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Applied Probability Conference in honor of Michael Katehakis and Isaac Sonin

  • 1.  Applied Probability Conference in honor of Michael Katehakis and Isaac Sonin

    Posted 04-07-2023 14:27
    Edited by Odysseas Kanavetas 04-14-2023 16:33

    Dear Colleagues,

    A virtual conference in honor of Michael Katehakis' 70th birthday and Isaac Sonin's 80th birthday, distinguished researchers and professors in the field of Applied Probability, will be held via Zoom on April 21-22, 2023.

     

    The theme of the conference is "Current Directions in Applied Probability & Data Science". The conference is sponsored by Leiden University, and the program committee is: Odysseas Kanavetas (chair, Leiden University), Eugene Feinberg (Stony Brook University), Sheldon Ross (University of Southern California) and Floske Spieksma (Leiden University).

    Confirmed Speakers

    Farid Alizadeh Rutgers University
    Katsunori Ano Office K.A Co.,Ltd.
    Konstantin Avrachenkov INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
    Dimitri Bertsekas Arizona State University
    Endre Boros Rutgers University
    Apostolos Burnetas National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
    Javier Cabrera Rutgers University
    Ray Cao University of Houston Downtown
    Victor  de la Pena Department of Statistics. Columbia University. 
    Nuria Diaz-Tena Rutgers University
    Yajie Duan  Rutgers University
    Eugene Feinberg Stony Brook University
    Jerzy  Filar The University of Queensland
    Devopriya Ghosh Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical
    Peter  Glynn Stanford University
    Jiaqiao Hu Stony Brook University
    Xinxin  Hu University of Houston Downtown
    John Ioannidis Stanford University
    Saul Jacka University of Warwick
    Peter Jacko Berry Consultants and Lancaster University
    Stella Kapodistria Eindhoven University of Technology
    Panagiotis Karras Aarhus University
    Pavlo Kasyanov Institute for Applied System Analysis, National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”
    Tze Lai Stanford University
    Benjamin  Melamed Rurgers University, Rutgers Business School, Department of Supply Chain Management
    Dimitris Metaxas Rutgers University, Department of Computer Science
    Karti Puranam Rutgers University
    Rhonda Righter UC Berkeley, IEOR
    Sheldon  Ross University of Southern California
    Andrzej Ruszczynski Rutgers University
    Sergei Schreider Rutgers Business School
    Jim (Junmin) Shi New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT)
    Matthew Sobel Case Western Reserve University
    Krzysztof  Szajowski Wroclaw University of Science and Technology
    Csaba Szepesvari University of Alberta
    Sadegh Talebi Department of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen
    Chris  Tsokos University of South Florida
    Jaideep Vaidya Rutgers University
    Benjamin Van Roy Stanford University
    Jian Yang Rutgers University
    Yao Zhao Rutgers University
    Steve Bin  Zhou University of Houston Downtown

      

    Moreover, we seek submissions for two special volumes in Annals of Operations Research. The deadline for submission is December 31, 2023.

    Call for papers in a Special volume, in honor of Michael N. Katehakis

    Call for papers in a Special volume, in honor of Isaac Sonin

     

    Details on the program will be announced at the conference website.

    Registration is free, but mandatory for attendees (due to communication of Zoom link); use the registration form.

    The registration deadline is April 18, 2023.



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    Odysseas Kanavetas
    Assistant Professor
    Leiden University
    Netherlands
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