Dear all, this is a reminder for Christina Büsing's talk with the title "Robust Optimization in Health Care" taking place today (13.06) at 12:30 in the B-IT room 5053.2. Please find the details below --- Abstract --- Health is one of the most important factors for the prosperity and well-being of a society. In recent years, this system is challenged by demographic changes: the elderly population (age 65 and older) will increase, which will result in a higher demand for health care services. Simultaneously the decrease in the fertility rate results in a shrinking number of trained medical staff. In order to keep the high standard of the German health care system, it is crucial to improve on the efficient and effective use of our resources. Planning and organization in these fields are complicated by the uncertain nature of health care processes, e.g., the fluctuating demand, arrival time of patients, emergency patients, durations of a single treatment, length of stay or resource failures. These uncertainties are rarely incorporated in the optimization process, if optimization and mathematical methods are used at all. In this talk, I will present, how we approach such kind of optimization problems and show examples how robust optimization can be used to integrated these uncertainties into the optimization process. ---------------- Part of the programme of the research training group UnRAVeL is a series of lectures on the topics of UnRAVeL’s research thrusts algorithms and complexity, verification, logic and languages, and their application scenarios. Each lecture is given by one of the researchers involved in UnRAVeL. This years topic is "UnRAVeL - New Ideas!". In these lectures, UnRAVeL professors will discuss current research as well as highlight open problems and offer a perspective on potential future directions. All interested doctoral researchers and master students are invited to attend the UnRAVeL lecture series 2024 and engage in discussions with researchers and doctoral students. We are looking forward to seeing you at the lectures. Kind regards, Jan-Christoph for the organisation committee