WASHINGTON, DC, October 7, 2008 – Seeking new policy tools to tackle major problems in aviation will be the subject of a major speech and panel held three weeks before the U.S. Presidential election at the annual meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®).
The entire series, “Doing Good with Good O.R.” (operations research) will take place in Washington, D.C. at the Marriott Waldman Park Hotel and Omni Shoreham Hotel. It will be held on October 14 and 15. Information is at www.informs.org.
The plenary speaker for the session is Dr. Dorothy Robyn of The Brattle Group.
Operations research, which is associated with techniques like business intelligence and analytics, is the discipline of applying advanced analytical methods to help make better decisions. Information about operations research is at www.scienceofbetter.org.
Aviation Congestion
Date: Wednesday, October 14, 2008
Plenary: 10:00am-10:50am
Panel Discussion: 11:00am-12:30pm
Plenary speaker: Dorothy Robyn, Principal, The Brattle Group
Panel Discussion
Moderator/Chair:
Jane F. Garvey, Head of U.S. Public Private Partnerships in Transportation, JPMorgan, Former Administrator, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Panelists:
• Dr. Robyn
• Daniel M. Kasper, Managing Director, LECG, LLC
• James M. (Jim) Crites, Executive Vice President of Operations, DFW Airport
• D.J. Gribbon, Chief Council, U.S. Department of Transportation
• David Gillen, Vancouver International Airport Professor of Transportation Policy and Management, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
About INFORMS
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) is an international scientific society with 10,000 members, including Nobel Prize laureates, dedicated to applying scientific methods to help improve decision-making, management, and operations. Members of INFORMS work in business, government, and academia. They are represented in fields as diverse as airlines, health care, law enforcement, the military, financial engineering, and telecommunications. The INFORMS website is www.informs.org. More information about operations research is at www.scienceofbetter.org.
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