DEPARTMENT EVENTS

Colloquia & Special Lectures

Every academic year, Colloquia is held on Mondays at 3:00 PM in Duncan Hall 1064 between the First and Last Days of Classes in each semester. Any talks outside this time and day will be scheduled as a Special Lecture.

Fall 2025


August 25 - Departmental Organizational Meeting

September 1 - Labor Day -- No Classes

September 8 - Raghu Bollapragada
"Title"
Host: Heinkenschloss, Ma

September 15 - Amir Sagiv
"Title"
Host: Anderson

September 22- Timothy Chan -- Special talk as part of Operations Research in Cancer Care Workshop.
Organized by The Center for Operations Research in Cancer (CORC) at Rice University and UT-MD Anderson Cancer Center.
"Old Dog, New Tricks: Modern Healthcare Applications of Classical Operations Research"
Location: BRC Building, 6500 Main St., Houston, TX 77030
More information is available here.

September 29 - Chi-Wang Shu
"Title"
Host: Zhang

October 6 - Jason Altschuler
"Title"
Host: Das Gupta

October 13 - Midterm Recess -- No Classes

October 20 - Ignacio Grossman -- Shell Lecture
"Title"
Host: Schaefer

October 27 - George Biros
"Title"
Host: Anderson

November 3 - Per-Olof Persson
"Title"
Host: Zhang

November 10 - Jianfeng Lu
"Title"
Host: Zhang

November 17 - Oktay Gunluk
"Title"
Host: Perez-Salazar

November 24 - George Lan
"Title"
Host: Das Gupta

December 1 -
"Title"
Host:

Spring 2025

January 12 -
"Title"
Host:

January 19 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day -- No Classes

January 26 - Sven Leyffer
"Title"
Host: Heinkenschloss, Hicks

February 2 -
"Title"
Host:

February 9 -
"Title"
Host:

February 16 -
"Title"
Host:

February 23 - Luis Vicente
"Title"
Host:

March 2 -
"Title"
Host:

March 9 -
"Title"
Host:

March 16 - Spring Break -- No Classes

March 23 -
"Title"
Host:

March 30 -
"Title"
Host:

April 6 -
"Title"
Host:

April 13 - John Urschel -- Putcha Lecture
"Title"
Host: Hicks

April 20 -
"Title"
Host: