Program PhD Presentations Soesterberg 2024
PhD presentations
Monday (14.25 – 16.05)
Room: Steyl
14:25 - 14:50 Sophie Klumper (CWI)
To Trust, or Not to Trust: Truthful Mechanisms for Maximum Weighted Matching Problems in Private Bipartite Graphs with Predictions
Discussant: Tim Oosterwijk
14:50 - 15:15 Fabio Mercurio (TU/e)
Cooperative Locker Location Games
Discussant: André Berger
15:15 - 15:40 Arman Rouhani (Maastricht University)
An improved bound for the price of anarchy for related machine scheduling
Discussant: Pieter Kleer
15:40 - 16:05 Kim van den Houten (TU Delft)
Learning from scenarios in the context of stochastic scheduling
Discussant: Leen Stougie
Room: Congo
14:25 - 14:50 Laura Sprenkels (TU/e)
The good stuff: Matching supply and demand by introducing an opaque product: Pricing, learning, fun.
Discussant: Janusz Meylahn
14:50 - 15:15 Joris Slootweg (CWI)
Improving Congestion in an Efficient & Robust manner using smart Virtual Queuing at Airport Security
Discussant: Willem van Jaarsveld
15:15 - 15:40 Hayo Bos (University of Twente)
Predicting next week’s bed census: combining medical expertise with data.
Discussant: Caroline Jagtenberg
15:40 - 16:05 Robin Buter (University of Twente)
Strategic placement of defibrillators
Discussant: Theresia van Essen
Room: China
14:25 - 14:50 Mathijs Barkel (Tilburg University)
Bounding Procedures and Exact Arcflow Formulations for the Bin Packing Problem with Minimum Color Fragmentation
Discussant: Paul Bouman
14:50 - 15:15 Ashkan Safari (Maastricht University)
A k-swap Local Search for Makespan Scheduling
Discussant: Antonios Antoniadis
15:15 - 15:40 Jesse van Rhijn (University of Twente)
Some new Results on Hartigan's Method for k-Means Clustering
Discussant: René Sitters
15:40 - 16:05 Judith Brugman (Tilburg University)
Large-scale Appointment Scheduling via Robust Convex Optimization with Polyhedral Uncertainty Sets
Discussant: Ahmadreza Marandi
Tuesday (14.25 – 16.05)
Room: Steyl
14:00 - 14:25 Niels Wouda (University of Groningen)
Optimising Groningen's waste collection
Discussant: Frits Spieksma
14:25 - 14:50 Pedro José Correia Duarte (Erasmus University)
A Cyclic Timetabling Approach to Determine Optimal ERTMS Rollout
Discussant: Marjan van den Akker
14:50 - 15:15 Renate van der Knaap (TU Delft)
Railway line planning for varying demand with focus on stop planning, frequency setting, and asymmetric lines
Discussant: Rolf van Lieshout
15:15 - 15:40 Linda Punt (Erasmus University)
Integrating EV Fleet Flexibility into Robust Optimal Planning of Local Power Grids
Discussant: Johann Hurink
15:40 - 16:05 Leoni Winschermann (University of Twente)
Relating Electric Vehicle Charging to Speed Scaling with Job-Specific Speed Limits
Discussant: Remy Spliet
Room: Congo
14:00 - 14:25 Lucas Vogels (UvA)
Bayesian Structure Learning in Undirected Gaussian Graphical Models
Discussant: Bernd Heidergott
14:25 - 14:50 Wessel Blomerus (TU/e)
Structured learning of the optimal replacement rule beyond Markov settings
Discussant: Odysseas Kanavetas
14:50 - 15:15 Nanne A. Dieleman (VU)
A Pseudo-Gradient Approach for Model-free Markov Chain Optimization
Discussant: Ilker Birbil
15:15 - 15:40 Tim Engels (TU/e)
Batch sojourn times in polling systems on a circle
Discussant: Werner Scheinhardt
15:40 - 16:05 Purva Joshi (TU/e)
Efficiently Navigating Autonomous Vehicles through Intersections
Discussant: René Haijema
Room: China
14:00 - 14:25 Lotte Weedage (University of Twente)
Edge recovery in geometric random graphs
Discussant: Aida Abiad
14:25 - 14:50 Sten Wessel (TU/e)
Fairness in Graph-Theoretical Optimization Problems
Discussant: Ruben Hoeksma
14:50 - 15:15 Rolf van der Hulst (University of Twente)
A row augmentation algorithm for graph realization
Discussant: Christopher Hojny
15:15 - 15:40 Jelle Oostveen (Utrecht University)
The Parameterised Complexity of Integer Multicommodity Flow
Discussant: Lars Rohwedder
15:40 - 16:05 Hadi Abbaszadehpeivasti (Tilburg University)
On the convergence rate of the difference-of-convex algorithm (DCA)
Discussant: Dick den Hertog