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IFORS Global Webinar Series

  • 1.  IFORS Global Webinar Series

    Posted 09-25-2020 10:43
    IFORS has launched a Global Webinar Series in 2020. Speakers from each of the four IFORS regions will provide our worldwide community with updates on exciting new challenges, methodologies and solution approaches that impact their region and the world.  The webinars will have different formats. The overall aim of this webinar series is to strengthen research activities and foster potential collaboration by encouraging the exchange of ideas and the sharing of our successes and challenges.

    The second Global Webinar is organized by APORS and will take place on September 30th at 1:00 p.m. GMT (9:00 am Washington DC time). Anyone interested can find information about the webinar on the IFORS website https://www.ifors.org/

    or register here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__Kaf1H9VSjqFjmomCZunpw

    Global Webinar Series
    O.R. in the Asia Pacific:
    Recent Trends and Practices
    September 30, 2020
    9:00 am Washington DC/ 1:00 pm GMT

    Hosts
    Grazia Speranza, Italy (IFORS President)
    Francis Miranda, Philippines (APORS President)
    Sunity Shrestha Hada, Nepal (VP IFORS-APORS)

    Register for this free webinar on the IFORS website: www.ifors.org

    Invited Speakers

    Tanka Nath Dhamala
    Tribhuvan University (TU), Nepal
    Impact of Dynamic Network Reconfiguration on Optimal Evacuation Planning

    Gokulanand Patel
    Birla Institute of Management Technology (BIMTECH), Delhi, India
    Application of DEA Tool in analyzing COVID-19

    Dongdong Ge
    Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, China
    Supply Chain Network Management in Mitigation of Covid-19

    Several times each year, IFORS will offer free global webinars on topics of key
    interest to those developing and applying Operational Research and
    Analytics methodologies and models.

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    Karla Hoffman
    Professor
    George Mason University
    Fairfax VA
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