Supply chain optimization is a widely studied topic in the field of Operations Research, working on topics from production and service planning and scheduling; routing, sourcing and distribution; and inventory management among others. In this talk I will provide an introduction to how Operations Research conceptualizes problems and solutions through mathematical models, with examples from my work and that of others in the areas of supply chain routing, planning and resilience.

Speaker Bio
J. Christopher Beck is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at the University of Toronto. He received his PhD from the University of Toronto Department of Computer Science in 1999 on the topic of knowledge-based heuristic search algorithms for constraint-oriented planning. Chris then worked for three years on the Scheduler Team at ILOG, SA (now part of IBM) in Paris, France, where he developed industrial constraint-oriented scheduling software. He subsequently served as a staff scientist at the Cork Constraint Computation Center in Cork, Ireland. Since 2004 he has been affiliated with the University of Toronto. Professor Beck's research interests continue to include planning, heuristic search, and constraint programming, but have expanded to include hybrid optimization combining mixed integer programming and constraint programming, constraint integer programming, optimization under uncertainty, queuing theory, online algorithms, and multi-agent negotiation. for coupled combinatorial optimization problems.

This is a School of Cities seminar series / "Building resilience in food and health supply chains /"
https://www.schoolofcities.utoronto.ca/resilience

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