Dear scheduling researcher,

We are delighted to announce the talk given by Vikram Tiwari (Vanderbilt University). The title is "Surgery Scheduling: Research and Practice".

The seminar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, June 7 at 13:00 UTC. Join Zoom Meeting https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/96890046173?pwd=bjYzLzkzSUJMU1ZCMWhka2h4RjRqdz09 Meeting ID: 968 9004 6173 Passcode: 999261

You can follow the seminar online or offline on our Youtube channel as well: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUoCNnaAfw5NAntItILFn4A

The abstract follows. Scheduling of surgeries is a complex process that involves simultaneous scheduling of not only several resources (staff, room, equipment, supplies, instruments), but also building flexibility in capacity-reservation policies to accommodate most types of patient classes. In the case of trauma centers this complexity increases even more due to the need for dynamic rescheduling of elective surgeries as emergency surgeries arrive randomly. In practice, these issues are tackled every day in a ‘non-optimal / heuristic’ way. Recent research in this area has shown the potential of implementing modified priority rules. In contrast to trauma centers, ambulatory surgery centers only perform elective surgeries and have a lower cost structure. Their profitability is therefore dependent upon efficient use of capacity. Recent research has modeled these as Hybrid Flow Shops and solved the capacity planning problem using easy to implement heuristics. This talk will also discuss some new avenues of operating room scheduling that have not yet been researched by academics.

The next talk in our series will be: Tami Tamir (Reichman Uni) | June 21 | Scheduling with Machine-Dependent Priority Lists. For more details, please visit https://schedulingseminar.com/

With kind regards

Zdenek, Mike and Guohua