Date: Thursday March 18, 2021
Location: Online on Zoom and Youtube
Time: 12:00 – 17:15
Tickets: Free

For the first time, this year the Annual Meeting will be an online streaming event on Zoom, meaning members and non-members from all over the world may attend. Please don’t forget to register before March 16th.

Program
Full program VVSOR-AM2021 (pdf)
We will start off with a general assembly for members from 12:00 – 13:00, followed by the start of the actual conference at 13:30 with the four talks and two award presentations. The AM conference of 2021 will be in English.

• 12:00 – 13:00 | Annual General Meeting (ALV)
• 13:00 – 13:30 | Lunch break
• 13:30 – 13:45 | Welcome and Opening Talk by Casper Albers, President of the VVSOR
• 13:45 – 14:15 | Containment strategies for COVID-19 using mobility data | Prof. dr. N.V. (Nelly) Litvak, University of Twente / Eindhoven University of Technology
• 14:15 – 14:45 | Incorporating time-use and health data into a Dynamic Microsimulation Epidemiological model for COVID-19 | Prof. dr. G. (Gavin) Shaddick, University of Exeter
  
• 14:45 – 15:15 | Break
• 15:15 – 15:45 | From predictions to prescriptions: A data-driven response to COVID-19 | Prof. dr. D.J. (Dimitris) Bertsimas, Sloan School of Management at MIT
  
• 15:45 – 16:15 | Ceremony of the Willem R. van Zwet Award and the Jan Hemelrijk Award Prize winners will be presented by the juries, followed by a short presentation by the laureates
• 16:15 – 16:30 | Break
• 16:30 – 17:00 | Curbing the spread: observations, interventions, models, and predictions | Prof. dr. J. (Jacco) Wallinga, Leiden University/RIVM
  
• 17:00 – 17:15 | Final discussion with speakers & Closure

Abstracts
Abstracts VVSOR-AM2021 (pdf)

Registration
Registration is now open, use the form below to register for free. Please note, the first 100 VVSOR members have already registered, and therefore the pre-AM home delivered snackbox is unfortunately already ‘out-of-stock’.

E-mail: annualmeeting@vvsor.nl

Registration Form VVSOR AM 2021