JUIT, Waknaghat
SIAM JUIT chapter successfully conducted the foremost seminar of its Distinguished Speaker Seminar Series, the front-running events of the Student Chapter.
The seminar was attended by the Vice-Chancellor Prof. (Dr.) Rajendra Kumar Sharma, Dean (Academics and Research) Prof. (Dr.) Ashok Kumar Gupta, Founding Faculty Advisor Prof. (Dr.) Vivek Kumar Sehgal and other faculty members of the University.
The speaker for the seminar was Dr. Mark S. Squillante, Distinguished Research Staff Member and Manager of Foundations of Probability, Dynamics and Control at IBM Research, for the agenda “Decision making under Uncertainty”.
He also served as Director of the Center for Optimization under Uncertainty Research across IBM Research and has been an adjunct faculty member in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell Tech and the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University, and a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Telephone Laboratories. The seminar was hosted by Achyut Tiwari, President of SIAM JUIT & Ashima Pal, Vice President of SIAM JUIT.
The seminar concluded with a Q&A session with the attendees, where both the faculty and the students asked their queries and discussed a few interesting applications of the discipline.
