[Opt-Net] 2014 School on Column Generation

Marco Lübbecke marco.luebbecke at rwth-aachen.de
Thu Oct 10 00:13:32 CEST 2013


2014 School on Column Generation

March 10-14, 2014
Paris, France

The school is the third of its kind (after Darmstadt, Germany, in 2010 and
Montréal, Canada in 2006) and aims at teaching the state-of-the-art in
column generation and branch-and-price to advanced students and PhD
students but also to practitioners and researchers interested. The lectures
will be given by renowned scientists in the field, complemented by hands-on
experience in a computer lab. The participants will have the opportunity to
present their own research or application problems in order to foster
discussions and create a "real workshop atmosphere".

Topics to be covered include: Basic theory (decompositions, reformulations,
convexification, discretization, etc.), vehicle routing and crew scheduling
applications, shortest path subproblems, column generation heuristics,
master problem issues (stabilization, aggregation), branching and cutting,
and hints on implementation issues.  In particular, on Thursday, we will
spend a whole day with the SCIP framework and learn about implementing
branch-price-and-cut.

Lectures are given by Guy Desaulniers, Jacques Desrosiers, Marco Lübbecke
and Roberto Wolfer-Calvo.

The program starts on Monday at 9.00 and ends on Friday around 17.00, so we
will have five full days of school.


More info: http://www.gerad.ca/colloques/ColumnGeneration2014/index.htm
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