Dear scheduling researcher,

We are delighted to announce the talk given by Mike Carter https://che.utoronto.ca/professor-michael-w-carter/ (University of Toronto).

The title is " Challenges in Healthcare Scheduling Applications".

The seminar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, June 23 at 13:00 UTC.

Join Zoom Meeting https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/93477049829?pwd=aE1lVjFyS1ZpQkdxRno2cVptSVdqUT09 https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/93477049829?pwd=aE1lVjFyS1ZpQkdxRno2cVptSVdqUT09

Meeting ID: 934 7704 9829 Passcode: 866135

You can follow the seminar online or offline on our Youtube channel as well:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUoCNnaAfw5NAntItILFn4A

The abstract follows.

In the immortal words of Monty Python, “… and now for something completely different!” Over the past three decades, I have spent much of my time working on practical healthcare applications. Typically, the projects are done with healthcare collaborators. Virtually all of the scheduling problems are highly stochastic, and scheduling approaches focus on managing variability. In this talk, I will describe several healthcare applications including: diagnostic imaging, cancer treatment (chemotherapy and radiation), nurse/physician scheduling, surgical scheduling, 911 call centres, home care routing, medical resident scheduling and primary care appointments (e.g. advanced access). In each case, I will describe the underlying uncertainties and briefly review recent approaches.

The next talk in our series will be given by

Andrea Schaerf (University of Udine) | July 7 | Educational Timetabling: Problems, Benchmarks, Algorithms, and Practical Issues.

For more details, please visit https://schedulingseminar.com/

With kind regards

Zdenek, Mike and Guohua