Program

Saturday, August 26

8:00 – 9:00	Breakfast and opening remarks
9:00 – 9:30	Nikos Lappas	The use of Decision-dependent Uncertainty Sets in Robust Optimization: Modeling Capabilities and Solution Approaches
9:30 – 10:00	Anna Svirsko	Reducing Missing Medications in a Hospital Pharmacy through Standardization of Medication Delivery Pathways
10:00 – 10:30	Joseph Briggs	On-line Coloring of Hamilton cycles
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00	Francisco Trespalacios	Pseudo basic steps: bound improvement guarantees from Lagrangian decomposition in convex disjunctive programming
12:00 – 13:30	Lunch
13:30 – 14:00	Gerdus Benade
14:00 – 14:30	Siddharth Singh	That’s Not Fair: Tariff Structures for Electricity Markets with Rooftop Solar
14:30 – 15:00	Cristiana Lara	Electric Power Infrastructure Planning: MILP Model and Nested Decomposition Algorithm
15:00 – 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 – 16:00	Stylianos Despotakis	The Beneficial Effects of Ad Blockers
16:00 – 17:00	Hamsa Bastani	Online Decision-Making Algorithms for Data-Driven Operations
17:00 – 17:30	Break
17:30 – 21:00	Dinner

Sunday, August 27

8:00 – 9:00	Breakfast
9:00 – 9:30	David Bernal	Incorporating Quadratic Approximations in MINLP solution methods
9:30 – 10:00	Nam Ho Nguyen	Dynamic Data-Driven Estimation of Non-Parametric Choice Models
10:00 – 10:30	Ziv Scully	Optimally Scheduling Jobs with Multiple Tasks
10:30 – 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:00	Noam Brown	Libratus: Beating Top Humans in No-Limit Poker