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EPSTEIN ISE SEMINAR

Speaker: Please contact Julie Higle at julie.higle@usc.edu for speaker , and afiliation

Talk Title: Please contact Julie Higle at julie.higle@usc.edu for title

Abstract: This capstone presentation gives a bird's-eye view of the speaker's 40-year journey in the research of finite-dimensional variational inequalities (VIs) and complementarity problems (CPs) and their applications in modern-day engineering and economics domains. The contemporary study of the VIs/CPs was born in the mid-1970s out of the need to understand a large-scale, real-life energy model developed at the U.S. Department of Energy that was coincidental with the fusion of several milestones in related engineering applications. Today, this subject is rich in fundamental theories and equipped with effective solution methods, and has far-reaching impacts in many applied areas that include market equilibria of various kinds; frictional contacts in mechanics; flow congestion and user behavior in traffic networks; competitive resource allocation; energy generation, distribution, and pricing; gaming problems in digital communication; hybrid engineering systems; financial option pricing; and most recently, structural estimation in econometrics. The speaker has contributed to the core of the subject and all these areas of applications. The presentation will highlight the speaker's contributions in a few of these areas and shed lights on some new directions of the field and its promise in further applications.

Host: Daniel J. Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering

Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - Room 526

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Georgia Lum