The First International Workshop on Advanced Topics in Operations Management (Mostly OM) took place at Tsinghua SEM during May 26-28, 2010.

The event aims to foster exchanges and learning, as well as explore collaborative opportunities in operations management studies. The workshop was hosted by the Research Center of Contemporary Management and the Department of Management Science and Engineering. It was also supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China.

The workshop consisted of three tutorials and a series of invited talks. During the three-day discussion, eighteen scholars and leading young researchers from home and abroad presented ideas and findings in the state-of-the-art operations management research.

More than 200 professors and doctoral students in different regions of the world registered for the event.

Professor CHEN Jian, Chair of the Department of Management Science and Engineering and Co-Director of the workshop, opened the event with a speech. Co-Directors of the workshop also include: Professor David Yao of Columbia University, Professor Jim Dai of Georgia Institute of Technology and Professor Xiuli Chao of University of Michigan. David Yao, Jim Dai and Xiuli Chao are all Chair Professors of SEM.

Tutorial speakers of the workshop were Professor Assaf Zeevi of Columbia University, Professor Max Zuo-Jun Shen of UC Berkeley, and Associate Professor Retsef Levi of MIT, their topics ranging from dynamic pricing, ‘learning and earning’ problem, decision making with limited information and stochastic control models.

The workshop is a nonpareil event for operations management studies in the Asia-Pacific region in terms of the level of speakers, as well as both quality and quantity of reports presented.

It is a top world-class conference that meets the highest global standards, said William F. Pounds, Professor Emeritus of MIT's Sloan School of Management.

Mostly OM will be an annual international event in the future, continuously providing a high-level platform for academic exchange.