<div dir="ltr"><div>2018 School on Column Generation<br></div>Paris, France, February 26 - March 2, 2018<br><div><br><a href="https://www.gerad.ca/colloques/ColumnGeneration2018/">https://www.gerad.ca/colloques/ColumnGeneration2018/</a><br><br></div>REGISTRATION IS OPEN, SPACE IS LIMITED.<br><br><br><br><p>The 2018 School on Column Generation is the fourth of its kind (after
Paris, France, in 2014, 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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Lectures are given by Guy Desaulniers, Jacques Desrosiers, Marco Luebbecke and Roberto Wolfler-Calvo.</p>
<p>The practical session with SCIP/GCG is given by Jonas Witt.</p>
<p>The program starts on Monday at 9.00 and ends on Friday around 17.00, so we will have five full days of school. </p></div>