Program

Tuesday January 16, 2007
10.15	Registration
10.55	Opening
11.00 - 11.45	Tim Roughgarden: Potential Functions and Routing Games
12.00 - 12.45	Mor Harchol - Balter: Scheduling in Multiserver Systems: Approaches and Open Problems (Part I)
12.45	Lunch
14.00 - 16.00	Parallel sessions PhD students
16.15 - 17.00	Peter Glynn: Rare-event Simulation via State-dependent Importance Sampling
17.15 - 18.00	Moshe Tennenholtz: Ranking Systems
18.30	Dinner
20.30	Meeting members LNMB

Wednesday January 17, 2007
09.00 - 09.45	Tim Roughgarden: Potential Functions and Network Formulation Games
10.00 - 10.45	Shuzhong Zhang : Conic Optimization, Randomization, and Combinatorial Problems
11.00 - 11.45	Mor Harchol - Balter: Scheduling in Multiserver Systems: Approaches and Open Problems (Part II)
12.00 - 12.45	Moshe Tennenholtz: Pre-Bayesian Games
12.45	Lunch and presentation PhD diplomas
14.15 - 15.45	Parallel sessions PhD students
16.00 - 16.45	Shuzhong Zhang : Ambiguity, Uncertainty, and Robust Optimization
17.00 - 17.45	Peter Glynn: Initial Transient Problem for Steady - state Output Analysis
18.30	Dinner
20.30	Meeting PhD students LNMB

Thursday January 18, 2007 Seminar "Operations Research and Public Transportation"
09.30 - 10.15	Registration and coffee
10.15 - 10.25	Welcome by the chairmen Alexander Rinnooy Kan and Goos Kant
10.30 - 11.10	Leo Kroon: A survey of OR models and techniques for the planning of Public Transportation
11.20 - 11.50	Marieke de Koning: Making money out of public transportation: performance measurement of bus and tram advertising
12.00 - 12.30	Gerard Kindervater: Revenue Management in the Airline Passenger Industry
12.30 - 13.50	Lunch
13.50 - 14.20	Dennis Huisman: Timetable 2007: why and how?
14.30 - 15.00	Guido Diepen: Planning of busses and gates at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
15.10 - 15.40	Ramon Lentink: Where do train units stay when they're off duty?
15.50 - 16.20	Michiel Odijk: Application of OR to settle a major HRM conflict at Dutch Railways
16.30 - 17.00	Niels van Oort: The moment of execution: real-life monitoring and control of public transport operations in major urban areas
17.00 - 18.00	Drinks