LUNTEREN 2001
Twenty-sixth conference on
The mathematics of operations research
Organized by LNMB
(Landelijk Netwerk Mathematische Besliskunde)
January 16-18, 2001
Conference Center "De Blije Werelt", Lunteren,
The Netherlands
The annual meeting of Dutch senior and junior researchers
in the Mathematics of Operations Research.
The program offers high-quality research and applications
and should appeal to both academic researchers
and to management consultants in trade and industry.
Ingredients
| Ten invited lectures |
|
| Aharon Ben-Tal |
Robust Optimization - Methodology and Applications |
| Aharon Ben-Tal |
The Ordered Set Mirror Descent Algorithm and Its Use in Medical Imaging |
| Michele Conforti |
The Parity of Chordless Cycles in Graphs |
| Michele Conforti |
Bicoloring of Matrices and Integer Polyhedra |
| Michel Goemans |
Semidefinite programming and approximation algorithms |
| Michel Goemans |
Approximating ternary optimization problems via complex semidefinite
programming |
| Richard Serfozo |
Equilibrium Behavior of Stochastic Networks |
| Richard Serfozo |
Travel Times and Flows in Stochastic Networks |
| Perwez Shahabuddin |
Rare event simulation techniques for models of computer and communication
systems |
| Perwez Shahabuddin |
Simulating rare events in a canonical random walk with heavy tailed
increments with applications to queueing and insurance |
| Special session in memory of J.W. Cohen (Tuesday
17.15 - 18.00) |
| Onno Boxma |
The life and works of J.W. Cohen |
| Arie Hordijk |
In memoriam Wim Cohen |
| Presentations by PhD students |
Thirteen PhD students of the LNMB will present
a paper at the meeting.
For each contributed paper by a PhD student a senior member of the
society will act as discussant. |
| Seminar E-commerce and Operations Research |
| On the last day of the conference, Thursday
January 18, there is a one-day special seminar on E-commerce and Operations
Research, organized in cooperation with the "Nederlands Genootschap voor
Besliskunde" (NGB), for which special invitations will be sent out to management
consultants in trade and industry. |
| Jo van Nunen (Erasmus Universiteit) |
OR defining the future |
| Adriaan Schippers (Perot Systems) |
Dataming for e-customer relationship management |
| René de Koster (Erasmus Universiteit) |
The logistics after the click |
| Martin Hermsen (Deloitte Consulting) |
Yield management (revenue management) in the customer services industry |
| Ger Koole (Free University) |
Quantitative issues for contact centers |
| Rudolf Müller (Maastricht University) |
Mechanism design for electronic markets - algorithms and economics |
| Eric van Damme (Tilburg University) |
Spectrum auctions |
