Program

Tuesday January 17, 2006
10.15	Registration
10.55	Opening
11.00 - 11.45	Shane Henderson: Call centers and Poisson's equation
12.00 - 12.45	Bruce Golden: The Split Delivery Vehicle Routing Problem: Using Integer Programming within a Heuristic Framework
12.45	Lunch
14.00 - 15.00	Parallel sessions PhD students
15.15 - 16.00	Philippe Robert: Tree Algorithms, Communication Networks and Data Structures
16.15 - 17.00	Lex Schrijver: Matchings, Colourings, Dimers
17.15 - 18.00	Special session with presentation of the GIJS DE LEVE PRIZE
18.30	Dinner
20.30	Meeting members LNMB

Wednesday January 18, 2006
09.00 - 09.45	Pablo Parrilo: Sum of Squares Programs: What are They Good For, and How To Solve Them
10.00 - 10.45	Shane Henderson: Variance reduction for Markov processes and Poisson's equation
11.15 - 12.00	Philippe Robert: Scaling Methods for Communication Networks
12.15 - 13.00	Lex Schrijver: Exploiting Symmetry in Optimization
13.00	Lunch
14.30 - 16.00	Parallel sessions PhD students
16.15 - 17.00	Bruce Golden: The Minimum Label Spanning Tree Problem: Some Genetic Algorithm Approaches
17.15 - 18.00	Pablo Parrilo: SOS/SDP methods: from optimization to games
18.30	Dinner
20.30	Meeting PhD students LNMB

Thursday January 19, 2006 Seminar "Operations Research and Health Care"
09.30 - 10.00	Registration and coffee
10.00 - 10.15	Welcome and introduction by the chairman Anne Jonkman
10.20 - 12.20	OR and logistics in health care
	Michael Carter: Operations Research in the health care or Who let the engineer into the hospital?
	Mark van Houdenhoven: Hospital process optimization: where to start?
	Gerhard Wullink: Health care process optimization: mathematics is the easy part!
	Erwin Hans: Operations research based process optimization at Erasmus MC
12.20 - 13.30	Lunch
13.30 - 15.30	OR and medical treatment
	Dick den Hertog: Introduction
	Eva Lee: Operations Research Challenges in Medicine and HealthCare
	Aswin Hoffmann: Multi-objective fluence map optimization for intensity-modulated radiotherapy
	Marjolein van Ballegooijen and Dik Habbema: Health care efficiency improvement in action: the case of cervical cancer screening in the Netherlands
15.45 - 17.15	OR and decision making in health care
	Joris van de Klundert: Introduction
	Maarten Rutgers: Integral improvement of the orthopaedic chain
	Etienne Rouwette: System dynamics modeling on health care: supply and demand of dementia care
17.15 - 18.00	Drinks