CITRIS Distinguished Speaker: Brenda Dietrich from IBM

• February 20, 2008: 4:00pm - 5:00pm
• Location: 540 Cory Hall, UC Berkeley

Brenda Dietrich, IBM Fellow and Vice President, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

 

Abstract:

Most operations research (OR) models for the services industry focus on business to consumer services, and consider issues such as offering composition, channel management, pricing, and staffing. The business services segment, in which one enterprise performs a business function for another enterprise, has received relatively little attention, despite its recent rapid growth. This talk will outline some of the opportunities for OR in business services.

 

Biography:

 

Brenda Dietrich is an IBM Fellow and Vice President of the Business Analytics and Mathematical Sciences Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. She holds a BS in Mathematics from UNC and an MS and Ph.D. in OR/IE from Cornell. Her research includes manufacturing scheduling, services resource management, transportation logistics, integer programming, and combinatorial duality.

 

 

 

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