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SUMMARY:Robust optimization of evacuations plans
DTSTART:20110307T140000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Olga Huibregtse\, TU Delft\nWhen a region is threatened by a d
 isaster\, like a flood or a fire\, people have to be evacuated to avoid as
  many casualties as possible. A plan (for example containing instructions 
 for the people when to leave and where to go) has to be created to be able
  to evacuate these people in an efficient way. My research focuses on opti
 mization methods to create these plans under uncertainty. In this seminar\
 , I will introduce some results obtained so far\, showing among others the
  doubled effectiveness of evacuation instructions if they are optimized in
 stead of created by practical rules. Furthermore\, I will discuss my objec
 tive of my stay at EPFL\, which is to study the appropriateness of robust 
 optimization methods to solve the evacuation prob-lem under uncertainty an
 d to apply one of these methods to the problem.\n \nBiography\nOlga Huibre
 gtse is currently PhD student at TU Delft under the supervision of Profess
 or S. Hoogendorn
LOCATION:GC B3 424 (Bâtiment GC)
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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