[Opt-net] ALIO/INFORMS Joint International Meeting, Buenos Aires 2010: first announcement

[Irene Loiseau]

ALIO/INFORMS Joint International Meeting
June 6-9, 2010
Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
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Co-Sponsored by

Association of Latin-Iberoamerican Operations Research Societies
  www.dc.uba.ar/alio
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
  www.informs.org

Local Host: SADIO, Sociedad Argentina de Informáticae Investigación
                   Operativa
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We invite members of ALIO, INFORMS and the worldwide OR/MS community to
join us in Buenos Aires in June 2010 for the ALIO-INFORMS International
Meeting. This joint conference consists of the INFORMS International
Conference and XV CLAIO, the biannual conference organized by ALIO.

Since their inception, Operations Research/Management Science tools have
helped solve problems in many industries, yet OR/MS has much more to offer
society in its efforts to sustain economic growth while using resources
efficiently. There are always new challenges for using OR/MS techniques in
non-traditional domains.

At ALIO-INFORMS 2010, attendees will exchange ideas on topics such as
services, logistics and transportation,  manufacturing, supply chain
management, environment, natural resources, biotechnology, and healthcare.
The meeting intends also to emphasize the importance of the relationship
between basic research and the practice of OR/MS.

The academic program will consist of plenary talks, tutorials,and parallel
sessions,  covering many aspects of OR/MS and it will offer a forum for
intellectual exchange between participants of all the countries of Latin
and North America, as well as from other regions around the world.

ORGANIZING COMMITEE

* General Chair
  Irene Loiseau, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

* Co-chair
  Ben Lev, University of Michigan-Dearborn, USA

* Plenary Co-chairs
  Nelson Maculan, Universidade Federal de Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
  Andrés Weintraub, Universidad de Chile, Chile

* Tutorials Chair
  Celso Ribeiro, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil

* Practice Program Co-chairs
  Rafael Epstein, Universidad de Chile, Chile
  Bjarni Kristjansen, Maximal Software, USA

* Sponsored Sessions Chair
  Nélida Echebest, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina

* Publications Co-chairs
  Lorena Pradenas Rojas, Universidad de Concepción, Chile
  María Urquhart, Universidad de La República, Uruguay

* ALIO Liason
  Héctor Cancela, ALIO President, Universidad de La República, Uruguay

* Meeting Committee

  Victor Albornoz, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile Gulnara
Baldoquin de La Peña,Instituto Politécnico José A. Echeverría,
    Cuba
  Carlos Brizuela, CICESE, México
  Ramiro Cáceres, Universidad Nacional de León, Nicaragua
  Carlos Coelho Coelho, CINVESTAV-IPN,México
  Alexandre Cunha, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brasil
  Rosa Delgadillo, Universidad Mayor de San Marcos, Perú
  Belarmino Adenso Díaz, Universidad de Oviedo, España
  Laureano Escudero, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, España
  Elena Fernández, Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya, España
  Luis Gouveia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal
  José Hernández, Universidad Metropolitana,Venezuela
  Alfredo Iusem, IMPA, Brasil
  Zhixin Liu, University of Michigan- Dearborn, USA
  José Mario Martínez, UNICAMP, Brasil
  Isabel Méndez Díaz, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
  Oscar Meza, Universidad Simón Bolivar, Venezuela
  Graciela Nasini, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
  Carlos Paternina, Universidad del Norte, Colombia
  Eduardo Pizza, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
  Roger Ríos, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, México
  Wilfredo Sosa Sandoval, Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Perú Carlos
Vidal, Universidad del Valle, Colombia
  Yoshiko Wakabayashi, Universidad de Sao Paulo, Brasil

* Teaching Effectiveness Colloquium Co-chairs
   James Cochran, Louisiana Tech University, USA
   Marcela González, Universidad de Talca, Chile

IMPORTANT DATES
August 15, 2009 Abstract Submission Opens
February 1, 2010 Abstract Submission Deadline
April 26, 2010  Author’s Deadline  for Final Abstract Changes
May 7, 2010 Registration Deadline

VENUE: The conference will be held at the Law School of Buenos Aires
University (Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Buenos Aires).

More information bout ALIO/INFORMS is and will be avalaible at
http://meetings.informs.org/BuenosAires2010/
meetings at informs.org

Irene Loiseau
General Chair
irene at dc.uba.ar

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Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales
Universidad de Buenos Aires