Events

 

MIE department will welcome new students on January 15th. Meet us and get yourself familiar with our team, professional activities and social events. 2021 is a busy year for INFORMS / CORS student chapters with UofT being one of the organizers of this year’s CORS annual meeting. Therefore we are actively recruiting new members for various open positions. Hope to see you all there!

Join us for our next online workshop “Operations Research in Python“, followed by a 30-minutes socialization and Q&A session. This course is part of the AI & Optimization Crash Course Series. Registration is free but required for all participants. A Zoom link will be sent out to the email provided in the registration form.

When: October 28th-29th at 5-6 pm EDT (GMT -4)
Instructor: Maryam Daryalal (Bio)

Day 1 topics:

• • • Install and setup Gurobi in Python
    • Solve a linear programming model with Gurobi
    • Input/output management
    • Model modification
    • Warm start for LP/IP models
    • Handling infeasibility

Day 2 topics:

• • •  Branch & bound for IP models
    •  Callbacks in branch and bound
    •  Access to information of nodes while solving
    •  Modify the model during solve
    • A sneak peek at Column Generation in Gurobi

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Join us for our next online workshop “Reinforcement Learning“, followed by a 30-minutes socialization and Q&A session. This course is part of the AI & Optimization Crash Course Series. Registration is free but required for all participants. A Zoom link will be sent out to the email provided in the registration form.

When: October 26th-27th at 5-6 pm EDT (GMT -4)
Instructor: Peyman Kafaei (Bio)

Day 1 topics:

• • • Reinforcement Learning (RL) vs Supervised/Unsupervised Learning
    • Introduction to RL
    • Markov decision processes
    • Elements of RL

Day 2 topics:

• • • Model free prediction and control
    • Monte Carlo methods
    • Temporal difference learning
    • Tabular mehtods vs approximation methods

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Join us for our next online workshop “Data Science in Python“, followed by a 30-minutes socialization and Q&A session. This course is part of the AI & Optimization Crash Course Series. Registration is free but required for all participants. A Zoom link will be sent out to the email provided in the registration form.

When: October 21st-22nd at 5-6 pm EDT (GMT -4)
Instructor: Javad Soltani Rad (Bio)

‌‌Day 1 topics:

• • •  Data visualization in Python
    •  Introduction to Machine Learning (ML)
    • Preparing data for ML models
    • Classification example in Python

Day 2 topics:

• • •  Regression example in Python
    •  Unsupervised Learning (clustering) example in Python
    • Introduction to Deep Learning
    • Python tools for industrializing ML applications

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Join us for our next online workshop “Data Engineering in Python“, followed by a 30-minutes socialization and Q&A session. This course is part of the AI & Optimization Crash Course Series. Registration is free but required for all participants. A Zoom link will be sent out to the email provided in the registration form.

When: October 20th at 5-6 pm EDT (GMT -4)
Instructor: Aida Khayatian (Bio)

Topics:

• • •  Python libraries for data analysis
    •  Reading data
    • Inspecting and aggregating data with Pandas
    • Exporting data with Pandas

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