OR/MS Today - December 1997

December 1997

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1998
April 3-4: Second Annual Conference on Supply Chain Management in New Orleans. The focus of the conference is on interfaces of SCM in all funcational business areas from accounting, finance, human resources, marketing, and strategy to logistics and operations management. The goal is to create a roof for SCM researchers and practitioners including academics, consultants, executives and software developers. For more information, contact Yasemin Aksoy, Director, Tulane Consortium for Supply Chain Management, A.B. Freeman School of Business, New Orleans, LA 70118; Phone: (504) 865-5499; Fax: (504) 865-6751; E-mail: yaksoy@freeman.tulane.edu. Information about the conference can be found at http://freeman.sob.tulane.edu/faculty/yaksoy/yaksoy.htm

April 5-9: International Simulators Conference at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel in Boston. Sponsored by the Society of Computer Simulation International, the conference will feature several sessions on Computer Simulations in Business. For more information, contact Todd A. Schultz, College of Business Administration, Augusta State University, 2500 Walton Way, Augusta, Ga., 30904-2200; Phone: (706) 667-4534; Fax: (706) 667-4064; E-mail: tschultz@aug.edu. Information about the conference can be found at: http://www.scs.org

May 6-7: Chicago Risk Management Conference, at the Drake Hotel in Chicago. Topics of discussion will include: value-at-risk and credit-at-risk; energy derivatives; corporate risk management; and computational finance, analytic models and systems. For more information, contact Ann Culverhouse, University of Michigan, Center for Professional Development, 273 Chrysler Center, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2092; Phone: (313) 647-7200; Fax: (313) 647-7182; E-mail: aculverh@engin.umich.edu. Information about the conference can be found at: http://cpd.engin.umich.edu/cpd/conference/chicago

June 3-5: Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology, Santa Fe, N.M. Co-sponsored by the American Statistical Association Section on Physical & Engineering Sciences and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Hosted by Sandia and Los Alamos. For more information, contact Robert G. Easterling, Chair of the Management Committee, at the following e-mail address: rgeaste@sandia.gov

June 8-12: 14th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. This year's theme is "MCDM and its Worldwide Role in Risk-Based Decision Making." For more information, contact: MCDM 98, Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems, 103 Albert Small Building, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., 22903; Phone: (804) 924-0960; Fax: (804) 924-0865; E-mail:mcdm98@virginia.edu. Information about the conference can be found at: http://www.virginia.edu/~risk/mcdm98.html

June 27-30: Teaching Management Science with Spreadsheets Faculty Summer Workshop at the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H. Sponsored by DSI, INFORMS and IFORS, this workshop will teach attendees how to use spreadsheets effectively in the classroom, how to interact with a resident faculty of expert spreadsheet modelers, how to teach modeling skills in spreadsheets, and how to teach optimization, simulation and other management science skills using spreadsheets. Registration deadline is May 15, 1998. For more information, see Web page at http://www.dartmouth.edu/tuck/tmss, or send e-mail to: patricia.e.galluzzo@dartmouth.edu

July 12-15: EURO XVI, 16th European Conference on Operational Research on the "Campus-Plaine" of the Université Libre de Bruxelles and the adjacent "Campus-Oefenplein" of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. For more information, contact the EURO XVI Secretariat, c/o Jacques Teghem, MATHRO, Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, 9, rue de Houdain, 7000 Mons, Belgium; Fax: +32 65 37 46 89; E-mail: euro@mathro.fpms.ac.be. Information about the conference can be found at: http://image.fpms.ac.be/euro16.html

July 20-22: Optimization '98 at the University of Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal. For more information, contact Professor L.N. Vicente, Departamento de Matemática, Universidade de Coimbra, 3000 Coimbra, Portugal; Phone: +351 39 7003199; Fax: +351 39 32568; E-mail: opti98@it.uc.pt. Information about the conference can be found at: http://opti.uc.pt/~opti98

Aug. 17-19: The International Symposium on Operations Research and its Applications (ISORA '98) in Kunming, China. Sponsored by The Asian-Pacific Operations Research Center; the Operations Research Society of China; and the Institute of Applied Mathematics, ISORA '98 will focus on Global Optimization. For more information, contact Dr. Xiaodong HU, Institute of Applied Mathematics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.O. Box 2734, Beijing 100080, P.R. China; Fax: 86 10 6254 1689; E-mail: isora@amath3.amt.ac.cn

Aug. 18-27: The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM'98) in Berlin, Germany. Key section topics include: number theory and arithmetic algebraic geometry; logic; algebra; and probability and statistics. For more information, contact Dr. Martin Grötshcel, Presidento of the ICM'98 Organizing Committee, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für, Informationstechnik Berlin (ZIB), Takustr. 7, D-14195 Berlin-Dahlem, Germany; Phone: +49 30 84185 210; Fax: +49 30 84185 269; E-mail: groetschel@zib.de. Information about the Congress can be found at: http://elib.zib.de/ICM98

Dec. 22-24: Operational Research Society of India XXX Annual Convention at the SNTI Auditorium, N.Road, Bistupur, Jamshedpur. The theme of this year's conference is "Operations Research for Enhancing Nation's Competitiveness." Topics of discussion will include: quantitative techniques, simulation, scheduling and sequencing, total quality management, inventory and logistics, strategic intelligence, and neural networks. For more information, contact Niloy Mitter, ORSI Convention Secretary, Asst. Divisional Manager, Operational & Cost Research, Sr. GM(Works) Office, Tata Steel, Jamshedpur - 831 001 India; Phone: +0657-434729; Fax: + 0657-424901.

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