CWI Lectures on Decision Making under Uncertainty (2021)

This year’s edition of the CWI Lectures revolves around Decision Making under Uncertainty.
  • What Lectures English
  • When 04-11-2021 from 13:00 to 18:00 (Europe/Amsterdam / UTC100)
  • Where Amsterdam Congress Centre and/or online via Zoom
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Should we offer this client a mortgage? How many spare parts do we need? How much money do I need in my pension fund? What is the best vaccination strategy? How do we mitigate the consequences of climate change?

In many diverse situations, we need to make tactical, operational or strategic decisions with a lack of full information. The problems occur on a vast array of time scales, both in the private and public sector. In the academic world, different paradigms to deal with uncertainty exist.

The CWI lectures will present a diverse set of topics on the theme of making decisions under uncertainty, ranging all the way from the micro to the macro-level. Four world-leading speakers will talk about their perspective on the theme, from their background in machine learning, operations research, public health and climate research.

CWI Lectures is freely accessible after registration. We are organizing a hybrid event: (for now) limited seating is available in the Turingroom and a live video stream will also be offered.
Please also register when you want to join the Lectures via the live stream - we will then be able to send you the link on the day of the event.
 

The Lectures are aimed towards a general academic public and in 2021 the program committee consists of Bert Zwart (group leader Stochastics research group), Daan Crommelin (Scientific Computing research group) and Peter Grunwald (Machine Learning research group).

Preliminary program:
13.00-13.10 Welcome Bert Zwart
13.10-13.55 Gergely Neu (Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona)
13.55-14.40 Dick den Hertog (University of Amsterdam)
14.40-15.15 break
15.15-16.00 Pinar Keskinocak (Georgia Institute of Technology)
16.00-16.45 Leonard Smith (Virginia Tech)
16.45-16.50 Closing
16.50-18.00 (virtual) drinks
Here you'll find more info about the speakers and their presentation.

For inquiries and further details about the Lectures, please contact event coordinator Daniëlle Kollerie (D.C.Kollerie@cwi.nl) .