Discipline of Mathematical Sciences Colloquium 2024

Date: Tue, 2 Apr - Tue, 31 Dec 2024
Location: Lower Napier LG28, North Tce campus
Contact: Professor Finnur Larusson
Email: finnur.larusson@adelaide.edu.au

Date	Speaker	Presentation
2 April 2024 2:10 - 3:00 pm	Professor Shane G. Henderson Cornell University Professor Shane G. Henderson holds the Charles W. Lake, Jr. Chair in Productivity in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE) at Cornell University. His research interests include discrete-event simulation, simulation optimization, emergency services planning and transportation. He is the editor in chief of the open-access journal Stochastic Systems. He is an INFORMS Fellow and a co-recipient of the INFORMS Wagner Prize for his work on bike-sharing programs. He has served as Director of the School of ORIE, as Chair of the INFORMS Applied Probability Society, and as simulation area editor for Operations Research. He has previously held positions in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan and the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Auckland.	COVID-19 Modeling to Keep Cornell University Open Throughout the Pandemic Unlike most universities, Cornell University reopened its Ithaca campus for in-person instruction in the Fall of 2020 during the COVID period and did so safely through the use of pooled testing. This decision and many others were guided by our mathematical modeling group. I'll discuss some of the questions we explored, the models we built, the data that informed our models, how we dealt with several central data issues including tremendous uncertainty in parameter choices for models, and how our outsized influence on Cornell COVID policy came about in the first place.

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Speaker

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2 April 2024
2:10 - 3:00 pm

Cornell University

Professor Shane G. Henderson holds the Charles W. Lake, Jr. Chair in Productivity in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering (ORIE) at Cornell University. His research interests include discrete-event simulation, simulation optimization, emergency services planning and transportation. He is the editor in chief of the open-access journal Stochastic Systems. He is an INFORMS Fellow and a co-recipient of the INFORMS Wagner Prize for his work on bike-sharing programs. He has served as Director of the School of ORIE, as Chair of the INFORMS Applied Probability Society, and as simulation area editor for Operations Research. He has previously held positions in the Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan and the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Auckland.

COVID-19 Modeling to Keep Cornell University Open Throughout the Pandemic

Unlike most universities, Cornell University reopened its Ithaca campus for in-person instruction in the Fall of 2020 during the COVID period and did so safely through the use of pooled testing. This decision and many others were guided by our mathematical modeling group. I'll discuss some of the questions we explored, the models we built, the data that informed our models, how we dealt with several central data issues including tremendous uncertainty in parameter choices for models, and how our outsized influence on Cornell COVID policy came about in the first place.

School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences

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