Month: April 2020

2020 OR Talks

(update on April 20, 2020)

Analytics for a Better World Webinars (ABW-W) [more information]

  1. Wednesday April 29, 2020,  EST 11AM (CET 17.00 PM), Speaker: Dimitris Bertsimas (MIT, Cambridge) | on a variety of aspects of COVID-19
  2. Wednesday May 27, 2020, CET 17.00 PM, Speakers: Koen Peters (World Food Programme and Zero Hunger Lab, Tilburg University), Hein Fleuren (Zero Hunger Lab, Tilburg University) | They will highlight Tilburg University's (The Netherlands) work at the United Nations - World Food Programme (WFP) headquarters in Rome

Discrete Optimization Talks (DOTs) [homepage]

Collection of Talks on COVID-19’s Impacts

INFORMS Chicago Chapter Webinar Series

  1. Modeling Supply Chain Decisions for Resource Sharing with an Application to Ventilator Allocation to Combat COVID-19 | Dr. Sanjay Mehrotra, Northwestern University | June 18, 2020 [paper] [info]
  2. Risk-based Thinking in a COVID-19 World | Dr. Sheldon Jacobson, University of Illinois | June 26, 2020 [info]

Managing Uncertainty: Adapting to and learning from the COVID-19 crisis - A Rotman Insights Webinar Series [link]

  1. Pandemic Protectionism: The Global Trade Impact of COVID-19, May 8, 2020
  2. Distribution Disruption: How to Build a Better Supply Chain after COVID-19, May 15, 2020

Articles

  1. Yuval Noah Harari: the world after coronavirus, March 20, 2020 | [financial times]
  2. Life in the Time of COVID18 - Prof Adam Przeworski, April 5, 2020 [Google Doc]

VMACS - Virtual Macro Seminar

  1. VMACS | Pandemics According to HANK - Greg Kaplan, Ben Moll, Gianluca Violante, March 31, 2020  | [YouTube] [slides]
  2. VMACS | Macroeconomic Implications of COVID-19: Can Negative Supply Shocks Cause Demand Shortages? April 2, 2020 | [YouTube]
  3. VMACS | Pandemics Depress the Economy, Public Health Interventions Do not: Evidence from the 1918 Flu | April 7, 2020 | [YouTube]
  4. VMACS | The Macroeconomics of Epidemics - Martin Eichenbaum, Sergio REbelo, and Mathias Trabandt, April 9, 2020 | [YouTube]
  5. VMACS | The Behavioral SIR Model, with Application to the Swine Flue Epedemic | For Whom the Bell Tolls: Avoidance Behavior at Breakout in COVID19, April 10, 2020 | [YouTube]

INFORMS online seminar

  1. From Pandemic Disruption to Global Supply Chain Recovery - Dr. Simchi-Levi, April 9, 2020 | INFORMS | [video] [slides]
  2. Ripple Effect in Supply Chains at Different Pandemic Stages - Dr. Dmitry Ivanov, May 14, 2020 | INFORMS
  3. Analytics in Turbulent Times - Alan Jacobson, June 17, 2020 | INFORMS [YouTube]
  4. Blood, Sweat, & PPEs: Rescuing Perishable Product Supply Chains & Impacting Policy through Analytics - Dr. Anna Nagurney, June 15, 2020 | INFORMS [YouTube]

Royal Economic Society Webinar Series

  1. Economic approaches for analysing the short, medium term and long run impact of the COVID-19 crisis -  Prof Tim Besley (Chair), Prof Daron Acemoglu, Prof Jean Tirole, April 9, 2020 | Royal Economic Society [video]