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On Thursday, 23 November 2023, Natasja Sluijk will defend her PhD thesis From Chaos to Control:
Effective Approaches for Demand Uncertainty in Vehicle Routing. This thesis has been supervised by
prof.dr. T. van Woensel and dr. J. Kinable. The Continue reading →

On Tuesday, 12 September 2023, Rafael Escamilla will defend his PhD thesis Managing the
Nanostore Supply Chain: Base-of-the-Pyramid Retail in Emerging Markets. This thesis has been
supervised by prof. Dr. Jan Fransoo and dr. Prisca Brosi. The ceremony will Continue reading →

On Monday, 11 September 2023, Alejandro Morales Hernández will defend his PhD thesis Essays on
Machine Learning: Advances in Forecasting and Optimization. This thesis has been supervised by
Prof. Inneke Van Nieuwenhuyse (Hasselt University), Prof. Koenraad Vanhoof (Hasselt University), Continue reading →

On Friday, 9 June 2023, Joost Goedhart will defend his PhD thesis Inventory Management and Demand Fulfilment in Omni-channel Retail: The Role of the Store. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr.ir. Sander de Leeuw, dr. Renzo Akkerman and Continue reading →

On Tuesday, 16 May 2023, Dennis Schol will defend his PhD thesis Extreme-Value Theory for Large
Fork-Join Queues. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr. Bert Zwart and prof.dr. Maria Vlasiou.
The ceremony will take place at Eindhoven University Continue reading →

On Tuesday, 9 May 2023, Simon Voorberg will defend his PhD thesis Optimization of Information
Acquisition for Decision-Intensive Processes. This thesis has been supervised by Prof.dr.ir. Geert-Jan
van Houtum, dr. Willem van Jaarsveld en dr. Rik Eshuis. The ceremony Continue reading →

On Thursday, 13 April 2023, İpek Dursun will defend her PhD thesis Maintenance optimization and
spare parts management in data-integrated environments. This thesis has been supervised by
Prof.dr.ir. Geert-Jan van Houtum and dr. Alp Akcay. The ceremony will take Continue reading →

On Thursday February 9th 2023, Wendy Olsder will defend her PhD thesis Optimization Models for Faster and Affordable Access to Rare Disease Treatments. This thesis has been supervised by dr. Tugce Martagan and prof. dr. ir. Ivo Adan.

Recently, the Operations Research Group of the University of Antwerp joined Beta. The main research topic of the group is the development of optimisation methods to solve a wide range of decision-making problems. Generally, their research is application-driven in the Continue reading →

On Thursday, 1 September 2022, Nathalie Vanvuchelen will defend her PhD thesis Deep reinforcement learning for inventory control. This thesis has been supervised by Robert Boute. The ceremony will take place at KU Leuven, in Agora learning centre, room Emma Vorlat, Continue reading →

On Friday, 23 September 2022, Jelle Adan will defend his PhD thesis Operational Decision Making in Semiconductor Manufacturing. This thesis has been supervised by Geert-Jan van Houtum and Alp Akcay. The ceremony will take place at the Eindhoven University of Continue reading →

On June 2-3 the latest edition of the Netherlands Operations Management and Logistics Conference took place. Every other year, Beta co-organizes this two-day conference, which aims to offer networking opportunities and foster research discussions and new collaborations among OML researchers Continue reading →

The GP-OML program of Autumn 2022 is online. For more information and registration click on the button below.

On Friday, 18 March 2022, Yesim will defend her PhD thesis Optimal Decision Making under Uncertainty in Biomanufacturing”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr.ir. Ivo Adan and dr. Tugce Martagan. The ceremony will take place at Eindhoven University Continue reading →

On Wednesday February 2, 2022, Mirjam Meijer will defend her PhD thesis Optimization and Coordination in High-tech Supply Chains. This thesis has been supervised by Dr. Willem van Jaarsveld and Prof. Dr. Ton de Kok. The ceremony will take Continue reading →