November 2015 - ENOG

Winter School in Network Optimization , January 2016 - 1st Announcement
by Luis Eduardo Neves Gouveia 17 Jan '16

17 Jan '16

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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2nd CFP - EURO PHD SCHOOL on Matheuristics and Web-Services - April 20-28, 2016
by Marc Sevaux 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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. -- 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

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Mixed Integer Programming Workshop (MIP 2016): First announcement
by Kati Wolter 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

*** 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

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