Program

Tuesday January 16, 2001
10.15	Registration
10.50	Opening
11.00 - 11.45	Michele Conforti: The Parity of Chordless Cycles in Graphs
12.00 - 12.45	Richard Serfozo: Equilibrium Behavior in Stochastic Networks
12.45	Lunch
14.00 - 15.00	Parallel sessions Ph.D. students
15.15 - 16.00	Aharon Ben-Tal: Robust Optimization - Methodology and Applications
16.15 - 17.00	Michel Goemans: Semidefinite programming and approximation algorithms
17.15 - 18.00	Special session in memory of J.W. Cohen Arie Hordijk : In memoriam Wim Cohen Onno Boxma: The Life and Works of J.W. Cohen
18.30	Dinner
20.30	Meeting members LNMB


Wednesday January 17, 2001
09.00 - 09.45	Perwez Shahabuddin:Rare event simulation techniques for models of computer and communication systems
10.00 - 10.45	Aharon Ben-Tal: The Ordered Set Mirror Descent Algorithm and Its Use in Medical Imaging
11.15 - 12.00	Michele Conforti: Bicoloring of Matrices and Integer Polyhedra
12.15-13.00	Perwez Shahabuddin:Simulating rare events in a canonical random walk with heavy tailed increments with applications to queueuing and insurance
13.00	Lunch
14.30 - 15.30	Parallel sessions PhD students
15.45 - 16.30	Richard Serfozo: Travel Times and Flows in Stochastic Networks
16.45 - 17.30	Michel Goemans: Approximating ternary optimization problems via complex semidefinite programming
18.30	Dinner
20.00	Meeting PhD students LNMB

Thursday January 18, 2001: Seminar E-commerce and Operations Research
09.40 - 10.20	Jo van Nunen (Erasmus University Rotterdam): OR defining the future
10.20 - 11.00	Adriaan Schippers (Perot Systems): Datamining for e-customer relationship management
11.00 - 11.25	Coffee break
11.25 - 12.05	René de Koster (Erasmus University Rotterdam): The logistics after the click
12.05 - 12.45	Martin Hermsen (Deloitte Consulting): Yield management (revenue management) in the consumer services industry
12.45 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 14.40	Ger Koole (Free University Amsterdam): Quantitative issues for contact centers
14.50 - 15.30	Rudolf Müller (Maastricht University): Mechanism design for electronic markets - algorithms and economics
15.30 - 15.50	Tea break
15.50 - 16.30	Eric van Damme (Tilburg University): Spectrum auctions
16.30	Wine & Cheese