[Opt-net] Call for papers: Buenos Aires ALIO/INFORMS Joint International Meeting, 2010

[Irene Loiseau]

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 CALL FOR PAPERS AND INVITED SESSIONS
 ALIO/INFORMS Joint International Meeting
 June 6-9, 2010
 Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
 http://meetings.informs.org/BuenosAires2010
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Co-Sponsored by

** ALIO (Association of Latin-Iberoamerican Operations Research Societies
** INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
** 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
the ALIO-INFORMS Joint International Meeting that will be held in Buenos
Aires in June 2010. This joint conference consists of the INFORMS
International Conference and XV CLAIO, the biannual conference organized
by ALIO.

The academic program will consist of plenary and keynote 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. We already have at the program the following speakers:

PLENARY SPEAKERS:

* Garrett van Ryzin, Columbia University,USA
     (IFORS Distinguished Lecture)
* David Simchi-Levi, MIT, USA
* Celso Carneiro Ribeiro, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil.

TUTORIALS (see titles at the web page):

* João Clímaco, University of Coimbra, Portugal
* Pierre l'Écuyer, Université de Montréal, Canada
* Simone Martins, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
* Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
* Panos Pardalos, University of Florida,USA
* Mikael Rönnqvist, Norwegian School of Economics, Norway
* Moshe Sniedovich, University of Melbourne, Australia
* Michael Trick, Carnegie Mellon, USA
* Sebastián Urrutia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
* Luk Van Wassenhove, INSEAD, France

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:
Papers in all areas of the OR/MS field, broadly defined are welcome.
Abstracts should be submitted in English at the web page of the
conference. Abstract length is 500 characters maximum.

INVITED SESSIONS:
People interested in organizing one or more sessions are encouraged to
contact the general chair (irene at dc.uba.ar) or the cluster chairs,
proposing a title for the invited session. Each session will consists of 4
invited papers. The list of already confirmed clusters is at the web page.

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

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,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

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 about ALIO/INFORMS 2010 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