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2011-2012

• Joseph Fiksel (Ohio State University), December 1, 2011
• Jonathan Helm (University of Michigan), October 28, 2011

2010-2011

• Srinagesh Gavirneni (Cornell University), May 13, 2011 
• Seventh Annual Workshop on Hot Topics in Supply Chain Analytics, Practice, and Technology, "The Retailer: Supply Chain's Last Mile," May 6, 2011
• Arnoff Lecture: Leonard Kleinrock (UCLA), Thursday May 5, 2011, 7:30p.m., 112 Lindner
• Bogdan Bichescu (University of Tennessee), April 22, 2011
• Jan C. Fransoo (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven), February 18, 2011
• Cole Smith (University of Florida), January 28, 2011
  
• Vinayak Deshpande (Purdue University), November 19, 2010
• John Semple (SMU), October 8, 2010

2009-2010

• Arnoff Lecture: Hau Lee (Stanford), Wednesday May 5, 2010, 7:30p.m., 112 Lindner
• Marc Posner (Ohio State University), April 30, 2010
• John Gray (Ohio State University), April 9, 2010
• Chris Rump (Bowling Green State University), March 12, 2010
• Rescheduled: Wayne Winston (Indiana University), March 5, 2010 ('Spreadsheets' only)
• Kyle Cattani (Indiana University), February 19, 2010
• Wayne Winston (Indiana University), February 4, 2010 ('Mathletics' only)
• Kenneth K. Boyer (Ohio State University), January 15, 2010
• Sixth Annual Workshop on Hot Topics in Supply Chain Analytics, Practice, and Technology, "Sustainability's Impact on the Supply Chain," February 18, 2010
• Ted Allen (Ohio State University), December 4, 2009
• Gil Souza (Indiana University), November 6, 2009
• Goker Aydin (Indiana University), October 30, 2009

2008-2009

• V. Daniel R. Guide, Jr. (The Pennsylvania State University), May 29, 2009
• Arnoff Lecture: Ralph Keeney (Duke University), Wednesday May 6, 2009, 7:30p.m., 112 Lindner
• Amitabh S. Raturi (University of Cincinnati), April 17, 2009 (joint seminar with Department of Accounting)
• Daniel Solow (Case Western Reserve University), March 13, 2009
• Jim Jacobs (Procter & Gamble), February 27, 2009
• Matthew J. Sobel (Case Western Reserve University), December 5, 2008
• Fifth Annual Workshop on Hot Topics in Supply Chain Analytics, Practice, and Technology, "The Changing Economics of the Global Supply Chain," November 10, 2008

2007-2008

• Arnoff Lecture: Michael Trick (Carnegie Mellon University), Wednesday June 4, 2008, 7:30p.m., 112 Lindner
• Suvrajeet Sen (Ohio State University), May 30, 2008
• Alex Lin (University of Cincinnati), May 2, 2008
• Michael Gorman (University of Dayton), April 18, 2008
• Kipp Martin (University of Chicago), March 14, 2008
• Fourth Annual Workshop on Hot Topics in Supply Chain Analytics, Practice, and Technology, "Supply Chain Planning in the 21st Century: Dealing with Risk in a Lean Environment," November 29, 2007
• Brian Denton (North Carolina State University), October 29, 2007
• Chanaka Edirisinghe (University of Tennessee), October 19, 2007

2006-2007

• Frank Ciarallo (Wright State University), May 25, 2007
• Arnoff Lecture: Yossi Sheffi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Thursday April 19, 2007, 7:30p.m., 112 Lindner
• Richard Metters (Emory University), April 12, 2007
• Michael Magazine (University of Cincinnati), March 30, 2007
• Jay Lee (University of Cincinnati), February 23, 2007
• Robert Shumsky (Dartmouth), January 26, 2007
• Barrett Thomas (University of Iowa), November 17, 2006
• Third Annual Workshop on Hot Topics in Supply Chain Analytics, Practice, and Technology, "Auto-Identification (RFID) in Action: State-of-the-Art and Beyond," October 26, 2006
• Tim K. Keyes (General Electric Corporate Research and Development), October 20, 2006
• Gilvan "Gil" C. Souza (University of Maryland), September 29, 2006

2005-2006

• Kipp Martin (University of Chicago), June 2, 2006
• Arnoff Lecture:  Karla L. Hoffman (George Mason University), Thursday May 25, 2006, 7:30p.m., 112 Lindner
• Seb Heese (Indiana University), May 12, 2006  [Full Paper]  [Executive Summary]
• Matt Bailey (University of Pittsburgh), May 5, 2006
• James J. Cochran (Louisiana Tech University), April 14, 2006
• Lisa Maillart (Case Western Reserve University), March 31, 2006
• John Bryant (University of Pittsburgh), January 20, 2006
• William R. Pulleyblank (IBM Business Consulting Services), October 21, 2005
• Eleni Pratsini (IBM Zurich Research Lab), October 18, 2005

2004-2005

• Arnoff Lecture:  William P. Pierskalla (University of California, Los Angeles), Thursday May 12, 2005, 7:30p.m., 112 Lindner
• Yingyi Chu (Imperial College, London), January 14, 2005

2003-2004

• Arnoff Lecture: Marshall L. Fisher (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania), Thursday May 27, 2004, 7:30p.m., 112 Lindner
• Michael F. Gorman (University of Dayton), May 21, 2004
• Jeffrey Ohlmann (University of Iowa), November 6, 2003
• Jack Kanet (University of Dayton), October 24, 2003
• Abraham Grosfeld-Nir, Shoshana Anily, and Tal Ben-Zvi (Academic College of Tel-Aviv-Yaffo, Israel), October 3, 2003

2002-2003

• Michael J. Fry, Michael J. Magazine, and Uday S. Rao (University of Cincinnati), May 30, 2003
• Roman Kapuscinski (The University of Michigan), May 16, 2003
• Arnoff Lecture: Gary Lilien (The Pennsylvania State University), Thursday May 8, 2003, 7:30p.m., 112 Lindner
• John Bryant (University of Pittsburgh), April 18, 2003
• Michael C. Fu (University of Maryland), March 14, 2003, sponsored jointly with the Systems Modeling & Information Technology Laboratory of the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering and Computer Science
• Linus E. Schrage (University of Chicago), February 7, 2003
• Timothy J. Lowe (The University of Iowa), December 13, 2002
• Tushar Mehta and Phillip Lederer (University of Rochester), September 25, 2002

2001-2002

• George G. Polak (Wright State University), July 23, 2002
• Daniel Mihalko (Western Michigan University), June 4, 2002
• Arnoff Lecture: John R. Birge (Northwestern University), May 30, 2002
• Greg Allenby (The Ohio State University), February 15, 2002
• Amy Cohn (MIT), November 29, 2001
• Eleni Pratsini (Institute of Operations Research (IFOR) at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich), October 9, 2001

2000-2001

• Arnoff Lecture: Robert E.D. (Gene) Woolsey (Colorado School of Mines), May 11, 2001
• Emmanuel Fernandez (University of Cincinnati), December 1, 2000
• Robert A. Shumsky (University of Rochester), November 17, 2000
• Jan Van Mieghem (Northwestern University), October 6, 2000

1999-2000

• Edward H. Kaplan and Stanley J. Garstka (Yale University), May 26, 2000
• Arnoff Lecture: Edward H. Kaplan (Yale University), May 25, 2000
• Leroy B. Schwarz (Purdue University), May 19, 2000
• Sean P. Willems (University of Cincinnati), April 28, 2000
• Keely L. Croxton (The Ohio State University), December 3, 1999
• Ingolf Stahl (Stockholm School of Economics), November 12, 1999
• George G. Polak (Wright State University), October 29, 1999
• Anand Paul (University of Cincinnati), October 22, 1999

1998-1999

• Alan J. Stenger (The Pennsylvania State University), May 21, 1999
• Kenneth W. Bauer, Jr. (Air Force Institute of Technology), May 14, 1999
• Ton G. de Kok (Eindhoven University of Technology), May 7, 1999
• Arnoff Lecture: Arnold I. Barnett (MIT), May 6, 1999
• George M. Polak (Wright State University), Amy M. Cohn (MIT), and Michael J. Magazine (University of Cincinnati), April 16, 1999
• Stephen M. Gilbert (Case Western Reserve University), April 2, 1999
• Hirofumi Matsuo (The University of Texas at Austin), February 19, 1999
• Tim K. Keyes (General Electric Corporate Research and Development), January 22, 1999
• Jon Lee (University of Kentucky), December 4, 1998
• Marc E. Posner (The Ohio State University), November 6, 1998

1997-1998

• M. Eric Johnson (Vanderbilt University), May 29, 1998
• Arnoff Lecture: Steven C. Wheelwright (Harvard University), May 14, 1998
• Michael J. Magazine (University of Cincinnati) and George G. Polak (Wright State University), April 3, 1998
• John E. Ettlie (The University of Michigan), November 7, 1997
• Bruce W. Schmeiser (Purdue University), October 17, 1997

1996-1997

• Arnoff Lecture: John D.C. Little (MIT), May 15, 1997
• Nicholas G. Hall and Marc E. Posner (The Ohio State University), May 9, 1997
• David J. Curry. Edward Thompson, George A. Bécus, and Norman T. Bruvold (University of Cincinnati), April 18, 1997
• Panos Kouvelis (Washington University), March 14, 1997
• Mark J. Nigrini (St. Mary's University; Ernst and Young) and Linda J. Mittermaier (Captial University), January 17, 1997
• Franz Dill (The Procter and Gamble Company), November 22, 1996
• Albert D. Baker (University of Cincinnati), October 25, 1996