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After an action packed year from2010-2011, the INFORMS@USFchapter has begun the 2011 aca-demic hitting the ground run-ning. Although our department isfacing something of a rebuildingyear with six PhD studentsgraduating and only three enter-ing the program, we are encour-aged by the way others havestepped up to fill the shoes ofthose departed.

This year the Chapter is continuing the tradition of hold-ing numerous social events, participating in communityoutreach, and maintaining an active lecture se-ries. These activities promote a strong sense of com-munity within our department; it seems unique thateach student knows every other student in their depart-ment by name. These also provide valuable networkingopportunities and exposure to cutting edge research,allowing us all to grow socially and academically. Wehave a huge number of students presenting at the an-nual meeting, which is a testament to our departmentscommitment to promoting student success.The 2010-2011 academic year promises to be exciting

and engaging. I sincerely hope that everyone continuesto work hard on their studies as well as building the so-cial network that has developed here over the years. Itis only through your involvement that the departmentand INFORMS@USF chapter continue to be success-ful, and that is greatly appreciated by myself and theother officers.

A Newsletter from Student Chapter of INFORMS @ IMSE, USF

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A Message from the New President

The former president ofINFORMS @USF asked:"Who wants to help in amedical mission in DominicRepublic?"

"I wanna do that!" I said.

We set up the trip in lessthan 3 weeks. During thattime, I had the respectivetraining to apply all the initia-tives designed by the team

with the objective of improv-ing the logistics involved inmedical missions. So I was an engineer/physician for aweek, awesome!

It was an incredible experience. My role as engineerwas about being the logistic specialist in a team con-formed by 70 physicians (and consider that I never hadreal logistic experiences before). And as a person, isabout those instants that you say: engineering rocks!.

I only have to mention that the trip was only the icing onthe cake, after a semester of hard work of my team-mates Laila Cure, Anna Danandeh, Ozan Ozcan,Mehrnaz Abdollahian, Roberto Garuti and AlfredoSantana at USF.

By: Diego Martinez

President Ludwig Kuznia

Vice President Long Zhao

Treasurer Javad Sajjadi

Secretary Monica Puertas

Lecture Series Coordinators Mehrnaz Abdollahian

Serkan Gunpinar

Webmasters Eleazar Gil

Felipe Feijoo

OR Times Editors Anna Danandeh

Florentino Rico

Committee 2011-2012

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Current approaches for pandemic mitigation utilize both pharmaceutical interventions (PHI),

which include vaccines and antiviral drugs, and non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPI), which

include among other measures social distancing, quarantine, isolation, school and workplace

closure, and travel restrictions. There are, however, certain challenges with the use of PHI at the

critical early stages of a pandemic. As evidenced by the 2009 H1N1 outbreak, with the emer-

gence of a new virus subtype, a surge production of a potent vaccine in sufficient quantities can

take up to nine months. At the same time, to use antivirals as an effective prophylactic measure

generally requires a substantial level of stockpile, which can be infeasible due to prohibiting pro-

duction and storage costs. Also, the use of a large-scale antiviral-based prophylaxis can result in

some strains of influenza becoming antiviral resistant while maintaining infectiousness.

NPIs have the advantage of being available in the early phases of a pandemic and thus can reduce pressure on

health service providers allowing them time to procure, distribute, and administer vaccines and antiviral. NPIs are par-

ticularly important in developing countries that do not count with the resources needed for effective pharmaceutical

intervention strategies. Some of the NPIs have already been incorporated into national pandemic preparedness plans,

existing WHO recommendations and in the guidelines of the CDC. However, a careful review of the above plans and

guidelines reveals that there is no consistent NPI strategy of when and how to implement these interventions. The

plans and guidelines vary in their definitions of declaration thresholds, implementation stages, target population, and

implementation logistics.

Some of the recent papers on simulation-based models for pandemic influenza mitigation, have examined various non

-pharmaceutical intervention strategies. Our review of these papers found differences in the assumptions regarding

some of the key model parameters, such as intervention initiation, duration of the intervention phases, composition of

risk groups, compliance levels, and other NPI related parameters.

Based on our literature review we believe there is a need for a better understanding of the dynamics behind non-

pharmaceutical interventions and parameter selection. Our overall research objective is to develop a decision-aid

methodology to support the design of non-pharmaceutical intervention strategies for the mitigation of pandemic influ-

enza outbreaks. This methodology will provide a better understanding of the science of interventions and will ulti-

mately empower public health policy makers with strategies to minimize the impact of pandemic outbreaks in our qual-

ity of life.

By: Dayna Lee Martnez

PhD. Candidate

The Doctorate Student Corner

Non-pharmaceutical interventions for the mitigation of pandemic influenzaoutbreaks

DongpingDu, our doctoral student,won first place in the

IBMBestStudentPapercompetitionattheIEEEEngineering

in Medicine and Biology Society Conference (EMBC)2011,

September 2 in Boston for her paper titled as Multiscalemodeling of glycosylation modulation dynamics in cardiacelectrical signaling.The competition ispeerreviewed andfinalistsselectedbasedonthemeritsofsubmissions,confer

encepresentationsandcorrespondingnominations.Shealsoreceivedfreecon

ferenceregistrationanda$1,200monetaryaward.

DongpingDuisunderthesupervisionofHuiYang,assistantprofessorinIMSE,

andEricBennett,professorintheDepartmentofMolecularPharmacologyand

Physiology.http://www.embs.org/news/117-embc-2011-student-awards

Congratulations to IBM best student paper winner, Dongping! Upcoming Lecture Series

Dr. James Luedtke

University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Branch-and-Cut Approaches forChance-Constrained Formulations

of Reliable Network Design"

Nov. 28th, 2011

12pm-1pm, MSC 3705
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2011 INFORMS Annual meeting at CharlotteSunday, November 13th:

Ludwig Kuznia, Multi-Period Hybrid Power System Design for Remote Areas

Long Zhao, Tree-based Multi-dimensional Lifting Function and It's Application

Ludwig Kuznia, A Primal Algorithm for Solving Chance Constrained Mixed Integer Programming Problems

Felipe Feijoo, Generation expansion planning with a real options approach under cap and trade regulation and stochastic fuel price variations

Monday, November 14th:

Yu An, Mitigation of Hub Congestion: Temporary Hubs and Dynamic Routes

Seyed Javad Sajjadi, A Two-layer Network Model and the Algorithm

Tuesday November 15th:

Long Zhao, An Exact Algorithm for 2-Stage Robust Model with MIP Recourse and its Applications in Power SystemsAnna Danandeh, A Scheduling Model with Dynamic Electricity Price and Local Generator

Ludwig Kuznia, Long Term Planning for Palliative Chemotherapy for Late Stage Cancer Patients

Wednesday November 16th:

Sandro Paz, A Multiple Pickup Route Optimization Problem

Monica Puertas, Determining Patient Flow and Resource Utilization

Diego Martinez, Post-surgical Complication Patterns Based on Laboratory Test Results and Electrical Heart Signals

Oguz Cimenler, A decision on innovativeness focusing on an efficinet social network structure: A complete network (graph) approach

Dayna Lee Martinez, Non-pharmaceutical interventions for pandemic influenza

Long Zhao, Robust Network Design Problems

Fethullah Caliskan, Impact of Organizations' Networking Structure on Innovative Performance

Serkan Gunpinar, A Multiple Period Stochastic Coal Transportation and Inventory Model

Where are our graduates now?

Cihan Babayigit

Graduation Date: PhD in IMSE, Fall 2007Position: Business Process Manager, Turkis RestaurantChain

Location: Vienna, AustriaJob Description: Market Modeling, Pricing, Business

Analytics

Wilkistar Otieno

Graduation Date: PhD in IE, August 2010Position:Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial& Manufacturing Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Location: Milwaukee, WIResearch Interests: Reliability Engineering with Appli-cation to Nanotechnology and Energy Systems, Statisti-cal Design of Experiments and Analysis and EngineeringEducation.

Andres Uribe-Sanchez

Graduation Date: PhD in IE, Fall 2010Position: Post-doctoral Research Fellow, University ofCalifornia San DiegoLocation: San Diego, CAJob Description: Research in the area of real-time in-

teractive cancer treatment plan optimization

Vishnuteja Nanduri

Graduation Date: PhD in IE, August 2009Position:Assistant Professor, Department of Industrial& Manufacturing Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Location: Milwaukee, WIResearch Interests include stochastic optimization,simulation-based optimization, and game-theoretic mod-eling. My application areas of interest are energy andenvironmental policy modeling.

Alcides Santander

Graduation Date: PhD in IE, Summer 2010Position:Assistant Professor at Universidad del NorteLocation: Barranquilla, ColombiaResearch Interests include simulation-based optimiza-tion, healthcare engineering and supply chain

Patricio Rocha

Graduation Date: PhD in IE, Summer 2011Position: Engineer, Resource Adequacy Planning De-partment, PJM Interconnection

Location: Norristown, PAResearch Interests/ Job Description: Market Analyticsin Electric Power Systems; Reliability in Electric PowerSystems


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INFORMS@USF in Photos

OR Newsletter Editors:

Anna Danandeh Florentino Rico

IMSE4202 E. Fowler Ave. ENB 118

Tampa FL, 33620Tel: (813) 974-5591

Fax: (813) 974-974-5953

[email protected] http://informs.eng.usf.edu

Members of our student chapter, faculty and staff from the IMSE department shared a fun afternoon of karaoke and dinner at the INFORMS@USF welcome event (September 16th, 2011).

INFORMS@USF students participated in the INFORMS annual Halloween party hosted by Monica Puertas and SandroPaz (October 29th, 2011)

Our INFORMS@USF guest speaker series has been a success: Dr. Cetinkaya from Texas A & M and Dr. Jeffrey W.

Herrmann from the University of Maryland visited and shared their work with our community.
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