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Thesis defense of Joke van Lemmen-Gerdessen, December 15, 2017

On Friday, December 15, 2017, Joke van Lemmen-Gerdessen will defend her PhD thesis “Multi-objective decision-making for dietary assessment and advice”. This thesis has been supervised by Prof.dr. J.G.A.J. van der...

Thesis defense of Gréanne Leeftink, December 15, 2017

On Friday, December 15, 2017, Gréanne Leeftink will defend her PhD thesis “Why wait? Organizing integrated processes in cancer care”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr.ir E.W. Hans and...

New Beta starts with new Scientific Director

More than two years ago, Beta started a transition process aimed at narrowing its contentwise focus and expanding its activities to a national level. The ‘Launch event’ of the new...

Thesis defense of Thomas Meyfroyt, November 22, 2017

On Wednesday, November 22, 2017, Thomas Meyfroyt will defend his PhD thesis “Threshold-Based Communication Algorithms for Large-Scale Mesh Networks”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr.ir. S.C. Borst, prof.dr. J.J....

Thesis defense of Loe Schlicher, October 16, 2017

On Monday, October 16, 2017, Loe Schlicher will defend his PhD thesis “Cooperative Resource Pooling Games With applications to the railway sector”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr.ir. G.J.J.A.N....

Launch event Beta Research School, 2 November 2017

Faces of Operations Management — A New Phase of Beta On 2 November Beta organizes an event where all researchers and PhD students of Beta will meet and get to...

Thesis defense of Jori Selen, September 27, 2017

On Wednesday, September 27, 2017, Jori Selen will defend his PhD thesis “Analysis of structured multi-dimensional Markov processes”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr. J.S.H. van Leeuwaarden and prof.dr.ir....

Thesis defense of Gianmarco Bet, September 11, 2017

On Monday, September 11, 2017 Gianmarco Bet will defend his PhD thesis “Scaling limits for critical queues with diminishing populations”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr. J.S.H. van Leeuwaarden...

Thesis defense of Jiwen Ge, September 12, 2017

On Tuesday, September 12, 2017 Jiwen Ge will defend his PhD thesis “Traditional Retail Distribution in Megacities”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr.ir. J. Fransoo and dr. D. Honhon....

Launch event New Beta 2 November 2017

On Thursday 2 November 2017 Beta organizes a Launch event New Beta. The purpose of this event is that all researchers and PhD students of Beta new style will meet...

Beta PhD symposium 26 September 2017

On Tuesday 26 September 2017 the 14th Beta PhD symposium will take place. The Beta Executive Board decided to organize a PhD symposium within the former scope of Beta, so...

Second honorary doctorate for prof.dr.ir. Onno Boxma

On Wednesday June 21, the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh (Scotland) has conferred an Honorary Doctorate of Science to prof.dr.ir. Onno Boxma, full professor of Stochastic Operations Research in the department...

Thesis defense of Nardo Borgman, 23 June 2017

On Friday, June 23, 2017 Nardo Borgman will defend his PhD thesis “Managing urgent care in hospitals”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr.ir. E.W. Hans and prof.dr. R.J. Boucherie....

Thesis defense of Wouter van Heeswijk, May 19, 2017

On Friday, May 19, 2017 Wouter van Heeswijk will defend his PhD thesis “Consolidation and coordination – in urban freight transport”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr. W.H.M. Zijm,...

Thesis defense of Britt Mathijsen, May 18, 2017

On Thursday, May 18, 2017 Britt Mathijsen will defend her PhD thesis “Asymptotic dimensioning of stochastic service systems”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr. J.S.H. van Leeuwaarden and prof.dr....

Thesis defense of Maryam SteadieSeifi, March 21, 2017

On Tuesday, March 21, 2017 Maryam SteadieSeifi will defend her PhD thesis “Multimodal Transportation for Perishable Products”. This thesis has been supervised by prof.dr. T. van Woensel and dr.ir. N.P....

Healthcare Operations Research Summer School in Twente

CHOIR (Centre for Healthcare Operations Improvement and Research) organizes a Healthcare Operations Research Summer School in Twente. Dates: July 21 – 25, 2017 Location: University of Twente, Enschede, the Netherlands...

Thesis defense of Freek Meulman, January 26, 2017

On Thursday, January 26, 2017, Freek Meulman will defend his PhD thesis “Challenges for innovation intermediaries in technology transfer: Forming controls and alliances”. This thesis has been approved by supervisor...

Thesis defense of Taimaz Soltani, January 24, 2017

On Tuesday, January 24, 2017, Taimaz Soltani will defend his PhD thesis “Risk Management at the Interface of Operations and Finance”. This thesis has been approved by supervisor prof.dr.ir. J.C....

Thesis defense of Stijn Fleuren, January 19, 2017

On Thursday, January 19, 2017 Stijn Fleuren will defend his PhD thesis “Optimizing pre-timed control at isolated intersections”. This thesis has been approved by supervisors prof.dr.ir. I.J.B.F. Adan en prof.dr....

New position of Beta

Currently Beta covers the academic area Operations Management and neighboring areas. The new scope consists of Operations Management and the interfaces with neighboring areas. The ambition of Beta is to...

Thesis defense of Hande de Korte, December 12, 2016

On Monday, December 12, 2016, Hande de Korte will defend her PhD thesis “Integrated Operational and Financial Decision Making”. This thesis has been approved by supervisor prof.dr.ir. J.C. Fransoo. The...

Thesis defense of Shaya Pourmirza, November 8, 2016

On Tuesday, November 8, 2016, Shaya Pourmirza will defend his PhD thesis “Runtime Party Switch in an Inter-Organizational Collaboration”. This thesis has been approved by supervisor prof.dr.ir. P.W.P.J. Grefen. The...

Thesis defense of Veaceslav Ghilas, October 27, 2016

On Thursday, October 27, 2016, Veaceslav Ghilas will defend his PhD thesis “The Pickup and Delivery Problem with Time Windows and Scheduled Lines: Models and algorithms”. This thesis has been...

Thesis defense of Mohammad Rasouli, October 25, 2016

On Tuesday, October 25, 2016, Mohammad Rasouli will defend his PhD thesis “Information Governance in Service-Oriented Business Networking”. This thesis has been approved by supervisors prof.dr.ir. P.W.P.J. Grefen and prof.dr....

Workshop Data-Driven Operations Management

The Data-Driven Operations Management workshop, organized Beta and Eurandom, is taking place at Eurandom on October 24-26, 2016. Location: Eurandom, Eindhoven University of Technology, the Netherlands Dates: October 24, 25...

PhD Symposium and Beta Reunion 24 November 2016

On 24 November 2016 the 13th Beta PhD Symposium will take place, followed by an interesting Beta reunion. During the symposium 10 PhD students of the Beta Research School will...