Upstream decisions, downstream impacts: Assessing wastewater discharges, drinking water quality, and environmental justice in watersheds
2025-12-12 14:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | ENR-223, 14 College Farm Rd, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
2:30 PM EDT. Rutgers Department of Environmental Sciences. Speaker: Kelly Good, Villanova University. Location: ENR Building, Room 223 on Cook Campus

New Jersey Nature Based Solutions for a Changing Climate
2025-12-10 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Webinar
12:00 PM EDT. New Jersey Climate Change Resource Center. Speakers: Janine Barr, Richard Lathrop, Brooke Maslo, Ashlyn Spector. Location: Webinar.

Grad Students + Postdocs AGU Practice
2025-12-10 11:30 - 12:30 | Wright Auditorium, Busch Campus, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, United States
11:30 PM EDT. Rutgers Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Location: Wright-Rieman Laboratories Auditorium, Busch Campus, 610 Taylor Rd., Piscataway, NJ 08854-8066

On Loop: Black Sonic Politics in Oakland
2025-12-05 15:00 - 16:00 | Tillett Hall Rm. 246
3:00 PM EST. Rutgers Department of Geography. Speakers: Alex Werth, East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy. Location: Tillett Hall Rm. 246.

CAREERS: Coffee & Careers
2025-12-03 15:00 - 16:00 | 33 Livingston Avenue
3:00 PM EST. Rutgers Bloustein School. Location: 33 Livingston Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08901 United States

Antecedents of Technology Adoption in Agriculture: Conceptual framework for an empirical assessment based on technology adoption theories
2025-12-03 12:00 - 13:00 | 55 Dudley Road, Room 118
12:00 PM EST. Rutgers Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics. Speakers: Kuldeep Baishya, Indian Institute of Technology of Guwahati. Location: 55 Dudley Rd, room 118

Capturing Genes in Historical Stonefly Specimens
2025-11-21 11:00 - 12:00 | Foran Hall, Room 138A and Zoom
11:00 AM EDT. Department of Entomology. Speaker: Anna Eichert, American Museum of Natural History. Location: Foran Hall Room 138A or Zoom.

A Shelfbreak Perspective on a Rapidly Changing Ocean: Processes and Impacts
2025-11-21 03:45 - 17:00 | Marine & Coastal Sciences Building — Alampi Room, 71 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
3:45 PM EDT. Rutgers Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences. Speaker: Glen Gawarkiewicz, WHOI. Location: Alampi Room.

Using Epigenomics to Unlock Plant Regulatory Variation
2025-11-20 16:00 - 17:00 | Waksman Auditorium, 190 Frelinghuysen Rd, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, United States
4:00 PM EDT. Walksman Institute of Microbiology. Speaker: Dr. Robert J. Schmitz, University of Georgia. Location: Waksman Institute Auditorium, Busch Campus.

Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series
2025-11-20 16:00 - 17:00 | Marine & Coastal Sciences Building — Alampi Room, 71 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
4:00 PM EDT. Rutgers Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources. Speaker: Wayne Getz, Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy & Management UC – Berkeley. Location: Alampi Room and Zoom.

PhD Colloquium: Surviving and Thriving as an Assistant Professor
2025-11-19 12:00 - 13:00 | Civic Square Building, 33 Livingston Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
12:00 PM EDT. Rutgers Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Speaker:Julene Paul, University of Texas at Arlington. Location: Bloustein School, Civic Square Building 33 Livingston Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08901 United States.

The Nature of Asteroid Bennu Sample as Revealed by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission
2025-11-19 11:30 - 12:30 | Wright Auditorium, Busch Campus, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, United States
11:30 AM EDT. Rutgers Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. Speakers: Harold Connolly, Jr., Rowan University. Location: Wright-Rieman Laboratories Auditorium, Busch Campus, 610 Taylor Rd., Piscataway, NJ 08854-8066.

Preventing Lead (Pb) Contamination in Rural Water Systems in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: An Implementation Science Case Study from Ghana
2025-11-18 12:00 - 13:00 | Blake Hall — Room 131, 93 Lipman Dr, New Brunswick, NJ, 08876, United States
12:00 PM EST. Rutgers Department of Human Ecology. Speaker: Dr. Siddhartha Roy, Dept. Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University. Location: Blake Hall, Room 131 or Webinar.

Hutcheson Memorial Forest Volunteer Day
2025-11-15 08:00 - 17:00 | 2150 Amwell Road Somerset, NJ
8:00 AM EDT. Rutgers Hutcheson Memorial Forest Center. Location: 2150 Amwell Road Somerset, NJ. Registration required.

Voces de la Comunidad: Bridging Climate Scholarship and Community Voices
2025-11-14 14:30 - 15:30 | ENR-223, 14 College Farm Rd, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
2:30 PM EDT. Department of Environmental Sciences. Speaker: Carla Giaudrone, Department of World Languages and Cultures, RU Camden. Location: ENR building, room 223 and remote.

Brains and the Evolution of Insect Body Structure and Organ System Investment
2025-11-14 11:00 - 12:00 | Foran Hall, Room 138A and Zoom
11:00 AM EDT. Department of Entomology. Speaker: Sean O’Donnell, Drexel University. Location: Foran Hall Room 138A or Zoom.

A ‘Good News’ Story About Preventing Child Undernutrition in Lower-Income Countries: A Journey From Research to Implementation
2025-11-14 11:00 - 12:00 | IFNH-101, 61 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
11:00 PM EDT. Rutgers Department of Nutritional Sciences. Speaker: Kathryn Dewey, UC Davis. Location: IFNH 61 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, Rm 101.

Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series
2025-11-13 16:00 - 17:00 | Marine & Coastal Sciences Building — Alampi Room, 71 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
4:00 PM EDT. Rutgers Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources. Speaker: Cara Brand, University of Pennsylvania (soon to be at RU Genetics). Location: Alampi Room and Zoom.

Rutgers student basic needs insecurities research and programming
2025-11-12 12:00 - 13:00 | 33 Livingston Avenue
12:00 PM EDT. Rutgers Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy. Speaker: Cara Cuite. Location: 33 Livingston Avenue New Brunswick, NJ 08901 United States.

Price Regulation and the Adoption–Innovation Trade-off
2025-11-12 12:00 - 13:00 | Cook Office Building – Room 118, 55 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
12:00 PM EDT. Rutgers Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics. Speaker: Matteo Ruzzante, Northeastern University. Location: Cook Office Building 55 Dudley Rd, room 118.

Rutgers Climate Symposium 2025
2025-11-12 08:00 - 15:00 | Douglass Student Center, 100 George St, New Brunswick, 08901, United States
Please join the Rutgers Climate and Energy Institute for the Rutgers Climate Symposium 2025: The Blue Planet! This symposium will feature speakers: Jason Cotrell, Sperra; Cymie Payne, Rutgers University; Helen Rozwadowski, University of Connecticut; Joellen Russell, University of Arizona. This event will take place on November 12, 2025 at the Douglass Student Center, Rutgers University in person and virtually. Register for in person here and virtual here.

Rock You Like a Hurricane: Hurricane Science
2025-11-11 18:30 - 19:30 | Online Webinar
6:30 PM EDT. Rutgers NJ Agricultural Experiment Station. Speaker: Dr. Travis Miles. Location: Webinar.

Every other breath comes from Photosynthesis in the Oceans
2025-11-10 15:45 - 17:00 | Marine & Coastal Sciences Building — Alampi Room, 71 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
3:45 PM EDT. Rutgers Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences. Speaker: Paul Falkowski. Location: Alampi Room.

The Elsewhere is Black: Ecological Violence and Improvised Life
2025-11-07 15:00 - 17:00 | Tillett Hall Rm. 246
3:00 PM EDT. Rutgers Department of Geography. Speaker: Marisa Solomon, Barnard College, Columbia University. Location: Tillett Hall Rm. 246.

Graduate Program in Ecology and Evolution Seminar Series
2025-11-06 16:00 - 17:00 | Marine & Coastal Sciences Building — Alampi Room, 71 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
4:00 PM EDT. Rutgers Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources. Speaker: Sara Zeigler, USGS – St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center. Location: Alampi Room and Zoom.

Novus I-Corps at Rutgers-Camden
2025-11-05 11:15 - 12:15 | Camden Campus Student Center 326 Penn Street Multipurpose Room Camden, NJ 08102
11:15 AM EDT. NSF-I Corps Hub Northeast Region. Location: Rutgers University – Camden Campus Student Center 326 Penn Street Multipurpose Room Camden, NJ 08102.

Two decades of Antarctic sea ice extremes: the competing effects of surface ocean stress and precipitation trends
2025-11-03 15:45 - 17:00 | Marine & Coastal Sciences Building — Alampi Room, 71 Dudley Rd, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
3:45 PM EDT. Rutgers Department of Marine and Coastal Sciences. Speaker: Earle Wilson, Stanford University. Location: Alampi Room.

Environmental drivers of coastal sediment microbial activity. How do tropical coastal ecosystems become sources of greenhouse gases
2025-10-31 14:30 - 15:30 | ENR-223, 14 College Farm Rd, New Brunswick, NJ, 08901, United States
2:30 PM EDT. Rutgers Department of Environmental Science. Speaker: Speaker: Salom Gnana Thanga Vincent, University of Kerala. Location: ENR building, room 223 or Zoom.

Exploring the expression of a major royal jelly protein in the western honey bee, Apis mellifera
2025-10-31 10:00 - 11:00 | Food Sciences Building, Room 101
10:00 AM EDT. Rutgers Department of Entomology. Speaker: Jumana Hayat, Rutgers University. Location: Food Sciences, room 101, 65 Dudley Rd. and Zoom.

Solving Supply Chain Equilibrium Problems in Energy and Other Infrastructure Areas using a Difference-of-Convex Functions Algorithm
2025-10-29 12:10 - 13:10 | Hill Center Room 116, 110 Frelinghuysen Rd, Piscataway, NJ, 08854, United States
Rutgers-New Brunswick School of Engineering
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR SERIES
Fall 2025
Solving Supply Chain Equilibrium Problems in Energy and Other Infrastructure Areas using a Difference-of-Convex Functions Algorithm
Dr. Steven A. Gabriel
Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Maryland
Wednesday, October 29, 2025, 12:10 to 1:10 PM
Location: Hill-room 116

About this talk:
We describe a novel application of the difference-of-convex function algorithm (DCA) to a variety of equilibrium problems using the mixed complementarity problem (MCP) format. These problems involve bilinear constraints, i.e., complementarity and can be approximated iteratively via convex subproblems using DCA. We develop the necessary theory to make this possible and showcase how it works on several MCPs in energy and other infrastructure areas such as: the Brazilian natural gas market and water markets.

Speaker Bio:
Dr. Steven A. Gabriel is a Full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering as well as the Applied Mathematics, Statistics, and Scientific Computing Program at the University of Maryland. Dr. Gabriel’s work focuses on energy systems modeling, optimization, and theory and has been applied to many different research projects at leading institutions worldwide, including the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Aalto University in Finland, the German Berlin Economic Research (DIW Berlin), and GERAD in Montreal. He has been involved in numerous international projects and honorary positions including Honorary Fellow (DIW Berlin), Trotier Holder Professor (Montréal), Jubilee Professor (Norwegian Univ. of Technology), and Otto Monsted Professor (Technical Univ. Denmark). Dr. Gabriel earned his Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences from Johns Hopkins University.

Zoom link: https://rutgers.zoom.us/j/96755427971?pwd=c4ewKjyef0bPN4w9zUA8R1hhZP484J.1
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Contact: Dr. Robert Mieth (robert.mieth@soe.rutgers.edu)
Website: ise.rutgers.edu
