The Mathematics of Scheduling Major League Baseball

Undergraduate Mathematics Seminar
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 - 16:30 to 17:30
104 Thaw Hall
Speaker Information
Michael Trick
Senior Associate Dean, Faculty & Research|Harry B & James H Higgins Prof of Operations Research
Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

Abstract or Additional Information

Professor Trick is responsible for scheduling Major League Baseball as well as its umpires and most NCAA Division 1 athletic conferences.  As his undergraduate degree is a Bachelor of Mathematics, Combinatorics and Optimization, and Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, he will discuss the mathematics of scheduling team sports.  Though this is a nontrivial problem involving Graph Theory and Operations Research, the talk will be very accessible.

Please note the talk is 4:30-5:30 in Thaw 104.