<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:12px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Dear all,</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">I am re-publishing the call for the ACP Summer School 2014, which will be held coming June in Bologna. Compared to previous calls for the same event, <u>we have granted a deadline extension</u> (both for registering and for booking rooms).</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The summer school will cover topics related to Constraint Programming, Hybrid Methods (in particular CP and Operations Research), and the application of such techniques to real world problems.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The school is meant for both optimisation researchers and practitioners.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">In my humble (and a bit biased!) opinion, thanks to the combination of hands-on sessions and high-quality lectures, this school could be a great occasion to know about Constraint Programming and Hybrids, to study such techniques in deeper detail, and to hear first-hand experience about their application on practical problems. </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Best regards,</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Michele</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> (apologies for multiple postings)</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> ================================================</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> </font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> 2014 ACP Summer School in Constraint Programming</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> </font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> Practical Constraint Programming</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> </font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> <a href="http://airmail.calendar/2014-06-16%2012:00:00%20GMT+2" style="color: rgb(65, 131, 196); background-color: inherit; text-decoration: none;">June 16-20 2014</a>, Bologna (IT)</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> </font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> ================================================</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> ***********************************</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> * DEADLINE EXTENSIONS *</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> * Registration: <a href="http://airmail.calendar/2014-05-25%2012:00:00%20GMT+2" style="color: rgb(65, 131, 196); background-color: inherit; text-decoration: none;">May 25</a> *</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> * Rooms (direct booking): <a href="http://airmail.calendar/2014-05-25%2012:00:00%20GMT+2" style="color: rgb(65, 131, 196); background-color: inherit; text-decoration: none;">May 25</a> *</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> * Rooms (arranged by us): <a href="http://airmail.calendar/2014-05-09%2012:00:00%20GMT+2" style="color: rgb(65, 131, 196); background-color: inherit; text-decoration: none;">May 9</a> *</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> ***********************************</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> Chairs</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> Alessio Bonfietti (Università di Bologna, Italy)</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> Michele Lombardi (Università di Bologna, Italy)</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> Pierre Schaus (ICTEAM, UCLouvain, Belgium)</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> The event is co-organized with the CEUR Foundation</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> === TOPICS AND SPEAKERS ===</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">The 2014 edition of the ACP Summer School will be held in Bologna (Italy), with</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">the topic "Practical Constraint Programming".</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">The school is meant for CP researchers and practitioners with an academic or</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">industrial background, interested in using Constraint Programming and Hybrid</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">Methods to tackle real world optimization problems.</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">The school lecturers include renowned experts in the field as well as young</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">talented researchers. In particular, lectures will be given by:</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">* Michela Milano (University of Bologna)</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">* Pascal Van Hentenryck (NICTA)</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">* Laurent Perron (Google)</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">* Paul Shaw (IBM)</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">* Willem-Jan van Hoeve (Carnegie Mellon University)</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">* Andrea Lodi (University of Bologna and IBM)</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">* Louis-Martin Rousseau (CIRRELT, Polytechnique de Montréal)</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">* Hadrien Cambazard (Grenoble Institute of Technology)</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">The lectures will cover technical topics as well as the experience of the</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">speakers about tackling real world problems. More details can be found on the</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">school web site at: <a href="http://school.a4cp.org/summer2014/" style="color: rgb(65, 131, 196); background-color: inherit; text-decoration: none;">http://school.a4cp.org/summer2014/</a></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">The school will also feature a substantial amount of hands-on sessions,</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">organized by Laurent Perron, using the "Google or-tools" system (participants</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">should bring their laptops).</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">The school has a fee of 150€ and the application deadline is <a href="http://airmail.calendar/2014-05-25%2012:00:00%20GMT+2" style="color: rgb(65, 131, 196); background-color: inherit; text-decoration: none;">May 25 2014</a></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> === APPLICATION ===</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">Any motivated candidate is encouraged to apply: this includes Ph.D. students,</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">but also Master Students, Post-Docs, researchers, and professionals or R&D</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">staff from the industry.</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">The school has a fee of 150€. The fee covers all course materials, coffee</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">breaks, WiFi Internet Connection at the conference centre, and the social</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">program (including a dinner in an Italian restaurant). You can register here:</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><a href="http://school.a4cp.org/summer2014/registration" style="color: rgb(65, 131, 196); background-color: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><font face="Courier">http://school.a4cp.org/summer2014/registration</font></a></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> === ACCOMMODATION ===</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">Rooms are available for a convenient price at Camplus Living Bononia (the same</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">building where the lectures take place). For more information, check the summer</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">school web site. As a guideline, rooms should be booker directly by the</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">participants. It is possible to ask us to arrange a double/multiple room to</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">further reduce the costs: in case you are interested, we should be informed by</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">**May 9**.</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"> === SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT INFORMATION ===</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">contact email: <a href="mailto:acpsummerschool2014@gmail.com" style="color: rgb(65, 131, 196); background-color: inherit; text-decoration: none;">acpsummerschool2014@gmail.com</a></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">registration: <a href="http://school.a4cp.org/summer2014/registration" style="color: rgb(65, 131, 196); background-color: inherit; text-decoration: none;">http://school.a4cp.org/summer2014/registration</a> </font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><font face="Courier">deadline for applications: <a href="http://airmail.calendar/2014-05-25%2012:00:00%20GMT+2">May 25</a></font></div></div></body></html>