Applied game theory, specifically to analyze competition in business networks and across infrastructure such as airlines and high-speed rail. Data envelopment analysis...
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Personal Details
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Address: |
School of Business Administration, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, |
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Mount Scopus, Jerusalem, Israel. |
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Tel at work: |
+972-2-5883449 |
Fax at work: |
+972-2-5881341 |
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E-mail: |
msnic@huji.ac.il |
Tel at home: |
+972-8-9702549 |
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Date of Birth: |
08/04/1967 |
Birth Place: |
London |
Higher Education
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Date |
Institution |
Area |
Degree |
Advisor |
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1991-98 |
Tel Aviv University |
Operations Research |
Ph.D. |
Prof. Golany, Dr. Handler |
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1990-91 |
London School of Economics |
Operations Research |
M.Sc. with Distinction |
Prof. Rosenhead |
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1985-88 |
University of Ulster |
Accounting & Economics |
B.Sc. (Hon) |
Mrs. St. Ledger |
Appointments at Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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2011- |
Associate Professor, School of Business Administration |
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2005-11 |
Senior Lecturer (with tenure), School of Business Administration |
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2000-05 |
Lecturer, School of Business Administration |
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2012- |
Head of B.A. Business Program |
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2012- |
Head of Recanati Fund, Business School |
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2012- |
Member of Teaching Committee, Business School |
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2011-12 |
Head of Business School Alumni Organization |
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2008-09 |
Member of Rosenberg Fund Committee |
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2007-09 |
Head of Business School Alumni Organization |
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2001-09 |
Organize Multi-disciplinary Seminar at Business School |
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2006-09 |
Member of Prize Committee, Business School |
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2005-09 |
Member of Research Committee, Business School |
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2005-09 |
Member of Library Committee, Business School |
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2005-09 |
Member of Admissions Committee, Business School |
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2002-05 |
Member of Infrastructure Committee, Business School |
Service in other Academic and Research Institutions
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10/11 & 10/12 |
Faculty of Engineering, University of Bergamo
Visiting Professor |
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2010-11 |
Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia
Visiting Professor |
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2009-10 |
Managerial Economics and Decision Science, Kellogg, Northwestern University
Visiting Professor |
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7/2009 |
Bremen University of Applied Sciences
Ph.D. Summer School on Performance Analysis |
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3/2004 |
Berlin University of Technology
Spring School on performance analysis as Marie Curie Foundation Scholar |
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2001-02 |
Industrial Engineering & Management Science, Northwestern University
Visiting Professor |
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1998-00 |
Industrial Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Post doctoral position |
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1994-98 |
Graduate School of Business Management, Tel Aviv University
Lecturer in: Operations Research, Decision Analysis, Game Theory, Statistics |
Other Academic Activities
Academic Awards and Fellowships
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2001-02 |
Lady Davis Fellowship Fund, Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
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1999-00 |
Kreitman Post-Doctoral Fellow, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
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1998-99 |
Pearl Resnick Scholarship for Post-Doctoral Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
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1997-98 |
American Express Fellowship Endowment Fund for Ph.D. Studies, Tel Aviv University |
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1996-97 |
Mya Fisher David Scholarship for Ph.D. Studies in Management, Tel Aviv University |
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1996 |
El-Al Prize for Research in Air Transportation, Transport Research Center, Tel Aviv University in the name of Mordechai Ben-Arie |
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1994-96 |
American Express Fellowship Endowment Fund for Ph.D. Studies, Tel Aviv University |
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1990-91 |
Science and Education Research Council Scholarship for Masters Studies, England |
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1987-88 |
Faculty Honors List, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland |
Editorial Positions
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2012- |
Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Air Transport Management |
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2011- |
Associate Editor for the DEA Journal |
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2011- |
Associate Editor for Omega: The International Journal of Management Science |
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2008-10 |
Editor of special issue in Transportation Research part B on transport infrastructure pricing together with Prof. Stef Proost |
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2000- |
Editorial Advisory Board of Transportation Research part B |
Scientific Reviews
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2010 |
Scientific review of research proposal for Hong Kong’s Strategic Public Policy Research Council |
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2005 |
Scientific review of research proposal for the Unites States – Israel Bi-national Science Foundation (BSF) |
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2000 |
Referee of 2 Masters Theses; Business School, Ben-Gurion University |
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Annals of Operations Research |
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Applied Mathematical Modeling |
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Computers & Industrial Engineering |
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Computers & Operations Research |
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European Journal of Operations Research |
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IIE Transactions |
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Journal of Transport Economics and Policy |
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Journal of Urban Economics |
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Management Science |
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Naval Research Logistics |
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Networks and Spatial Economics |
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Omega |
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Operations Research |
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Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management |
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Regional Science and Urban Economics |
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INFOR |
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International Journal of Production Economics |
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Journal of Air Transport Management |
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Journal of Airport Management |
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Journal of Productivity Analysis |
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Journal of the Operational Research Society |
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Transport Reviews |
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Transportation Research part A: Policy and Practice |
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Transportation Research part B: Methodological |
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Transportation Research part E: Logistics & Transportation Review |
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Transportation Science |
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Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science |
Conference Organization
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11/2012 |
EAC 2012, Member of Organizing & Scientific Committees |
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8/2012 |
DEA 2012, Member of Scientific Committee |
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6/2012 |
ORSIS 2012, Head of the Organizing & Scientific Committees |
Society Memberships
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2011- |
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Aviation Conference |
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2011- |
Member of the International DEA Society |
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2011- |
Member of the German Aviation Research Society |
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2009-11 |
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hamburg Aviation Conference |
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2001- |
Member of the ATRS Airport Benchmarking Group |
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2000- |
Member of the Operations Research Societies of the U.S. (INFORMS), E.U. (EURO) and Israel (ORSIS) |
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1998- |
Affiliate of the Air Transport Research Society (ATRS) |
Publications
Doctoral Dissertation
"The Choice of Optimal Multi-Hub Networks in a Liberalized Aviation Market”, degree awarded June 1999. Supervisors: Prof. Boaz Golany and Dr. Gabriel Handler.
Chapters in Collections
1. Adler N., and Golany B., (2009). Data reduction through principal component analysis (DEA-PCA). Cook W. and Zhu J. (eds): Modeling Problem Structure and Data Varieties using Data Envelopment Analysis: A Problem-Solving Handbook, Springer: New York, 139-154.
2. Adler N., Raveh A., and Yazhemsky E., (2009). Presenting DEA graphically using multi-dimensional scaling. Cook W. and Zhu J. (eds): Modeling Problem Structure and data varieties using data envelopment analysis: A Problem-Solving Handbook, Springer: New York, 171-188.
3. Adler N. (2008). Air versus high-speed rail in Europe. De Jong D., Kaashoek B. and Zondag W-J. (eds): Blue Skies or Storm Clouds: Essays on Public Policy and Air Transport, ScienceGuide: Amsterdam, 146-157.
4. Adler N., Nash C. and Niskanen E., (2005). Efficient Cost Pricing of Rail, Air and Water Transport in Europe. de Palma A. and Quinet E. (eds): La Tarification Des Transports: Enjeux et defis, ECONOMICA: Paris, 319-334.
Articles
5. Adler N., Hakkert S., Kornbluth J., Raviv T. and Sher M. (2013). Location-Allocation Models for the Traffic- Police Routine Patrol Vehicles on an Interurban Network. Annals of Operations Research, forthcoming.
6. Adler N., Liebert, V., Yazhemsky E. (2013). Airport Benchmarking from a Managerial Perspective. Omega – International Journal of Management Science, 41 (2).
7. Adler N., Hakkert S., Kornbluth J. and Sher M. (2012). Lean Management for Traffic- Police Enforcement Planning. Policing: an International Journal of Police Strategies & Management, 35 (4).
8. Adler N. and Gellman A. (2011). Strategies for Aviation in a New Era of Risk. Journal of Air Transport Management, 21, 24-35.
9. Adler N. and Proost S. (2010). Introduction to special issue of Transportation Research part B: Modelling non-urban transport investment and pricing. Transportation Research part B, 44 (7), 791-794.
10. Adler N., Nash C. and Pels E. (2010). High-Speed Rail & Air Transport Competition: Game Engineering as Tool for Cost-Benefit Analysis. Transportation Research part B, 44 (7), 812-833.
11. Adler N., Tarvedyan R. and Yazhemsky E., (2010). Measuring the Relative Socio-Economic Performance of Developing Countries. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 44 (2), 73-88.
12. Adler N. and Yazhemsky E. (2010). Improving Discrimination in Data Envelopment Analysis: Aggregation versus Reduction. European Journal of Operational Research, 202 (1), 273-284.
13. Adler N. and Raveh A., (2008). Presenting DEA graphically. Omega – International Journal of Management Science, 36, 715-729.
14. Adler N. and Hashai N., (2007). Knowledge flows and the modeling of the multinational enterprise. The Journal of International Business Studies, 38, 639-657.
15. Adler N. and Smilowitz K., (2007). Hub-and-spoke network alliances and mergers: Price-location competition in the airline industry. Transportation Research part B, 41, 394-409.
16. Oum T.H., Adler N. and Yu C., (2006). Privatization, corporatization, ownership forms and their effects on the performance of the world's major airports. Journal of Air Transport Management, 12 (3), 109-121.
17. Swan W. and Adler N., (2006). Aircraft trip cost parameters: A function of stage length and seat capacity. Transportation Research part E, 42 (2), 105-115.
18. Adler N. and Hashai N., (2005). Effect of open skies in the Middle Eastern region. Transportation Research part A, 39 (10), 878-894. Published in Hebrew by The University Institute for Diplomacy and Regional Cooperation at Tel Aviv University: www.tau.ac.il/institutes/diplomacy/research.html
19. Adler N., (2005). The Effect of Competition on the Choice of an Optimal Network in a Liberalized Aviation Market with an Application to Western Europe, Transportation Science, 39 (1), 58-72.
20. Adler N. and Golany B., (2002). Including Principal Component Weights to improve discrimination in Data Envelopment Analysis, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 53 (9), 985-991.
21. Adler N., Friedman L. and Sinuany-Stern Z. (2002). Review of Ranking Methods in the Data Envelopment Analysis Context, European Journal of Operational Research, 140 (2), 249-265. Invited Review.
22. Adler N., (2001). Competition in a Deregulated Air Transportation Market, European Journal of Operational Research, 129 (2), 337-345.
23. Adler N. and Golany B., (2001). Evaluation of deregulated airline networks using data envelopment analysis combined with principal component analysis with an application to Western Europe, European Journal of Operational Research, 132 (2), 260-73.
24. Adler N. and Berechman J., (2001). Evaluating Optimal Multi-Hub Networks in a Deregulated Aviation Market with an Application to Western Europe, Transportation Research part A, 35 (5), 373-390.
25. Adler N. and Berechman J., (2001). Measuring airport quality from the airlines' viewpoint: An application of data envelopment analysis, Transport Policy, 8 (3), 171-81.
26. Israeli A.A., Adler N., Mehrez A. and Sundali J.A., (2000). Investigating the Use of Advertising for Communicating Hotels' Strategic Assets, The Journal of Hospitality and Leisure Marketing, 7 (3), 23-37.
Refereed Proceedings
27. Adler N. and Golany B., (1999). Data Envelopment Analysis - Principal Component Analysis Formulation With An Application To The Western European Air Transportation Industry, Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of the Decision Sciences Institute, Athens, Greece.
28. Adler N. and Berechman J., (1996). European Air Transportation Networks After Liberalization, PTRC Airport Planning Issues, P/409, The Planning and Transport Research and Computation International Association.
Book Reviews
29. Adler N., (2003). Review of "Airline Competition: Deregulation's Mixed Legacy” by G. Williams (Ashford Press). Journal of Air Transport Management, 9 (6), pp. 381-82.
Refereed Reports
30. Center for Transportation Studies, University of British Columbia, (2011). "The Multi-Mode Resource Constrained Cross-Dock Scheduling Problem”, Report to Industrial Partner: Logico Carbon Solutions, (http://xacpac.com/).
31. FUNDING Consortium, (2007). "Long Distance Passenger Infrastructure and Pricing in the Air Transport and High-Speed Rail Market”, Technical Report WP 5.3, European Commission, Brussels, (http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/funding/).
32. FUNDING Consortium, (2006). "Economics of European Infrastructure Funds: Methodology”, Technical Report D1, European Commission, Brussels, (http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/funding/).
33. FUNDING Consortium, (2006). "Funding Scenarios for EU Infrastructure Fund and Mark-ups”, Technical Report D2, European Commission, Brussels, (http://www.econ.kuleuven.be/funding/).
34. MC-ICAM Consortium, (2002). "Second best marginal cost pricing approach to setting rail, air and water charges”, Technical Report D5, European Commission, Brussels, (http://www.mcicam.net).
35. MC-ICAM Consortium, (2002). "Modeling and Cost Benefit Framework”, Technical Report D3, European Commission, Brussels, (http://www.mcicam.net/).
36. MC-ICAM Consortium, (2002). "Marginal cost pricing approach to setting airport charges”, Technical Report WP 5.3, European Commission, Brussels, (http://www.mcicam.net).
37. Air Transport Research Society, (2002). "The First Annual ATRS Airport Benchmarking Report: Global Standards for Airport Excellence”, International Air Transport Association, (http://www.atrsworld.org/new_publication.htm).
38. Adler N. and Berechman J., (1999). "Methodology and Measurement of Airport Quality from the Airlines' Viewpoint and its Effect on an Airline's Choice of a West-European Hub Airport”, Final Report (Two Volumes), The Netherlands Ministry of Transportation, Directorate General of Aviation.
39. Adler N. and Berechman J., (1996). "Optimal Hub Policy Affecting Aircraft Movement and Hub Choice by Airlines”, Final Report (Two Volumes), The Netherlands Ministry of Transportation, Directorate General of Aviation.
40. Adler N. and Berechman J., (1994). "A Network Model for the Evaluation of the Impact of European Aviation Markets Liberalization on the Position of Schiphol Airport”, Final Report (Two Volumes), The Netherlands Ministry of Transportation, Directorate General of Aviation.
41. Adler N. and Rosenhead J. (1991). "Group Decision Support Systems for British Airways”, Masters Thesis, London School of Economics.
Invited Talks
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11/2012 |
1st European Aviation Conference, Berlin, Germany |
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06/2012 |
9th German Aviation Research Ph.D. Workshop, Bremen, Germany
Plenary lecture on lessons learned from benchmarking |
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10/2011 |
Department of Economics and Technology Management, University of Bergamo, Italy |
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2/2011 |
Sauder School of Business, Aviation Seminar Series, University of British Columbia, Canada |
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2/2011 |
German Aviation Research Society Conference, Hamburg, Germany |
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2/2011 |
Hamburg Aviation Conference, Hamburg, Germany |
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1/2011 |
Sauder School of Business, Operations and Logistics Department, University of British Columbia, Canada |
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11/2010 |
European Business School Conference on the Environment and Transport, Wiesbaden, Germany |
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11/2010 |
German Aviation Research Society Conference, Berlin, Germany |
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11/2010 |
Department of Economics, Dresden University, Germany |
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4/2010 |
Civil Engineering, Coimbra University, Portugal |
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4/2010 |
M.I.T.-Portugal Ph.D. aviation workshop, Lisbon, Portugal |
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4/2010 |
Kellogg Operations Seminar, Northwestern University, Chicago, United States |
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2/2010 |
World Bank roundtable on "Performance measurement in public transport and utilities”, Embry Riddle University, Florida, United States |
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2/2010 |
Hamburg Aviation Conference, Hamburg, Germany |
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12/2009 |
Business School, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China |
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11/2009 |
German Aviation Research Society Conference, Berlin, Germany |
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10/2009 |
University of California at Berkeley, United States |
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7/2009 |
German Aviation Research Society Conference, Bremen, Germany |
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2/2009 |
German Aviation Research Society Conference, Hamburg, Germany |
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2/2009 |
Hamburg Aviation Conference, Germany |
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10/2008 |
OECD roundtable on "Airline competition, Systems of airports and Intermodal connections”, Paris, France |
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5/2008 |
International Forum on Shipping, Ports and Airports, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China |
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4/2008 |
Economics Department, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium |
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4/2008 |
Centre for the Environment, University of Oxford, United Kingdom |
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1/2008 |
Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Technion, Israel |
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3/2007 |
Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
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3/2007 |
Faculty of Industrial Engineering, Technion, Israel |
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4/2006 |
Tinbergen Institute, Free University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
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3/2004 |
Infratrain, Technische Universitaet Berlin, Germany |
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12/2003 |
Complexity Conference, December 2003, Jerusalem, Israel |
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11/2003 |
German Aviation Research Society Conference, November 2003, Leipzig, Germany |
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11/2003 |
Applied Economics Seminar, Economics Dept., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel |
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5/2003 |
IMPRINT EU-funded conference, Leuven, Belgium |
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2/2003 |
Fortis Bank Chair, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium |
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6/2002 |
Optimization Technology Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, United States |
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4/2002 |
Dept. of Ind. and Operations Eng., University of Michigan, United States |
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4/2002 |
Center for Transp. Studies, MIT, Boston, United States |
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3/2002 |
Ind. & Systems Eng., University of Southern California, Los Angeles, United States |
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3/2002 |
Civil Engineering Dept., University of California at Berkeley, United States |
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2/2002 |
Harriman School of Business, State University of New York, Stonybrook, United States |
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11/2001 |
College of Business Admin., University of Missouri, St. Louis, United States |
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11/2001 |
Transportation Center, Northwestern University, Chicago, United States |
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11/2001 |
Dept. of Civil Eng., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States |
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11/2001 |
Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, Washington, United States |
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9/2001 |
Ind. Eng. and Mgment. Sci., Northwestern University, Chicago, United States |
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8/2001 |
Operations Research Dept., London School of Economics, London, United Kingdom |
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8/1998 |
16th European Summer Institute Warwick University, United Kingdom (selected to represent Israeli O.R. Society, presented 2 hour paper on part of Ph.D. thesis) |
Conferences
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10/2012 |
INFORMS Annual Fall Meeting, Phoenix, United States |
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8/2012 |
10th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis, Nathal, Brazil |
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6/2012 |
ORSIS Yearly Conference, Ma'aleh Ha'Hamisha, Israel |
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8/2011 |
9th International Conference on Data Envelopment Analysis, Thessaloniki, Greece |
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6/2011 |
1st INFORMS Transportation Science and Logistics Society Workshop on "Congestion Management of Transportation Systems on the Ground and in the Air”, Asilomar, United States |
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11/2010 |
INFORMS Annual Fall Meeting, Austin, United States |
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10/2009 |
INFORMS Annual Fall Meeting, San Diego, United States |
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6/2009 |
13th ATRS Conference, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates |
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7/2008 |
12th ATRS Conference, Athens, Greece |
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6/2008 |
The North American Productivity Workshop, New York University, United States |
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5/2008 |
ORSIS Yearly Conference, Shfayim, Israel |
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9/2007 |
2nd International Conference on Funding Transport Infrastructure, Leuven, Belgium |
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7/2007 |
EURO, Prague, Czech Republic |
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6/2007 |
11th ATRS Conference, Berkeley, United States |
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6/2007 |
11th World Conference on Transport Research, Berkeley, United States |
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11/2006 |
INFORMS Annual Fall Meeting, Pittsburgh, United States |
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5/2006 |
ORSIS Yearly Conference, Nahariya, Israel |
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1/2006 |
Israel Society of Transport Research, The Technion, Israel |
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6/2005 |
ISOLDE, University of Seville, Spain |
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9/2004 |
International Symposium of DEA, Aston University, United Kingdom |
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7/2004 |
10th World Conference on Transport Research, Istanbul, Turkey |
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7/2004 |
8th ATRS Conference, Istanbul, Turkey |
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7/2003 |
7th ATRS Conference, Toulouse, France |
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7/2003 |
EURO – INFORMS, Istanbul, Turkey |
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7/2002 |
6th ATRS Conference, Seattle, United States (participated in opening conference panel on the economics of security, chaired a session & presented 2 papers) |
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11/2001 |
INFORMS Annual Fall Meeting, Miami, United States |
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7/2001 |
9th World Conference on Transport Research, Seoul, Korea |
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7/2001 |
5th ATRG Conference, Cheju Island, Korea |
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7/2001 |
EURO, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, Netherlands (chaired session & presented 2 papers) |
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5/2001 |
ORSIS Yearly Conference, Zichron Yaakov, Israel |
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7/2000 |
4th ATRG Conference, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands |
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7/2000 |
17th EURO, Budapest University, Hungary |
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5/2000 |
ORSIS Yearly Conference, Eilat, Israel |
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10/1999 |
Euro Working Group in DEAPM, Copenhagen Royal Agricultural University, Denmark |
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5/1999 |
ORSIS Yearly Conference, Dead Sea, Israel |
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7/1997 |
15th EURO–34th INFORMS, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain |
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9/1996 |
24th European Transport Forum, Brunel University, United Kingdom |
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7/1995 |
14th EURO, Hebrew University, Israel |
Popular Talks
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3/2011 |
Hillel House, University of British Columbia on "Transportation and Game Theory”
http://cc.cfhu.org/docs/Connecting/Connecting_Spring2011.pdf
http://blog.newvoices.org/?p=7276 |
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5/2010 |
American Friends of Hebrew University, Chicago, United States on "Competition between High Speed Rail and Air Transport” |
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7/2007 |
Israel Society of Transport Research, Tel Aviv, Israel commenting on the Israeli Government's ‘Open Skies' policy statement |
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11/2005 |
Organized Colloquium entitled "Mergers and Competition in the Airline Industry: Open Skies Policies” which included a lecture session (with Prof. William Swan of Boeing, Dani Morag of the Israeli CAA and myself) and a panel session with Israeli executives in the field (Miky Gat, Tourism Ministry; Yael Katan, British Airways; Avner Gordon, Swiss; Sabina Biran, Israir; Yoav Levy, El Al). Concluded in media reports in Globes, The Marker, Jerusalem Post and Makor Rishon. |
