Program

Tuesday January 15, 2008
10.15	Registration
10.55	Opening
11.00 - 11.45	Friedrich Eisenbrand: Parameterized integer programming, part I
12.00 - 12.45	Balaji Prabhakar: Randomized Network Algorithms: An Overview and Recent Results
12.45	Lunch
14.00 - 15.30	Parallel sessions PhD students
16.00 - 16.45	David Gamarnik: Decidability issues in the theory of queueing networks
17.00 - 17.45	Anupam Gupta: Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization I: Two Stage Optimization with Recourse Ranking Systems
18.30	Dinner
20.30	Meeting members LNMB

Wednesday January 16, 2008
09.00 - 09.45	Jong-Shi Pang: The Variational/Complementarity Approach to Nash Equilibria, part I
10.00 - 10.45	Balaji Prabhakar: Turbo-Counting: A New Architecture for Network Traffic Measurement
11.15 - 12.00	Friedrich Eisenbrand: Parameterized integer programming, part II
12.15 - 13.00	Anupam Gupta: Stochastic Combinatorial Optimization II: Extensions and Online Problems
13.00	Lunch and presentation PhD diplomas
14.30 - 15.30	Parallel sessions PhD students
16.00 - 16.45	Jong-Shi Pang: The Variational/Complementarity Approach to Nash Equilibria, part II
17.00 - 17.45	David Gamarnik: Large scale queueing systems in the Quality/Efficiency driven regime and applications
18.30	Dinner
20.30	Meeting PhD students LNMB

Thursday January 17, 2008 Seminar "Operations Research and Energy"
09.30 - 10.00	Registration and coffee
10.00 - 10.10	Welcome by the chairman Ton Hoff
10.10 - 10.50	Casper Middelkamp: Optimisation of a Dutch power plant portfolio (Nuon)
11.00 - 11.40	Sonja Bouwman: A survey of OR models and techniques for electrical grid companies
11.50 - 12.30	Janneke Meesters: Cost effective Product Replenishment in the Oil & Gas Industry
12.30 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 14.40	Wil Kling: Long-term and short-term decision making on the structure of the Dutch electricity network (Tennet)
14.50 - 15.30	Han La Poutré: Market-mechanisms for decentralized control and allocation of energy
15.40 - 16.20	Thijs van den Berg: Wind Energy: Valuation and Risk Management
16.30 - 17.10	Cyriel de Jong: Gas Storage Valuation and Optimization
17.10 - 18.00	Drinks