<div dir="ltr">2014 School on Column Generation<br><br>March 10-14, 2014<br>Paris, France<br><br>The school is the third of its kind (after Darmstadt, Germany, in 2010 and<br>Montreal, Canada in 2006) and aims at teaching the state-of-the-art in<br>
column generation and branch-and-price to advanced students and PhD<br>students but also to practitioners and researchers interested. The lectures<br>will be given by renowned scientists in the field, complemented by hands-on<br>
experience in a computer lab. The participants will have the opportunity to<br>present their own research or application problems in order to foster<br>discussions and create a "real workshop atmosphere".<br><br>
Topics to be covered include: Basic theory (decompositions, reformulations,<br>convexification, discretization, etc.), vehicle routing and crew scheduling<br>applications, shortest path subproblems, column generation heuristics,<br>
master problem issues (stabilization, aggregation), branching and cutting,<br>and hints on implementation issues. In particular, on Thursday, we will<br>spend a whole day with the SCIP framework and learn about implementing<br>
branch-price-and-cut.<br><br>Lectures are given by Guy Desaulniers, Jacques Desrosiers, Marco Lübbecke<br>and Roberto Wolfer-Calvo.<br><br>The program starts on Monday at 9.00 and ends on Friday around 17.00, so we<br>will have five full days of school.<br>
<br>More info: <a href="http://www.gerad.ca/colloques/ColumnGeneration2014/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.gerad.ca/colloques/ColumnGeneration2014/index.htm</a><br clear="all"><br></div>