ORC IAP Seminar 2015
Social Networks in Operations Research
Social networks have grown in scale and popularity in recent years, with several social networks boasting more than one billion registered users. The MIT Operations Research Center has organized a day-long seminar on the role of social networks in operations research, exploring how data from these networks can be used to make decisions or to understand social phenomena. Three speakers, including those from both industry and academic settings, will present their work and experience on topics ranging from marketing to studying social... Read more about MIT ORC: Social Networks
Giridhar Gopalan
Quantifying the Influence of the Prior and Likelihood in Bayesian Inference
Edward Kao
Causal Inference Under Network Interference: Model-Based Estimation of Peer Influence Effects
Information on Arthur P. Dempster Award
Panagiotis Toulis will receive this year's award and deliver a seminar on:
Implicit Stochastic Approximation for Principled Estimation with Large Datasets