January 2020 - Ewgla

GRANT EWGLA XXVI - ISOLDE XV
by Carmela Piccolo 28 Jan '20

28 Jan '20

Dear Locators, the next EWGLA conference will be held in Hamburg together with ISOLDE on June 14 - 19, 2020, and we hope to meet you all there (http://www.isolde2020.de) We are pleased to announce that EWGLA is again offering a number of grants to support participants. These grants will cover your expenses up to a maximum of ?600. Eligible expenses are costs for travel & accommodation and the conference fee. To apply, you have to be a EWGLA member and should send the following documents as a single pdf by e-mail to the EWGLA Board (ewgla-board(a)euro-online.org ): - An extended abstract of at least two full pages, - Your CV, - A letter of recommendation from your supervisor, if you are a PhD student. The deadline for applications is 10 February, 2020. Decisions about grants will be made by 15 March, 2020. We especially encourage young researchers and researchers from economically weak countries to apply. We would appreciate if you could forward this announcement to your PhD students in case they are not yet members of EWGLA and, of course, encourage them to become EWGLA members! Below you can watch the video made by students that received the grant for participating to the last edition of the EWGLA meeting in Brussels: https://www.dropbox.com/s/zab912zhhljyvo3/Video_Ewgla_XXV.mp4?dl=0 If you have questions, please do not hesitate to contact us. See you all in Hamburg, Boglárka G.-Tóth, Carmela Piccolo, Jörg Kalcsics

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IFORS 2020: Stream on Location Problems & Supply Chain Design
by KALCSICS Joerg 13 Jan '20

13 Jan '20

Dear all, We organize a stream on "Location Problems and Supply Chain Design" at IFORS 2020, Seoul, June 21-26, and you are kindly invited to submit an abstract. We welcome contributions in any area of facility location and supply chain design, whether it is theoretical or applied, exact or heuristic. Topics include, but are not limited to, planar, network and discrete location, hub location, location-routing, location in logistics & supply chain management, network design. If you wish to submit an abstract, please go to the submission platform https://www.euro-online.org/conf/ifors2020/ and choose "Abstract in an organized session" using the Code: 9457e363. If you would like to organize your own session, please let us know and we will set one up for you. Please remember that the abstract submission deadline is January 17, 2020. Sincerely, Sibel Alumur Alev Joerg Kalcsics ---------------------------------------------- Joerg Kalcsics Lecturer in Operational Research Programme Director OR MSc School of Mathematics University of Edinburgh James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK Room: 6226 Phone: +44 (0)131 650 5953 Email: joerg.kalcsics(a)ed.ac.uk<mailto:joerg.kalcsics@ed.ac.uk<mailto:joerg.kalcsics@ed.ac.uk%3cmailto:joerg.kalcsics@ed.ac.uk>> Web: http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/people/show?person=450 The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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Call for papers ICCL2020
by Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

International Conference on Computational Logistics (ICCL'20) Call for Papers and Sessions University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands, September 27-30, 2020 https://iccl2020.nl/ The 11th Conference on Computational Logistics will be held September 27-30, 2020 at the University of Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands. In the tradition of the previous conferences, the conference will focus on the theory and applications of operations research, artificial intelligence, and management science to problems in logistics. The theme of this edition is /Optimization and Artificial Intelligence in Logistics Management./ *Topics of the conference include among others:* * Operations Research and Management in logistics * Routing problems * Emergency logistics * Reverse logistics * Crowd logistics * Freight transportation * Green supply chain * Metropolitan/city logistics * Smart Agro-Logistics * Uncertainty modeling in planning and control * Large-scale evolutionary optimization in logistics * Multi-agent systems in logistics * Self-organizing logistics * Internet of things in smart logistics * Artificial Intelligence in logistics * Machine learning applications in supply chain * Last generation ICT networks * Land and maritime smart logistics * ICT in logistics * Computational issues in foreign trade supply chains * Facility (re-)layout decision problems *Important Dates* * February 21, 2020: Submission deadline for proposal special sessions * March 6, 2020: Notification of acceptance session proposals * May 1, 2020: Submission deadline full papers (conference proceedings) * June 12, 2020: Submission deadline abstracts for presentation only * June 26, 2020: Notifications of acceptance (for both full papers and abstracts) * July 15, 2020: Deadline for submission camera-ready paper * August 14, 2020: End of early registration (reduced conference fee) Guidelines for special session proposals Session proposals (length up to 400 words) should be submitted to Martijn Mes (m.r.k.mes(a)utwente.nl <mailto:m.r.k.mes@utwente.nl>) and Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz (e.a.lalla(a)utwente.nl <mailto:e.a.lalla@utwente.nl>), and should cover the following points: * Session title. * The organizer(s). Include names, addresses, affiliations, and indicate the main responsible person. * A brief summary of the scope/topic. Further details can be found in: https://iccl2020.nl/call-for-papers/#sessions Guidelines for paper submission Two kinds of submissions are invited, i.e., a proposal can be submitted for: * Conference papers for publication in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). * Abstracts for presentation only. Further details can be found in: https://iccl2020.nl/call-for-papers/#sessions Publication Conference papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences (LNCS), Springer. Selected papers will be invited to a post-conference special issue in *Annals of Operations Research*. Conference Chairs * Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz (e.a.lalla(a)utwente.nl <mailto:e.a.lalla@utwente.nl>) * Martijn Mes (m.r.k.mes(a)utwente.nl <mailto:m.r.k.mes@utwente.nl>) * Stefan Voß (stefan.voss(a)uni-hamburg.de <mailto:stefan.voss@uni-hamburg.de>)

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EURO Support for NATCOR Bursaries
by KALCSICS Joerg 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

Dear Locators, This might be of interest to some of you. Best wishes, Joerg. --- NATCOR, a National Taught Course Centre in Operational Research, delivers taught courses in the UK to PhD students on a number of different topics in OR. Please see the NATCOR website for more details: http://www.natcor.ac.uk/ EURO is pleased to announce the availability of a limited number of bursaries for PhD students to attend NATCOR courses. https://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/1568/natcor-bursaries *Heuristics & Approximation Algorithms, Nottingham, 20th-24th April 2020 *Convex Optimization, Edinburgh, 1st-5th June 2020 *Forecasting & Predictive Analysis, Lancaster, 21st-25th September 2020 The NATCOR course fees and accommodation (typically bed and breakfast) will be funded by EURO for successful candidates. Applicants must be PhD students, from one of the EURO member countries or studying in one of the EURO member countries. (see https://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/1457/current-member-societies) Applicants must have good English Language skills as all NATCOR courses will be in English. Preference will be given to students in their first or second years but all are welcome to apply. Preference will also be given to applicants who have not previously received support from EURO for NATCOR or other PhD schools. To apply for a bursary, candidates from a EURO member society country, or studying in a EURO member society country, should submit a zip file containing the application form, their curriculum vitae (including their academic track record), a letter outlining their motivation to attend, and a letter of recommendation from their supervisor to https://www.euro-online.org/awards/natcor2020/registration.php. Applicants should declare on their application if they are receiving any additional support from their PhD funding body or other sponsor. Important Dates Deadline for applications: January 20, 2020 Notification of acceptance: February 4, 2020 -- Dr Sarah Fores, FORS Manager of EURO <http://goog_1482421387> [https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1VRNIaqackHVVtOdcU_1v9_XoQFhu…]<http://www.ifors2020.kr/> <http://euro2018valencia.com/> The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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