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Monday, September 20
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Eastern
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UTC
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Title
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Speaker
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9:00
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13:00
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Welcome Address
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Lavanya Marla (Symposium Technical Chair)
Lauri Garrow (AGIFORS President)
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9:10
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13:10
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Revenue management forecasting in times of change: Lessons learned from
a year into the pandemic
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Michael Wittman / Thomas Fiig (Amadeus)
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9:35
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13:35
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Demand Shock Detection in Airline Revenue Management
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Michael Wittman / Thomas Fiig (Amadeus)
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10:00
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14:00
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FLAI: Reinforcement Learning Virtual Platform for Travel
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Naman Shukla /
Kartik Yellepeddi (Deepair Solutions)
Arinbjorn Kolbeinsson / Benedikt Kolbeinsson (Imperial
College)
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10:25
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14:25
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Airlines Innovations Soar during COVID-19 Recovery - Summary from
Study Groups
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Laurie Garrow (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Virginie Lurkin (University of Lausanne)
Lavanya Marla (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
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10:50
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14:50
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Break
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11:05
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15:05
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Optimizing flight and truck network for cargo at American Airlines
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Ravi Suman
(American Airlines), Ronald Chu (American Airlines), Na Deng (American
Airlines), Cumhur Gelogullari (American Airlines)
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11:30
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15:30
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Enhancing day-ahead airline planning with data-driven flight delay
predictions
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Sebastian Birolini (University of
Bergamo)
Alexandre Jacquillat / Stephanie Franklin / Gabrielle
Rappaport (MIT Sloan School of Management)
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11:55
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15:55
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Sponsor presentation - Zulu Airline Systems
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12:20
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16:20
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End
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Tuesday, September 21
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Eastern
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UTC
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Title/Speaker
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9:00
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13:00
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Participants log in and welcome
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9:05
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13:05
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Sponsor presentation - SlickOR
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9:30
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13:30
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Anna Valicek Award Finalists
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Ingeborg de Pater, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands:
"Predictive maintenance for multi-component systems of repairables with Remaining-Useful-Life prognostics
and a limited stock of spare components"
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Greta Laage, IVADO Labs & Ecole
Polytechnique de Montreal, Quebec, Canada:
"Assessing the Impact: Does an Improvement to a Revenue
Management System Lead to an Improved Revenue?"
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11:30
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15:30
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BREAK
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11:45
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15:45
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Sponsor presentation - Cirium
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12:10
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16:10
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Ken Wang Award Finalists
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Kevin Wang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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Dhandabani Srinivasan (Indian Institute of Technology Madras)
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13:00
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17:00
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End
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Wednesday, September 22
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Eastern
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UTC
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Title
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Speaker
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9:00
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13:00
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Participants log in and welcome
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9:05
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13:05
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Estimation of price elasticities on passenger itinerary choice
situations
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Rodrigo Acuna-Agost / Eoin Thomas
/ Alix Lheritier (Amadeus)
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9:30
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13:30
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Dealing with distribution shifts in customer choice due to COVID-19
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Abhinav Garg / Lavanya Marla (University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign)
Sriram Somanchi (University of
Notre Dame)
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9:55
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13:45
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Crystal Ball 2.0 for passenger demand: Leveraging AI to power the
calibration workflow
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Caroline
Dietrich / Peter Wilson (Air Canada)
Neda Etabarialamdari (Ivado Labs)
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10:20
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14:20
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Sponsor presentation - Passur Aerospace
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10:45
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14:45
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Break
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11:00
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15:00
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Airline Recovery using Machine Learning and Optimization
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Ahmet Esat Hizir /
Cynthia Barnhart (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Vikrant Vaze (Dartmouth College)
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11:25
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15:25
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Mission success and survivability in Flight Planning
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Fanruiqi Zeng (Georgia Institute of Technology)
John-Paul Clarke (University of Texas at Austin)
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11:50
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15:50
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Multi-Modal Economic Analysis of COVID-19 Pandemic Exogenous Shock to
Domestic Commercial Aviation
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Max Litvack-Winkler / Jacob
Wishart / David Pace / Seamus McGovern (USDOT Volpe Center)
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12:25
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16:25
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Identification and Prediction of Disruptions in Airline Networks
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Xiyitao Zhu / Aritro Nandi / Lavanya
Marla (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Max Z. Li / Karthik Gopalakrishnan / Hamsa Balakrishnan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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12:50
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16:50
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Anna Valicek Award
Announcement and Presentation
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13:00
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17:00
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End
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Thursday, September 23
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Eastern
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UTC
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Title
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Speaker
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9:00
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13:00
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Participants log in and welcome
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9:05
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13:05
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Sponsor Presentation - Rosterize
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9:30
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13:30
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The adjustment of Littlewood's Rule formula to reflect airlines risk
aversion in crisis conditions
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Yassine El charkaoui, (IATA employee,
but in a private capacity)
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9:55
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13:55
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Know your worth: valuing new pricing policies with reinforcement
learning
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Jon Ham (Flyr Labs)
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10:20
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14:20
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The fundamental weak point of quantum computers
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Maxim Andreyev / Dr. Alexey Tarasov (Rosterize)
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10:45
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14:45
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AGIFORS Annual Business Meeting
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10:55
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14:55
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Closure of the Annual Symposium
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Lavanya Marla (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Laurie Garrow (Georgia Institute of Technology)
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11:00
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15:00
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End
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