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The provisional program is as follows. Details are available on the ORPA 4 website.

Day 1 (Friday, October 10)

             8:00 – 8:30    Continental Breakfast

                          Washington 5 (exhibit level)

8:30 – 8:45      Opening Remarks – James J. Cochran

                          Washington 5 (exhibit level)

8:45 – 9:45      Clean Water from Small Materials: Nanotechnology in the Environment, Vicki Colvin, Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor of Chemistry and Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering Center for Biological and Environmental Nanotechnology (CBEN), Rice University

                          Washington 5 (exhibit level)

9:45 – 10:45    A Simulation Model of Guinea Worm Disease in Sudan: Public Health Consequences of Massive Refugee Movement, Dave Goldsman, Professor, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, the Georgia Institute of Technology

                          Washington 5 (exhibit level)

10:45 – 11:15  Coffee/Tea Break

                          Washington 5 (exhibit level)

11:15 – 12:15  On Population Services International, Karl Hofmann, President/CEO, Population Services International

                          Washington 5 (exhibit level)

12:15 – 1:30    Lunch

                          Washington 5 (exhibit level)

1:30 – 2:30      Sustainable Irrigation Projects for Rural Communities in KwaZulu-Natal South Africa, Bill Ball, Professor of Environmental Engineering, and Etienne Toussaint, Kristen Downs, and Stefanie Falconi, Graduate Students, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University

                          Washington 5 (exhibit level)

2:30 – 3:00      Coffee/Tea Break

                          Washington 5 (exhibit level)

3:00 – 4:00      Perspectives on Urban Transport in South Africa with specific reference to OR applications, Hans Ittmann, acting Executive Director of CSIR Built Environment

                          Washington 5 (exhibit level)

4:00 – 5:00      TBA

                          Washington 5 (exhibit level)

6:30 – 9:00      Evening Banquet with Plenary Speaker

                          Fostering Effective Cooperative Cross-Cultural Efforts in Operations Research and Statistics through Undergraduate Education, James J. Cochran, Ruston Building & Loan Endowed Research Professor, Louisiana Tech University

                          Hoover (mezzanine level)

Day 2 (Saturday, October 11)

8:00 – 8:30      Continental Breakfast

                          Maryland C (lobby level)

8:30 – 9:30      ORTRANS PROJECT: A Transportation Network Equilibrium Study of Dakar Agglomeration, Serigne Gueye, Associate Professor, University of Le Havre

                          Maryland B

9:30 – 10:30    Systems Approaches to Water Resource Management in Mali: Exploring Opportunities to use Engineering Frameworks in Social Sciences Research, Kim Bothi, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Natural Resources, Cornell University

                          Maryland B

10:30 – 11:00  Coffee/Tea Break

                          Maryland C

11:00 – 12:00  The Nuba Water Project, Stephen Riley, Co-Founder & Executive Director of Nuba Water Project

                          Maryland B

12:00 – 1:15    Lunch

                          Maryland C

1:15 – 2:15      Network Design and Evaluation: Only the State-of-the-Art will do when your Network is in a Real 'State', Johan Joubert, Senior Lecturer, University of Pretoria

                          Maryland B

2:15 – 3:15      TBA

                          Maryland B

3:15 – 4:40      Coffee/Tea Break and Synthesis/Brain Storming Session (in small groups)/ Summary Session/Project Perspectives (Next Steps)

                          Maryland C

4:30 – 4:45      Closing Remarks – James J. Cochran

                          Maryland B