[Opt-net] ORP3: Second announcement

[Antonio Manuel Rodriguez Chia]

Second Call  ORP3-2011. Cádiz (Spain)


This is the second announcement for the EURO Conference for young
OR researchers: the Operation Research Peripatetic Postgraduate
Programme (ORP3 2011) to be held in Cádiz (Spain) from September
13th to September 17th, 2011.

Aims and Scope:

ORP3 is the EURO peripatetic conference, each edition of which is
hosted by a renowned European centre in Operations Research. It is
organised biannually and is devoted to the Operational Research
field in its broadest sense. Previous conferences have been held
in Paris (2001), Lambrecht (2003), Valencia (2005) and Guimarães
(2007).

ORP3 aims at being a forum promoting scientific and social
exchanges between the members of the future generation of
Operations Research in academic research and industry.

The conference is open to the whole scope of Operations Research,
but the following topics are mostly welcome:

- Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
- Discrete Optimization; Graphs & Networks
- Location Theory
- Transportation and Logistics
- Game Theory
- Network Optimization
- Multicriteria Optimization
- Production Management; Supply Chain Management
- Routing Problems

The conference is composed only of plenary sessions and each
participant will act as the chair and discussant of another
session. In addition, the Scientific Program includes four
tutorials and three seminars dedicated to specific issues whose
speakers are internationally renowned experts:

Tutorial I: Optimization on Networks.
Arie Tamir, Tel Aviv University, Israel.

Tutorial II: Global Optimization.
Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA.

Tutorial III: Combinatorial Optimization.
Francisco Barahona, IBM Watson Research Center, New York.

Tutorial IV: Game Theory.
Ignacio García-Jurado, Universidad de la Coruña, Spain.

Seminar I: Location and Routing problems.
Ángel Corberán, Universidad de Valencia, Spain.
Alfredo Marín, Universidad de Murcia, Spain.

Seminar II: Transportation and logistics.
Martine Labbé, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
Stefan Nickel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

Seminar III: Continuous and integer programming
E. Carrizosa, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain.
E. Fernández Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Spain.

Conference Venue:

The conference will be held in the Department of Statistics and
Operation Research from Cádiz University, Spain.

The conference will take place from 13 to 17 of September 2011, at
the campus of the Cádiz University.

Submission Requirements:

In order to attend ORP3 as a participant you must satisfy one of
the following conditions:

- To be a PhD student

- To be a young post doctoral OR researcher (maximum two years
after completing your doctoral thesis at the deadline for
submission)

- To be a young OR analyst (maximum two years of professional
experience at the deadline for submission)

The selection of participants is made by the scientific committee
on the basis of full paper submissions of publishable quality in
an international OR journal.
Co-authored papers are acceptable as long as they are presented by
a participant satisfying the aforementioned requirements.
The paper submission may be in a PDF or Postscript format (joint with a
short curriculum vitae) sent
through the conference web site, http://orp3.uca.es

Registration Fee:

The registration fee is only euro 200. This includes all expenses
(conference fee, meals, coffee breaks, accommodation, social
program, conference dinner, proceeding books,...)

Registration details are given in the conference web site.

Important Dates:

January 31, 2011 Deadline for submission
June 15, 2011 Notification of acceptance
July 15, 2011 Deadline for registration

Scientific and Organizing Committee:

The scientific committee is formed by well established researchers
in the field of Operations Research:

Chair: Antonio M. Rodríguez-Chía, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain

Co-Chair: Justo Puerto, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

Members: Francisco Barahona, IBM Watson Research Center, New York
               Ángel Corberán, Universidad de Valencia, Spain
               Elena Fernández, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Spain
               Xavier Gandibleux, Universite de Nantes, France
               Stefan Ruzika, Kairserslautern University, Germany
               Eligius M.T. Hendrix, Wageningen University, Netherlands
               Martine Labbé, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
               Mercedes Landete, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Spain
               Alfredo Marín, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
               Stefan Nickel, Universität des Saarlandes, Germany
               Arie Tamir, Tel Aviv University, Israel
               Francisco Saldnha-da-Gama, University of Lisbon, Portugal
               Bruno Simeone, Universita La Sapienza, Rome

Members of the local organizing committee are:

Chair: Antonia Castaño Martínez

Co-Chairs: Inmaculada Espejo Miranda
Concepción Valero Franco

Members: Juan Ignacio García García
               Juan Antonio García Ramos
               Bartolomé López Jiménez
               Juan Luis Peralta Sáez
               Carmen Dolores Ramos González
               Miguel Ángel Sordo Díaz
               Alfonso Suárez Llorens

Further Information:

For further information see

http://orp3.uca.es

or send your request by e-mail to

info.orp3 at uca.es



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