovation Center Room 203
Dr. Ping Cao: “To Pool or Not to Pool: Queueing Design for Large-Scale Service Systems“
Friday, Jan. 25, 2019, 1:25-2:15pm, Freeman Auditorium
Dr. Nilay Argon: “Assigning Priorities (or not) in Service Systems with Heterogeneous Customers”
Thursday, Feb. 14, 2019, 4:00-5:00pm, Watt Family Innovation Center Room 203
Sascha Kuhnke: “Robust Aiming Strategies in Solar Tower Power Plants“
Fall 2018 Seminar Schedule
Friday, Aug. 31, 2018, 1:25-2:15pm, Freeman Auditorium
Dr. Robert Bosch: “Connecting the Dots: TSP Art (and Variations)“
Friday, Sept. 7, 2018, 1:25-2:15pm, Freeman Auditorium
Dr. Jim Luedtke: “Optimizing Truck Dispatching Decisions in Open-pit Mining using Integer Programming“
Thursday, Sept. 20, 2018, 4:00-5:00pm, Martin M-203
Dr. Anita Schöbel: “New Concepts in Robust Optimization.”
Friday, Sept. 21, 2018, 1:25-2:15pm, Freeman Auditorium
Dr. Anita Schöbel: “Integrated Optimization in Public Transportation.”
Friday, Oct. 12, 2018, 1:25-2:15pm, Freeman Auditorium
Dr. Ilya Ryzhov: Balancing Large Deviations in Offline Learning
Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018, 3:30-4:30pm, Martin M-102
Dr. Robert Hildebrand: Mixed-Integer Polynomial Optimization—Algorithms and Complexity for Linear and Nonlinear cases when the dimension is fixed
Friday, Nov. 16, 2018, 1:25-2:15pm, Freeman Auditorium
Dr. Ira Wheaton: Integer Programming Models for Freight Logistics Service Network Design with In-Tree Constraints
Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, 1:25-2:15pm, Freeman Auditorium
Dr. Julie Swann: Engineering Modeling to Assist in Eradication of Guinea Worm
Past Events
MIP2018
June 18 – 21, 2018 Clemson University, SC 
The Mixed Integer Programming (MIP) workshop series is designed to bring together the integer programming research community in an annual meeting.
MIP2018 was the 15th workshop in this series, held in June. It was hosted by the Industrial Engineering and Mathematical Sciences departments of Clemson University at the downtown Greenville, SC campus.