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Operations Research Center

ORC IAP Seminar: Crisis Mitigation and Response in Logistics and Transportation Systems
Nick Howard, Pallav Chhaochhria
Thu Jan 20, 10am-03:30pm, 32-155

No limit but advance sign up required (see contact below)
Single session event
Prereq: None

We will have several speakers talking on how we can design systems to deal with and respond to disease epidemics, natural disasters, and other crisis that often overwhelm traditional logistics and transportation systems.

Schedule:
  • 10:00-10:30 Bagels and Coffee
  • 10:30-11:30 Prof Yossi Sheffi will talk about robust systems design
  • 11:30-12:30 Diana Michalek will discuss air traffic control in response to storms and weather patterns
  • 12:30-1:30 Lunch
  • 1:30-2:30 Kathy King will discuss disease pandemic logistics systems
  • 2:30-3:30 Prof Arnie Barnett will discuss robust logistics/transportation systems


  • Please RSVP to Nickhow@mit.edu
    Contact: Nick Howard, E40, nickhow@mit.edu


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