Events for Thursday, February 7, 2013

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1. Thursday, February 7, 2013

   1. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmPat
      Yoga
      CRCE MP 2
   2. 12:00 pm - 1:00 pmPat
      Yoga (Bring Yoga Mat)
      CRCE MP2
   3. 4:00 pm - 5:00 pmKatie
      Yoga (Bring Yoga Mat)
      ARC MP 2
   4. 5:10 pm - 5:50 pmTina
      Cardio H2O
      CRCE Aquatics Center
   5. 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

      Dr. Sunil Kumar
      PhD Electrical & Computer Engineering '96

       

      Sunil Kumar is Dean and George Pratt Shultz Professor of Operations Management at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

       

      Dr. Kumar’s academic research includes performance evaluation and control of manufacturing systems, service operations, and communications networks. In particular, he studies systems affected by stochastic variability via mathematical models. He also studies application of optimization methods and control theory to managerial problems. Dr. Kumar has published dozens of scholarly research articles and has served as the editor of the Stochastic Models area of the journal Operations Research. He co-developed a widely used factory simulator for teaching operations management. The simulator, “Littlefield Technologies,” has been used in classes at more than 50 business and engineering schools. He also served as an operations consultant to several companies.

       

      Dr. Kumar joined the Chicago Booth faculty on January 1, 2011, after spending 14 years on the faculty of the Stanford University Graduate School of Business where he also served as senior associate dean for academic affairs, overseeing the school’s MBA program and leading faculty groups in marketing and organizational behavior.

       

      Born in India, Dr. Kumar received a Master of Engineering degree in computer science and automation from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Mangalore University in Surathkal. He earned a PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

      
      Engineering at Illinois Event in Yorktown Heights, NY at IBM
      

      IBM - TJ Watson Research Center
      Cafeteria
      1101 New York 134
      Yorktown Heights, New York
   6. 5:30 pm - 6:30 pmLesa
      RIPPED
      CRCE MAC
   7. 5:30 pm - 6:30 pmSara
      Zumba
      ARC MP 2
   8. 5:45 pm - 6:30 pmRose
      Cycle (call ahead)
      ARC Cycling Studio
   9. 6:00 pm - 7:00 pmCourtney
      Illini Iron (call ahead)
      ARC MP 4
   10. 6:00 pm - 7:00 pmPaula
       Zumba
       CRCE MP 1
   11. 6:45 pm - 7:30 pmMaddie
       MVE Pilates (call ahead)
       ARC MP 2
   12. 7:00 pm - 7:50 pmDavid
       Cycle (call ahead)
       ARC Cycling Studio
   13. 7:15 pm - 8:15 pmLauren
       Yoga (Bring Yoga Mat)
       CRCE MP2
   14. 7:30 pm - 8:30 pmStella
       Yoga (Bring Yoga Mat)
       ARC MP 4