Flash Talks

10-Minute Flash Talk Competition

Registration

Selected students will give 10-minute flash talks—standout presentations will earn cash prizes! Scroll down for details on prizes and available partial travel support.

Registrations for the Flash Talk Competition are closed.

Prizes, Rules, Judges, and Logistics

We are pleased to announce the following prizes:

First Place: $200
Second Place: $150
Third Place: $100
Fan Favorite: $50

The competition will feature three faculty judges who will select the top three presenters. We will also have a fan favorite presentation voted by general attendees. Please review the following guidelines:

Accepted participants will have 10 minutes to present their work.
Each talk will receive scores from the judges.
Slides or whiteboard can be used to present visuals or math expressions.

Judges: Emily Diana, Michael Li, Andrew Li.

The CMU INFORMS chapter will provide accommodation for one night if needed for accepted flash talk presenters. Hotel rooms will be shared with one other person. We cannot provide travel reimbursements.

YinzOR 2025 Flash Talks

Localized Exploration in Contextual Dynamic Pricing

Jinhang Chai, Princeton University

The Price of Sparsity: Sufficient Conditions for Sparse Recovery using Sparse and Sparsified Measurements

Youssef Chaabouni, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

On the equivalence of zero-sum games and conic programs

Nikolaos Dimou, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Privacy-Preserving Data-Driven Inventory Management

Lorraine Yuan, Cornell Tech

Robust Paths: Geometry and Computation

Hao Hao, Carnegie Mellon University

Improved Algorithms for Fair Matroid Submodular Maximization

Sherry Sarkar, Carnegie Mellon University

Fulfillment by Amazon: Platform Competition and Antitrust Implications

Yao Li, Northwestern University

On Fast Convergence for Semidefinite Optimization Problems

Pouya Sampourmahani, Lehigh University