Events

Join us to find out what disability looks like on UA’s campus, common accommodations necessary to create access for students, and learn how to develop inclusive accessibility statements. Student narratives will also be presented to help inform how we can foster a more inclusive Culverhouse community! All faculty, staff, and graduate students are welcome and encouraged to attend.

The TRiO program is a support program housed under the Capstone Center for Student Success. The TRiO Program is capped at 200 students and 45 of these are Culverhouse students! This is a come and go event and you are welcome to bring your lunch! Please come for any amount of time that you have available! I’ll provide some light refreshments and drinks. Students will be asked to introduce themselves to Culverhouse faculty and staff and to obtain three business cards from faculty and staff at the meet and greet event.

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Celebrate Hispanic/Latino/Latinx Heritage Month with us to learn about Hispanic and Latin American countries and how business is conducted in these countries. Students in Diana Gomez’s IBA 351 class will present their findings on the first floor of Bidgood Hall.

This September 19th, The EDGE will again host our monthly Open Mic Pitch event. It’s easy, and it’s fun. If you have a new idea or one that you’ve been working on for some time, grab a microphone and shout out your idea. You will get applause, experience momentary fandom and also get some feedback to help you move your idea forward. Attendance is free and food and drinks will be provided.

Guest Speaker: Ken Gillingham, Yale University

Overview

Find your place at the premier graduate business school in the SEC at the University of Alabama. Discovery Day includes a discussion with a panel of MBA and Specialized Master’s alumni and current students, time to meet with program coordinators, a mock classroom session and a lunch.

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Agenda

Join the growing startup community on Thursday, September 26th at Innisfree. Startup drinks is a grassroots effort that has sprung up in cities around the world where people gather around a bar to have a drink, discuss what they are working on, what they need help with, and what they can do for each other. No presentations. No pitches, just drinks and startup talk. Existing or aspiring entrepreneurs of all types and ages are welcome.

A finance seminar is given by Indraneel Chakraborty

THE IMPACT OF PARKING ON THE USE OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES IN URBAN DELIVERY

On Friday, September 27, the University of Alabama Students INFORMS chapter and the Alabama Transportation Institute will host Ann Melissa Campbell for a seminar talk on the future use of autonomous vehicles. Campbell is the Tippie Professor of Business Analytics at the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. She holds a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and is the president-elect of the Transportation Science and Logistics Society of INFORMS. In the past, she has won an NSF CAREER award. 

Campbell’s research focuses on the development of new and emerging transportation techniques, including the use of autonomous vehicles for deliveries. On average, a driver spends nine minutes searching for a parking spot which accumulates to approximately 17 hours a year. Campbell’s talk offers insight on why delivery companies are actively looking at autonomous vehicle delivery, the expected results of the switch, as well as the cost and structure of optimal solutions.

The September SEiR-F session is a series of presentations for faculty who have received grants through the SEiR-F program. Each presentation will last 30 minutes followed by 15 minutes for questions. Light snacks will be served immediately afterward.

1. Peter Magnusson & Stanford Westjohn

Presentation: Trust Propensity across Cultures: Effects of Individualist and Collectivist Values

Does individualism – collectivism influence an individual’s willingness to trust others? Grounded in social projection theory, we find evidence that collectivism influences an individual’s propensity to trust, mediated by a perceived collectivism consensus. Study 1 establishes correlational evidence between societal-level collectivism and individual-level trust propensity with results from a multi-level analysis of data from over 6,000 respondents in 36 different countries. Study 2 contributes causal evidence at the individual level based on experiments in both the US and China. We prime independent versus interdependent self-construal and isolate the mechanism, perceived collectivism consensus, through which one’s own collectivism value influences trust. Finally, Study 3 identifies a boundary condition and examines the extent to which values are projected onto in-group versus out-group members, and the subsequent effect on trust propensity.

2. Matt Van Essen

Presentation: Fair Allocations in the Assignment Problem

The assignment problem is concerned with how to best assign N different items to N different agents. It is a fundamental problem in combinatorial optimization with natural applications in economics and operations research. In this paper we introduce a “balanced price” algorithm for solving the assignment problem. We show that this algorithm essentially defines a dynamic auction for solving assignment problems when items are commonly owned. Our main result is that if bidders use “reasonable” bidding strategies, then the auction’s allocation will be both efficient and envy free (i.e., fair).

3. Subha Chakraborti

Presentation: Control Charts for Statistical Process Monitoring in Some Nonstandard Situations

Process monitoring with control charts is considered for the balanced random effects model under normality. Our methodology takes account of the randomness of the batches, the effects of parameter estimation with retrospective data and uses the appropriate metric to design the chart. In Phase I, a Shewhart X ̅ chart is proposed and designed for a specified false alarm probability (FAP). The required charting constants are derived and tabulated. Illustrations are provided with data. Performance of the chart is examined in terms of robustness and out-of-control shift detection ability. Various generalizations and works in-progress are briefly indicated.