April 2015 - Ewgla

EUROPT 2015 Call for papers
by Sergio García Quiles 04 Sep '15

04 Sep '15

Dear colleagues, Here you have a wonderful opportunity to participate in an exciting conference in Edinburgh just before EURO in Glasgow starts. Best, Sergio. ******************************************************************************************************************************** Call for Papers 13th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization July 8-10, 2015: Edinburgh http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/hall/EUROPT15/ EUROPT2015 is the annual event of the EUROPT continuous optimization working group of EURO (The Association of European Operational Research Societies). This is the 13th such workshop and is held in collaboration with the EURO 2015 conference to be held in Glasgow on July 12-15 2015. Talks should be related to continuous optimization theory, algorithms, software or applications. It is expected that there will be a particular focus on large-scale optimization and linear algebra techniques in optimization. Plenary speakers confirmed: Sven Leyffer (Argonne National Laboratory) Lieven Vandenberghe (University of California, Los Angeles) Serge Gratton (CERFACS-IRIT, Toulouse) Abstracts (max one page *.pdf) should be submitted to EUROPT15(a)maths.ed.ac.uk by March 27 2015 Registration will open in due course, with the fees having been set as £150 (Standard) and £75 (PhD student) before May 15 2015. Afterwards the respective fees will be £200 and £100. Well priced accommodation has been booked for the nights before, during and after the conference, and details of how to reserve a room will be published in due course. We hope you will want to take this opportunity to visit Edinburgh and contribute to advances in continuous optimization. Julian Hall and Jacek Gondzio Chairs of the Organising and Programme Committees for EUROPT2015

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Facility location research session at DSI in Seattle
by Hale, Trevor 22 Apr '15

22 Apr '15

[Apologies for cross postings] EWGLA Colleagues: Welcome home from EWGLA XX in Ankara, Turkey! For the first time in recent memory (and quite possibly ever), the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) is inviting at least one research session (3-4 talks) on Facility Location (any sub-topic considered) chaired by yours truly. The 2015 DSI Annual Conference is in (beautiful) downtown Seattle this November 21st through 24th and that (just announced today) the Seattle Seahawks play host to the Arizona Cardinals that Sunday November 22nd a very walkable 1.3 miles due south of the conference hotel right past the world famous Seattle Art Museum. The conference web site is here: http://dsi-annualmeeting.org/ The submission website is here (abstracts limited to 50 words, full papers are accepted, and deadlines are approaching in May): http://dsi-annualmeeting.org/submission/ The conference hotel web site is here: https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/events/start.action?id=1502026108&key=2BCDD… Thanks in advance! Cheers, Trevor 2014-2015 UHD Faculty Senate Secretary/Past-President Trevor Schuyler Hale, PhD Management, Marketing, and Business Administration College of Business, University of Houston - Downtown One Main Street, Houston, Texas 77002 USA halet(a)uhd.edu<mailto:halet@uhd.edu> www.uhd.edu/~halet<http://www.uhd.edu/~halet> Summers: Dr. Trevor S. Hale Office of Naval Research Senior Faculty Fellow NAVFAC EXWC, Naval Base Ventura County 1100 23rd Street, Port Hueneme, California 90043 USA trevor.hale.ctr(a)navy.mil<mailto:trevor.hale.ctr@navy.mil>

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Journal of Global Optimization: Special issue on Global Optimization applied to Healthcare Problems
by Joana Matos Dias 10 Apr '15

10 Apr '15

Call for Papers *Special issue on Global Optimization applied to Healthcare Problems* Guest Editors: Joana Dias, INESCC/FEUC, Portugal Humberto Rocha, INESCC, Portugal Ana Viana, ISEP/INESC TEC, Portugal Recent advances in medicine allow us to live longer and healthier lives. These advances have been made possible through the joint contribution of very different scientific fields. Healthcare is nowadays better understood as a multidisciplinary field, with increasing number of challenges that can be better tackled by joint collaboration of researchers with different scientific backgrounds. Operational Research can significantly contribute to tackle many of the current and forthcoming challenges, especially those requiring the development of mathematical models and global optimization techniques. In this special issue we welcome contributions that consider methodological, theoretical or computational aspects of global optimization applied to healthcare problems.Only high quality contributions in terms of novelty and significance within the scope of Journal of Global Optimization will be considered. Although we strongly encourage the submission of papers presented at XXXI Euro Mini Conference on Improving Healthcare that took place in Coimbra, Portugal, from March 30 to April 1 2015, this Call for Papers is also open to the entire community of academics and practitioners. All papers will be peer-reviewed according to the editorial policy of Journal of Global Optimization. Papers should be original, unpublished, and not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. They should be prepared according to the instructions to authors that can be found in the journal homepage. Authors should upload their contributions using the submission site https://www.editorialmanager.com/jogo, not forgetting to choose as article type « SI : Global Optimization in Healthcare ». The deadline for submissions is 31 October, 2015. Other inquiries should be sent directly to any of the Guest Editors in charge of this issue: Joana Dias (joana(a)fe.uc.pt) Humberto Rocha (hrocha(a)mat.uc.pt) and Ana Viana (aviana(a)inescporto.pt)

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Doctoral contract in France
by Vincent Hovelaque 03 Apr '15

03 Apr '15

Dear all We propose a doctoral contract (for 3 years) at the University of Rennes 1 (Brittany, France). The topic is : "Location, sustainability, performance of food supply chain". The thesis - will use models from OR, geographical economics and logistics. - will be developed in french language (but publications in english). I join all informations for this thesis (in french) and some slides of a previous conference (EWGLA 2011, Nantes). http://shos.univ-rennes1.fr/zBasDePage/uneActualite/?contentId=26220 Feel free to contact me for more information. Best regards -- *Vincent Hovelaque * Professeur des Universités Management industriel et logistique === IGR-IAE de Rennes <http://www.igr.univ-rennes1.fr>, Université de Rennes 1 CREM UMR CNRS 6211 <http://crem.univ-rennes1.fr> 11 rue Jean Macé CS 70803, F-35708 Rennes cedex 7 +33 2 23 23 45 13

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