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Brown Bag Session by: Prof. Iravani
Tuesday May 13, 2008 at 12:40 PM — Tech Bldg Room C211
Industrial Brown Bag
For more information, contact:
Yao Cheng
yaocheng2009@u.northwestern.edu
(847) 491-4394
Industrial Engineering/ Management Sciences
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Seminar by: Marshall Fisher, University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday May 13, 2008 at 4:00 PM — Tech Bldg Room M228
Topic: Retail Assortment Optimization
Speaker: Marshall Fisher
Abstract: We consider the problem of choosing, from a set of N potential SKUs in a retail category, K SKUs to be carried at each store so as to maximize sales or a defined profit function.
Assortments can vary by store, subject to a maximum number of different assortments.
We describe an approach in which we view a SKU as a set of attribute values, use sales history of the SKUs currently carried by the retailer to estimate the demand for attribute values and from this, the demand for any potential SKU, including those not currently carried by the retailer. We also introduce a model of substitution behavior, estimate the parameters of this model and consider the impact of substitution in choosing assortments.
We use maximum likelihood estimation to fit the parameters of our model and describe several alternative heuristics for choosing SKUs. We describe application of this approach to optimize assortments for tow real examples, tires and snack foods, which produced sales lifts of 52% and 48% respectively. This is joint work with Ramnath Vaidyanathan, a PhD student in Operations and Information Management at Wharton.
For more information, contact:
Gwen Hoffman
g-hoffman2@northwestern.edu
(847) 491-3576
Industrial Engineering/ Management Sciences
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Nanotechnology Town Hall Meeting
Tuesday May 13, 2008 at 5:30 PM — Pancoe Abbott Auditorium
Guest Speaker: Professor Fraser Stoddart
Professor Stoddart is a pioneer in the fields of nanoscience and organic chemistry and recently joined the Northwestern University faculty as the Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry and Director of the new Center for Chemistry in Integrated Systems. A native of Edinburgh, Scotland, Stoddart was appointed by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II as a Knight Bachelor in her 2007 New Year's Honors List for his services to chemistry and molecular nanotechnology.
Discussion Moderator: Dr. Stuart Ray Sarbacker
Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Religion.
Town Hall Meetings Series
Nanotechnology has been heralded as having the potential to lead to the next industrial revolution. But, what is nanotechnology? What are the possible applications and how might it impact our world?
The Town Hall meetings series include an informative lecture by world-renown scientists and engineers, followed by your questions. The goal of these meetings is to provide an opportunity for the community to learn the fundamentals about nanotechnology and to explore the larger questions about the smallest technology. We invite you to join us! Sponsored by the International Institute for Nanotechnology and the Northwestern University Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center and Center for Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence.
Event URL: http://www.nsec.northwestern.edu/townhalls.htm
For more information, contact:
Denise Dooley
nanotechnology@northwestern.edu
847-467-4862
International Institute for Nanotechnology
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