May 2021
Mobility Forum: A New Approach for Vehicle Routing with Stochastic Demand: Combining Route Assignment with Process Flexibility
David Simchi-Levi (MIT)
online
A weekly seminar series, the MIT Mobility Forum offers an opportunity to showcase the groundbreaking transportation research occurring across the Institute. Faculty members and researchers present their latest findings, ideas, and innovations, followed by a lively discussion. More details can be found at: www.mobilityinitative.mit.edu/mobilityforum Please register at Zoom prior to the seminar.
Find out more »April 2021
Mobility Forum: Research trends in transportation: A conversation with the editor of Transportation Research Part B: Methodological
Chandra Bhat (MIT)
online
A weekly seminar series, the MIT Mobility Forum offers an opportunity to showcase the groundbreaking transportation research occurring across the Institute. Faculty members and researchers present their latest findings, ideas, and innovations, followed by a lively discussion. More details can be found at: www.mobilityinitative.mit.edu/mobilityforum Please register at Zoom prior to the seminar.
Find out more »Mobility Forum: New statistical paradigms for optimizing transportation
Patrick Jaillet (MIT)
online
A weekly seminar series, the MIT Mobility Forum offers an opportunity to showcase the groundbreaking transportation research occurring across the Institute. Faculty members and researchers present their latest findings, ideas, and innovations, followed by a lively discussion. More details can be found at: www.mobilityinitative.mit.edu/mobilityforum Please register at Zoom prior to the seminar.
Find out more »Mobility Forum: Cybersecurity and the Future of Transportation
Sanjay Sarma (MIT)
online
A weekly seminar series, the MIT Mobility Forum offers an opportunity to showcase the groundbreaking transportation research occurring across the Institute. Faculty members and researchers present their latest findings, ideas, and innovations, followed by a lively discussion. More details can be found at: www.mobilityinitative.mit.edu/mobilityforum Please register at Zoom prior to the seminar.
Find out more »Mobility Forum: Tri-POP, an online Prediction, Optimization and Personalization platform for on-demand mobility and e-commerce deliveries
Moshe Ben-Akiva (MIT)
online
A weekly seminar series, the MIT Mobility Forum offers an opportunity to showcase the groundbreaking transportation research occurring across the Institute. Faculty members and researchers present their latest findings, ideas, and innovations, followed by a lively discussion. More details can be found at: www.mobilityinitative.mit.edu/mobilityforum Please register at Zoom prior to the seminar.
Find out more »Mobility Forum: Online-retailing and transportation systems
Steve Graves (MIT)
online
A weekly seminar series, the MIT Mobility Forum offers an opportunity to showcase the groundbreaking transportation research occurring across the Institute. Faculty members and researchers present their latest findings, ideas, and innovations, followed by a lively discussion. More details can be found at: www.mobilityinitative.mit.edu/mobilityforum Please register at Zoom prior to the seminar.
Find out more »Sampler for the Wasserstein barycenter
Thibaut Le Gouic (MIT)
online
Abstract: Wasserstein barycenters have become a central object in applied optimal transport as a tool to summarize complex objects that can be represented as distributions. Such objects include posterior distributions in Bayesian statistics, functions in functional data analysis and images in graphics. In a nutshell a Wasserstein barycenter is a probability distribution that provides a compelling summary of a finite set of input distributions. While the question of computing Wasserstein barycenters has received significant attention, this talk focuses on a…
Find out more »March 2021
Starr Forum: On Causes of and Responses to Anti-Asian Violence
online
Please register for this Zoom event at http://bit.ly/AntiAsianViolence Speakers: Welcome Melissa Nobles, Dean of School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, MIT On History and Current Scope of Anti-Asian Violence Paul Watanabe, University of Massachusetts Boston On the Context for and Reactions to the Atlanta Murders Katharine Moon, Wellesley College On Implications and Legislative Responses Tram T Nguyen, Massachusetts State Representative and House Asian Caucus Moderators: Kenneth Oye and Christine Pilcavage, MIT
Find out more »MIT Engagement Forum 1: Research collaborations to decarbonize the energy system
online
Co-presented by the MIT Office of the Vice President for Research and the MIT Energy Initiative As MIT prepares to issue a new Plan for Action on Climate Change later this spring, it is important that we assess both progress to date and areas where new and more ambitious action is necessary. To that end, the Office of the Vice President for Research (VPR) is working with a variety of units throughout the Institute to solicit ideas for how MIT…
Find out more »Mobility Forum: Supply Chain management beyond Covid-19
Yossi Sheffi (MIT)
online
A weekly seminar series, the MIT Mobility Forum offers an opportunity to showcase the groundbreaking transportation research occurring across the Institute. Faculty members and researchers present their latest findings, ideas, and innovations, followed by a lively discussion. More details can be found at: www.mobilityinitative.mit.edu/mobilityforum Please register at Zoom prior to the seminar.
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