Program

Tuesday January 13, 2009
10.15	Registration
10.55	Opening
11.00 - 11.45	Gennady Samorodnitsky: A bird-eye view of fluid queues in communication network models: heavy tails and long memory, part I
12.00 - 12.45	Berthold Vöcking: On the impact of combinatorial structure on congestion games
12.45	Lunch
14.00 - 15.00	Parallel sessions PhD students
15.15 - 16.00	Sean Meyn: Stability and asymptotic optimality of generalized MaxWeight policies
16.15 - 17.00	Satoru Iwata: Minimizing submodular functions
17.15 - 18.00	Tom Luo: A semidefinite relaxation scheme for multivariate quartic polynomial optimization with quadratic constraints
18.30	Dinner
20.30	Meeting members LNMB

Wednesday January 14, 2009
09.00 - 09.45	Tom Luo: Spectrum management: complexity, duality and approximation
10.00 - 10.45	Gennady Samorodnitsky: A bird-eye view of fluid queues in communication network models: heavy tails and long memory, part II
11.15 - 12.00	Berthold Vöcking: Scheduling with interference constraints in wireless networks
12.15 - 13.00	Satoru Iwata: Approximating submodular functions
13.00	Lunch and presentation PhD diplomas
14.30 - 16.00	Parallel sessions PhD students
16.15 - 17.00	Sean Meyn: Temporal difference learning
17.15 - 18.00	Special session with presentation of the Gijs de Leve Prize
18.30	Dinner
20.30	Meeting PhD students LNMB

Thursday January 15, 2009 Seminar "Operations Research and Traffic"
09.30 - 10.00	Registration and coffee
10.00 - 10.10	Welcome by the chairman Jo van Nunen (Erasmus University & Director Transumo)
10.10 - 10.50	Henk Taale (Rijkswaterstaat): Integrated anticipatory control of road networks
11.00 - 11.40	Luc Wisman (Goudappel Coffeng): Multi-objective optimization of traffic systems
11.50 - 12.30	Joris van de Klundert (UM/Mateum): Quality of service in infrastructure usage
12.30 - 14.00	Lunch
14.00 - 14.40	Marco Duijnisveld (TNO): European traffic forecasts: Iron Rhine
14.50 - 15.30	Taede Tillema (RUG): Road pricing: analyzing short and long-term behavioural decisions
15.40 - 16.20	Kevin Pak (ORTEC): Revenue management techniques for road pricing
16.30 - 17.10	Elleke Janssen (UvT): Visitor flows in zoos and amusements parks: a case study in Apenheul
17.10 - 18.00	Drinks