Keynote Speakers

See for detailed description of the talks for Wednesday and Thursday the scientific program and for Friday the practitioners program.

Armann Ingolfsson

Armann Ingolfsson is an Associate Professor of operations management, the Roger H. Smith Professor of Business, and the Academic Director of the Centre for Excellence in Operations at the University of Alberta School of Business. He received a PhD in operations research from MIT. His research interests focus on operations management in the service and health care sectors and developing methodology to analyze congested systems. He has published articles on these topics in Management Science, Operations Research, Production and Operations Management, and various other journals. He is the Editor-in-chief of INFORMS Transactions on Education and an Associate Editor for INFOR and the Journal for Quantitative Analysis in Sports . He has taught operations management, analytics, and statistics to undergraduate, MBA, executive education, and PhD students. He is a past President of the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) and has served in various other roles for CORS. Photograph of Armann Ingolfsson

Shane G. Henderson

Shane G. Henderson is a professor in the School of Operations Research and Information Engineering at Cornell University. He is a past chair of the INFORMS Applied Probability Society, and currently serves as an associate editor for both Management Science, and Stochastic Systems. His research interests include discrete-event simulation, simulation optimization, and emergency services planning. His work in healthcare includes extensive research in land- and air-ambulance operations, planning external-beam radiation treatments for cancer therapy, and patient flow in an imaging centre. Photograph of Shane Henderson

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