23rd Annual E. Leonard Arnoff Memorial Lecture
on the Practice of Management Science
A Fellows of the Graduate School Lecture
“Data-Driven Operation Research
Analyses in the Public Sector”
Lawrence M. Wein, Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor of
Management Science, Graduate School of Business,
Stanford University
7:30 P.M., Monday, March 31, 2014
Fealy Auditorium, Room 112, Carl H. Lindner Hall
Carl H. Lindner College of Business, University of Cincinnati
I will describe several recent projects in the public sector, including screening
and treatment for childhood obesity, allocating blood for transfusions, optimizing
ballistic imaging performance using spatiotemporal crime data, allocating ready-to-use
food to undernourished children in developing countries, and optimizing the biometric
aspects of India's universal identification (UIDAI) program. Each project started with a
large longitudinal data set that guided the mathematical modeling, and resulted in a
recommended policy that outperforms the current policy. I will briefly describe the
problem motivation, the data set, the mathematical model (which was embedded into
an optimization problem), the statistical analysis required to calibrate the model, the
numerical results from solving the optimization problem, and the policy implications.
Reception Follows, 1st Floor Lobby, Carl H. Lindner Hall
Sponsors: Department of Operations, Business Analytics, & Information Systems
Carl H. Lindner College of Business Alumni Board of Governors
Cincinnati/Dayton INFORMS Chapter & UC INFORMS Student Chapter
http://business.uc.edu/departments/obais.html
Free & Open to the Public.
Information: (513)556-7140 or
David.Rogers@UC.edu
Lawrence M. Wein
Lawrence M. Wein is the Jeffrey S. Skoll Professor of Management
Science at the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He
received a B.S. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from
Cornell University in 1979 and a Ph.D. in Operations Research at Stanford
University in 1988. He was a professor at MIT's Sloan School of
Management from 1988 to 2002. His research interests are in operations
management and public health, including problems in mathematical
medicine, mathematical biology and homeland security. He was Editor-inChief of Operations Research from 2000 to 2005. He has been awarded a
Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Erlang Prize, the Koopman
Prize, the INFORMS Expository Writing Award, the Philip McCord Morse
Lectureship, the INFORMS President’s Award, the Frederick W.
Lanchester Prize, the George E. Kimball Medal, and a best paper award
from Risk Analysis. He is an INFORMS Fellow, a M&SOM Fellow and a
member of the National Academy of Engineering.