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                                                   Joint Seminar

                         Department of Computer Science and Engineering

                                                       And

             Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management
                                  The Chinese University of Hong Kong

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Title

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Adventures in Sports Scheduling and Trends in Operations Research

 

 

 

Speaker

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Prof. Michael Trick

 

 

Tepper School of Business

 

 

Carnegie Mellon University

 

 

 

Date

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March 9th, 2012 (Friday)

 

 

 

Time

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4:30p.m. - 5:30p.m.

 

 

 

Venue

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9/FERB LT

 

 

William M.W. Mong Engineering Building

 

 

(Engineering Building Complex Phase 2)

 

 

CUHK

 

 

 

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Abstract:

Major League Baseball is a multi-billion dollar per year industry that relies heavily on the quality of its schedule.  Teams, fans, TV networks, and even political parties (in a way revealed in the talk) rely on the schedule for profits and enjoyment.  Only recently have
the computational tools of operations research been powerful enough to address the issue of finding "optimal" schedules.  I'll discuss my experiences in scheduling college basketball, major league baseball, and other sports, and discuss major trends in optimization that lead to practical scheduling approaches, with some of these trends only appearing in the last two years.


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Biography:
 

Michael Trick is Professor of Operations Research and Associate Dean, Research at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon, where he has been on faculty since 1989.  His research interests are in sports scheduling, integer and constraint optimization, and social choice. In 2002 he was President of the Institute for Operations Research and
the Management Sciences (INFORMS) and is a Fellow of the Society.  The author of more than 50 journal articles and editor of six volumes of refereed articles, Trick is also a the author of a popular blog on the world of operations research, available at http://mat.tepper.cmu.edu/blog


************************* ALL ARE WELCOME ************************

 

 

 

Host

:

Prof. Leung May Yee, Janny

Tel

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(852) 3943-8238

Email

:

janny@se.cuhk.edu.hk

 

 

 

Enquiries

:

Prof. Nan Chen or Prof. Sean X. Zhou

 

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Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management

 

 

CUHK

Website

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http://www.se.cuhk.edu.hk/~seem5201

Email

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seem5201@se.cuhk.edu.hk

 

 

 

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