[Opt-Net] 6th International Optimsation Summer School

[Toby.Walsh at data61.csiro.au]

Please advertise.


Data61 6th International

Optimisation Summer School

Kioloa, NSW, Australia,

January 14th to 19th 2018

http://tinyurl.com/optschool


Spend a week by the beach learning about the latest optimisation technologies.

How can you help a business reduce its costs? Or reduce their carbon

footprint? Or do both? The school is sponsored by the Decision Sciences

Group at Data61

http://www.data61.csiro.au/Our-expertise/Expertise-Decision-sciences


The school will focus on solving large scale combinatorial optimisation

problems in practice. The school is intended for undergraduate students

(3rd year or later), masters or early stage PhD students. Every

undergraduate participant will be assigned an individual mentor.


Topics covered include: introduction to constraint programming, modelling,

integer programming, column generation, vehicle routing,

scheduling, evolutionary methods and research skills. Lecturers include

Phil Kilby, Peter Stuckey, Guido Tack, Menkes van den Briel

and Toby Walsh.


Please encourage your PhD, Masters and late stage undergraduates to attend.

Registration


The registration page is open now and applicants will be considered in order

of application so please apply as soon as possible. The school costs $685.

Undergraduates and postgraduates will qualify for a grant to reduce this

to just $340. Data61 students can attend at no cost for themselves. The fee

covers 5 nights accommodation, all food and drink, and the coach transfer

from Sydney.


Postgraduate, postdoctoral and industry applicants, please complete the form

http://tinyurl.com/optschool-apply


Undergraduate applicants, please complete this form

http://tinyurl.com/optschool-undergrad


Organizer

Prof. Toby Walsh, UNSW and Data61.


Local information

The School will again be held at ANU's beautiful seaside campus at Kioloa,

near Bawley Point on the south coast of New South Wales.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kioloa,_New_South_Wales


Deadline:

Apply immediately to ensure a place. Applications processed in order of receipt.

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