Title: Performance-Based Contracts for Outpatient Medical ServicesSpeaker: Dr. Houyuan Jiang - Senior Lecturer in Management ScienceAffiliation: Judge Business School - University of CambridgeLocation: Room 218 Huxley BuildingTime: 2:00pmAbstract. In recent years, the performance-based approach to contracting for medical services has been gaining popularity across different healthcare delivery systems, both in the US (under the name... Read more »

Title: Complexity and heuristics in stochastic optimizationSpeaker: Prof. Teemu Pennanen - Professor of Mathematical Finance Probability and StatisticsAffiliation: King's College LondonLocation: Room 218 Huxley BuildingTime: 2:00pmAbstract. Combining recent results on numerical integration and convex optimization, we derive a polynomial bound on the worst case complexity of a class of static stochastic optimization problems. We then... Read more »

Title: Enclosing with Simple BodiesSpeaker: Dr. Selin Damla Ahipasaoglu - research officerAffiliation: Management Science Group at LSELocation: Room 217 Huxley BuildingTime: 2:00pmAbstract. The Minimum Volume Enclosing Ellipsoid and Minimum Enclosing Ball problems are related to covering a given set of points with an ellipsoid or a ball with the smallest volume possible. These problems have... Read more »