Monday, February 7, 2011

[DMANET] MIP Workshop 2011, Second Call for Posters and Participation

*** CALL FOR POSTER PRESENTATIONS, CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ***

Date: June 20-23, 2011 (immediately following IPCO XV June 15-17)
Location: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Registration: http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~mip2011/
Poster submission deadline: March 15, 2011

You are cordially invited to participate in the upcoming workshop in
Mixed Integer Programming (MIP 2011). The 2011 Mixed Integer
Programming workshop will be the eighth in a series of annual
workshops held in North America designed to bring the integer
programming community together to discuss very recent developments in
the field. The workshop is especially focused on providing
opportunities for junior researchers to present their most recent
work. The workshop series consists of a single track of invited talks.
MIP 2011 is scheduled immediately following IPCO XV, which will take
place at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY from
June 15-17 (http://ipco2011.uai.cl).

Confirmed speakers:

Amitabh Basu - UC Davis
Gerard Cornuejols - Carnegie Mellon University
Claudia D'Ambrosio - University of Bologna
Santanu Dey - Georgia Tech
Sarah Drewes - TU Darmstadt
Samir Elhedhli - University of Waterloo
Marcos Goycoolea - Universidad Adolfo Ibanez
Willem-Jan van Hoeve - Carnegie Mellon University
Adam Letchford - Lancaster University
Leo Liberti - Ecole Polytechnique
Giacomo Nannicini - Carnegie Mellon University
Michael Perregaard - FICO
Sebastian Pokutta - MIT
Oleg Prokopyev - University of Pittsburgh
Sebastian Sager - University of Heidelberg
Domenico Salvagnin - University of Padova
Laura Sanita - Ecole Polythechnique Federale de Lausanne
Levent Tuncel - University of Waterloo
Francois Vanderbeck - University of Bordeaux 1
Robert Weismantel - ETH Zurich

In addition to the invited talks, there will be a poster session for
which we invite all participants to submit an abstract. To submit an
abstract, please register for the conference at the above web page,
then email a 1-2 page PDF containing your abstract to
mip2011@uwaterloo.ca by March 15. Space for posters may be limited,
and we may not be able to accommodate all posters; we expect to send
out notifications by March 30.

The workshop is designed to provide ample time for discussion and
interaction between the participants, as one of its aims is to
facilitate research collaboration. Thanks to the generous support by
our sponsors, registration is free, and travel support is available.
Students and postdocs who wish to apply for travel support are
strongly encouraged to submit a poster abstract no later than March
15, as funding priority will be given to students and postdocs who
have submitted poster abstracts. We expect to make funding decisions
by March 30.

See you in Waterloo!

Sincerely,

Shabbir Ahmed (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Ricardo Fukasawa (University of Waterloo)
Ted Ralphs (Lehigh University)
Juan Pablo Vielma (University of Pittsburgh)
Giacomo Zambelli (London School of Economics)
(MIP 2011 Organizing Committee, mip2011@uwaterloo.ca)
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