INVITED TALKS AND SEMINARS

"Bayesian semiparametric analysis for a single item maintenance optimization," Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge University, United Kingdom, August 2007.

"Bayesian models and methods for reliability and risk assessment," UT Austin, Robotics Seminar, May 2007.

"Aspects of the American electricity markets," University of Itajuba, Brazil, March, 2006.

"Decision dependent randomness-estimation and control," UT Austin, ORIE seminar, November 18, 2005.

"Decision dependent randomness-estimation and control," CWRU, Cleveland, OH, December 8, 2005.

"Risk informed nuclear asset management", South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company, May 2005

"Risk informed nuclear asset management-models and methods", EPRI webcast, August 2005

"Risk informed nuclear asset management", EDF, Paris, France, December 2004.

ORAL PRESENTATIONS:

Morton D., E. Popova, and E. Schneider, “Interdicting smuggled nuclear material”, Academic Research Initiative Grantees Conference, Washington D.C., April 2009.

Belyi D. and E. Popova, “Simulation based preventive maintenance optimization”, INFORMS, Washington D.C., 2008.

Singh I., Kee E., Popova E., "Optimal preventive maintenance policy under a budget constraint," ICONE16, Orlando, FL, May 2008.

Koc A., Morton D., Popova E., Hess S., Kee E., Richards D., "Optimizing project prioritization under budget uncertainty," ICONE16, Orlando FL, May 2008.

Koc A., Hess S., Kee E., Morton D., Popova E., "A parallel branch-and-price approach for the project prioritization problem," INFORMS, Seattle, November 2007.

Singh I., Kee E., Popova E., "Optimal preventive maintenance policy under a budget constraint," INFORMS, Seattle, November 2007.

Popova I., Popova E., "The art and science of creating a trading strategy," INFORMS, Seattle, November 2007.

Galenko A., Popova I., Popova E., "High-frequency trading in the presence of long-term stochastic dependencies ," INFORMS, Seattle, November 2007.

Koc A., Morton D., Popova E., Kee E., Richards D., Sun A., Hess S., “Project prioritization via optimization”, PVP 2007/CREEP 8 ASME PVP 2007/CREEP 8 Conference, July 22-26, 2007, San Antonio, USA.

Kee E., Moiseytseva V., Galenko A., Morton D., Popova E., “Incorporation of unit 1 inspection results on the STP reactor vessel head nuclear asset management analysis”, PVP 2007/CREEP 8 ASME PVP 2007/CREEP 8 Conference, July 22-26, 2007, San Antonio, USA.

Popova E., Popova I., Galenko A., "Simulation of cointegrated returns for fund-of-funds construction under different risk measures," INFORMS, Pittsburgh, November 2006.

A. Galenko, E. Popova, E. Kee, R. Grantom, "Optimal preventive maintenance under decision dependent uncertainty," Miami, FL, July, 2006.

Galenko A., Popova E., Morton D., Kee E., "Optimal replacement schedule for a system of N items under finite horizon and stochastic dependencies," St. Louis, MO, July, 2006.

Ivilina Popova, Elmira Popova, Edward I. George, "Bayesian forecasting of prepayment rates for individual pools of mortgages," Seattle, WA, August, 2006.

Elmira Popova, Paul Damien, Timothy Hanson, "Bayesian semiparametric analysis for a single-item maintenance optimization," Seattle, WA, August, 2006.

Popova E., "Aspects of the American electricity markets," University of Itajuba, Brazil, March, 2006.

Kee E., Sun A., Rogers S., Popova E., Nelson P., Moiseytseva V., Wang E., "A method to quantify plant availability and initiating event frequency using a large event tree, small fault tree model," Miami, FL, July, 2006.

Popova E., Hanson T., Damien P., Galenko A., "Bayesian semiparametric analysis for a single item maintenance optimization," San Francisco, November 13, 2005.

Galenko A., Popova E., "Optimal preventive maintenance under decision-dependent uncertainty," San Francisco, November 14, 2005.

Popova E., Yu W., Schmidt P., "Creating and teaching courses that integrate manufacturing and mathematics," San Francisco, November 15, 2005.

A. Sun, E.Kee, W.Yu, E.Popova, R.Grantom, D.Richards, "Application of CROW-AMSAA analysis to nuclear power plant equipment performance", Beijing, China, May 2005

Wei Yu, E. Popova, E. Kee, A. Sun, and R. Grantom, "Basic factors to forecast maintenance cost for nuclear power plants", Beijing, China, May 2005.

A.Galenko, E. Popova, "Optimal replacement time for a nuclear pressure vessel head", Denver, CO, November 2005.

B.Dimova, W.Barnes, E.Popova, "The characteristic neighborhood equation for an AR(2) landscape", Denver, CO, November 2004.

W.Yu, E.Popova, "Equipment data development case study-Bayesian Weibull analysis", Austin, TX, November 2004.

Popova, E., I. Popova and E. George, “Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm for probit mixture of regressions”, INFORMS, Summer 2003, Istanbul, Turkey.

Popova, E., "Bayesian arbitrage trading strategies", INFORMS, Fall 2001, Miami, FL.

Popova, E, I. Popova, and E. George, “Bayesian prepayment model for pricing mortgage pass – through securities”, INFORMS Applied Probability Conference, Ulm, Germany, July 1999.

Popova, E. and T. Chen, “Maintenance policies during two dimensional warranty”, INFORMS, Spring 1999, Cincinnati, OH.

Popova, E. and D. Morton, “Adaptive stochastic optimization for employee scheduling on a single machine”, INFORMS, Spring 1999, Cincinnati, OH.

Popova, E. and D. Morton, “Adaptive stochastic manpower scheduling”, Winter Simulation Conference, December 1998, Washington, DC.

Popova, E., "Bayesian approach to scheduling of manpower on a single machine", INFORMS, Spring 1997, San Diego, CA.

Chen, T. and E. Popova, "Combining warranty and maintenance: a Bayesian perspective", INFORMS, Spring 1997, San Diego, CA.

Chen, T. and E. Popova, "Bayesian minimal repair policy during warranty interval", INFORMS, Fall 1997, Dallas, TX.

Popova, E. and J. G. Wilson, "Optimal purchasing and replacement decisions for machines with different costs and failure parameters", INFORMS, Spring 1996, Washington DC.

Popova, E. and J. G. Wilson, "Optimal configuration/maintenance decisions for a system with no more than two machines", INFORMS, Fall 1995, New Orleans, LA.

Popova, E. and J. G. Wilson, "An algorithm for reducing the policy set for maintenance decisions involving n parallel machines with different failure parameters", ORSA/TIMS National Meeting, Spring, 1994, Boston, MA.

Popova, E. and J. G. Wilson, "Minimum cost maintenance policies for parallel machines each with different failure time distributions and cost parameters", Midwest Business Administration Association Meeting, 1994, Chicago, IL.

Popova, E. and J. G. Wilson, "Optimal purchasing and replacement decisions for machines with different costs and failure parameters", National Decision Sciences Conference, 1994, Honolulu, Hawaii.

Popova, E., "New approaches for group maintenance policies", Seminar in the Program of Operations Research and Statistics, Department of Civil Engineering, Princeton University, April 1994, Princeton, NJ.

Popova, E. and J. G. Wilson, "Group maintenance policies for parallel machines with different failure time distributions.” ORSA/TIMS National Meeting, Spring, 1993, Chicago, IL.

Popova, E., "Ito's formula and its extensions", Stochastic processes seminar, Department of Mathematics, Case Western Reserve University, October 1993, Cleveland, OH.