Past Events
Thursday, April 21, UT-Dallas Campus
INFORMS DFW CHAPTER hosts:
The Outlook for Energy: A View of 2030
Dong Fu
Senior Economist - Corporate Strategic Planning, ExxonMobil
Location: Davidson Auditorium SOM 1.118, UTD Campus
Visitor Parking Passes available at the front gate entrance from Campbell Rd.
Abstract:
Energy - in all its forms - is critical to economic growth, development & social welfare. From the world’s most modern cities to the smallest communities in developing countries, reliable access to affordable energy is necessary to drive long-term economic and social progress. Over the next two decades, demand for energy is forecasted to rise dramatically across the globe, as populations and economies grow at rapid rates. This presentation focuses on energy demand to the year 2030. It examines key drivers of rising demand and the way this demand will be met by the various available energy sources, including fossil fuels, nuclear power and renewable energies. It concludes by providing insights into the challenge of meeting growing energy needs while mitigating global CO2 emissions.
About Dong Fu:
Dong Fu, Ph.D-Economics, Southern Methodist University, is the Senior Economist in ‘Corporate Strategic Planning’ at ExxonMobil. Prior to joining ExxonMobil in 2007, Dong worked as Economic Analyst , Supervisor of Research Assistance & Assistant Economist in ‘Economic Research Department’ at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. He previously worked in both public & private sectors in China from 1991 to 1994. Currently he advises the senior management at ExxonMobil on economic, financial and policy related issues. He is also responsible for developing the corporate World Economic Outlook which is foundation of ExxonMobil’s Energy Outlook.
Thursday, March 3, UT-Dallas Campus at 7:00-8:00 PM
INFORMS DFW CHAPTER hosts:
Energy Procurement
Keith Masten
Sourcing Sr. Manager - Energy
Location: SOM 3.210, UTD Campus
Visitor Parking Passes available at the front gate entrance from Campbell Rd.
Abstract:
JC Penney is transforming its organization to support its Long Range Plan strategy of building a sustainable, profitable enterprise that serves its customers, engages its associates and rewards its shareholders.JC Penney’s imminent energy management strategy includes reducing the energy consumption and harnessing more of renewable energy options. The talk will discuss challenges JC Penney faces in the competitive energy market place and ‘Energy Sourcing’ strategies it employs.
Thursday, January 20, UT-Arlington Campus at 7:00-8:00 PM
Gas-Flow Sharing Game
Irinel Dragan
Univ. of Texas at Arlington
Abstract:
Oil and gas companies share pipelines to ship their products. A gas pipeline can start at a drilling range (upstream) and extend to a city, where the gas is distributed (downstream) to consumers. Gas companies cooperate to efficiently use the pipeline to transfer gas from upstream to downstream. But they compete to share the shipped gas. This sharing can be done through the egalitarian value or the Shapley value of the “gas flow sharing game”. A fairer solution is the Nucleolus of the game that can be computed via a series of linear optimization problems.
Thursday, Nov. 18, UTD Campus
Demand Planning in
Consume Packaged Goods
Bekir Diker
Dr. Pepper Snapple Group
Location: SOM 1.508–Executive Education AreaUT-Dallas Campus
Abstract:
Forecast is built by the collective effort of sales, marketing, supply chain and finance teams by considering
1) Statistically generated forecast,
2) Promotional events,
3) Gained/lost distribution of the product,
4) Lifecycle ofthe product, and
5) Collaborative Planning, Forecasting and Replenishment.
Reduced forecasterror translates to higher customer service level and reduced working capital. Therefore, it is critical to track theerror and identify the offenders. The root causesof error are discussed with the stakeholders and eliminated.
Thursday, October 21, UTD Campus at 6:00 PM
INFORMS DFW CHAPTER hosts:
Forecasting Transportation Demand
Panelists from the Transportation industry:
Ronald Brensinger
American Airlines
Sr. Manager, Network Planning Models
Phil Johnson
DART
Project Manager, Rail Planning
Arash Mirzaei
NCTCOG
Transportation System Modeling Manager
Richard Ratliff
Sabre Solutions
Senior Research Scientist
Jay Rosenberger
UT-Arlington
Industrial and Manufacturing Systems Engineering
John Tweet
BNSF
Director, Marketing Systems Support
The panelist event will be moderated by DFW INFORMS Chapter Officer Ronald Chu (Principal, Operations Research at American Airlines)
Thursday, September 16, 2010 SMU at 6:30 PM
INFORMS DFW CHAPTER
P.S. Subramaniam
Senior Manager, Nokia North America Customer Logistics, is presenting:
Demand Forecasting at Nokia
Accurate demand planning or forecasting is both an art and a science. This is especially evident at Nokia and the mobile handset business where we have intense competition, model customization, product substitutability and a complex raw materials supply chain. In this discussion we present two different methodologies on product forecasts - one for the near term and one for the longer term. The near term forecast is used to drive product replenishment and consumer sales in various channels and is based on robust sales & operations planning across the value chain. The longer term forecast is driven by product lifecycle planning, price position, sourcing of raw materials and manufacturing planning. We will present situational examples and implications of forecasting with imperfect information.
Tuesday, April 27, UTD SOM 1.508 at 6 PM
INFORMS DFW CHAPTER
Arturo Villarreal
Director of Supply Chain Strategy for Dean Foods, Inc.
Network Optimization in Supply Chain Strategy
Every day, more organizations are discovering the practical value of optimization in decisions concerning supply, manufacturing, and distribution. The use of optimization tools helps them find opportunities that are hidden even to the informed observer. Finding such opportunities is more important when decisions have long-term implications, as is the case in times of expansion or consolidation.
In this session, the scope of supply chain strategy and its operational goal will be presented. We will point out how easily the problem becomes a complex combinatorial one. We will also illustrate the dangers of relying too much on common-sense assumptions in the solution process and discuss the benefits of using a proper optimization tool. Finally, we will walk through a demonstration of one such tool.
Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 7 pm
SMU, Hughs-Trigg Auditorium
Dr. Wayne L. Winston, Indiana University
MATHLETICS: How can math make sports teams better?
Dr. Winston will explain how baseball, basketball and football teams use math to improve team and player performance. He will emphasize in particular our work with the Dallas Mavericks.
Wayne Winston is the John and Esther Reese Professor of Decision Sciences at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business, He has won over 30 teaching awards and has consulted at companies such as Cisco, Microsoft and the US Army. His latest book Mathleticswill be published in August by Princeton University Press.
http://www.kelley.iu.edu/facultyglobal/FacultyProfile.cfm?ID=8857
Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 6 pm
Davidson Auditorium 1.118 of the School of Management, UT Dallas
"OR's Role in Risk Management in the Aftermatch of the Financial Crisis"
Dr. John R. Birge, University of Chicago
The financial crisis of 2008-09 has raised questions in the minds of many about the role of risk management and the limitations of quantative modeling. This talk will describe some of the potential causes of the crisis and the role that Operations Research related models might have played. Form these observations, the presentation will focus on the challenges for modeling and implementation to avoid future crises and the opportunities for further research.
Dr. Birge is the Jerry W. and Carol Lee Levin Professor of Operations Management, at The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He studies mathematical modeling of systems under uncertainty, especially for maximizing operational and financial goals using the methodologies of stochastic programming and large-scale optimization. He has consulted a number of financial organizations including Deutsche Bank, Allstate Insurance Company, Morgan Stanley.
Download pdf of Dr. John Birge's presentation
Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 7 pm
Huitt-Zollars Pavilion in the Embrey building of the Lyle School of Engineering, SMU
Mortgage Finance and Servicing
Peter Muriungi, SVP Non Conforming Operations GMAC
Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 7 pm
Auditorium 1.118 of the School of Management, UT Dallas
Transportation Panel organized by Dr. Ronald Chu from AA
Experienced participants from Industry and Academia (AA, BNSF, Sabre, SMU, SWA, UTA, and UTD) will discuss their perspective on the challenges facing OR professionals in the Transportation sectors, possible areas of collaboration between Academia and Industry, and on the future of the OR/MS discipline.
Thursday, May 14, 2009 at 7 pm
Sabre Holdings Corporation Headquarters
Southlake, TX 76092
“Applying OR in Brazil to solve real world challenges with OPTMODEL from SAS”
Mary Grace Crissey
Analytics Marketing Manager at SAS
April 9th, 2009 Meeting
Speaker : Dr. Liam O'Neill
Health Management Policy Dept.
UNT - Health Science Center
Presentation: Specialty Surgical Hospitals: Focused Factories or Cream Skimmers? Evidence from Texas
March 12th, 2009 Meeting
Speaker : Dr. Hadi Purnomo
Frito Lay, Plano, TX
Presentation: Hospital-wide Reactive Scheduling of Nurses with Preference Considerations
Speaker: Dr. Anna Nagurney
John F. Smith Memorial Professor
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Presentation: Synergies and Vulnerabilities of Supply Chain Networks in a Global Economy
Email: nagurney@gbfin.umass.edu
Homepage: http://people.umass.edu/nagurney/
Center Website: http://supernet.som.umass.edu
October 21st, 2008 Meeting
Speaker : Dr. Amy Cohn
University of Michigan
Presentation: Test-and-Prune: A New Algorithm for Combinatorial Optimization Problems
May 03, 2008 Meeting
Location: UTA, Arlington, TX
Speaker : Kevin Geraghty
Presentation: Integrating Digital Marketing and Revenue Management
Thanks to everyone who attended our latest Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter meeting!
November 27, 2007 Meeting
Location: Junkins Engineering Building
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX 75205
Speaker : Ravindra K. Ahuja, Ph. D.,
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL and Innovative Scheduling, Inc.
Presentation: Next Generation Decision Support Systems for Railroad Scheduling
Thanks to everyone who attended our latest Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter meeting!
October 25, 2007 Meeting
Location: School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas
800 West Campbell Road
Richardson, TX 75080
Speaker : George Brody, GlobeRanger Corporation
Presentation: Mobility Platforms and Intelligent Edge Networks in Enterprises
Dr. Eli of SMU talked about the upcoming "INFORMS Southwest Regional Conference". As one of the most active chapter, the INFORMS DFW members are encouraged to be a part of the conference and help the organizers in all the possible ways. Please check back, updates will be posted soon.
Thanks to everyone who attended our latest Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter meeting!
September 26, 2007
Location: Southern Methodist University
Speaker: Timothy L. Jacobs, Ph. D., P.E. , American Airlines
Presentation: Incorporating O&D Passenger Effects into the Near-Term Fleet Assignment Process
Thanks to everyone who attended our latest Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter meeting!
June 13, 2007
Location: Southwest Airlines
Speaker: Sheldon H. Jacobson, University of Illinois
Presentation: Addressing Childhood Immunization Issues Using Operations Research Models
Thanks to everyone who attended this Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter meeting!
April 4, 2007
*Kick-off Meeting*
Location: Southern Methodist University
Speaker: Barry C. Smith of Sabre Holdings/Travelocity
Presentation: "Helping Travelocity Transition to Travel Retailer"
Thanks to everyone who attended this Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter meeting!
