Program Committee  Co-Chairs: Paul Glasserman, Columbia University Peter Glynn, Stanford University  Program Committee Members: Attahiru Alfa, U. of Manitoba Francois Baccelli, Ecole Normale Superieure Nick Bambos, Stanford University Doug Down, McMaster University Serguei Foss, Heriot-Watt University David Gamarnik, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Winfried Grassmann, University of Saskatchewan John Hasenbein, University of Texas at Austin Shane Henderson, Cornell University Patrick Jaillet, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Masaaki Kijima, Kyoto University Takis Konstantopoulos, University of Patras Steve Kou, Columbia University Reg Kulperger, University of Western Ontario Pierre L’Ecuyer, Université de Montréal Mark Lewis, University of Michigan Vadim Linetsky, Northwestern University William Massey, Princeton University David McDonald, University of Ottawa Neil O’Connell, University of Warwick Tava Lennon Olsen, Washington University in St. Louis Kavita Ramanan, Carnegie Mellon University Marty Reiman, Bell Laboratories David Stanford, University of Western Ontario Ruth Williams, University of California at San Diego Assaf Zeevi, Columbia University Yiqiang Zhao, Carleton University Bert Zwart, Eindhoven University of Technology Paul Glasserman Jack R. Anderson Professor 403 Uris Hall Graduate School of Business Columbia University New York, NY 10027 USA Tel: (212) 854-4102 Fax: (212) 316-9180 Email: pg20@columbia.edu Webpage: http://www-1.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/pglasserman/ Peter W. Glynn Thomas Ford Professor Terman Engineering Center Department of Management Science and Engineering Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 USA Tel: (650) 725-0554 Fax: (650) 723-1614 Email: glynn@stanford.edu Webpage: http://www.stanford.edu/dept/MSandE/faculty/glynn/ Attahiru Alfa Professor 514B Engineering Building Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Manitoba 15 Gillson St. Winnipeg, MB R3T 5V6 Canada Tel: (204) 474-8789 Fax: (204) 261-4639 Email: alfa “at” ee.umanitoba.ca Webpage: http://www.ee.umanitoba.ca/people/academics/alfa.html Francois Baccelli Professor Ecole Normale Superieure 45, rue d'Ulm F-75230 Paris cedex 05 France Tel: +33 1 44 32 20 52 Fax: +33 1 44 32 20 15 Email: Francois.Baccelli “at” ens.fr Webpage: http://www.di.ens.fr/~baccelli/ Nick Bambos Professor Terman Engineering Center Departments of Electrical Engineering and Management Science and Engineering Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 USA Tel: (650) 725-5525 Fax: (650) 723-1614 Email: bambos “at” stanford.edu Webpage: http://www.stanford.edu/~bambos/ Doug Down Associate Professor Department of Computing and Software McMaster University 1280 Main St. West, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4L7 Canada Tel: (905) 525-9140, x-24054 Email: downd “at” mcmaster.ca Webpage: http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~downd/ Serguei Foss Professor Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh EH14 4AS UK Tel: +44 131 451 3238 Fax: +44131 451 3249 Email: S.Foss “at” ma.hw.ac.uk Webpage: http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/ams/people/pages/foss.html David Gamarnik IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center P.O. Box 218 Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 USA Tel: 914-945-1001 Fax: 914-945-3434 Email: gamarnik “at” watson.ibm.com Webpage: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/g/gamarnik/ Winfried Grassmann Department of Computer Science 176 Thorvaldson Building 110 Science Place Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5C9 CANADA Tel: 306 966-4886 Fax: 306 966-4884 Email: grassman “at” cs.usask.ca Webpage: http://www.cs.usask.ca/faculty/grassman/ John Hasenbein Assistant Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station C2200 Austin, TX 78712-0292 USA Tel: 512) 471-3079 Fax: (512) 232-1494 Email: jhas “at” mail.utexas.edu Webpage: http://www.me.utexas.edu/faculty/people/hasenbein.shtml Shane Henderson Associate Professor School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering Cornell University 230 Rhodes Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 USA Tel: (607) 255-9126 Fax: (607) 255-9129 Email: sgh9 “at” cornell.edu Webpage: http://www.orie.cornell.edu/~shane/ Patrick Jaillet Head Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139 USA Tel: (617) 452-3379 Fax: (617) 452-3294 Email: jaillet “at” mit.edu Webpage: http://web.mit.edu/jaillet/www/ Masaaki Kijima Daiwa Chair 615, Graduate School of Economics Kyoto University Yoshida-Honmachi Sakyo-ku Kyoto, 606-8501 Japan Tel: 075-753-3456 Fax: 075-753-3456 Email: kijima “at” econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp Webpage: http://www.econ.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~kijima/contact.html Takis Konstantopoulos Professor Department of Mathematics University of Patras 26500 Patras, Greece Email: tak “at” math.upatras.gr Webpage: http://www.math.upatras.gr/~tk/contact.php Steve Kou Associate Professor Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Columbia University 312 Mudd Building 500 West 120th Street New York, NY 10027-6699 USA Tel: (212) 854-4334 Fax: 212) 854-8103 Email: sk75 “at” columbia.edu Webpage: http://www.ieor.columbia.edu/people/faculty/pages/Kou_S.html Reg Kulperger Professor Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences WSC Room 262 University of Western Ontario London, Ontario Canada N6A 5B7 Email: kulperger “at” uwo.ca Website: http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/kulperger/ Pierre L’Ecuyer Canada Research Chair in Stochastic Simulation and Optimization GERAD and Département d'informatique et de recherche opérationnelle Université de Montréal C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-ville Montréal, Quebec H3C 3J7 CANADA Tel: 514 343 2143 Fax: 514 343 5834 Email: lecuyer “at” iro.umontreal.ca Website: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lecuyer/ Mark Lewis Assistant Professor Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering University of Michigan 1205 Beal Avenue Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2117 USA Tel: (734) 763-0519 Fax: (734) 764-3451 Email: melewis “at” eng.umich.edu Webpage: http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~melewis/ Vadim Linetsky Associate Professor Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences Northwestern University 2145 Sheridan Road, Room C251 Evanston, IL 60208-3119 USA Tel: (847) 491 2084 Fax: (847) 491 8005 E-mail: linetsky “at” iems.northwestern.edu Webpage: http://users.iems.nwu.edu/~linetsky/ William Massey Edwin S. Wiley Professor Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 USA Tel: 609-258-7384 Fax: 609-258-3791 Email: wmassey “at” princeton.edu Webpage: http://www.princeton.edu/~wmassey/ David McDonald Professor Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Ottawa 585 King Edward Avenue Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5 Canada Tel: 613) 562-5864 (ext. 3505) Fax: (613) 562-5776 Email: dmdsg “at” uottawa.ca Webpage: http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/profs/mcdonald/homepage/ Neil O’Connell Mathematics Institute University of Warwick Coventry CV4 7AL United Kingdom Tel: +44 (0)24 7652 4661 Fax: +44 (0)24 7652 4182 Email: noc “at” maths.warwick.ac.uk Webpage: http://www.maths.warwick.ac.uk/~noc/ Tava Lennon Olsen Associate Professor John M. Olin School of Business Campus Box 1133 Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO 63130-4899 USA Tel: (314) 935-4732 Fax: (314) 935-6359 Email: OLSEN “at” olin.wustl.edu Webpage: http://www.olin.wustl.edu/faculty/olsen/ Kavita Ramanan Associate Professor Department of Mathematical Sciences Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890 USA Tel: (412) 268-8485 Fax: (412) 268-6380 Email: kramanan “at” andrew.cmu.edu Webpage: http://www.math.cmu.edu/users/kramanan/ Marty Reiman Rm. 2C-315 Bell Laboratories Lucent Technologies 700 Mountain Avenue Murray Hill, NJ 07974-0636 USA Tel: (908) 582 2368 Fax: (908) 582 3340 Email: marty “at” research.bell-labs.com Webpage: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/ms/who/marty/ David Stanford Professor Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences University of Western Ontario 1151 Richmond Street North Western Science Center Room 211 London, Ontario N6A 5B7 Canada Tel: (519) 661-3612 (ext. 83612) Fax: (519) 661-3813 Email: stanford “at” stats.uwo.ca Webpage: http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/stanford/ Ruth Williams Professor Department of Mathematics University of California at San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla CA 92093-0112 USA Tel: (858) 534-6646 Fax: (858) 534-5273 Email: williams “at” math.ucsd.edu Webpage: http://www.math.ucsd.edu/~williams/ Assaf Zeevi Assistant Professor Graduate School of Business Uris Hall, Room 406 Columbia University New York, NY 10027 USA Tel: (212) 854-9678 Fax: (212) 316-9180 Email: assaf “at” gsb.columbia.edu Webpage: http://www-1.gsb.columbia.edu/faculty/azeevi/ Yiqiang Zhao Professor and Director School of Mathematics and Statistics Carleton University 1125 Colonel By Drive Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6 Canada Tel: (613) 520-3531 Fax: (613) 520-3536 Email: zhao “at” math.carleton.ca Webpage: http://mathstat.carleton.ca/~zhao/ Bert Zwart Eindhoven University of Technology Department of Mathematics and Computer Science HG 9.15 P.O. Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands Phone: +31 40 2472813 Fax: + 31 40 246 5995 E-mail: zwart “at” win.tue.nl Webpage: http://www.win.tue.nl/~zwart/