[DMANET] 2014 ACP Summer School on "Practical Constraint Programming"

Dear all,

In the hope this may be of interest for your or your students, I am sending the call for applications for the 2014 ACP Summer School on Constraint Programming, with topic "Practical Constraint Programming".

The school will be held in Bologna (Italy) on coming June and will feature lectures about Constraint Programming, hybrid CP-OR optimization methods, and the speakers' personal experience with real world optimization problems.

If you find the event interesting, feel free to forward the call to the internal mailing list of your department.

Best regards,

Michele Lombardi



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2014 ACP Summer School in Constraint Programming

Practical Constraint Programming

June 16-20 2014, Bologna (IT)

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Chairs
Alessio Bonfietti (Università di Bologna, Italy)
Michele Lombardi (Università di Bologna, Italy)
Pierre Schaus (ICTEAM, UCLouvain, Belgium)

The event is co-organized with the CEUR Foundation

=== TOPICS AND SPEAKERS ===

The 2014 edition of the ACP Summer School will be held in Bologna (Italy), with
the topic "Practical Constraint Programming".

The school is meant for CP researchers and practitioners with an academic or
industrial background, interested in using Constraint Programming and Hybrid
Methods to tackle real world optimization problems.

The school lecturers include renowned experts in the field as well as young
talented researchers. In particular, lectures will be given by:

* Michela Milano (University of Bologna)
* Pascal Van Hentenryck (NICTA)
* Laurent Perron (Google)
* Paul Shaw (IBM)
* Willem-Jan van Hoeve (Carnegie Mellon University)
* Andrea Lodi (University of Bologna and IBM)
* Louis-Martin Rousseau (CIRRELT, Polytechnique de Montréal)
* Hadrien Cambazard (Grenoble Institute of Technology)

The lectures will cover technical topics as well as the experience of the
speakers about tackling real world problems. More details can be found on the
school web site at: http://school.a4cp.org/summer2014/

The school will also feature a substantial amount of hands-on sessions,
organized by Laurent Perron, using the "Google or-tools" system (participants
should bring their laptops).

The school has a fee of 150€ and the application deadline is May 15 2014

=== APPLICATION ===

Any motivated candidate is encouraged to apply: this includes Ph.D. students,
but also Master Students, Post-Docs, researchers, and professionals or R&D
staff from the industry.

The school has a fee of 150€. The fee covers all course materials, coffee
breaks, WiFi Internet Connection at the conference centre, and the social
program (including a dinner in an Italian restaurant). You can register here:
http://school.a4cp.org/summer2014/registration

=== ACCOMMODATION ===

Rooms are available for a convenient price at Camplus Living Bononia (the same
building where the lectures take place). For more information, check the summer
school web site.

=== SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT INFORMATION ===

contact email: acpsummerschool2014@gmail.com<mailto:acpsummerschool2014@gmail.com>
registration: http://school.a4cp.org/summer2014/registration
deadline for applications: May 15

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