Dear colleagues,
Here you have a wonderful opportunity to participate in an exciting conference in Edinburgh just before EURO in Glasgow starts.
Best,
Sergio.
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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
[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>
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).
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
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