Photos from the ConferenceWestin Savannah Harbor Golf Resort & Spa

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Winter Simulation ConferenceDec. 7-10, 2014

Savannah, Georgia

Savannah International Trade & Convention Center

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Keynote Speakers

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Plenary Keynote: Dr. Robert Roser

Scientific Computing Division Head / CIOFermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)

The Higgs Boson and the Role of Simulation

Keynote Speakers

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Military Keynote: Greg TackettDirector of the Ballistic Missile Defense Evaluation U.S.

Army Test and Evaluation CommandRedstone Arsenal, Alabama

Very Like a Whale...the Missing Meta-phor

Keynote Speakers(cont.)

MASM Keynote: Reha Uszoy

Clifton A. Anderson Distinguished ProfessorEdward P. Fitts Department of Industrial and

Systems EngineeringNorth Carolina State University

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(Almost) Present at the Creation: 25 Years of

Modelling and Simulation in Semiconductor

Manufacturing

Keynote Speakers(cont.)

PhD Colloquium Keynote: Andreas TolkChief Scientist

SimIS Inc.

M&S as a Discipline – Foundations, Philosophy, and Future

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Titan Speakers

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John A. Swanson

Founder, ANSYS Inc.

John Swanson and ANSYS – An Engineering

Success Story

Richard Fujimoto

Georgia Institute of Technology

Parallel and Distributed Simulation

Titan Speakers

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WSC Board of Directors

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WSC Board of Directors

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Conference Organizers

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General Chair

Steve Buckley, IBM

Program Chair

John Miller, University of Georgia

Business Chair

Sanjay Jain, George Washington University School of Business

Proceedings Editors

Andreas Tolk, SimIS, Inc.

Levent Yilmaz, Auburn University

Saikou Diallo, Old Dominion University

Ilya Ryzhov, University of Maryland

Publicity Chairs

Young Jun Son, University of Arizona

Oliver Rose, University of the Bundeswehr Munich

Lee Loo Hay, National University of Singapore

Registration Chair

Soumyadip Ghosh, IBM

Exhibit Chair Peter Lendermann, D-SIMLAB Technologies

Sponsorship Chair

John Tufarolo, Research Innovations Incorporated

Board Chair Gordon Shao, NIST

Board Liaison

Ann Dunkin, Palo Alto Unified School District

Mobile App Mike Kuhl, Rochester Institute of Technology

Exhibits

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Posters

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WSC GolfTournament

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First Place Team

Leon McGinnis, Jeff Joines, Steve Roberts, Jeff Smith

Awards

PhD ColloquiumI-SIM/ACM-SIGSIM

Best OR/MS-Focused Paper Award

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On Adaptive Sampling Rules

for Stochastic Recursions

Fatemeh S. Hashemi Soumyadip GhoshRaghu Pasupathy

Awards

PhD ColloquiumI-SIM/ACM-SIGSIM

Best CS-Focused Paper Award

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Inverse Uncertainty Propagation for

Demand Driven Data Acquisition

Philipp Baumgartel

Gregor Endler

Andreas M. Wahl

Richard Lenz

WSC 2014 Best Theoretical Paper Award

Constructing Confidence Intervals for a Quantile Using

Batching and Sectioning When Applying Latin Hypercube

Sampling

Hui DongMarvin K. Nakayama

Awards

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WSC 2014 Best Applied Paper Award

Analysis of Hospital Bed Capacity via Queuing Theory and Simulation

Luiz Ricardo PintoFrancisco Carlos Cardoso de Campos

Ignez Helena Oliva PerpétuoYara Cristina Neves Marques

Barbosa Ribeiro

Awards

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Vijay Desai

V. Desai, V. Farias, and C. Moallemi. “Pathwise Optimization for Optimal Stopping Problems,” Management Science, Vol. 58, No. 12, Dec. 2012, pp. 2292‒2308.

Vivek Farias Ciamac Moallemi

Awards

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2014 I-SIM Lifetime Professional Achievement Award

Bruce Schmeiser

Purdue University

Awards

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Jeffrey A. Joines

North Carolina State University

Awards

2014 INFORMS Simulation SocietyDistinguished Service Award

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Thomas Jefferson

Intel Corporation

Awards

2013 James R. WilsonBoard of Directors Award

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