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Epstein Institute Seminar Series / ISE 651 Seminar
Tue, Feb 07, 2012 @ 03:30 PM - 04:50 PM
Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Gideon Weiss, Professor, Statistics, University of Haifa, Israel
Talk Title: "Skill Based Service Systems"
Series: Epstein Institute Seminar Series
Abstract: We consider systems with several types of customers and several types of servers, where compatibility of servers to customers is given by a bipartite graph. This is motivated by call centers with skill based routing, and by assigning kidney transplants to patients. A common approach is provided by infinite first come first served matching of two infinite multi-type random sequences. We obtain explicit results for this model, and show how to extend them to a host of queueing models, including loss systems, stable queues, overloaded queues, and overloaded queues with abandonments.
Biography: Professor Gideon Weiss, Department of Statistics, The University of Haifa, Israel
EDUCATION
Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London, England, Ph.D., 1974.
Technion, Haifa, Israel, Master in Operations Research.
Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel, B.A. in Mathematics and Statistics.
Thesis: âFiltered Poisson Processes as Models for Daily Streamflow Data,â Supervised by Professor Sir David R. Cox and Professor Terrence OâDonnell
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Optimization of Stochastic Systems: Control of processing networks, optimal solutions of fluid approximations, tracking of fluid solutions, bandit problems and Gittins index, restless ban- dits, stochastic scheduling problems, PERT, Markov decision processes.
Mathematical Programming Simplex algorithm for continuous linear programming.
Manufacturing Systems: Fluid Heuristics for control of manufacturing systems. Fluid and dif- fusion approximations of manufacturing systems. Stochastic aggregate modeling of manufac- turing systems. Re-entrant lines.
Applied Probability and Stochastic Processes: Queues with virtual infinite buffers, queue- ing theory, fluid models, time reversibility, stochastic inequalities, reliability, stochastic mod- els for ion channels in cell membranes, processes derived from Poisson points in the plane, interacting particle systems.
Time Series Analysis: Applications to water resources problems, directionality in time series, shot noise processes as models for neuroelectrical data.
More Information: Seminar-Weiss.doc
Location: Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center (GER) - Room 309
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Georgia Lum
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Zynga Info Session
Tue, Feb 07, 2012 @ 05:30 PM - 08:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Zynga, the fastest-growing social gaming company in history, and one of Silicon Valley's most recent runaway success stories, is hiring! Students at this info session will learn all about Zynga's unique company culture, the sophisticated infrastructure that underwrites our development, and the specifics of our two core positions: Software Engineer and Product Manager. Students will hear about our products, learn what we like to see on resumes, and generally come away with a wealth of information about what it's like to work at a bleeding-edge tech company specializing in FUN.
Targeted student audience: BS,MS
See attached flyerMore Information: Zynga Flyer.pdf
Location: Grace Ford Salvatori Hall Of Letters, Arts & Sciences (GFS) - 106
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Services
