Operations Research

The Operations Research Group is one of the three sections of the Department of Quantitative Economics of the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Maastricht University. The group consists of some 10 researchers, about half of which are PhD students. The current research topics range from theory to practice, and focus around the following topics.

·          Integer programming and polyhedral combinatorics
·          Approximation and Online Algorithms
·          Mechanism design and Auctions
·          Algorithms and Mechanisms for Pricing Problems
·          Network design and routing
·          Planning and Scheduling

• We also organize an informal Operations Research Seminar. The staff members of the Operations Research Group are:
  
  ·        Alexander Grigoriev (assistant professor)
  ·        Joris van de Klundert (professor, part-time)
  ·        Stan van Hoesel (professor, head of the OR group)
  ·        Rudolf Müller (professor)
  ·        Marc Uetz (associate professor)
  ·        Tjark Vredeveld (assistant professor)
   
• Current PhD students affiliated with the Operations Research group, with PhD projects:
         
  ·        Birgit Heydenreich (Local Decisions in Decentralized Planning)
  ·        Joyce van Loon (Pricing  Problems in Distributed Systems)
  ·        Reinder Lok (Auction Mechanisms in Supply Chain Optimization)
  ·        Bert Marchal (Models and Algorithms for Treewidth)
  ·        Sascha Wolf (Strategic Analysis of Procurement Auctions)
   
• Past PhD students:
  ·       Elena Grigorieva (2007, Bisection Auctions)
  ·       Jan-Willem Goossens (2004, Models and Algorithms for Railway Line Planning Problems)
  ·       Anton van der Kraaij (2004, Pricing in Telecommunication Networks)
  ·       Bart Kuijpers (2004, Mortgage Prepayment Models)
  ·     FrankLutgens (2004, Robust Portfolio Optimization)
  ·        Alexander Grigoriev (2003, High Multiplicity Scheduling Problems)
  ·        Arie Koster (1999, Frequency Assignment: Models and Algorithms)
  ·        Robert van de Leensel (1999, Models and Algorithms for Telecommunication Network Design)
  ·        Maarten Oosten (1996, A Polyhedral Approach to Grouping Problems)
  ·        Joris van de Klundert (1996, Scheduling Problems in Automated Manufacturing)
  ·        Ron van der Wal (1995, Trees and Objects: Applying Object-Oriented Techniques to Enumerative Tree Searching)
  ·        Alwin Oerlemans (1992, Production Planning for Flexible Manufacturing Systems)

The head of the Operations Research group is

Prof.dr.ir. C.P.M. van Hoesel

Department of Quantitative Economics

Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Maastricht University

P.O. Box 616

6200 MD   Maastricht

The Netherlands

Telephone     ++ 31 43 388 37 27

Fax              ++ 31 43 388 48 74

E-mail          s.vanhoesel@ke.unimaas.nl