Selected Presentations:

"Optimizing Large Scale Transportation Systems: Models and Methods," Universitat Pompeu, Dept. of Economics and Business, Barcelona, Spain, January 15-21, 1996.

"Integer Multicommodity Flow Problems," with Hane, C. A., and Vance, P., Conference on Network Optimization, University of Florida, Center for Applied Optimization, Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, February 12-14, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Large-Scale Transportation Systems: Operations, Models, and Management Methods," MIT Operations Management Group, March 18, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Optimizing Large-Scale Transportation Systems: Models & Methods," Departments of Industrial Engineering and Civil Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, April 5, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Optimizing Large-Scale Transportation Systems: Models & Methods,” Department of Industrial Engineering, Stanford University, April 9, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Optimizing Large-Scale Transportation Systems: Models & Methods," Operations Research Center Luncheon Seminar Series, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 17, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Optimizing Large-Scale Transportation Systems: Models & Methods," Operations Management Seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 18, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Integrated Airline Optimization," with Shenoi, R., Lochan, R., Nemhauser, G.L., Johnson, E.L., Clarke, L., Vance, P., and Mahidhara, D., Scheduling Aircraft & Crews: Recent Advances, INFORMS Washington, D.C. Spring 1996, May 5-8, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Intermodal Network Delay, " with Kniker, T., and Kolitz, S.E., Recent Research in Rail Applications, INFORMS Washington, D.C. Spring 1996, May 5-8, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Defining the Exceptions Crew Planning Problem," with Vance, P., Johnson, E.L., Krishna, A., Mahidhara, D., Rebello, R., and Nemhauser, G.L., Airline Optimization, INFORMS Washington, D.C. Spring 1996, May 5-8, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"A Model for Real-Time Air Traffic Flows Control," with Jauffred, F., Air Traffic Control, INFORMS Washington, D.C. Spring 1996, May 5-8, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Weather & Capacity Modeling of Pacing Airports," with Yu, J., and Kolitz, S.E., Air Traffic Control, INFORMS Washington, D.C. Spring 1996, May 5-8, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Integer Multicommodity Flow Problems," with Vance, P., Hane, C., Computationally Difficult Combinatorial Optimization Problems, INFORMS Washington, D.C. Spring 1996, May 5-8, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Express Shipment Service Design," with Kim, D., Boss, G., Ware, K., and Yang, J., Multimodal Transportation, INFORMS Washington, D.C. Spring 1996, May 5-8, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Heuristic Approaches to the Railroad Blocking Problem," with Newton, H. and Vance, P., Multimodal Transportation, INFORMS Washington, D.C. Spring 1996, May 5-8, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Service Design," with Kim, D., INFORMS Optimization Days, May 15, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Large Scale Transportation Systems: Models and Methods," Knight Science Journalism Fellows Seminar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 17, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Air Express Service Shipment Design," with Schneur, R., Fifth IPCO Conference on Optimization, Victoria, British Columbia, May 20-22, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Integer Multicommodity Flow Problems," with Hane, C.A., and Vance, P.H., Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization Conference, Sponsored by The Mathematical Programming Society, University of British Columbia, June 3 - 5, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Intermodal Service Design," with Kim, D., The 14th Triennial Conference, IFORS96, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 8 - 12, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Integer Multi-Commodity Network Flows," with Vance, P., The 14th Triennial Conference, IFORS’96, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 8 - 12, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Large-Scale Transportation Service Design," with Kim, D., Large-Scale Transportation Problems (Column Generation & Branch & Bound), INFORMS Atlanta, Fall 1996, November 3-6, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Real-Time Optimization of Transportation Systems," with Jauffred, F., Resource Scheduling in Transportation, INFORMS Atlanta, Fall 1996, November 3-6, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Crew Planning & Management," with Vance, P., Johnson, E.L., Nemhauser, G.L., and Atamturk, A., INFORMS Atlanta, Fall 1996, November 3-6, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Integer Multicommodity Network Flows," with Vance, P., and Hane, C., Recent Results in Integer Programming, INFORMS Atlanta, Fall 1966, November 3-6, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Modeling Intermodal Railroad Terminals," with Kniker, T.S., Kolitz, S.E., and Kocur, G.A., Load Acceptance and Dispatching Policies for LTL Transportation, INFORMS Atlanta, Fall 1996, November 3-6, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Airline Optimization," FAA Briefing, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, November 19, 1996 (Invited Paper).

"Express Package Network Design," with Kim, D., Krishnan, N., Reinhardt, G., and Ware, K., Colloquium on Fleet Management and Logistics, University of Montreal, February 27-28, 1997 (Invited Paper).

"Models and Methods for Large-Scale Transportation Systems Optimization," University of Padua, Italy, March 21, 1997.

"Models and Methods for Large-Scale Transportation Systems Optimization," Institute for Systems Analysis and Informatics, Rome, Italy, March 24, 1997.

"Airline Fleet Assignment with Time Windows," University of Texas at Austin Seminar, Operations Research and Management Science, Seminar Series, May 2, 1997 (Invited Paper).

"The Railroad Blocking Problem," with Newton, H.N., Jin, H., Acharya, D., and Vance, P., INFORMS San Diego, Spring 1997, May 4-7, 1997 (Invited Paper).

"Robust Planning in the Transportation Industry: Models & Algorithms," with Jauffred, F., INFORMS San Diego, Spring 1997, May 4-7, 1997 (Invited Paper).

"Express Shipment Service Design," with Kim, D., Reinhardt, G., and Ware, K., INFORMS San Diego, Spring 1997, May 4-7, 1997 (Invited Paper).

"A Combined Daily/Exceptions Crew Planning Model," with Atamturk, A., Johnson, E.L., Nemhauser, G.L., and Gelman, E., INFORMS San Diego, Spring 1997, May 4-7, 1997 (Invited Paper).

"The Airline Passenger Mix Problem with Recapture," with Kniker, T., and Jarrah, A., INFORMS San Diego, Spring 1997, May 4 -7, 1997 (Invited Paper).

"Airline Fleet Assignment with Time Windows," ISMP97, 16th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, August 24-29, 1997 (Invited Paper).

"Planning and Control of Transportation Systems," with Jauffred, F., Conference on the Application of Research Results to Transportation Issues, UTC, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sept. 18-19, 1997 (Invited Paper).

"Network Design for Express Shipment Delivery," with Krishnan, N., Reinhardt, G.R., and Ware, K., INFORMS Dallas Fall, October 26-29, 1997 (Invited Paper).

"Airline Fleeting with Time Windows," with Kniker, T.S., Rexing, B., Jarrah, A., and Krishnamurthy, N., INFORMS Dallas Fall, October 26-29, 1997 (Invited Paper).

"Integrated Airline Scheduling," Lecture Series on Mathematical Sciences and its Applications," IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, N.Y., November 18, 1997 (Invited Paper).

"Network Design for Express Shipment Delivery," with Armacost, A.P., Krishnan, N., Reinhardt, G., and Ware, K., CORS/INFORMS Montreal, Spring 1998, April 26-29, 1998.

"Railroad Blocking," with Jin, H., and Vance, P., CORS/INFORMS Montreal, Spring 1998, April 26-29, 1998.

"A Simulation for Intermodal Military Logistics," with Kolitz, S.E., and Coop, A.E., CORS/INFORMS Montreal, Spring 1998, April 26-29, 1998.

"A Framework for Analysis and Support of Intermodal Military Logistics," with Kolitz, S. E., CORS/INFORMS Montreal, Spring 1998, April 26-29, 1998.

"Express Service Design," 7^th Annual IE Research/Solutions Conference, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 1998.

"Shortcomings of the Conventional Airline Fleet Assignment Model," with Kniker, T., TRISTAN III, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 17-23, 1998.

"The Stochastic Knapsack Problem with Random Weights: A Heuristic Approach to Robust Transportation Planning," with Cohn, A., TRISTAN III, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 17-23, 1998.

"Constructing Railroad Blocking Plans: Balancing Model Fidelity and Computational Effort," with Jin, H., and Vance, P., TRISTAN III, San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 17-23, 1998.

"Incremental Airline Schedule Design," with Lohatepanont, M., and Krishnamurthy, N., INFORMS Seattle, Fall 1998, October 25-28, 1998.

"Incremental Airline Schedule Design," with Lohatepanont, M., and Krishnamurthy, N., INFORMS Seattle, Fall 1998, October 25-28, 1998.

"Recent Advances in Airline Operations Research," University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, December 15, 1998.

"Airline Optimization," Austrian Airlines, Vienna, Austria, December 15, 1998.

"Recent Developments in Airline Operations Research," Strategic Planning Workshop, Volpe Center, Cambridge, January 27, 1999.

"Airline Schedule Design," with Lohatepanont, M., and Sivakumar, R., Proceedings: 5^th International Conference, Decision Sciences Institute, "Integrating Technology & Human Decisions: Global Bridges into the 21^st Century" Vol. II, pp. 270-272, Edited by D. K. Despotis and C. Zopounidis, July 4-7, 1999, Athens, Greece (Invited paper).

"Express Shipment Service Network Design," with Armacost, A. and Ware, K., INFORMS Fall 1999 Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, Nov. 7-10, 1999. "

Airline Schedule Design," with Armacost, A. and Lohatepanont, M., Meeting on Traffic and Transport Optimization, Oberwolfach-Walke, Nov. 7-13, 1999.

"Large-Scale Transportation Problems: Optimization Models, Algorithms and Computational Experiences," Advanced Solutions Center (ASC) Distinguished Speaker Series, i2 Technologies, Cambridge, MA, December 1, 1999.

“Large-Scale Optimization: Models and Algorithms for Strategic, Tactical and Real-Time Planning,” Sabre, Dallas, Texas, April 17, 2000.

“Airline Scheduling Planning,” with Armacost, A. P., Farahat, A., and Lohatepanont, M., INFORMS Spring 2000, Salt Lake City, May 7-10, 2000.

“Transportation Network Design – An Express Shipment Service Application,” with Armacost, A., ODYSSEUS 2000 – The First International Workshop on Freight Transportation and Logistics, Chania, Crete, Greece, May 23-26, 2000 (organized by RWTH Aachen and CRT Montreal).

“Composite Variables for Service Network Design,” with Armacost, A., and Ware, K., AGIFORS Cargo Study Working Group 2000, Louisville, KY, June 13, 2000.

“Recent Advances in Airline Schedule Design and Fleet Assignment,” with Farahat, A., and Lohatepanont, M., ISMP 2000 – 17^th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, August 7-11, 2000.

“Extending Crew Pairing to Improve Airline Planning,” with Cohn, A. M., ISMP 2000 – 17^th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, August 7-11, 2000.

“Recent Advances in Integrated Airline Schedule Planning,” Dept. of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Fall 2000 Seminar Series, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Oct. 17, 2000.

“Composite Variable Formulation for Service Network Design,” Speaker, Transportation Science Seminar Series, University of Berkeley, California, Berkeley, Civil & Environmental Engineering, October 20, 2000.

“Advances in the Airline Crew Problem,” with A. M. Cohn, INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Fall 2000, Nov. 5-8, 2000.

“Airline Fleet Assignment: An Alternative Model & Solution Approach,” with Farahat, A., and Lohatepanont, M., INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Fall 2000, Nov. 5-8, 2000.

“Composite Variable Formulations for Express Shipment Service Network Design,” with Armacost, A.P., INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Fall 2000, Nov. 5-8, 2000.

“Optimization in Military Logistics,” with Clarke, S., and Kolitz, S.E., INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Antonio, Fall 2000, Nov. 5-8, 2000.

“National Trends in Airline Delays and Flight Cancellations, and the Impact on Customers,” with Bratu, S., Workshop on Airline and National Strategies for Dealing with Airport and Airspace Congestion, University of Maryland, March 15-16,2001,

“The New Service Organizations: The Global Airline Industry and the Role of Information Technology,” Corporate Strategies for the Digital Economy, Sloan Industry Centers, Cambridge, Mass., April 11-12, 2001,

“Airplane Fleet Assignment and Extensions: A New Model and Solution Approach,” Operations Research Seminar Series, April 12, 2001.

“Recent Developments in Modeling and Solving Optimization Problems,” Tutorial for the INFORMS Practice Meeting, San Diego, California, May 20-22, 2001.

“Airline Service Network Design and Fleet Assignment Optimization,” Dept. of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Invited Lecture Series, Northwestern University, May 29, 2001.

“Airline Fleet Assignment and Extensions: A New Model and Solution Approach,” with Farahat, A. and Lohatepanont, M., TRISTAN IV, Azores Islands, Portugal, June 13-19, 2001.

“Improving Crew Scheduling by Incorporating Key Maintenance Routing Decisions,” with Cohn, A. TRISTAN IV, Azores Islands, Portugal, June 13-19, 2001.

“Models and Methods for Service Parts Logistics,” NSF/ETI Workshop, Washington, D.C., Aug. 13-14, 2001.

“Network Design for Service Parts Logistics,” with Cohn, A., INFORMS Miami 2001 Annual Meeting, Nov. 4-7, 2001.

“Strong Formulations in Airline Schedule Design and Fleet Assignment,” with Farahat, A., INFORMS Miami 2001 Annual Meeting, Nov. 4-7, 2001.

“Flight Delays, Cancellations and the Impact on Airline Passengers,” with Bratu, S., INFORMS Miami 2001 Annual Meeting, Nov. 4-7, 2001.

“Robust Fleet Assignment Under Demand Uncertainty,” with Lan, S., INFORMS Miami 2001 Annual Meeting, Nov. 4-7, 2001.

“Service Network Design in Transportation and Logistics: Composite Variable Models and Algorithms,” Plenary Session IV, Optimization Days 2002, Montreal, May 6-8, 2002.

“Service Network Design: Applications in Transportation and Logistics,” INFORMS, Analyzing and Enhancing the Extended Enterprise, Montreal, May 19-21, 2002.

“Optimizing Service Networks in Transportation and Logistics,” Industrial Advisory Board of the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota, September 8, 2002.

“Aircraft Scheduling and Recovery: The Impact on Passengers,” Institute for Mathematics And Its Applications Workshop 3: Travel and Transportation, University of Minnesota, Nov. 11-15, 2002.

“Decomposition Methods for Weakly-Coupled Network Design Problems,” with Farahat, A., INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Jose, November 17-20, 2002.

“Modeling Techniques for Large-Scale Problems in Transportation and Logistics,” Cohn, A, INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Jose, November 17-20, 2002.

“Optimization Models to Recover Aircraft Schedules and Minimize Passenger Disruptions,” with Bratu, S., INFORMS Annual Meeting, San Jose, November 17-20, 2002.

“Aircraft and Crew Scheduling,” Workshop on Distribution Systems: Location and Vehicle Routing, Centre for Research on Transportation, Universite de Montreal, December 2-6, 2002.

Barnhart, Cynthia, “Service Network Design: Applications in Transportation and Logistics,” BBNT Women in Science and Technology Seminar Series, January 15, 2003.

Barnhart, Cynthia, “Aircraft and Crew Schedule Planning,” Short Course, 3eme cycle romand de Recherche Operationnelle, seminaire de3 printemps 2003, Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne, February 16-20, 2003.