Quantitative Methods Seminar
Quantitative Methods Seminar
The Purdue Quantitative Methods (QM) Seminar is a weekly seminar organized by the Quantitative Methods Department at Purdue University, Daniels School of Business. The seminar invites internal and external speakers to present their research on topics at the intersection of operations research, optimization, statistics and their applications.
Purdue students and faculty may subscribe to our mailing list: qm-seminar@lists.purdue.edu (subscribe here).
If you are interested in giving a talk in our seminar, please contact Billy Jin or Alex L. Wang.
Schedules for previous semesters: Spring 2026, Fall 2025
For Fall 2026, all seminars are Fridays, 1:30-3pm in RAWLS 2077 / RAWLS 1011, unless otherwise specified.
Sept 4, 1:30-3pm, RAWLS 2077
Eilon Solan (Tel-Aviv University Math)
Adversarial Selection
Abstract: We study the best way (according to appropriate criteria) to select a sample from a given population, when the selection is influenced by two antagonistic parties. Three examples are the selection of representative cases in multi-district litigations, the selection of jurors, and the selection of house committees.
Bio: Eilon Solan is the Dr. Irene Halmos Chair of Game Theory at the School of Mathematical Sciences in Tel-Aviv University, Israel, and the director of the Good To Know project.
Sept 11, 1:30-3pm, RAWLS 2077
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Sept 18, 1:30-3pm, RAWLS 2077
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Sept 25, 1:30-3pm, RAWLS 2077
Liwei Jiang (Purdue IE)
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Oct 2, 1:30-3pm, RAWLS 2077
Feng Ruan (Northwestern University, Statistics and Data Science)
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Oct 9 No seminar (Purdue Fall Break)
Oct 16, 1:30-3pm, RAWLS 1011
Simge Küçükyavuz (Northwestern University IEMS)
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Oct 23, 1:30-3pm, RAWLS 101
Vinayak Rao (Purdue Stats)
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Oct 30, 1:30-3pm, RAWLS 1011
Emma Jingfei Zhang (Emory University ISOM)
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Nov 6 No seminar
Nov 13, 1:30-3pm, RAWLS 1011
Eric Mazumdar (CalTech CMS, Econ)
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Nov 20, 1:30-3pm, RAWLS 1011
Josh Chan (Purdue Econ)
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Nov 27 No seminar (Thanksgiving break)
Dec 4, 1:30-3pm, RAWLS 1011
Andrew Li (CMU Tepper)
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Dec 11, 1:30-3pm, RAWLS 1011
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