18th Annual Applied Probability Day: In Honor and Memory of Cyrus Derman
Friday December 2, 2011
Room 303
S. W. Mudd Building
500 W. 120th St.
Columbia University
New York City
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Registration is FREE, all are welcome to join!
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SPEAKERS & SCHEDULE
| TIME |
EVENT |
| 10:00 - 10:15AM | Opening remarks, Karl Sigman, Director of CAP |
| 10:15 - 11:00AM | Michael Katehakis (Rutgers Business School) "Non-Parametric Up-and-Down Experimentation Revisited" |
| 11:00 - 11:45AM | Arthur F. "Pete" Veinott, Jr. (Stanford University) "Polynomial-Time Computation of Strong and n-Present-Value Optimal Policies in Markov Decision Chains" |
| 11:45 - 12:00PM | Comments about Cy Derman from his Colleagues |
| 12:00 - 1:30PM | Lunch |
| 1:30 - 2:15PM | Sheldon M. Ross (University of Southern California) "The Sequential Stochastic Assignment Problem Revisited" |
| 2:15 - 3:00PM | Matthew J. Sobel (Case Western Reserve University) "Discounting Axioms Imply Risk Neutrality" |
| 3:00 - 3:30PM | Coffee Break |
| 3:30 - 3:45PM | Comments about Cy Derman from his Colleagues |
| 3:45 - 4:30PM | Mark Brown (City College of New York) "Bounds and Inequalities for Time Reversible Markov Chains" |
| 4:30PM | Wine and Cheese |
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