Southern Cal 2008 OR/OM Day

Host: USC Operations Management Group Location: Marshall School of Business (Room T.B.A.), 3670 Trousdale Pkwy, Los Angeles, CA 90089 US When: Friday, May 30, 8:40 AM Dear All,As summer is coming to Southern California, so is the annual OR/OM Day. You are cordially invited to this one day conference which covers a broad range of topics. The schedule of the event is attached below. Please reply to this invitation at your earliest convenience. We look forward to welcoming you at USC!Sincerely yours,Amy Ward [amyward@marshall.usc.edu] & Hao Zhang [zhanghao@marshall.usc.edu],
Phone: 213-740-6221 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Time Presenter, Affiliation, Topic8:40-9:00 am Welcome & Introduction 9:00-9:25 am Leon Zhu, USC (Asst. Prof.), Implementing High-Powered Contracts to Motivate Intertemporal Effort Supply9:25-9:50 am Onesun Steve Yoo, UCLA (PhD Stud.), Using Operational Levers to Align Forecasting Incentives9:50-10:15 am Michael DiLustro, Northrop Grumman Corp., Moving from Push to Pull for Supply Chain Deliveries10:15-10:30 am Coffee break 10:30-11:10 am Sheldon Ross, USC (Prof.), Some Problems in Applied Probability11:10-11:35 am Amy Ward, USC (Asst. Prof.), Fair Dynamic Routing in Call Centers11:35-12:00 pm Robert Wang, Nestle USA, OR projects in Nestle12:00-1:15 pm Lunch break1:15-1:55 pm Uday Karmarkar, UCLA (Prof.), The Information Economy and Service Industrialization1:55-2:20 pm Terrence August, UCSD (Asst. Prof.), Let the Pirates Patch? An Economic Analysis of Software Security Patch Restrictions2:20-2:30 pm Coffee break2:30-2:55 pm Jay Simon, UCI (PhD Stud.), Decisions Using Geographic Information Systems2:55-3:20 pm Xiao Huang, USC (PhD Stud.), Capacity Investment and Pricing Strategy under Technology Evolution

Location: TBD

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Georgia Lum