19-24 July 2015 (Montréal): 41st Annual Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Operational Research Applied to Health Services included the following contributions from the University of Toronto:
Presentations (* = presenter):
- Logic-based Benders’ Decomposition Approaches with Application to Operating Room Scheduling (Vahid Roshanaei*, Dionne M. Aleman & David Urbach)
- Predictive Capabilities in Hierarchical Node-Based Clustering of Flu Time Series (Hootan Kamran Habibkhani*, Dionne M. Aleman, Michael Carter & Kieran Moore)
- Surgical Scheduling to Smooth Demand for Resources (Saeedeh Ketabi*, Michael Carter & Tian Mu Liu)
- Whole-System Patient Flow Simulation Model Applied to Stroke Best Practices Evaluation (Ali Vahit Esensoy* & Michael Carter)
Prof. Michael Carter also contributed as:
- Panellist for the Discussion Panel on Education Challenges in ORAHS/Heath Systems Engineering
- Member of the International Program Committee
12-17 July 2015 (Pittsburgh): 22nd International Symposium on Mathematical Programming included the following contributions from the University:
Presentations:
- A Constraint Programming Approach for Solving Convex Quadratically-Constrained Problems (Chris Beck* & Wen-Yang Ku)
- Continuity of Robust Optimization Problems (Philip Mar* & Timothy Chan)
- Goodness-of-Fit in Inverse Optimization (Timothy Chan*, Taewoo Lee & Daria Terekhov)
Prof. Timothy Chan also contributed as:
- Chair for the session on Inverse Optimization Theory and Applications