TiSEM's seminars: Operations Research
Seminars are held on Thursdays from 12:45 till 13:30 hrs in K 1203, lunch starts at 12:15 hrs. If you have questions, please contact Ingrid Meeder via: secretariat.econometrics@tilburguniversity.edu.
Upcoming seminars
- Date: June 6, 2023, 12.30-13.15 hrs., Cube 36, lunch starts at 12:00 hrs. in the corridor East, 4th floor Koopmans
Chris Godsil
Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo
Title: Degree-similar graphs
Host: Edwin van Dam - Date: June 8, 2023, 12:45-13:30 hrs., Cube 36, lunch starts at 12:15 hrs. in the corridor East, 4th floor Koopmans
Yiyin Cao
City University of Hong Kong
Title: Perfect Bayesian Equilibrium with Common-Action-Independent Consistency and Its Square-Root-Barrier Selection
Host: Jean-Jacques Herings - Date: June 22, 2023, 12:45-13:30 hrs., M 1003, lunch starts at 12:15 hrs.
Andries Steenkamp
CWI
Title: Convex scalarizations of the MVSK problem in portfolio selection
Host: Monique Laurent - Date: June 29, 2023, 12:45-13:30 hrs., Cube 36, lunch starts at 12:15 hrs. in the corridor East, 4th floor Koopmans
Miguel Anjos
The University of Edinburgh
Title: Optimal Deployment of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure via Bilevel Optimization
Host: Renata Sotirov
Past seminars
- Date: May 25, 2023
Luis Vargas
CWI
Title: Sum of Squares Approximations for the Copositive Cone and Associated Bounds for the Stability Number of a Graph
Host: Monique Laurent - Date: April 20, 2023
Remy Spliet
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Title: Throwing out food before expiration and still reducing food waste: online vs. offline retail
Host: Marleen Balvert - Date: March 16, 2023
Zaifu Yang
University of York
Title: A Universally Efficient Dynamic Auction for All Unimodular Demand Types
Host: Jean-Jacques Herings - Date: March 9, 2023
Meike Reusken
Tilburg University
Title: The Donation Collection Problem: A vehicle routing problem with stochastic demand, handling and waiting times
Host: Marleen Balvert - Date: January 26, 2023
Krystal Guo
University of Amsterdam
Title: Algebraic graph theory and quantum walks
Host: Pieter Kleer - Date: December 1, 2022
Gar Goei Loke
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Title: Inventory-Responsive Donor Management Policy: A Tandem Queueing Network Model
Host: Wouter van Eekelen - Date: November 24, 2022
Jack Koolen
University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)
Title: On sesqui-regular graphs with a fixed smallest eigenvalue and large valency
Host: Edwin van Dam - Date: November 17, 2022
Valentijn Stienen
Tilburg University
Title: Enhancing digital road networks for better operations in developing countries
Host: Marleen Balvert - Date: November 10, 2022
Christopher Hojny
TU Eindhoven
Title: The role of rationality in integer programming relaxations
Host: Renata Sotirov - Date: October 13, 2022
Wilco van den Heuvel
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Title: Sandwich approximation algorithms for lot-sizing problems
Host: Yasemin Merzifonluoglu - Date: October 6, 2022
Andreas Spomer
University of Cologne
Title: The kissing number problem for regular tetrahedra
Host: Renata Sotirov - Date: September 29, 2022
Melvin Drent
TU Eindhoven
Title: Real-time integrated learning and decision-making for deteriorating systems
Host: Jan Fransoo - Date: September 15, 2022
Alessio Trivella
University of Twente
Title: Meeting Corporate Renewable Power Targets
Host: Yasemin Merzifonluoglu - Date: June 23, 2022
Lennart Sinjorgo
Tilburg University
Title: On the generalized ϑ-number and related problems for highly symmetric graphs
Host: Renata Sotirov - Date: April 21, 2022
Penny Haxell
University of Waterloo
Title: The Integrality Gap for the Santa Claus Problem
Host: Etienne de Klerk - Date: April 14, 2022
Wout de Vos
Tilburg University
Title: Finding patterns in genomes by counting ones - a deterministic genetic algorithm
Host: Marleen Balvert - Date: April 7, 2022
Arefeh Kavand
Friedrich-Alexander-Universität
Title: A Primal-Dual Augmented Lagrangian Method for the Solution of Convex Semidefinite Programming Problems
Host: Etienne de Klerk - Date: March 31, 2022
Benjamin Legros
EM Normandie
Title: Are booking systems beneficial for renting service systems?
Host: Jan Fransoo - Date: March 24, 2022
Bart Smeulders
Eindhoven University of Technology
Title: Strategies and mechanisms in multi-agent kidney exchange
Host: Maxence Delorme - Date: March 18, 2022
Miguel Anjos
The University of Edinburgh
Title: Semidefinite Optimization Approaches for Reactive Optimal Power Flow Problems
Host: Renata Sotirov - Date: February 10, 2022
Carla Groenland
Universiteit Utrecht
Title: Graph reconstruction
Host: Pieter Kleer - Date: December 16, 2021
Laura Davila Pena
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
Title: A new heuristic for the multi-compartment truck and trailer routing problem
Host: Peter Borm - Date: December 9, 2021
Chong Zhang
Tilburg University
Title: Efficient Resource Allocation Contracts to Reduce Adverse Events
Host: Yasemin Merzifonluoglu - Date: December 2, 2021
Tim Oosterwijk
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Title: Modelling Flow Dynamics with Flow over Time
Host: Pieter Kleer - Date: October 14, 2021
Ioannis Fragkos
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Title: Strategic Planning of Transportation Assets
Host: Joris Wagenaar - Date: October 7, 2021
Moslem Zamani
Tilburg University
Title: On the convergence rate of DCA
Host: Etienne de Klerk - Date: June 10, 2021
Pieter Kleer
Tilburg University
Title: Sampling from the Gibbs Distribution in Congestion Games
Host: Yasemin Merzifonluoglu - Date: May 27, 2021
Sven Polak
CWI Amsterdam
Title: Symmetry reduction to optimize a graph-based polynomial from queuing theory
Host: Monique Laurent - Date: May 20, 2021
Frank de Meijer
Tilburg University
Title: SDP-based bounds for the Quadratic Cycle Cover Problem via cutting plane augmented Lagrangian methods and reinforcement learning
Host: Renata Sotirov - Date: April 29, 2021
Lorenz Roebers
Tilburg University
Title: Non-SOS Putinar-like certificates of non-negativity: full and sparse.
Host: Yasemin Merzifonluoglu - Date: April 22, 2021
Timo Deist
CWI Amsterdam
Title: Multi-objective optimization and machine learning by hypervolume gradient ascent
Host: Yasemin Merzifonluoglu - Date: March 31, 2021
Jacco Thijssen
University of York
Title: Preemption and Attrition in a Two-Factor Game-Theoretic Real Option Model with Positive Timing Externalities
Host: Etienne de Klerk - Date: March 19, 2021
Ross Kang
Radboud University Nijmegen
Title: Locally sparse graphs: from the Rödl nibble to entropy compression and the hard-core model
Host: Etienne de Klerk - Date: March 9, 2021
Guvenc Sahin
Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany
Title: Integrated multi-period (line-)planning with resource transfers
Host: Etienne de Klerk - Date: March 10, 2021
Steffen Rebennack
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Title: Crossing Minimal Edge-Constrained Layout Planning using Benders Decomposition
Host: Etienne de Klerk - Date: March 5, 2021
Jean-Jacques Herings
Maastricht University
Title: Matching with myopic and farsighted players
Host: Etienne de Klerk - Date: March 4, 2021
Matthias Walter
University of Twente
Title: Face Dimensions of General-Purpose Cutting Planes for Mixed-Integer Linear Programs
Host: Marleen Balvert - Date: February 25, 12:45-13:30 hrs, Zoom Virtual Seminar
Marieke Musegaas
Maastricht University
Title: Core Allocations for Cooperation Problems in Vaccination
Host: Marleen Balvert - Date: February 11, 2021
Daniel Brosch
Tilburg University
Title: More efficient and flexible Flag-SOS Hierarchies coming from Polynomial Optimization
Host: Etienne de Klerk - Date: January 21, 2021
Lucas Slot
CWI Amsterdam
Title: Sum-of-squares hierarchies for binary polynomial optimization
Host: Monique Laurent - Date: December 17, 2020
Tristan van Leeuwen
Tilburg University
Title: Non-smooth Variable Projection
Host: Yasemin Merzifonluoglu - Date: December 10, 2020
Jan Fransoo
Tilburg University
Title: Model-based research in supply chain management and logistics
Host: Yasemin Merzifonluoglu - Date: May 28, 2020
Ahmadreza Marandi
TU Eindhoven
Title: Static Pricing Problems under Mixed Multinomial Logit Demand
Host: Yasemin Merzifonluoglu - Date: April 30, 2020
Krzysztof Postek
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Title: Uniqueness results for robust optimization problems in non-convex model predictive control
Host: Yasemin Merzifonluoglu - Date: April 23, 2020
Students Tilburg University
Tilburg University
Title: INFORMS student team competition finals - Network design and facility operations modeling
Host: Juan Vera - Date: April 9, 2020
Javier Pena
Carnegie Mellon University
Title: Hoffman constants for systems of linear inequalities
Host: Yasemin Merzifonluoglu - Date: February 5, 2020
Saeed Ghadimi(Job Market Seminar)
Princeton University
Title: Reinforcement Learning via Parametric Cost Function Approximation for Multistage Stochastic Programming
Host: Johan van Leeuwaarden