Econometrics

Mathematical Economics and Game Theory

Operations Research

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:
 

• Andre Berger (assistant professor)
• Alexander Grigoriev (assistant professor)
• Stan van Hoesel (professor, head of the OR group)
• Joyce van Loon (assistant professor)
• Rudolf Müller (professor)
• Heiko Röglin (assistant professor)
• Tjark Vredeveld (assistant professor)
• Nadine Wesselius (lecturer)
   

Current PhD students affiliated with the Operations Research group, with PhD projects:
 

• Hans Ensinck
• Seyed Hossein Naeemi
• Bas Marban
• Bert Marchal
• Cyriel Rutten
• Natalya Usotskaya
   

Past PhD students:
 

• Jan-Willem Goossens (2004, Models and Algorithms for Railway Line Planning Problems)
• Alexander Grigoriev (2003, High Multiplicity Scheduling Problems)
• Elena Grigorieva (2007, Bisection Auctions)
• Birgit Heydenreich (2009, Graphs, Mechanisms and Scheduling)
• Joris van de Klundert (1996, Scheduling Problems in Automated Manufacturing)
• Arie Koster (1999, Frequency Assignment: Models and Algorithms)
• Anton van der Kraaij (2004, Pricing in Telecommunication Networks)
• Bart Kuijpers (2004, Mortgage Prepayment Models)
• Robert van de Leensel (1999, Models and Algorithms for Telecommunication Network Design)
• Reinder Lok (2007, Auction Mechanisms in Supply Chain Optimization)
• Frank Lutgens (2004, Robust Portfolio Optimization)
• Alwin Oerlemans (1992, Production Planning for Flexible Manufacturing Systems)
• Maarten Oosten (1996, A Polyhedral Approach to Grouping Problems)
• Ron van der Wal (1995, Trees and Objects: Applying Object-Oriented Techniques to Enumerative Tree Searching)
• Sascha Wolf (2009, Monotonicity and Bayes-Nash Implementation)
  
   

The head of the Operations Research group is

Prof.dr.ir. C.P.M. van Hoesel
Department of Quantitative Economics
School of Business and Economics
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@maastrichtuniversity.nl