[Opt-Net] Announcement of MCDA/M Summer School 2016

[Miettinen, Kaisa]

Dear Colleagues,

Please, find below a call for applications of the Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis/Making Summer School. A summer school is organized in this series every three years. Please, forward the announcement below to your colleagues and students, thanks!

Yours, Kaisa Miettinen


            The application deadline for  MCDA/M Summer School 2016 is approaching!

            The MCDA/M Summer School 2016 is a two-week event, taking place July 18th through 29th, 2016 in Recife/Brazil. Details about the program, the application process and the venue are available at  http://cdsid.org.br/mc-summer-school2016/

            The aim of this school is to give graduate students/young researchers a state-of-the-art presentation of multiple criteria methods, applications and software and to stimulate a networking of young researchers in MCDA/M.  The scientific program of the summer school consists of invited lectures and teams of participants working on case studies.

Important Dates
•         Deadline for Application: December 18th, 2015
•         Acceptance of Application: before January 31st, 2016
•         Early registration deadline: March 15th, 2016

Registration Procedure
                In order to apply, please send by email to mc-ss2016 at cdsid.org.br<mailto:mc-ss2016 at cdsid.org.br>:
•         a detailed curriculum vitae;
•         an abstract describing your PhD;
•         a letter from supervisor specifying in clear terms the motivations to attend the summer school;
•         the registration form filled with applicant information (download from http://cdsid.org.br/mc-summer-school2016/application/)

                We intend to limit the number of participants to roughly 50 graduate students.

Registration Fee
Registration includes attendance to the summer school, documents, lunches, dinners and a social activity. Registration with accommodation is highly recommended!
•         Early registration fee with accommodation (before March 15th, 2016): US $ 800
•         Early registration fee without accommodation (before March 15th, 2016): US $ 500

Details are available at http://cdsid.org.br/mc-summer-school2016/

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Professor Kaisa Miettinen, PhD
Industrial Optimization Group: http://www.mit.jyu.fi/optgroup/
Dept. of Mathematical Information Technology, P.O. Box 35 (Agora)
FI-40014 University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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Vice-rector of the University of Jyvaskyla, https://www.jyu.fi/hallinto/rehtorit/miettinen
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tel. +358 50 3732247 (mob.)
fax: +358 14 2602771
email: kaisa.miettinen at jyu.fi
homepage: http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine and http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/engl.html
* Immediate-Past-President of the International Society on MCDM: http://www.mcdmsociety.org/
* My book: Nonlinear Multiobjective Optimization, Kluwer:  http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/book/



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