INFORMS Student Chapter at Lehigh ISE regularly invites a distinguished speaker, usually one per semester. It is a great opportunity for all ISE Ph.D. students to meet and talk to the distinguished speaker.
Upcoming INFORMS Chapter Distinguished Speaker
2020 Fall Semester
Due to Covid-19, there will be no distinguished speakers for the 2020 fall semester. We haven’t decided whether there will be any distinguished speakers in the 2021 spring semester. Please stay tuned for further updates!
Past Distinguished Speakers
| Fall 2019 |
| Time: 4:30-5:30 PM, Tuesday, November 5, 2019 Speaker: Robert Vanderbei, Princeton University Title: The Parametric Self-Dual Simplex Method — A Modern Perspective |
| Spring 2019 |
| Time: 4:00 – 5:00 PM, Tuesday, April 02, 2018 Speaker: Stefan Wild, Argonne National Laboratory Title: Exploiting Structure in Derivative-Free Nonlinear Optimization to Advance Science and Engineering |
| Fall 2018 |
| Time: 4:00 – 5:00 PM, Tuesday, November 27, 2018 Speaker: Gerard Cornuejols, Carnegie Mellon University Title: Packing and Covering |
| Spring 2018 |
| Time: 4:00 – 5:00 PM, Tuesday, April 24, 2018 Speaker: James Renegar, Cornell University Title: A Simple Nearly-Optimal Restart Scheme for Speeding-Up First Order Methods |
| Fall 2017 |
| Time: 4:00-5:00 PM, Thursday, October 5, 2017 Speaker: Nick Trefethen, University of Oxford |