Calendar
NORS Annual Conference 2024
Plenary speakers
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Professor of Operations and Logistics Management in the Department of Information Systems & Operations Management at Tilburg University and holds courtesy affiliations at Eindhoven University of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Before joining Tilburg, Fransoo was on the faculty at Kuehne Logistics University and Eindhoven University of Technology. Fransoo has over 30 years of experience in conducting research in industrial engineering and operations and supply chain management, making use of a wide variety of analytical, quantitative, and qualitative methods. His research is widely published in and cited by the top operations management and other high-impact academic journals, and in several of his (edited) books, notably “Sustainable Supply Chain Management”, “Reaching 50 Million Nanostores”, and “Behavioral Operations in Planning and Scheduling”. He served the OM academic community by editorial positions in journals such as Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, and OR Spectrum, by board memberships of POMS and EurOMA, and by co-chairing major conferences such as the MSOM Conference and the World Conference on Production & Operations Management. His current research interests focus on retail and pharmaceutical distribution in developing markets and the role of humans in AI-enhanced decision-making. Apart from his academic research, Fransoo has extensive university leadership experience, has led large-scale research projects, programs, and institutes, and has consulted and partnered with many companies, national governments, and intergovernmental organizations.
Fransoo holds an MSc in Industrial Engineering and a PhD in Operations Management from Eindhoven University of Technology.
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Professor at Mines Saint-Etienne in its site of Gardanne, France, and Adjunct Professor at BI Norwegian Business School, Norway. He received the Ph.D. degree from Paul Sabatier University in Toulouse, France, in 1992 and the H.D.R. from Pierre and Marie Curie University, Paris, France, in 1998.
He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at M.I.T., U.S.A., in 1992 and 1993, and Research Scientist at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in 1994. He has been Associate Professor and Professor from 1994 to 2004 at the Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France. He was invited Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Bergen, Norway, in 1999, and at Molde University College, Molde, Norway, from 2003 to 2009. His research interests broadly include modeling and optimization of operations at various decision levels (from real-time to strategic) in manufacturing and logistics, with a special emphasis on production planning (lot sizing) and scheduling, on semiconductor manufacturing and on railway operations. He has published more than 110 papers in international journals and has contributed to more than 250 communications in national and international conferences. Stéphane Dauzère-Pérès has coordinated numerous academic and industrial research projects, including 4 European projects and 30 industrial (CIFRE) PhD theses, and also eight conferences. He was runner-up in 2006 of the Franz Edelman Award Competition, and won the Best Applied Paper of the Winter Simulation Conference in 2013 and the EURO award for the best theory and methodology EJOR paper in 2021.
Programme
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Tuesday 26 November
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Registration
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Welcome
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Plenary: Professor Jan Fransoo
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Lunch
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Parallel sessions
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Break
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Parallel sessions
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Break
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Parallel sessions
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Dinner
Dinner will be hosted at BI. There will be an award ceremony during the dinner.
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Wednesday 27 November
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Parallel sessions
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Break
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Parallel sessions
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Plenary: Professor Stéphane Dauzère-Pérès
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Lunch