Micro Events

This initiative hosts a series of bite-sized events, which provide virtual venues for members of the Canadian OR community to meet and exchange on OR-based research and applications. The events and details are listed below. We look forward to seeing you at these events.

Upcoming Micro-Events

Past Micro-Events

December 2023
"Size-based Scheduling in Service Systems"
Size-based scheduling policies, such as shortest-remaining-processing-time (SRPT) and shortest-job-first (SJF), have been extensively studied for decades. Yet, almost all analytical results in the literature remain exclusive to single-server queues with infinitely patient jobs and under exact job-size information, which are assumptions that clearly do not hold in service systems such as call centers or healthcare facilities. In this work, we provide the first analytical results on the performance of size-based scheduling in multiserver queues with abandonment and inexact job-size information. This is joint work with Jing Dong, from Columbia Business School. Bio of Speaker: Rouba Ibrahim is a Professor at the School of Management of University College London. She holds a PhD degree in Operations Research from Columbia University. Her research and teaching interests focus on service operations using both queueing theoretic and data-analytic techniques. She serves on the editorial boards of Management Science, Operations Research, MSOM, Queueing Systems, and IISE Transactions.

May 2022
“Information design for load balancing”
This event was organized by the CORS Queueing Theory Special Interest Group, and Professor Kuang Xu from Stanford Graduate School of Business presented the following research.

March 2022
“HCOR SIG Micro-event: Student Presentation Prize followed by a seminar by Professor Gilbert Laporte”
The CORS Health Care Operational Research SIG oral presentation competition for graduate students emphasizes the importance of presentation skills and provides an opportunity for students to receive formal feedback, learn best practices from their peers, and be recognized for excellence in this area. The goal is to have students demonstrate mastery of coherent and engaging presentations describing a completed research project on a significant healthcare topic within a ten-minute time limit. This year's competition was held during an online CORS micro-event organized by the HCOR SIG and was followed by a seminar by Professor Gilbert Laporte who discussed the design of effective scientific presentations, including some tips and tricks.

January 2022
“Data & Intelligence Maturity Model”
In this event, Dr. Anirvan Basu, Managing Director Europe at Accenture Strategy Consulting, spoke about a comprehensive methodology that helps corporate leaders to choose the required level of maturity for achieving their business vision, to determine the path step-by-step towards the destination maturity level, and, throughout the journey, to measure the success of the transformation. This event was organized by Masoud Chitsaz from Kinaxis.

November 2021
“Building and Leading Analytics Teams”
In this event, analytics strategy expert Jeremy Adamson discussed challenges in building and leading analytics teams, how to overcome them, and how to gain competitive advantages by investing in analytics. This event was organized by Masoud Chitsaz from Kinaxis.

October 2020
"Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare"
The inaugural event was a workshop organized by the CORS HCOR SIG and chaired by Majid Taghavi. The event featured a set of invited talks and a plenary on this timely topic.

November 2020
"New OR PhDs"
This event was organized by CORS Council and chaired by Jules Comeau. The event featured a set of short submitted research talks from graduating PhD students and a round-table discussion.