The 5th edition of the Winter School on Network Optimization will take place at the Hotel Sana, Estoril, from the 11th to the 15th of January 2016. Its main objective is to provide an opportunity for PhD students to get together and attend high level courses in the field of Network Optimization. Non-PhD students are welcome to attend the school, but the number of participants is limited and priority will be given to PhD students. In this edition of the school, the lecturers and subjects to be addressed are:
Karen Aardal (Univ. Delft): Algorithms for facility location problems
Tolga Bektas (Univ. Southampton): Compact formulations, projections and some polyhedral results for the vehicle routing problem
Elena Fernandez (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya): Hub location and optimum communication spanning trees: models, formulations and solution techniques
Martine Labbé (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles): Bilevel programming: Stackelberg games and pricing problems
Ivana Ljubic (Univ. Vienna): Solving (uniform) Steiner trees and related problems to optimality
Since the first edition in 2009, the school has been part of the activities of the CIO (Centro de Investigação Operacional) University of Lisbon as well as of the ENOG (European Network Optimization Group).
Recently, CIO has been merged with the Centro de Matemática e Aplicações Fundamentais (CMAF). The event will become part of the activities of the new CMAF+CIO and is also endorsed by the EURO (the Association of European Societies)
and APDIO (the Portuguese OR society).
Candidates are invited to submit their CVs to NetOpt2016(a)fc.ul.pt<mailto:NetOpt2016@fc.ul.pt> before the 30th of October 2015.
After a short period of evaluation, the participants will be notified and be invited to register.
More information is available at http://NetOpt2016.fc.ul.pt<http://netopt2016.fc.ul.pt/>.
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EURO PHD SCHOOL on Matheuristics and Web-Services
2nd Call for Participants - Deadline November 30th, 2015
http://www.univ-ubs.fr/eps2016/
LOCATION AND DATES
The EURO PhD School on Matheuristics and Web-Services will take place in
the Université de Bretagne-Sud, Lorient, France, from April 20 to April
28, 2016. Deadline for application is November 30th, 2015.
SCOPE AND ORGANIZATION
The EURO PhD School 2016 is a gathering of PhD students and young
researchers working on the field of *Operations Research*. During one
week, participants will explore the challenging domain of *Matheuristics
*along with its application to the *Vehicle Routing Problem (VRP)*.
Additionally, participants will learn how to make their algorithms
available to the research community by means of *web services*. The
EPS2016 will be hosted by the Operations Research Group
<http://or-labsticc.univ-ubs.fr/> of the Université de Bretagne-Sud
<http://www.univ-ubs.fr/> in Lorient, France from *April 20th to 28th,
2016*. This event is organized with the financial support of EURO (The
Association of European Operational Research Societies)
<https://www.euro-online.org/>.
ELIGIBILITY
Participants must be from a EURO member society country (see list on
https://www.euro-online.org/), or must be studying in a EURO member
society country. They have to be enrolled in a PhD program and,
preferably, in an early stage of their studies (first or second year). A
maximum number of 20 participants will be accepted (depending on the
number of application, this limit might be extended but should stay in a
reasonable range). Each participant will be granted with 5 ECTS credits
and will receive a diploma for his/her participation to the EURO PhD School.
SCIENTIFIC PREREQUISITES
Interested students should have notions of linear programming, mixed
integer linear programming, metaheuristics and a programming language
(preferably C++).
APPLICATION
Interested students should send the following documents to
eps2016(a)listes.univ-ubs.fr by November 30th, 2015: Curriculum vitae (2-5
pages); Motivation to attend the school; A recommendation letter from
the supervisor (please visit the website for the complete list of
documents required).
A registration fee of 350€ will be asked to the participants, and thanks
to the Sponsors, this low fee will cover the costs of accommodation,
coffee breaks, lunches and dinners (except on Sunday evening).
Accommodation will be offered in a shared room with twin beds.
WEB SITE
More information can be found
at<http://www.univ-ubs.fr/eps2016/>http://www.univ-ubs.fr/eps2016/
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Marc Sevaux (chair), André Rossi, Kenneth Sörensen, Andreas Reinholz,
Daniel Palhazi Cuervo, Pierre Bomel.
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Prof.Marc Sevaux <http://people.univ-ubs.fr/marc.sevaux/>
Université de Bretagne-Sud, Lorient, France
http://www.univ-ubs.fr/or/ - +33 297 874 564
*** MIXED INTEGER PROGRAMMING WORKSHOP: FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT ***
We are pleased to announce that the 2016 workshop in Mixed Integer
Programming (MIP 2016) will be held May 23rd-26th at the University of
Miami, in Coral Gables, FL. The 2016 Mixed Integer Programming workshop
will be the thirteenth in a series of annual workshops held in North
America designed to bring the integer programming community together to
discuss very recent developments in the field. The workshop consists of a
single track of invited talks and features a poster session that provides
an additional opportunity to share and discuss recent research in MIP.
Registration details, a list of confirmed speakers, a call for
participation in the poster session, and information about student travel
awards will be made in a subsequent announcement. Please see the workshop
website at https://sites.google.com/site/mipworkshop2016/ for updates.
Program Committee
- Alberto Del Pia (chair), University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Sanjeeb Dash, IBM Research
- Fatma Kilinc-Karzan, Carnegie Mellon University
- Dan Steffy, Oakland University
- Kati Wolter, MOSEK ApS
Local Committee
- Tallys Yunes, University of Miami
- Hari Natarajan, University of Miami