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? The 7th edition of the Winter School on Network Optimization will take place at Hotel Londres, Estoril, from the 15th to the 19th of January 2018. 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:
Adam Ouorou (Orange Labs) - Robust optimization in telecommunications;
Martine Labbé (Univ. Libre de Bruxelles) - Bilevel programming: Stackelberg games and Pricing Problems;
Ivana Ljubic (ESSEC, Paris) - Recent Developments on Exact Solvers for the (Prize-Collecting) Steiner Tree Problem;
Silvano Martello (Univ. of Bologna) - Packing problems in one and more dimensions;
Juan José Salazar-Gonzalez (Univ. de La Laguna) - Models and Algorithms for Vehicle Routing Problems with Pickups and Deliveries.
Since the first edition in 2009, the school has been part of the activities of the CIO, now CMAFCIO (Centro de Matemática, Aplicações Fundamentais e Investigação Operacional) University of Lisbon as well as of the ENOG <https://www.euro-online.org/enog/display.php?page=1> (European Network Optimization Group). The event is also endorsed by the EURO (the Association of European Societies) and APDIO (the Portuguese OR society).
Potential participants are invited to submit their CVs to the address NetOpt2018(a)fc.ul.pt no later than the 31st October .
Further information is available in the webpage (http://netopt2018.campus.ciencias.ulisboa.pt<http://netopt2018.campus.ciencias.ulisboa.pt/>)??
** With apologies for cross-postings **
NATCOR PhD Course on Combinatorial Optimisation
4 to 8 September 2017
University of Southampton
http://www.natcor.ac.uk/course.asp?courses_id=31
Contributors:
Bo Chen (University of Warwick)
Vladimir Deineko (University of Warwick)
Trivikram Dokka (Lancaster University)
Adam Letchford (Lancaster University)
Chris Potts (University of Southampton)
Dolores Romero Morales (Copenhagen Business School)
Tolga Bektas (University of Southampton)
The course content includes computational complexity, network algorithms,
dynamic programming, Lagrangean relaxation, constraint satisfaction,
branch and bound, branch and cut, branch and price, Dantzig-Wolfe and
Benders decomposition, applications in supply chains and data science.
Registration will close on 18 August 2017. Please visit www.natcor.ac.uk
for further information including the course fees, registration and EURO
bursaries.