IEOR E8100, Advanced Topics in IEOR: Seminar on Queueing Theory

• Main Topics: heavy-traffic methods, queues with time-varying arrival rates, applications of queueing models to service systems

  Special Topics for 2017 (with doctoral students currently focusing on that topic): queueing networks: (i) approximations based on robust optimization (Wei You), (ii) scheduling and routing (Xu Sun); conservation laws (Xiaopei Zhang); fitting queueing models to system data (Xiaopei Zhang); the single-server queue with time-varying arrival rates (Ni Ma); rare-event simulation (Ni Ma); using optimization to examine queueing approximations (Yan Chen)

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Time and Place: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:10am-11:25am, 644 Mudd (Section 001, Call Number 64242, 3 credits). First class: Thursday, September 7

Contact the Professor: email: ww2040@columbia.edu, phone: 212-854-7255 and office: 801D Schapiro (CEPSR)

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