Program

Tuesday January 15, 2002
10.15	Registration
10.55	Opening
11.00 - 11.45	Philippe Toint: Derivative free optimization: without and with constraints
12.00 - 12.45	Lisa Fleischer: Network connectivity: approximation algorithms via iterative rounding, part I
12.45	Lunch
14.00 - 15.00	Parallel sessions Ph.D. students
15.15 - 16.00	William Cook: The Traveling Salesman Problem
16.15 - 17.00	Theodore Hill: Recent applications of Benford's law
17.15 - 18.15	Special session with short presentations of Dutch researchers
18.45	Dinner
20.30	Meeting members LNMB

Wednesday January 16, 2002
09.00 - 09.45	Martin Reiman: A Comparison of Two Heavy Traffic Regimes; part I: Multiserver Queues
10.00 - 10.45	Theodore Hill: Constructions of random probability distributions
11.15 - 12.00	Philippe Toint: Presolving in quadratic and linear programming
12.15 - 13.00	Lisa Fleischer: Network connectivity: approximation algorithms via iterative rounding, part II
13.00	Lunch
14.30 - 15.30	Parallel sessions PhD students
15.45 - 16.30	Marin Reiman: A Comparison of Two Heavy Traffic Regimes; part II: Multiserver Queueing Networks
16.45 - 17.30	William Cook: Optimization via Branch Decomposition
18.30	Dinner
20.00	Meeting PhD students LNMB

Thursday January 17, 2002 Seminar Capacity Management - How Operations Research models support decision makers
09.45 - 10.15	Registration and coffee
10.15 - 10.20	Chairman Marc Salomon (McKinsey & Company / Tilburg University) Welcome and opening
10.20 - 10.50	Henk van Zuylen (AVV - Min. Verkeer en Waterstaat / TU Delft) Capacity management in road transport
10.55 - 11.25	Ben Jansen (ATOS Beleidsadvies en �onderzoek b.v.) On the complexity of labor capacity management
11.25 - 11.45	Coffee and tea break
11.45 - 12.15	Jos van Deursen (Police organization Gelderland-Midden) Capacity management when every second counts ...
12.20 - 12.50	Pieter Wartenhorst (McKinsey & Company) Aligning the workforce with Human Resource capacity requirements
12.50 - 13.45	Lunch
13.45 - 14.15	Leo Kroon (NS Reizigers / Erasmus University) Capacity management at the Dutch Railways
14.20 - 14.50	Henk Post (Future Technology b.v.) Public transport planning for elderly and handicapped people
14.50 - 15.10	Coffee and tea break
15.10 - 15.40	Marianne van Genugten (RIVM, Department Health Services Research) Pandemic influenza: impact on health care resource use
15.45 - 16.15	Joost Warners (KPN Valley) Network planning and capacity management in telecommunication
16.20 - 16.50	Maurits van Schuylenburg (Gemeentelijk Havenbedrijf Rotterdam) Timing of the second Maasvlakte in the Port of Rotterdam
16.50 - 17.45	Reception and Drinks