OR/MS Today - April 2000

April 2000

Calendar

2000

May 24-26:
Seventh Viennese Workshop on Optimal Control, Dynamic Games and Nonlinear Dynamics: Theory and Applications in Economics and OR/MS, Vienna, Austria
www.bwl.univie.ac.at/bwl/prod/EVENTS/ws2000 for more details, or contact: Prof. Dr. Richard F. Hartl, Chair of Production and Operations Management; Institute of Management Science, University of Vienna, BWZ Bruennerstr 72 A-1210 Wien; tel. ++43-1-29128-501; tel. ++43-1-29128-502 (Sec.); fax. ++43-1- 29128- 504 E-Mail: hartl@pom.bwl.univie.ac.at; URL: www.bwl.univie.ac.at/bwl/prod/hartl/index.htm or www.bwl.univie.ac.at/bwl/prod/POM/

May 27-29:
ORSIS (the Israeli OR society) annual meeting, Dan-Panorama Hotel, Eilat, Israel
Guests from overseas are welcome to participate. Contact: ORSIS Secretary Israel David at idavid@black.bgu.ac.il for details. The program chair is David Perry (dperry@stat.haifa.ac.il). The website is http://iew3.technion.ac.il:8080/Labs/Orsis/

May 29-31:
CORS 2000: 42nd conference of the Canadian Operational Research Society, Edmonton, Canada
The conference theme is "Energy, Environment and Natural Resources." The conference will feature a high-school problem solving competition and a special session on "Best Canuck OR." For more information, see http://www.cors2000.org/

June 5-9:
International Conference on Advances in Convex Analysis and Global Optimization (honoring the memory of C. Caratheodory, 1873-1950), Pythagorion, Samos, Greece
Endorsed by the Mathematical Programming Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) - Activity Group in Optimization. Contact: Thea Vigli-Papadaki, Department of Mathematics, University of the Aegean, Karlovassi 83200, Samos, Greece; Phone: ++30-273-82021, 82010; Fax: ++30-273-82009, e-mail: acago@math.aegean.gr, or by visiting the web site of the conference at: www.samos.aegean.gr/math/acago

July 8-11:
ASAC-IFSAM 2000, Montreal, Canada
The International Federation of Scholarly Associations of Management (IFSAM) brings together associations and academies of management from over 20 countries. The Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC) will be the host of IFSAM's 5th World Congress. For more information, visit the conference web site, http://asac-ifsam2000.uqam.ca, or contact the conference chair, Jean Pasquero via e-mail at pasquero.jean@uqam.ca

July 10-14:
The 15th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
For more information please visit the conference web page at http://mcdm2000.ie.metu.edu.tr/ or contact the conference chair, Murat Koksalan, MCDM 2000, Industrial Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, Ankara 06531, Turkey; Fax: (90-312) 210 1268; E-mail: mcdm2000@ie.metu.edu.tr

Aug. 7-11:
The 17th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
A brochure with more information and a call for papers will be issued soon. The official Web page of the symposium is currently under construction, but watch for it at www.isye.gatech.edu/ismp2000

Aug. 11:
4th International Workshop on Discrete Algorithms and Methods for Mobile Computing & Communications (DIALM for Mobility), Boston
Submission deadline is April 25. For more information, contact Program Chair Errol L. Lloyd, Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA; E-mail: elloyd@udel.edu or visit the workshop URL: www.cis.udel.edu/~elloyd/dialm.d/home.html

Aug. 20-22:
Forum on Management Challenges Conference, Pokhara, Nepal
The conference includes topics ranging from production and inventory management to total quality management, logistics, and environmental and disaster management. Further information about the conference is available on the web at http://go.to/fmcnews

Sept. 4-8:
X CLAIO (Latin-Ibero-American Conference on Operations Research and Systems, Mexico City, Mexico
Further information is posted at the conference web site: http://quitel.cs.buap.mx/~claio/. Those interested in joining the conference mailing list to receive updates or those who have any inquires should request it from: claio@quitel.cs.buap.mx

Sept. 5-6:
International workshop on discrete optimization methods in scheduling and computer-aided design, Minsk, Belarus
Contact: http://www.univ-troyes.fr/DOM/. The workshop secretariat: Dr. Mikhail Y. Kovalyov, Institute of Engineering Cybernetics, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Surganova Str. 6, 220012 Minsk, Belarus; e-mail: koval@newman.bas-net.by; phone: (375) (17) 2842171; fax: (375) (17) 2318403.

Sept. 12-14:
ORS Annual Conference, The University of Wales, Swansea, U.K.
More than 400 delegates will share their experiences and knowledge in OR. Contact: www.orsoc.org.uk

Oct. 10-12:
39th Annual U.S. Army Operations Research Symposium, Fort Lee, Va.
This year's theme: "Shaping the Transformation Force." General conference information: AORS web site, www.atec.army.mil/aors, or by contacting Maj. William M. Boruff or Staff Sgt. Sakinah A. Hall, DSN 761-9887, commercial (703) 681-9887 or Janet Green, DSN 458-0429, commercial (410) 306-0429.

Oct. 18-20:
The 32nd Annual Symposium of the Brazilian Society of Operations, Federal University of Viçosa, Minas Geraes, Brazil
For more information, send a message to: sobrapo@gbl.com.br or to hns@dpi.ufv.br

Dec. 10-13:
2000 Winter Simulation Conference, Wyndham Palace Resort & Spa, DisneyWorld, Orlando, Fla.
For full submission details and topic areas, see www.wintersim.org. For any questions concerning the WSC '00, contact the program chair: Keebom Kang, Department of Systems Management, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA 93943-5103; phone: (831) 656-3106; fax: (831) 656-3407; e-mail: kkang@nps.navy.mil

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