Dear friends, colleagues, locators:

We just wrapped up another excellent ISOLDE meeting. This was the 16^th ISOLDE and a very well-organized one. A big THANK YOU to Anita Schöbel and the organization team!!!

Rajan Batta won the Lifetime Achievement in Location Analysis (LALA) award. This was announced during the conference dinner. He will be presented the award at the SOLA Business meeting during the INFORMS Annual Conference in Phoenix, Arizona to be held in October this year.

The attendance merit has been updated as follows:

• 15 meetings: Gilbert Laporte (attended all ISOLDE meetings but one!)
• 12 meetings: H.A. Eiselt, Timothy Lowe
• 11 meetings: Oded Berman, Zvi Drezner, Henrik Juel, Vladimir Marianov, Stefan Nickel, Francisco Saldanha-da-Gama

Please let me know if you have attended 11 or more ISOLDE meetings so far.

ISOLDE XVII will take place in Chicago, IL and Milwaukee, WI, USA on June 15-19, 2026 to be organized by Gita Taherkhani (Loyola University Chicago) and Diana Ramirez-Rios (University at Buffalo).

More information about the ISOLDE meetings can be found here: https://uwaterloo.ca/isolde-conference/

Hope to see you at the next ISOLDE if not sooner!

Cheers,

Sibel

Sibel Alumur Alev, Ph.D., P.L.Eng.

Associate Professor

Department of Management Science and Engineering

Faculty of Engineering | University of Waterloo

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