[Opt-net] NEWS Buenos Aires ALIO/INFORMS 2010

[Irene Loiseau]

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ALIO-INFORMS Joint International Meeting
June 6-9, 2010, Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
http://meetings.informs.org/BuenosAires2010/
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****  NEWS (see below)
     - A very comprehensive program of talks and tutorials !!!!
     - Publications

****  DEADLINE for abstracts submission: February 1
      (abstracts changes will be allowed till April 26)

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Co-sponsored by
ALIO (Association of Latin-Iberoamerican Operational Research Societies)
INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences)

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There is still time to decide to attend ALIO-INFORMS Joint International
Meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in June 6-9, 2010.

Deadline for submissions is February 1, 2010, but papers will continue to
be accepted  after the deadline for as long as space is available.

Authors are invited to submit their abstracts at one of the many clusters
being organized (see list at the web page) or simply as a contributed
abstract.
People willing to organize a complete session is also very welcome to do
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PLENARIES AND KEYNOTES:

* Garrett van Ryzin, Columbia University, USA
  IFORS Distinguished Lecture
* David Simchi-Levi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
* Celso Carneiro Ribeiro, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
* Egon Balas, Carnegie Mellon, USA
* Paul Glasserman, Columbia University, USA
* Ralph Keeney, Duke University, USA
* Christopher S. Tang, UCLA Anderson School of Management, USA

TUTORIALS:

* Peter Bell, University of Western Ontario, Canada
  "Revenue Management"

* Michele Breton, HEC, Canada
  "Dynamic Games in Finance"

* João Clímaco, University of Coimbra, Portugal
  "Multiobjective Path Problems: Methods, Software and Applications"

* Pierre l'Écuyer, Université de Montréal, Canada
  "Staffing and Scheduling Optimization in Call Centers"

* Simone Martins, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
  "Metaheuristics for Optimization Problems in Communication Networks"

* Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
  "Fragile Networks: Identifying Vulnerabilities and Synergies in an
     Uncertain Age"

* Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
  "Cliques, Quasi-cliques and Clique Partitions in Graphs"

* Mikael Rönnqvist, Forestry Research Institute of Sweden, Sweden;
  "OR Challenges Arising from Solving Industrial Applications"

* Moshe Sniedovich, University of Melbourne, Australia
  "Black Swans, New Nostradamuses, Voodoo Decision Theories, and the
Science of Decision-making in the Face of Severe Uncertainty"

* Maria Grazia Speranza, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Italy.
  "Vehicle Routing Problems with Split Deliveries"

*  El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille-INRIA-CNRS, France,
   "Metaheuristics for Multi-objective Optimization"

*  Michael Trick, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
    "Combinatorial Benders Approaches to Hard Problems"

* Sebastián Urrutia, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil
  "Minimizing Closed Curves with Constrained Curvature: The Dubins
   Traveling Salesman Problem"

*  Luk Van Wassenhove, INSEAD, France
   "An Overview of Humanitarian (Operations) Research"

*  Stavros Zenios, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
    Financial Risk Management

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PUBLICATIONS;
Several journals will be publishing special issues to include papers from
the ALIO-INFORMS Joint International Meeting. ALIO-INFORMS authors will be
invited to submit papers for these special issues.
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FINANCIAL AID
Financial aid will be available to reduce the cost of conference
registration  for attendees from Latin American countries and developing
countries in other parts of the world.

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Last but not least you may have the opportunity of visiting Buenos Aires,
an alive, dynamic, modern city and one of the biggest in the world. And
maybe to travel to other regions in a vast country as is Argentina, that
offers so many different attractive landscapes.
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For information about the meeting, abstract submission, program,  hotel
reservations or tours pre and post conference, visit the conference web
site at:

http://meetings.informs.org/BuenosAires2010/

See you in Buenos Aires

Irene Loiseau
irene at dc.uba.ar
General Chair