The Omega Research Seminar Series primarily focus on operations and supply chain management, which oftentimes interface with marketing, economics, statistics, computer science, and information systems. The featured talks will utilize various operations research, optimization and/or economics-based theories (such as game theory, principal agent models, behavioral economics) with business applications in retail, supply chain, healthcare and service industries. Omega seminars are typically held on select Tuesdays at 12:30-1:45pm at the Newman Vertical Campus. (Exceptions will be noted.) For inquiries, please contact Prof. Tolga Aydinliyim by email.
CURRENT AND FUTURE EVENTS (Last updated on February 1, 2019.)
| 20-Sep-18 (10:45am) | 14-269 | Nagesh Gavirneni | Cornell | Co-opetition in Service Clusters with Waiting-Area Entertainment |
| 13-Nov-18 | 14-275 | David Dreyfus | Rutgers | Operating Room Disruptions |
| 27-Nov-18 (10:45am) | 14-290 | Yao Zhao | Rutgers | Shipping Unpredictable Demand for Online Sellers: Risk Penalty vs. Flat Rate |
| 4-Dec-18 | 14-275 | Andrew Davis | Cornell | Private Information and Endogenous Matching in Supply Chains: Theory and Experiments |
| 5-Feb-19 | 14-270 | Yunchao Xu | NYU | On Withholding Capacity From Strategic Patients |
| 5-Mar-19 | 9-215 | Lauren Lu | UNC | TBD |
| 12-Mar-19 | 14-280 | Fei Gao | Indiana | TBD |
| 19-Mar-19 | 14-270 | Vishal Agrawal | Georgetown | Non-ownership Business Models for Solar Energy |
| 2-Apr-19 | 14-275 | Enno Siemsen | Wisconsin | TBD |
| 9-Apr-19 | 9-215 | Mark Ferguson | South Carolina | TBD |
| 30-Apr-19 | 14-275 | Ozalp Ozer | UT Dallas | TBD |
| Fall 2019 | TBD | Vishal Gaur | Cornell | TBD |
PAST EVENTS
2017 – 2018 Academic Year:
| 19-Sep-17 | 14-240 | Wenbo (Selina) Cai | NJIT | A Principal-Agent Problem with Heterogeneous Demand Distribution for a Carbon Capture and Storage System |
| 26-Sep-17 | 14-240 | Suresh Muthulingam | Penn State | Does Learning from Inspections Affect Environmental Performance? Evidence from Unconventional Well Development in Pennsylvania |
| 3-Oct-17 | 14-240 | Elena Katok | UT Dallas | Negotiating Supply Contracts |
| 10-Oct-17 | 14-240 | Kyle Hyndman | UT Dallas | Understanding the Behavioral Drivers of Execution Failures in Retail Supply Chains: An Experimental Study Using Virtual Reality |
| 17-Oct-17 | 14-240 | Sripad Devalkar | Indian School of Business | Payment for Results: Funding Non-Profit Operations |
| 21-Nov-17 | 14-240 | Tingliang Huang | Boston College | Dynamic Management of Opaque Selling When Customers Use Anecdotal Reasoning |
| 28-Nov-17 | 14-240 | Meng Li | Rutgers | Beneficial Consumer Returns |
| 27-Feb-18 | 14-280 | Maqbool Dada | Johns Hopkins | Pricing Ancillary Service Subscriptions |
| 1-Mar-18 | 14-270 | Levent Kocaga | Yeshiva | Operational Perils and Benefits of Free Trials in Large Scale Service Systems |
| 27-Mar-18 | 14-290 | Gilvan Souza | Indiana | The Value of Battery Energy Store for Energy Shifting |
| 10-Apr-18 | 14-270 | Maxime Cohen | NYU | Frustration-based Promotions: Field Experiments in Ride-Sharing |
| 24-Apr-18 | 14-270 | Robert Bray | Northwestern | Ration Gaming and the Bullwhip Effect |
| 1-May-18 | 14-240 | Robert Swinney | Duke | Becoming Strategic: The Endogenous Determination of Time Preferences and Its Implications for Multiperiod Pricing |
| 15-May-18 | 14-240 | Ilan Lobel | NYU | Surge Pricing and Its Spatial Supply Response |
2016 – 2017 Academic Year:
| 8-Sep-16 | 14-240 | Ozge Sahin | Johns Hopkins | The Impact of Consumer Search Cost on Assortment Planning and Pricing |
| 11-Oct-16 | 14-240 | Ken Boyer | Ohio State | Enhancing Outcomes in Healthcare: Studies on Process Improvement and Healthcare IT Impacts |
| 14-Oct-16 | 14-240 | Xuanming Su | Wharton | Omnichannel Self-Service Technologies |
| 18-Oct-16 | 14-240 | Tarek Abdallah | NYU | Demand Estimation under the Multinomial Logit Model from Sales Transaction Data |
| 1-Nov-16 | 14-240 | Nan Liu | Columbia | When Waiting to See a Doctor is Less Irritating: Understanding Patient Preferences and Choice Behavior in Appointment Scheduling |
| 8-Nov-16 | 14-240 | Volodymyr Babich | Georgetown | R&D Investments in the Presence of Knowledge Spillover and Debt Financing: Can Risk-shifting be a Cure for Free-riding in Equilibrium? |
| 22-Nov-16 | 14-240 | Sezer Ulku | Georgetown | When Is Necessity The Mother of Invention? |
| 29-Nov-16 | 14-240 | Yuqian Xu | NYU | The Effect of Online Reviews on Physician Demand: A Structural Model of Patient Choice |
| 13-Dec-16 | 14-240 | Gustavo Vulcano | NYU | A Partial-Order-Based Model to Estimate Individual Preferences Using Panel Data |
| 31-Jan-17 | 14-240 | Vidya Mani | Penn State | Estimating Substitution and Basket Effects in Retail Stores: Implications for Assortment Planning |
| 21-Mar-17 | 14-240 | Jiri Chod | Boston College | A Signalling Theory of In-Kind Finance |
| 28-Mar-17 | 14-240 | Pinar Yildirim | Wharton | Matching Pennies on the Campaign Trail: An Empirical Study of Senate Elections and Media Coverage |
| 4-Apr-17 | 14-240 | Fuqiang Zhang | Washington University in St. Louis | 3D Printing vs. Traditional Flexible Technology: Implications for Manufacturing Strategy |
| 6-Apr-17 | 14-240 | Antonio Moreno-Garcia | Northwestern | The Value of Fit Information in Online Retail: Evidence from a Randomized Field Experiment |
| 2-May-17 | 14-240 | Tim Kraft | Virginia | Supply Chain Visibility and Social Responsibility: Investigating Consumers’ Behaviors and Motive |
2015 – 2016 Academic Year:
| 1-Sep-15 | 9-215 | Michael Pinedo | NYU | Budget Allocations in Operational Risk Management |
| 18-Sep-15 | 9-215 | Vera Tilson | Rochester | The Impact of Custom Contracting and the Intermediary Roles of Healthcare GPOs |
| 20-Oct-15 | 9-215 | Aydin Alptekinoglu | Penn State | Flexible Products for Dynamic Preferences |
| 27-Oct-15 | 14-240 | Kinshuk Jerath | Columbia | Incentive Contracting with Operational Considerations |
| 5-Nov-15 | 4-120 | Dmitry Ivanov | Berlin School of Economics and Law | Global Supply Chain Planning: Ripple Effect and Structure Dynamics Considerations |
| 17-Nov-15 | 14-240 | Wenqiang Xiao | NYU | Optimal Long-Term Supply Contracts with Asymmetric Demand Information |
| 8-Dec-15 | 14-240 | Carri Chan | Columbia | Queues with Time-Varying Arrivals and Inspections with Applications to Hospital Discharge Policies |
| 2-Feb-16 | 14-240 | Haresh Gurnani | Wake Forest | Demonstrations and Price Competition in New Product Release |
| 9-Feb-16 | 14-240 | Gur Mosheiov | Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Due Window Assignment with Lead Time Cost |
| 23-Feb-16 | 14-240 | Neda Ebrahim Khanjari | Rutgers | The Impact of Manufacturer SPIFFs on a Supply Chain with Retailer-hired Sales Agent |
| 5-Apr-16 | 14-240 | Subodha Kumar | Texas A&M | Competitive Strategies for Brick-and-Mortar Stores to Counter “Showrooming” |
| 19-Apr-16 | 14-240 | Nicholas Petruzzi | Penn State | Overconfident Competing Newsvendors |
| 12-May-16 | 9-215 | Arash Azadegan | Rutgers | Open Innovation Strategies: A Comparative Assessment Using the Knowledge Base Perspective |
| 17-May-16 | 14-240 | Goker Aydin | Indiana | How to Get the Conflict Out of the Mineral Supply Chain |
| 19-May-16 | 14-240 | Mor Armony | NYU | Critical Care in Hospitals: When to Introduce a Step Down Unit |
2014 – 2015 Academic Year:
| 5-Mar-15 | 9-215 | David Anderson | Baruch | When is an Ounce of Prevention Worth a Pound of Cure? Identifying High Risk Candidates for Case Management |
| 2-Apr-15 | 9-215 | Tolga Aydinliyim | Baruch | Counteracting Strategic Purchase Deferrals: The Impact of Online Retailers’ Return Policy Decisions |
| 16-Apr-15 | 9-215 | William Millhiser | Baruch | Designing Appointment System Templates with Operational Performance Targets |
| 30-Apr-15 | 9-215 | Shan Li | Baruch | Is A Newsvendor More Boundedly Rational Making Two Decisions Instead of One? |
| 14-May-15 | 9-215 | Alan Stulman | Jerusalem College of Technology | Determining the Delay Time Distribution in an M/G/∞ Exchangeable Item Repair System with Two Failed Component Types |
