The Rocky Mountain Chapter participates in bi-monthly meetings September–May in the Denver regional area (6pm Mountain time).
Upcoming Meetings
- April 15, 2024 at the Colorado School of Mines, Brown Hall W475 (enter at the corner of 16th and Maple Streets, Golden CO 80401): Dr. Alexander Zolan, National Renewable Energy Lab.
2024-04-15-zolan.pdf
- September 25, 2024 at the Colorado School of Mines: Professor Matthew Petering, University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee. "Algorithms and redistricting: What the recent Wisconsin Supreme Court case teaches."
Past Meetings
- March 6, 2024 at the Colorado School of Mines, Brown Hall W375 (enter at the corner of 16th and Maple Streets, Golden CO 80401): Professor Bianca Howard, Columbia University. "Income-aware Residential Building Stock Retrofit Strategies through Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization"
2024-03-06-howard.pdf
- February 8, 2024 at the Colorado School of Mines, Brown Hall W210 (enter at the corner of 17th and Maple Streets, Golden CO 80401): Dr. Seun Ogunmodede, the MITRE Corporation. "Finding Interfering Radiofrequency Emitters: Situational Awareness Laydown Evaluator"
2024-02-08-ogunmodede.pdf
- November 30, 2023 at the Colorado School of Mines, Brown Hall W475 (enter at the corner of 17th and Maple Streets, Golden CO 80401): Professor Eduardo Perez, Texas State University - San Marcos. "A Simulation-driven Online Scheduling Algorithm for the Maintenance and Operation of Wind Farm Systems"
2023-11-30-perez.pdf
- November 1, 2023 at the Colorado School of Mines, Brown Hall W475 (enter at the corner of 17th and Maple Streets, Golden CO 80401): Dr. Andy Burrow, LinQuest (Perduco).
2023-11-01-burrow.pdf
- September 19, 2023: 11am at the Colorado School of Mines, Hill Hall Room 202 (920 15th Street) Mr. Oguzhan Kiran, Head of Department, Republic of Türkiye - Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources. "Energy Outlook of Türkiye in the Light of Regional and Global Dynamics."
2023-09-19-kiran.pdf
- August 11, 2023 11am MDT, virtual seminar: Chase Robinson and Edikan Udofia on Mathematical Models in Engineering
2023-08-11-robinson-udofia.pdf
- April 20, 2023 at the Colorado School of Mines, CoorsTek Room 282 (1523 Illinois St., Golden CO 80401): Professor Corey Harper, Carnegie Mellon University. "Transitioning Towards a Smarter and More Sustainable Transportation System."
2023-04-20-harper.pdf
- March 9, 2023 at the Colorado School of Mines, Brown Hall Room W210 (1610 Illinois St., Golden, CO 80401): Dr. Lincoln Chandler
2023-03-09-chandler.pdf
- February 23, 2023 at the Colorado School of Mines, CoorsTek Room 282 (1523 Illinois St., Golden CO 80401): Dr. COL Michael Teter, "Optimizing Space Operations: Applying Operations Research Techniques in the Space Domain," United States Army, Space Force, Colorado Springs
2023-02-23-teter.pdf
- November 16, 2022 at the Colorado School of Mines, Brown Hall Room W475 (1610 Illinois St., Golden, CO 80401) Professor Dan Bienstock of Columbia University
2022-11-16-bienstock.pdf - 2022-11-16-bienstock-slides.pdf
- October 6, 2022 at their Boulder office, OptTek Systems, Inc., 2241 17th Street, Boulder, CO 80302, Dr. Michael P. Deskevich
2022-10-06-deskevichopttek.pdf
- August 31, 2022 at the Colorado School of Mines, Brown Hall Room W475 (1610 Illinois St., Golden, CO 80401)
Professor Rui Zhang, University of Colorado Boulder
2022-08-31-zhang.pdf
- April 28, 2022 6pm at the Colorado School of Mines, Brown Hall Room W475 (1610 Illinois St., Golden, CO 80401) Professor Andrea Brickey, South Dakota School of Mining and Technology
2202-04-28-brickey.pdf
- March 8, 2022 6pm at the Colorado School of Mines Brown Hall Room W475 (1610 Illinois St., Golden, CO 80401), Professor Eli Olinick, Southern Methodist University
2022-03-08-olinick.pdf
- November 4, 2021 6PM via Zoom, Jahi Simbai, National Renewable Energy Lab: "University Engagement for Workforce Development and an Overview of Operations Research at NREL"
2021-11-04-Simbai.pdf
- October 14, 2021 at Colorado School of Mines, Dr. Kris Pruitt, FTM Analytics: "Sports Analytics"
2021-10-14_Pruitt.pdf
- September 16, 2021 at Colorado School of Mines, Brown Hall Room W475 (1610 Illinois St., Golden, CO 80401)
Professor Dave Morton, Northwestern University: "Design of COVID-19 Staged Alert Systems"
2021-09-16_Morton.pdf
- April 29, 2021 on Zoom, Professor Marcos Goycoolea, Universidad Adolfo Ibañez
2021-04-29_Goycoolea.pdf
- March 18, 2021 on Zoom, Dr. Michael Martinez, MITRE
2021-03-08_Martinez.pdf
- February 4, 2021, Kate Anderson, NREL
2021-02-04_Anderson.pdf
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- November 12, 2020, Dr. David Baker, Sunrun
2020-11-12_Baker.pdf
- October 15, 2020, Dr. Lincoln J. Chandler, Chandler Decision Services
2020-10-15_Chandler.pdf
- September 16, 2020, General (ret.) and Professor Andy Armacost, President of the University of North Dakota
2020-09-16_Armacost.pdf
- February 20, 2020, Constructing lattice-free gradient polyhedra in dimension two, Emily Speakman, University of Colorado Denver | Brown Hall, Colorado School of Mines (1610 Illinois St., Golden, CO 80401)
2020-02-20 Speaker Announcement
- January 23, 2020, Mathematical Programming Approaches to Influence Maximization Problems on Social Networks, Rui Zhang, Leeds School of Business | Koelbel Room 313 (995 Regent Drive, Boulder, CO 80309)
- December 4, 2019, Multi-Disciplinary Modeling Approach to Forecasting Distributed Energy Resource Adoption, James Milford, Lumidyne Consulting | CU Denver - Student Commons Building Room 4125
- November 7, 2019, Changing the Policy Paradigm: A Benefit Maximization Approach to Electricity Plan-
ning in Developing Countries, Destenie Nock, Carnegie Mellon University
- October 3, 2019, Systems Thinking: Operational Leadership Superpower, Hise Gibson, United States Military Academy
- October 18, 2017, Natural Language Processing with Recurrent Neural Networks, Dr. Dave Biagioni, University of Colorado at Boulder
- August 15, 2017, Chapter Event with the Colorado Rockies Analytics Staff, Dr. Andrew Urbaczewski, University of Denver
- May 17, 2017, Analyzing Electricity Use of Low Income Weatherization Program Participants Using Propensity Score Analysis and Hierarchical Linear Growth Model, Dr. Ksenia Polson, University of Denver
- March 23, 2017, Determinants of Feedback Effectiveness in Production Planning, Dr. Peter Letmathe, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
- February 2, 2017, Operations Research in Land Exchange, Dr. Steffen Borgwardt, UC Denver
- November 10, 2016, Managing the NextHealth Client Analytics Process, Dr. Doug Popken, SVP Analytics, NextHealth Technologies
- September 14, 2016, Image-based Machine Learning, Dr. Peigang Zhang, Uber
- May 25, 2016, Analytics Case Studies from the Retail and Hospitality Industries, Matt Schwartz, SVP of IT, Sage Hospitality
- April 21, 2016, Operations Research: Keys for Jeppesen Today and Tomorrow, Dr. Jennifer Rausch, Jeppesen
- January 28, 2016, The Role of an Enterprise Analytics Team at a Large Retail Company, Mr. Michael Fuhr, CAP, Sports Authority
- November 18, 2015, Truck Loads and Delivery Assignments Considering Capacity in Volumes of Fluid, Mr. Wes Dyk, Noble Energy
- September 17, 2015, Panel Discussion with Rocky Mountain Chapter Past Presidents, Business Meeting
- March 11, 2015, A Quasi-Newton Proximal Splitting Method, Stephen Becker, University of Colorado at Boulder
- February 5, 2015, Forbidding solutions in combinatorial optimization, Shabbir Ahmed, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
- November 19, 2014, CAP® certification: an international standard, Dr. Louise Wehrle, Manager of the Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) program
- September 18, 2014, Reductions of Approximate Linear Programs for Network Revenue Management, Dan Zhang, Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder
- May 28, 2014, INFORMS Analytics Maturity Model, Norm Reitter, CANA Advisors
- January 23, 2014, A Simulation-Optimization Approach to Estimate Workforce Requirements, Mark Zais & Manuel Laguna, UC Boulder Meeting Announcement
- November 20, 2013, Simulation Optimization: Improving decisions under uncertainty, Marco Better & Fred Glover, OptTek Systems Inc
- September 20, 2013, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: How and How Not to do Quantitative Risk Analysis of Food Safety, Tony Cox, Cox Associates & Doug Popken, Systemsview
- May 16, 2013, Experience from the Field Risk Management Education Tools of the Trade, Jay Parsons, PhD, Optimal Ag Consulting, Inc
- March 21, 2013, Scheduling and Forecasting for Call Center Operations, Dennis Dietz, PhD, CenturyLink
- January 23, 2013, Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics for Increasing Customer Satisfaction, Tony Cox, Cox Associates
- November 29, 2012, A Unified Framework for Combinatorial Optimization, Gary Kochenberger, UC Denver
- September 19, 2012, Causal Modeling vs. Wishful Thinking in Public Health Policy, Tony Cox, Cox Associates
Slides:
- May 10, 2012, Strategic Workforce Optimization, Marco Better and Jay April, OptTek Systems, Inc
- March 8, 2012, Operations Research and Systems Engineering in Healthcare, James Benneyan, NU and CHOT
- January 18, 2012, Monte Carlo Simulation and Stochastic Optimization using Oracle Crystal Ball,Samik Raychaudhuri, Oracle
- November 9, 2011, Got Trash? Extending Vehicle Routing to Optimal Container Management, Doug Popken, Systems View
- September 25, 2011, Measurement for National Security Analysis: Theory, Best Practices and an Illustrative Example, Greg Parnell, USAF Academy
- May 19, 2011, The Wide World of SpORts, Jim Cochran, Louisiana Tech University
- March 17, 2011, Quantitative Approaches to Improve Healthcare Access and Quality, Linda LaGanga, Steve Lawrence, C.J. McKinney, Antonio Olmos, Michele Samorani
- January 20, 2011, Air Traffic Flow Management, Thomas Vossen
- November 18, 2010, Practical Guidelines for Solving Difficult Linear and Mixed Integer Programs, Alexandra Newman
- September 16, 2010, OR in the Rocky Mountains, Manual Laguna, Dick Hewitt, Andy Armacost,
- May 20, 2010 Making Better Decisions: Decision Quality and the Stanford Certificate Program, Jennifer Meyer,
- March 18, 2010 OR at Jeppesen, Benjamin Bryan, Markus Emsermann, Stefan E. Karisch, Casey O’Donnell,
- January 21, 2010 How to be an Effective OR Analyst, Bill Tarantino,
- November 19, 2009, Utilizing Decision Analysis to Establish a Corporate Risk Policy, Michael Walls,
- September 24, 2009, Using Risk Analysis Models to Improve Decisions: From Good Intentions to Good Results, Tony Cox,