Working Group meeting 2021
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First Friday Webinars – Improving Global Risk Management of Emerging Health Threats with Facilitated Decision Analysis
OnlineProfessor Gilberto Montibeller (Loughborough University, UK; University Southern California, USA), Professor L. Alberto Franco (Loughborough University, UK; University del Pacifico, Peru) Emerging health threats, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, create extensive health, economic and social problems. A key challenge for health experts and policy makers is deciding how to balance and reduce the risk of […]
First Friday Webinars – OR in Practice
Thanks to all great developments in mathematics and computing power, we are able to solve more complex problems within a reasonable amount of time. Machine learning and other AI-techniques can boost the power of OR. But are we also able to explain the outcome to the industry? Optimal is not always logical, which leads to […]
First Friday Webinars – Recent developments of real-time train scheduling optimization in the practice
Trains running through railway networks are monitored and guided in real time by train dispatchers. They control train movements by taking various relevant decisions, such as where trains should pass and meet each other, when trains should arrive or depart from stations, which routes they must take, etc. These decisions become crucial when one or […]
EURO 2021
In addition to the general invite we would also like to especially recommend the "Practice of OR" track that the working group organizes and that is especially aimed at practitioners of OR. More details on this track will be published later. EURO 2021 is the largest and most important conference for Operational Research and […]
First Friday Webinars – The Intersection of Operational Research and Public Communication
The Intersection of Operational Research and Public Communication during the Covid-19 Pandemic About this event In May 2020, I joined the group Independent SAGE. At the time, I thought I was signing up to one or two public meetings on YouTube, but instead our profile grew and we discovered there was a large public appetite […]
First Friday Webinar – Operational Research and Quantum Computing: can they join forces?
We experience the benefits of classical computing every day. However, there are challenges that today’s systems would never be able to solve. To stand a chance at solving some of these problems, we need a new kind of computing: Quantum Computing. During this session we will explore together what quantum computers are about, and how […]
First Friday Webinar – Tackling supply chain disruptions in pandemics – learning from humanitarian logistics
Humanitarian logistics plays an important part in responding to disasters, crisis, but also epidemics and pandemics. This talk is about what we can learn from humanitarian logistics in tackling supply chain disruptions in pandemics. The talk also gives examples and shares results from current research projects on the COVID-19 pandemic, and also discusses the challenges […]
First Friday Webinar – Optimizing emergency response systems
Emergency response systems, e.g. fire and rescue services and emergency medical services, have been a popular area of study for operational researchers. However, unlike for the airline industry for instance, there do not exist an abundance of success stories, where advanced operational research models and methods have been implemented in practice. In this talk, I’ll […]
First Friday Webinar – Progress and Challenges with the CP-SAT solver
About this Event CP-SAT won all gold medals in the Minizinc challenge in the tracks it participated in the last 3 years. It also proved 5 open problems in the MIPLIB 2017 suite, and improved bounds on a few more. In a sense, it realizes the old dream of having a good MIP solver and […]