Program Lunteren 2012

Tuesday January 17, 2012
10.15	Registration
10.50	Opening
11.00 - 11.45	Kurt Anstreicher: Optimization with copositive and completely positive matrices PDF-file of the Presentation
12.00 - 12.45	Assaf Zeevi: Multi-armed bandits: Introduction and background (Part I) PDF-file of the Presentation
12.45	Lunch
14.15 - 15.45	Parallel sessions PhD students
16.15 - 17.00	Benny Moldovanu: Dynamic Pricing: A Mechanism Design Approach (Part 1) PDF-file of the Presentation
17.15 - 18.00	Presentation of the Gijs de Leve Prize PDF-file of the Presentation of the winner: Leo van Iersel
18.30	Dinner
20.30	Meeting members LNMB

Wednesday January 18, 2012
09.15 - 10.00	Nikhil Bansal: Refined Randomized Rounding PDF-file of the Presentation
10.30 - 11.15	Benny Moldovanu : Dynamic Pricing: A Mechanism Design Approach (Part 2) PDF-file of the Presentation
11.30 - 12.15	Kurt Anstreicher: Nonconvex quadratic optimization over simple ground sets PDF-file of the Presentation
12.30	Lunch and presentation PhD diplomas
14.15 - 15.45	Parallel sessions PhD students
16.15 - 17.00	Assaf Zeevi: Multi-armed bandits: Recent Developments (Part II) PDF-file of the Presentation
17.15 - 18.00	Nikhil Bansal : Online Primal-Dual Method and the k-server Problem PDF-file of the Presentation
18.30	Dinner
20.30	Meeting PhD students LNMB

Thursday January 19, 2012 Seminar "Supply Chain Management and Humanitarian Aid "
09.30 - 10.00	Registration and coffee
10.00 - 10.15	Welcome by the chairman Ad van Goor (VU) PDF-file of the Welcome
10.15 - 11.00	Plenary session Keynote speaker: Tim Grant (Nederlandse Defensie Academie) Modelling information flow in military and humanitarian supply chains PDF-file of a handout of the Presentation
11.00 - 11.45	Plenary session Keynote speaker: Robert van der Geest (Kema Sustainability) A route planner for gas transport through the Netherlands PDF-file of the Presentation
12.00 - 13.00	Lunch
13.00 - 13.45	Plenary session ORTEC Excellence in Industry Award Nominated: Willem van Jaarsveld ( Presentation), Benjamin Kemper ( Presentation), Peter Vanberkel ( Presentation)
13.45 - 14.30	Plenary session Keynote speaker: Kenneth Sörensen (Antwerp University) Humanitarian Logistics: a Challenge for Operations Research PDF-file of: Presentation
14.30 - 15.00	Coffee/tea
15.00 - 16.30	Parallel sessions (invited and contributed papers) Sessie A: Noud Gademan (ORTEC): Sales & Operations Planning: Concepts and Practical Implications PDF-file of: Presentation Freek Aertsen (EyeOn): Sales and Operations Planning: Trends and the OR impact PDF-file of: Presentation Sessie B: Harwin de Vries (North Star Alliance, ORTEC): Building a strategic network of medical centers; Why the African truck-driver is so glad that Operations Research exists. PDF-file of: Presentation Tom Plat (ORTEC): Strategic supply chain solutions in 'green' development environments PDF-file of: Presentation Tezar Saputra (VU): Scenario analysis for emergency inventory prepositioning of medical supplies PDF-file of: Presentation
16.30 - 16.45	Closing
16.45 - 17.30	Drinks