The 34th IPP Symposium
Combinatorial Optimization - State of the Art and Future Trends
May 4, 2005
Schedule
- 8:30 BREAKFAST
- and Registration
- 3rd Floor, CIT Building
- 3rd Floor, CIT Building
- 9:15 Welcome
- Eli Upfal, CS Chairman
- Michael Black, IPP Co-Director
- Michael Black, IPP Co-Director
- 9:30 Computational Progress in Optimization
- Irv Lustig, ILOG Direct
- 10:20 BREAK
- 10:40 Combinatorial Optimization in Supply Chain Sourcing and Production Planning
- Andrew Davenport, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center
- 11:30 Reducing the Challenge of using an Optimizer for Planning in Supply Chain Management
- Heinrich Braun, SAP
- 12:30 BUFFET LUNCH (4th Floor)
- 2:00 Optimization in Sports Scheduling
- George Nemhauser, Georgia Tech
- 2:50 BREAK
- 3:10 Combinatorial Optimization Methods for Personnel Scheduling Problems
- Bernard Gendron, Université de Montréal
- 4:10 Applying Optimization in the Transportation Industry:
- Experiences from Carmen Systems and Some Personal Thoughts
- Stefan Karisch, Carmen Systems
- 5:00 Closing Remarks and Reception (3rd Floor)
