5th OR-PhD Workshop on 05 November 2020
On November 5, 2020, the fifth doctoral workshop in the field of Operations Research took place in virtual form. The Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg was responsible for the organization. At this point we would like to thank Prof. Dr. Christian Bierwirth once again for the smooth organization. A total of seven professors and their colleagues from the following chairs took part in this multi-university workshop:
- Chair for Supply Chain Management, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Prof. Dr. Christian Almeder
- Chair of Production and Logistics, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg , Prof. Dr. Christian Bierwirth
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Chair of Industrial Management, TU Dresden, Prof. Dr. Udo Buscher
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Chair of Information Systems, FU Berlin, Prof. Dr. Natalia Kliewer
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Chair of Traffic Flow Science, TU Dresden, Prof. Dr. Karl Nachtigall
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Chair of Transport Services and Logistics, TU Dresden, Prof. Dr. Jörn Schönberger

Speaker Florian Linß during the virtual conference
During the workshop, doctoral students had the opportunity to give a lecture on their doctoral project and discuss current research with those present. Our colleague Florian Linß presented the following topic:
- "An exact approach for a rich vehicle routing problem with carrier selection"
The following topics were further on the agenda:
- Jana Ksciuk: "The Stochastic Liner Shipping Fleet Repositioning Problem with Uncertain
Container Demands and Travel Times" - Daryna Dziuba: "Fast (meta)heuristic for capacitated lot-sizing problems"
- David Rößler: "Developing robust electric bus systems through simultaneous optimization of charging infrastructure and vehicle schedules"
- Maik Schälicke: "Timetable recovery management with max-plus algebra"