The School of Management at The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) will host the International Conference of Management Sciences: Optimization Models & Applications May 20-22, in honor of professor Suresh Sethi and to recognize his contributions to the field of management sciences. A highlight of the event will be a May 21 keynote speech by the Nobel laureate in economics, Dr. Harry M. Markowitz.
Markowitz is a 1990 winner of the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his theory of portfolio choice. His talk, titled “A Detailed, Asynchronous Stock Market Simulator,” is free and open to the public and begins at 9:30 a.m. in the School of Management Auditorium.
 Professor Suresh Sethi will be recognized for his contributions to the field of management sciences on May 22 in the School of Management Auditorium. |
Scholars from around the world are scheduled to deliver papers at the conference on a range of topics that include supply chain management, control and game models in marketing, economics and financial engineering, flexible manufacturing systems and optimal control theory and applications.
Friends, colleagues, classmates, students, postdoctoral fellows and teachers of Sethi, who is UTD’s Ashbel Smith Professor of Operations Management and director of the university’s Center for Intelligent Supply Networks, arranged the conference. Organizers said they wanted to recognize his profound influence on the field of operations research and optimal control communities as well as his service to their professions. Sethi has made fundamental contributions to operations management, marketing, industrial engineering, finance and economics, conference organizers noted.
More information about the conference is available at http://som.utdallas.edu/sethi/.
