Theory Announcements: November 2023

Thursday, November 30, 2023

[DMANET] IFORS Developing Countries Online Resources

To access information regarding IFORS Developing Countries resources, its regular updates – and to submit your possible "free" (not copyright protected) material, you may occasionally visit the link: http://ifors.org/developing_countries/index.php?title=Main_Page .

With this open online resources page we aim to provide a platform to make research and applications of OR widely accessible to the entire OR community including researchers, academicians and scholars in the Developing Countries (DCs).

For this purpose we invite scholarly contributions spanning across all areas and sectors ranging from arts and science, to communication and education.

The International Federation of Operational Research Societies ( IFORS ) is an almost 60-year-old organization which is currently composed of 51 national societies. Regional Groups of IFORS are: ALIO (The Latin American Ibero Association on Operations Research), APORS (The Association of Asian-Pacific Operational Research Societies), EURO (The Association of European Operational Research Societies), NORAM (The Association of North American Operations Research Societies). IFORS conferences are held every three years. The conference IFORS 2023 was just held successfully in Santiago, Chile, during July 10-14, 2023. Please visit the following link for details regarding the same:

https://ifors2023.com/

Thank you very much for your attention. We look forward to your enthusiastic participation and scholarly contributions.

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[DMANET] PhD/Postdoc positions at Chair of IT Security, Brandenburg University of Technology

The Young Investigator Group "COSYS - Control Systems and Cyber Security Lab" at the Chair of IT Security at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg has open PhD/Postdoc positions in the following areas:

- Privacy-enhancing technologies in cyber-physical systems.
- AI-based network attack detection and simulation.
- AI-enabled penetration testing.

The available positions are funded as 100% TV-L E13 tariff in Germany and limited until 31.07.2026, with possibility for extension.

Candidates must hold a Master's degree (PhD degree for Postdocs) or equivalent in Computer Science or related disciplines, or be close to completing it. If you are interested, please send your CV, transcript of records from your Master studies, and an electronic version of your Master's thesis (if possible), as a single pdf file. Applications will be reviewed until the positions are filled.

Contact: Ivan Pryvalov (ivan.pryvalov@b-tu.de)

[DMANET] Postdoc position in Graph Theory at KIT

The Department of Mathematics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, invites applications for a Postdoctoral Position (Akademische/n Mitarbeiter/in) to work on Graph Theory and Combinatorics, see https://www.math.kit.edu/iag6/~axenovich/media/ad-postdoc-2024.pdf

Young researchers with a strong background in discrete mathematics are invited to apply. A Ph.D. in mathematics or theoretical computer science is required. Knowledge and experience in graph theory and combinatorics are expected. Knowledge of English is required and some command of German is desired.

Specific research topics include Ramsey-type problems, graph coloring problems, extremal problems in set systems and posets, extremal problems in graphs. Teaching responsibilities of the position include up to four academic hours per week.

The intended starting date is flexible between August 3, 2024 and October 1, 2024. The salary grade is E13. This is a 2-year position with a possible extension. The deadline for application is January 10, 2024 or until the position is filled.

An application should include a curriculum vitae, a publication list, an outline of research interests, and at least two letters of reference. Applications and reference letters should be sent per e-mail to maria.aksenovich@kit.edu with a subject line "Postdoc KIT".

For further inquiries about the positions, please contact Prof. Maria Axenovich: https://www.math.kit.edu/iag6/~axenovich/en

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is the result of the merger of the University of Karlsruhe and the Research Center, Karlsruhe. It is a unique institution in Germany, which combines the mission of a university with that of a large-scale research center of the Helmholtz Association. With 9400 employees, 25000 students, and an annual budget of EUR 1122 million, KIT is one of the largest research and education institutions worldwide. Karlsruhe is centrally located - with direct and quick train connections to major cities such as Paris, Zurich, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Cologne, and Munich.

[DMANET] Benders Day - A workshop to celebrate the 100th birthday of Jacques Benders!

Benders Day - A workshop to celebrate the 100th birthday of Jacques
Benders!

Please save the date for the 2024 Benders Day. Benders Day is a one day
workshop featuring invited talks on topics related to the work of
Jacques Benders, in particular, Benders decomposition. The workshop
takes place at Eindhoven University of Technology on May 31, 2024. The
confirmed speakers for Benders Day are

- Karen Aardal
- Dries Goossens
- John Hooker
- Ivana Ljubić
- Stephen Maher
- Ward Romeijnders
- Elina Rönnberg

Further information can be found at
https://www.win.tue.nl/~chojny/bendersday/bendersday.html

We look forward to seeing you in Eindhoven!

On behalf of the Organizing Committee,

Christopher Hojny, Cor Hurkens, Rudi Pendavingh, Bart Smeulders, and
Frits Spieksma
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[DMANET] Assistant/Associate Professor positions in Algorithms at University of Southern Denmark

The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science<https://www.sdu.dk/en/om_sdu/institutter_centre/imada_matematik_og_datalogi> (IMADA), SDU, Odense, Denmark, invites applications for positions in Algorithms at the levels of assistant and associate professor. Applicants are asked to state in their letter of application on which level they wish to apply. The intended starting date is 1 August 2024 with room for flexibility. The application deadline is 1 February 2024.

The current focus areas of the Algorithms research conducted at IMADA include combinatorial optimization, online algorithms, graph theory, data structures, complexity theory, cryptology, and algorithmic cheminformatics. We are interested in strong applicants who can contribute to these topics or complement them with new and promising directions, including applications of algorithms. (Read about the algorithms group: https://algorithms.sdu.dk/.)

We are looking for candidates
* With a PhD and research background in Computer Science with a focus on Algorithms.
* With a strong track record of publications in top-level conferences and journals, relative to academic age.
* Who can contribute to teaching and advising in the department's Bachelor, Master's and PhD programmes in Computer Science. The ability to support related degrees (such as Data Science and Artificial Intelligence) is a plus.

For applicants for a position of assistant professor, we expect a research track record that shows considerable potential. An appointment as assistant professor lasts for three years, and contingent on successful completion of a lecturer training programme and a positive performance evaluation, a permanent position as associate professor is normally opened, for which the assistant professor can apply.

For applicants for a position of associate professor, we expect a recognized research track record of more than four years after the PhD and demonstrated ability to direct independent research projects and obtain external funding. In addition, applicants are expected to have substantial experience in teaching and supervision. The associate professorship position is a tenured position.

Fluency in English is required, whereas knowledge of Danish is not a prerequisite for application. More than half of the research staff members in computer science have international backgrounds. Successful applicants will be offered Danish courses by the university.

For further information and questions on the positions, please contact Professor Kim Skak Larsen kslarsen@imada.sdu.dk<mailto:kslarsen@imada.sdu.dk>.

Odense provides family-friendly living conditions with the perfect combination of a historic city centre with an urban feel and yet a close proximity to beaches and recreational areas. Its location on the beautiful island of Funen is ideal with easy access by train or highway to the bigger cities of Aarhus and Copenhagen. As the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark's famous fairy tale author, the city is home to a vibrant and creative population and hosts numerous festivals and markets throughout the year.

More information and directions for applying can be found at:
https://www.sdu.dk/en/service/ledige_stillinger/1215838

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

[DMANET] Faculty position in CS, University of Sao Paulo

Dear colleagues,

The Department of Computer Science of the Institute of Mathematics and
Statistics of the University of São Paulo has an open faculty
position at tenure-track assistant professor level. We seek
candidates with a strong background and expertise in theory. Of
particular interest to us are candidates specializing in foundations
of data science, quantum computing, computational complexity, or
algorithms.

The formal call for applications (in Portuguese) can be found at

https://www.ime.usp.br/concursos/
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yTuGK39UHhjFoLS8yYVtbYwaXffYaHrR/view

The application deadline is 23 January 2024. The application process
is unfortunately somewhat convoluted. Feel free to get in touch with
me if you are interested.

Yours faithfully,

Yoshiharu Kohayakawa
Professor
Department of Computer Science
Institute of Mathematics and Statistics
University of São Paulo

[DMANET] Four Tenure-track or Tenured positions at the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manitoba

The Department of Computer Science at the University of Manitoba has four Tenure-track or Tenured positions at the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor. To address gender inequity in the field of computer science and help alleviate the underrepresentation of women in such positions, two of the positions are targeted to candidates who identify as women. See links for the respective positions below.

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The Department of Computer Science at the University of Manitoba is seeking two (2) professors for a Probationary (Tenure-track) or Tenured position at the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor, commencing July 1, 2024, or on a date mutually agreed upon. Exceptional candidates at the full Professor level will also be considered. Salary and rank will be commensurate with experience and qualifications.

The Department is seeking scholars with a commitment to excellence in teaching and research, and a collegial approach to departmental affairs. Outstanding candidates in all areas of Computer Science will be considered, with particular emphasis on candidates who will complement the department's strengths or reinforce areas of growth. The successful candidate will hold a Ph.D. in Computer Science or a related field by the appointment date. Post-doctoral experience is preferred, and other distinguishing experience will be considered.

Duties will include undergraduate teaching, graduate teaching and supervision, research (including establishing and maintaining an externally funded research program), and service-related activities. The successful candidates will have a track record of high-quality scholarly research leading to peer-assessed publications.

At the Assistant Professor rank, candidates must demonstrate the potential to establish an independent, innovative, externally fundable research program, and have demonstrated potential for high-quality teaching contributions. At the Associate Professor rank, candidates must demonstrate an established, independent, innovative research program with a track record of external funding and have demonstrated strength in high-quality teaching contributions. At the Professor rank, candidates must demonstrate a sustained nationally or internationally recognized externally funded research program and have demonstrated leadership in high-quality teaching contributions

The Department currently has 22 full-time tenured and tenure track research faculty and 10 full-time instructors. We offer a full range of both undergraduate and graduate programs in Computer Science, including joint CS honours programs with Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, and Statistics. Further information about the Department is available at https://umanitoba.ca/science/computer-science

The University of Manitoba is a driving force of innovation, discovery, and advancement. Our momentum is propelled by our campus community – UM faculty, staff, and students whose determination and curiosity shape our world for the better. Our teaching, learning and work environment is uniquely strengthened and enriched by Indigenous perspectives. With two main campuses in Winnipeg, satellite campuses throughout Manitoba, and world-wide research, UM's impact is global.

Discover outstanding employee benefits, experience world-class facilities, and join a dynamic community that values reconciliation, sustainability, diversity, and inclusion. We are one of Manitoba's Top Employers and one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers. At the University of Manitoba, what inspires you can change everything.

The City of Winnipeg (www.tourismwinnipeg.com), located where the Red and Assiniboine Rivers meet, is recognized for its vibrant, multicultural community and diverse culture. The city, with a growing population of more than 766,000, is home to internationally renowned festivals, galleries and museums, the historic Exchange District and The Forks, and ever-expanding research, education, and business sectors. From the Hudson Bay waters, across the farmland fields, to the pulse of the cities and towns, The Province of Manitoba's (www.travelmanitoba.com) people and places – its 100,000 lakes, 92 provincial parks, winding river valleys and storied prairie skies – inspire.

The University of Manitoba is committed to the principles of equity, diversity & inclusion and to promoting opportunities in hiring, promotion and tenure (where applicable) for systemically marginalized groups who have been excluded from full participation at the University and the larger community including Indigenous Peoples, women, racialized persons, persons with disabilities and those who identify as 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, questioning, intersex, asexual and other diverse sexual identities). All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be given priority.

If you require accommodation supports during the recruitment process, please contact UM.Accommodation@umanitoba.ca or 204-474-7195. Please note this contact information is for accommodation reasons only.

Applications should be sent to search@cs.umanitoba.ca (PDF files preferred) and should include:

– curriculum vitae,

– statement on teaching, including teaching philosophy and samples of material,

– statement on research, including summary of expertise and research plan,

– statement on your approach to addressing issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion,

– contact information for three references.

Review of applications will commence on January 15, 2024, and will continue until the positions are filled. Please specify position number 34477 in the application. For further information contact the Search Committee Chair at search@cs.umanitoba.ca. Application materials, including letters of reference, will be handled in accordance with the protection of privacy provision of The Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (Manitoba). Please note that curriculum vitae may be provided to participating members of the search process.

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[DMANET] Postdoc opportunity at LSE Mathematics - deadline 21 December 2023

Hello,

LSE's Department of Mathematics is looking to appoint a Research Officer to contribute to the EPSRC New Investigator Award "New perspectives towards Woodall's conjecture and the Generalised Berge-Fulkerson conjecture", working with Principal Investigator Dr Ahmad Abdi. The project will take an optimisation-inspired approach towards the conjectures and related problems. The anticipated start date is 1 October 2024, but earlier or later start dates may be possible. More information about the scope of the project and the research interests of the PI can be found on this<https://ahmadabdi.com/NIA.html> webpage.

The successful applicant will hold (or be near completion of) a PhD in a discipline relevant to mathematical optimisation, such as Mathematics, Computer Science, or Operations Research by post start date. They will demonstrate comprehensive knowledge and experience in the theoretical understanding of fundamental problems in combinatorial optimisation, and its connections to other areas such as graph theory, integer programming, and submodular optimisation. They will show evidence of developing a body of good quality publications, in well-recognised peer reviewed outlets, through independent original research.

For the official job posting, and how to apply, please visit this<https://jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/2447/0/412511/15539/research-officer-in-mathematical-optimisation> webpage.

The closing date for receipt of applications is Thursday 21st December 2023 (23.59 UK time).

Kind regards,

Ahmad Abdi
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics, LSE

[DMANET] OLISSIPO Winter School | Mathematical modelling of inter-cell and communities’ interactions with a focus on metabolism | February 6-9, 2024

Dear all,

Please find below an announcement of the OLISSIPO Winter School on
Mathematical modelling of inter-cell and communities' interactions with
a focus on metabolism, which will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, between
February 6-9, 2024.

The school will involve four speakers, experts in Computer Science and
Computational Biology.

Hoping to see you there!

Kind regards,
Susana Vinga

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Dear colleagues and friends,

We are happy to announce the OLISSIPO School on Mathematical modelling
of inter-cell and communities' interactions with a focus on metabolism,
which will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, at INESC-ID, between February
6-9, 2024.

OLISSIPO Winter School
Mathematical modelling of inter-cell and communities' interactions with
a focus on metabolism
February 6-9, 2024 | INESC-ID, Lisbon, Portugal

Keynote speakers:

Prof. Jörg Stelling [1], ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Prof. Jürgen Zanghellini [2], University of Vienna, Austria
Prof. Kiran Patil [3], University of Cambridge, UK
Prof. Steffen Klamt [4], Max Planck Institute for Dynamics of Complex
Technical Systems, Germany

See the preliminary agenda at
https://olissipo.inesc-id.pt/olissipo-school-on-mathematical-modelling/
[5].

Registration is free* but mandatory for organizational purposes. Seating
is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis.
Please register here https://forms.gle/HBVK9vpLoEEjxJ7V8 [6] until
January 12, 2024.

_*Lunches and coffee-breaks from Tuesday to Friday are included,
accommodation and flights are not. The social event and dinner on
Wednesday have limited seats (requires confirmation from the
organisation)._

We will have slots for flash talks (3-10 min, depending on the number of
submissions) to present yourself and the work you have been developing
in your research.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

We are looking forward to meeting you all in Lisbon.

Best wishes,

The OLISSIPO Coordination Team

Susana Vinga [7] (INESC-ID), Marie-France Sagot [8] (Inria), Niko
Beerenwinkel [9] (ETH Zürich), Wolfgang Huber [10] (EMBL)

Sara Tanqueiro (INESC-ID)
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OLISSIPO

Funded by the European Commission within its H2020 Research and
Innovation programme "Spreading Excellence and Widening
Participation|Twinning", OLISSIPO aims to enhance the competences in
Computational Biology at INESC-ID in Lisbon, towards the creation of an
international pole of excellence in multi-disciplinary science in
Portugal.

Rua Alves Redol, 9 | 1000-227 Lisboa
Email: olissipo@inesc-id.pt
Website: https://olissipo.inesc-id.pt/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Olissipo_eu
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/olissipo/ [11]

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Prof. Susana Vinga
Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa
INESC-ID / IDMEC
URL: http://web.ist.utl.pt/~susanavinga/
Rua Alves Redol 9, 1000-029 Lisboa, Portugal
Tel.: (+351) 213 100 384
Email: susanavinga@tecnico.ulisboa.pt

Links:
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[1] https://csb.ethz.ch/
[2] https://chemnet.univie.ac.at/team/juergen-zanghellini/
[3] https://www.mrc-tox.cam.ac.uk/staff/kiran-patil
[4] https://www.mpi-magdeburg.mpg.de/klamt
[5]
https://olissipo.inesc-id.pt/olissipo-school-on-mathematical-modelling/
[6] https://forms.gle/HBVK9vpLoEEjxJ7V8
[7] http://web.ist.utl.pt/susanavinga/
[8] https://team.inria.fr/erable/en/marie-france-sagot/
[9]
https://bsse.ethz.ch/department/people/detail-person.MTQ5NDE3.TGlzdC8yNjY5LDEwNjI4NTM0MDk=.html
[10] https://www.embl.de/research/units/genome_biology/huber/
[11] https://www.linkedin.com/in/olissipo/
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Tuesday, November 28, 2023

[DMANET] CFP: DCFS 24

CALL FOR PAPERS
DCFS 2024

International Conference on Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems
Santa Clara University
June 25 - 27, 2024

https://sites.google.com/scu.edu/dcfs24
dcfs2024@gmail.com

Paper submission deadline: March 1, 2024
Author notification: April 2, 2024
Camera-ready deadline: April 11, 2024

The 26th edition of DCFS is organized by the Department of Mathematics
and Computer Science of Santa Clara University, USA and by the IFIP
Working Group 1.02 "Descriptional Complexity".

TOPICS

Original research papers concerning the descriptional complexity of
formal systems and structures (and its applications) are sought. Topics
include, but are not limited to:

Automata, grammars, languages and other formal systems; various modes
of operations and complexity measures.

Succinctness of description of objects, state-explosion-like phenomena.

Circuit complexity of Boolean functions and related measures.

Size complexity of formal systems.

Structural complexity of formal systems.

Trade-offs between computational models and mode of operation.

Applications of formal systems -- for instance in software and
hardware testing, in dialogue systems, in systems modeling or in
modeling natural languages -- and their complexity constraints.

Co-operating formal systems.

Size or structural complexity of formal systems for modeling natural
languages.

Complexity aspects related to the combinatorics of words.

Descriptional complexity in resource-bounded or structure-bounded
environments.

Structural complexity as related to descriptional complexity.

Frontiers between decidability and undecidability.

Universality and reversibility.

Nature-motivated (bio-inspired) architectures and unconventional
models of computing.

Blum Static (Kolmogorov/Chaitin) complexity, algorithmic information.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Henning Bordihn (University of Potsdam, Germany), co-chair

Pascal Caron (University of Rouen, France)

Szilárd Fazekas (Akita University, Japan)

Yo-Sub Han (Yonsei University, Republic of Korea)

Galina Jirásková (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia)

Stavros Konstantinidis (Saint Mary's University, Canada)

Martin Kutrib (University of Giessen, Germany)

Ian McQuillan (University of Saskatchewan, Canada)

Timothy Ng (University of Chicago, USA)

Alexander Okhotin (St. Petersburg State University, Russia)

Giovanni Pighizzini (University of Milan, Italy)

Chris Pollett (San Jose State University, USA)

Luca Prigioniero (Loughborough University, UK)

Bala Ravikumar (Sonoma State University, USA)

Rogérior Reis (University of Porto, Portugal) Kai Salomaa
(Queen's University, Canada)

Shinnosuke Seki (The University of Electro-Communications, Japan)

Howard Straubing (Boston College, USA)

Nicholas Tran (Santa Clara University, USA), co-chair

György Vaszil (University of Debrecen, Hungary)

Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

PAPER SUBMISSION

Submissions to DCFS must not exceed 12 pages in Springer-Verlag's
Lecture Notes style including bibliography. If the authors believe that
more details are essential to substantiate the main claims, they may
include a clearly marked appendix that will be read at the discretion of
the program committee. Simultane\
ous submissions of papers to any other conference with published
proceedings or submitting previously published papers is not allowed.
Papers should be submitted electronically as a PDF document to

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcfs24.

After logging in to your EasyChair account, select the "New Submission"
menu item on the top of the page. If you do not have an EasyChair
account, follow the instructions on the login page. The proceedings
will be published by Springer-Verlag in the series Lecture Notes in
Computer Science. In addition, a special issue of Journal of Automata,
Languages, and Combinatorics will be devoted to revised and extended
versions of selected papers of the conference.

[DMANET] Postdoctoral position in MINLP at the Politecnico di Milano

The Optimization group at the Dept. of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano invites applications for a postdoctoral position in the area of Mixed Integer Nonlinear Optimization, with special focus on ACOPF problems in power networks. The postdoc is part of the HEXAGON project funded by the PRIN-PNRR program. This is a two-year position starting in February 2024.

A solid background in Optimization is required, with a PhD-level knowledge of nonlinear optimization, mixed integer linear optimization, and/or MINLO being desirable. Strong communication skills in English are required. As the project will focus on solution algorithms for a well-known class of optimization problems, some experience on the development of solver components and knowledge of C/C++ and/or Python are necessary.

A salary of 32,000 euro/year is offered. Applications must be submitted following the procedure described here:

https://www.polimi.it/fileadmin/user_upload/Lavora-con-noi/allegati_bandi_pnrr/BANDO_DEIB_139_2023_eng.pdf

Please note that the (non-extendable) deadline for application is 20 December 2023.

The Politecnico di Milano boasts one of the best Engineering schools in Europe, with several groups at the forefront of research in various fields and a large international community both in students and faculty. Milan is a vibrant, lively city with a creative, cosmopolitan, and industrious spirit.

For more information, please contact

Pietro Belotti
Dept. of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering
Politecnico di Milano
email: pietro.belotti@polimi.it

[DMANET] BCC thesis prize 2024

The British Combinatorial Committee (BCC) announces its second "BCC
PhD Prize in Combinatorics", to be awarded at the next British
Combinatorial Conference for an outstanding UK PhD thesis in the field
of Combinatorics, broadly interpreted. Details concerning eligibility,
the nomination process, dates, and the award of the prize can be found
below and at https://britishcombinatorial.wordpress.com/phd-thesis-prize/.

Eligibility:

A PhD thesis is eligible for the prize if the PhD was awarded by a UK
university in the two years prior to the cutoff date (inclusive)
specified below, and if the topic of the PhD thesis is in the area of
Combinatorics.

Nominations:

Nominations are made by the thesis supervisor by email to Prof Jozef
Skokan (j.skokan@lse.ac.uk) with subject "BCC prize 2024" and the
following documents attached in electronic form:

- the thesis,
- a nomination letter by the supervisor,
- a reference letter by an external examiner,
- a formal confirmation by the university of award of or eligibility
for the award of the PhD.

This confirmation should be dated between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2023.

The abstract of the thesis should be added to the main body of the
submission email.

Dates:

The cutoff date determining eligibility is 31 December 2023.

The submission deadline for nominations is 19 January 2024.

Prize Award:

The prize will be awarded at the 30th British Combinatorial Conference
at Queen Mary University of London (1st July - 5th July 2024). The
prize winner will normally be expected to attend this meeting, and
will be invited to give a prize lecture.

Funding:

The prize (£1000) is funded by the Heilbronn Institute for
Mathematical Research and the Institute of Combinatorics and its
Applications, and supported by Cambridge University Press.

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Prof Jozef Skokan
Department of Mathematics, LSE
j.skokan@lse.ac.uk

[DMANET] Special issue: Learning based Solution Techniques for Optimization in Logistics and Transportation Systems (TRE)

Dear all

Apologies for cross-posting.

This Special Issue invites authors to submit articles focusing on
optimization methods that rely on learning techniques to address problems
in logistics and transportation. Theoretical papers are acceptable,
provided that they have case studies/numerical examples in the
logistics/transportation field; models and algorithms that utilize learning
to better understand the problem structure, physics, and behavior fall in
the scope of the special session. We are particularly interested in
contributions that are comprehensive enough to also cover or address
problems in logistics and supply chains, that consider sustainability, IoT,
electric vehicles, energy efficiency, and other relevant areas. We welcome
both original research and review articles. Possible contributions may
include, but are not limited to, the following topics:

§ Enhancing classical methods via ML

§ Markov Decision Process

§ Neural methods

§ Learning for primal-dual techniques

§ Reinforcement learning based methods,

§ Novel classes of methods.

*Manuscript submission information:*

Submission process and papers must adhere to the standard author guidelines
of *Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review*,
which can be found at:
https://www.elsevier.com/journals/transportation-research-part-e-logistics-and-transportation-review/1366-5545/guide-for-authors

Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently
submitted for journal publication elsewhere. Please follow the submission
guidelines, which can be found from the journal website:
https://www.editorialmanager.com/tre/default1.aspx

All submissions to the Special section should be submitted via the
*Transportation
Research Part E* online submission system. When you submit your paper to
the Special section, please choose article type "MLOPT23" Otherwise, your
submission will be handled as a regular manuscript. Papers submitted to the
Special section will be subjected to normal thorough double-blind review
process.

*Keywords:*

Logistics, transportation systems, machine learning, optimization,
combinatorial optimization, solution methods

Learn more about the benefits of publishing in a special issue:
https://www.elsevier.com/authors/submit-your-paper/special-issues

*Guest editors:*

- Shahin Gelareh - Universite d'Artois, Bethune, France (
shahin.gelareh@univ-artois.fr )

- Nelson Maculan - Federal University of Rio de Janiero (
maculan@cos.ufrj.br)

- Rahimeh Neamatian Monemi - Predictim Globe (contact@predictim-globe.com
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- Pedro Henrique González - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (
pegonzalez@cos.ufrj.br)

- Xiaopeng Li - University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, United
States ( xli2485@wisc.edu )

- Fatmah Almazkoor - University of Kuwait ( fatmah.almazkoor@ku.edu.kw)

- Ran Yan - School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang
Technological University ( ran.yan@ntu.edu.sg )

*Deadline: Feb 1, 2024*

[DMANET] Research Assistant Positions within Programming at the University of Bergen (Remote work also possible within Norway) - Deadline: December 10.

We are looking for exceptionally talented bachelor's or master's students
in computer science, mathematics or related areas to work as research
assistants in programming at the University of Bergen.

The duration of each position is 6 months and the workload corresponds to
up to 30% of a full time research assistant position (SKO 1019 or SKO
1020).

During the position, you will be employed by the Institute of Informatics
at the University of Bergen. Nevertheless, the position is totally
compatible with remote work *within Norway*. Therefore, exceptionally
qualified students from anywhere in Norway are encouraged to apply.

*DESCRIPTION OF THE WORK*

As a research assistant you will be responsible for three tasks:

1) Implementation of a specific algorithm for a specific combinatorial
problem.
2) Experimental evaluation of the implementation.
3) Writing a report describing the problem, the algorithm, relevant details
of the implementation, and the experimental results.
4) Participation in research activities such as reading research papers,
etc.

The duration of the position is 6 months and the workload corresponds to up
to 30% of a full time position. The work is split into a sequence of
milestones. You will have total freedom to organize your own schedule
towards completing the milestones. Eventual meetings will happen online.

*REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS*

You should be currently enrolled as a bachelor's or master's student in
computer science or mathematics in a Norwegian institution of higher
education. Additionally, the following are required qualifications for the
position.

1) Exceptional programming skills in C++.
2) Strong experience on implementation of algorithms.
3) Strong teamwork and collaborative mindset.
4) Strong ability to plan and deliver work in an independent and organized
way.

Candidates with experience with participation in national/international
programming competitions will be given priority.
Candidates with a high score in some code challenge website (such as
codeforces, leetcode, topcoder, etc) will also be given priority.

*HOW TO APPLY*

1) Please send your CV to mateus.oliveira@uib.no
2) Please include in your CV evidence of strong experience in programming
in C++, such as links to your code repositories, ranks in
national/international competitions, links to your profiles in programming
websites, etc.
3) Please include in your email a short justification for why you are
suitable for the position.

*DEADLINE*

Applications that arrive by December 10 will be given full consideration.
Nevertheless, applications will be considered until the positions are
fulfilled.

Looking forward for your application,

Mateus de Oliveira Oliveira
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Senior Lecturer - Department of Computer and System Sciences, Stockholm
University, Sweden
Associate Professor - Department of Informatics, University of Bergen,
Norway
oliveira@dsv.su.se / mateus.oliveira@uib.no
https://autoproving.org/mateus-de-oliveira-oliveira/

[DMANET] Faculty Positions at KFUPM

Dear DMANET Community,

We are pleased to announce a faculty position opening in the Department of Mathematics at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The department is inviting applications for Assistant/Associate/Full Professor positions in Mathematics, Statistics, and Actuarial Science, with special consideration given to the areas of Data Science, Financial Mathematics, Actuarial Science, Graph Theory, and Combinatorics.
Qualifications:
A conferred Ph.D. or equivalent international doctoral degree is required. Junior candidates should demonstrate outstanding promise in research and a strong interest and ability in teaching. Senior candidates must have demonstrated excellence in research and a strong commitment to graduate and undergraduate teaching.

Duties: The responsibilities include research, undergraduate and graduate teaching, and departmental, university, and professional service.

More information about KFUPM and the Math Department can be found here and here, respectively.
Required Documents:

- Letter of application
- Curriculum Vitae (including teaching experience, list of publications, area of specialization, institution & date of Ph.D., and Ph.D. advisor)
- Brief teaching statement

- Brief research statement
- Copies of all BS/MS/Ph.D. transcripts
- Three letters of recommendations
Additional Information about KFUPM:
- 104th Worldwide Mathematics Department ranking by QS (2023)
- 3rd Worldwide ranking by the number of US patents

- 4% Student acceptance rate
Grants & Funds:
- Generous research grant opportunities
- Funds for conferences and research visitors
- Opportunities to hire Master, PhD, and postgraduate researchers
Teaching:
- Flexible teaching duties
- Diverse course pool
- Curriculum update opportunities
Life:
- Fully equipped free modern housing
- State-of-the-art sports facilities
- Private beach at the Gulf Sea
- Annual return flight tickets
- Summer research funds
Location:
- Proximity to Dammam Airport with frequent flights to all major destinations
- Driving distance from Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE, and Qatar
Families:
- Modern amenities for faculty families

- International schools offering US and British curricula with school fee contributions.

We encourage qualified candidates from your network to apply for these positions and contribute to the diverse vibrant academic community at KFUPM.For more details and to apply, please visit MathJobs (Position ID: KFUPM-ASASCFP [#20460]).
Thank you for helping us spread the word about these exciting opportunities.

[DMANET] Upcoming seminar: 07 December, 2023 - IoT in digital agriculture

Dear connect-them-all Viewers,

Here is the update about the upcoming talk in the connect them all seminar series.

You can participate in the live session on our youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/live/SHqSq7iQAEU?si=Uc31oLyDl8_71Jm9) and ask your question in the live chat during the seminar.

Upcoming Seminar

• Dec 07, 2023 | 4:00 PM CET : IoT in digital agriculture

Speaker: Nathalie Mitton, Scientific head of the FUN (Future Ubiquitous Networks) research group at Inria Lille-Nord Europe.

Nathalie Mitton received the MSc and PhD. degrees in Computer Science from INSA Lyon in 2003 and 2006 respectively. She received her Habilitation à diriger des recherches (HDR) in 2011 from Université Lille 1. She is currently an Inria full researcher since 2006 and from 2012, she is the scientific head of the Inria FUN team. Her research interests focus on self-organization from PHY to routing for wireless constrained dynamic and mobile networks. She has been nominated as one of the 10 women stars in computer Science in 2020 by the IEEE Communication Society. She has published her research in more than 40 international revues and more than 120 international conferences. She coordinates the Horizon Europe SLICES-PP project, participates in different Horizon Europe projects (CyberSANE, NEPHELE) and in several program and organization committees such as Infocom (since 2019), PerCom (since 2018), DCOSS (since 2018). She also supervises several PhD students and engineers.

Abstract: Digital technologies are spreading in agriculture as they do in other economic sectors. One of the emerging technologies in agriculture is IoT and among it wireless sensors and drones. Sensors are for instance deployed to monitor the usage of intrants in different fields based on the needs of the crop. But this goes with different challenges. During this talk, we will see what are these challenges and how they could be tackled.

Check out the previous talks: connect them all seminar series

To learn more, visit our website: http://www.connect-them-all.net

Contact: connect-them-all@comnets.uni-bremen.de

Organizers of the Seminar:

Anna Förster (PhD | Comnets | Prof. at University of Bremen, Germany)

Marco Zennaro (PhD | Research Scientist at ICTP | Visiting Prof. at Kobe Institute of Computing, Japan)

Pietro Manzoni (PhD | Prof. at Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain)

Fredrik Ahlgren (PhD | Senior lecturer at Linnaeus University, Sweden)

Administrator: Saurabh Band (MSc. | Comnets | Research Assistant at University of Bremen, Germany)

Best Regards,
Connect-them-all team

[DMANET] Fwd: PhD Opportunities in Optimization and Operational Research at the University of Edinburgh

PhD Opportunities in Optimization and Operational Research at the University of Edinburgh

Applications are invited for PhD studies in Optimization and Operational Research at the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh for the academic year 2024-2025. A degree in mathematics or operational research is not an application requirement. Our PhD students have backgrounds in engineering, mathematics, computer science, business, physical sciences, or related fields.

The School of Mathematics offers several fully funded PhD studentships each year. Students receiving School funding are awarded a competitive stipend equivalent to UKRI stipend rates (£18,622 per year for the current academic year) for a period of 4 years plus tuition fee waiver. All applications received by 22 January 2024 will receive full consideration for funding. Later applications will be considered until all positions are filled.

Why Study Optimization and Operational Research in Edinburgh?

The Optimization and Operational Research Group<https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/school-of-mathematics/research/data-decisions/optimization-and-operational-research/people> in the School of Mathematics is an international leader in the mathematical and computing aspects of optimization and operational research, core elements of Data Science, with members of high repute, as evidenced by Editorial Board Memberships in major international journals, international research awards, fellowships, and other peer recognitions, and memberships of prestigious international societies. The group members collaborate with several research groups in the UK and overseas, and are actively engaged in collaborations with industry and government.

Research Areas

1. Computational Optimization and Applications
2. Continuous Optimization
3. Decision Making under Uncertainty
4. Future Energy Networks
5. Integer and Combinatorial Optimization

Further Information and Application Requirements

For further information on our PhD programme and application process, please visit

https://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/school-of-mathematics/research/data-decisions/optimization-and-operational-research/phd-opportunities

For queries, please send an e-mail to Dr Alper Yildirim, our PhD representative, at E.A.Yildirim@ed.ac.uk<mailto:E.A.Yildirim@ed.ac.uk>

The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th' ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.
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[DMANET] CALL FOR PAPERS - WiMob 2024

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 20th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile
Computing, Networking and Communications (WiMob 2024), October 9-11, 2024
in Paris, France.

http://wimob.org/wimob2024/

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!**** IEEE Communications Society sponsorship under approval ****!
!**** The papers will be included in the conference proceedings, published
by IEEE CS Press (IEEE Xplore) and indexed by Scopus and Ei Compendex.

The WiMob conference is an international forum for the exchange of
experience and knowledge among researchers and developers concerned with
wireless and mobile technology. For seventeen years, the International
WiMob conference has provided unique opportunities for researchers to
interact, share new results, show live demonstrations, and discuss emerging
directions in - Wireless Communication, - Wireless Networking, Mobility and
Nomadicity, - Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications, - Green and
sustainable communications and network computing and - Security on Wireless
and mobile Networks.

WiMob 2024 is soliciting high quality technical papers addressing research
challenges in the areas of wireless communications, wireless networking,
mobility, nomadicity, ubiquitous computing, services and
applications. Papers should present original work validated via analysis,
simulation or experimentation. Practical experiences and Testbed trials
also are welcome.

WiMob 2024 will host FIVE parallel symposia:

1. Wireless Communications (WC)
2. Wireless Networking, Mobility and Nomadicity (WNMN)
3. Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications (UCSA)
4. Green and Sustainable Communications and Network computing (GSCN)
5. Security on Wireless and Mobile Networks (SWMN)

For the detailed topics, you can refer to WiMob 2024 web site.

Important Dates

- Submissions Date: May 15, 2024
- Notifications Date: July 30, 2024
- Camera ready Date: September 9, 2024
- Registrations for Authors: September 9, 2024

INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are required to submit fully formatted, original papers (PDF), with
graphs, images, and other special areas arranged as intended for the final
publication.
Papers should be written in English conforming to the IEEE standard
conference format (two-column, 10 pt font, etc., including figures, tables,
and references). The review submissions are limited to six pages, with two
additional pages for final papers (additional charges may apply for
additional pages).
Conference content will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well
as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.
Each accepted paper must be presented at the conference by one of the
co-authors or a third party, otherwise it will not be indexed and archived
through IEEE Xplore.
Only timely submissions through EDAS will be accepted. To submit your
paper, please, click here:
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=30581

For more details, please visit the WiMob 2024 official website (
http://wimob.org/wimob2024) and Facebook page for WiMob 2024:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088392632437

ACCEPTED PAPERS
Accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to
meeting IEEE Xplore's scope and quality requirements.

[DMANET] Heureka Student Award 2023 (2nd Call)

The Heureka Foundation for Environment and Mobility honors outstanding Diploma or Master's theses that are dedicated to issues in mobility in connection with environmental aspects or the use of optimization methods with the

*** Heureka Student Award 2023 ***

The selected work will be awarded prizes of 2.000€ (1. Prize), 1.000 € (2. Prize), and 500 € (3. Prize) and an invitation to the heureka'24 conference in Stuttgart (March 13/14 2024, coverage of conference fee and travel expenses).

You can submit theses from all disciplines that meet the following criteria:

- The thesis investigates a mobility topic in connection with environmental aspects or the use of optimization methods.
- The work was done at a German-speaking university.
- The work was finally handed over to the respective department / institute / professorship between 01.01.2022 and 30.09.2023.

Applications for the Student Award 2023 can be submitted by the supervisor or by the author by November 30, 2023 by e-mail to

student-award@stiftung-heureka.de<mailto:student-award@stiftung-heureka.de>

Your application should contain (see http://stiftung-heureka.de/student-award/ for details):

- A 1- to 3-page summary of the work
- A CV (max one page)
- The Diploma or Master's thesis as a PDF
- The completed cover sheet (download from the website) signed by a professor supporting the application.

The thesis and all other documents can be submitted in German or English.

The winners will be notified in mid-january 2024.

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Prof. Dr. Ralf Borndoerfer

Zuse Institute Berlin, Optimization
Freie Universität Berlin, Mathematics
Takustrasse 7, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Fon: +49.30.84185-243
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Fax: -269
E-mail: mailto:borndoerfer@zib.de
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Monday, November 27, 2023

[DMANET] GAC Santander 2024, Deadlines approaching

Santander Workshop on Geometric and Algebraic Combinatorics
Santander, Spain, January 15-19, 2024
https://gacsantander2024.unican.es/

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Deadline for contribution proposals and for reduced registration is December 1st.
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The Santander Workshop on Geometric and Algebraic Combinatorics will take place at Universidad de Cantabria in Santander (Spain), in January 15-19, 2024, with its format consisting of two mini courses, eight invited talks, plus short talks and posters contributed from participants.

Registration
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Registration is now open. There is a small registration fee to cover expenses that we cannot cover via grants: 80€ (until *December 1st*) or 125€ (after Dec. 1st).

Call for contributions
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We have some slots for 30 minute talks contributed by participants, plus a poster session. Abstracts should be sent by *December 1st*.

Minicourses (3 hours each):
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• Eran Nevo: "Algebraic shifting: variations and connections"
• Rekha Thomas: "Graphical Designs and Graph Sparsifiers"

Invited speakers
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• Karim Adiprasito.
• Carolina Benedetti.
• Giulia Codenotti.
• Luis Ferroni.
• Michael Joswig.
• Martina Juhnke-Kubitzke.
• Benjamin Nill.

For details on how to register/apply please visit our website
https://gacsantander2024.unican.es/

Sincerely,

The organising committee
• Mónica Blanco Gómez, Universidad de Cantabria
• Arnau Padrol, Universitat de Barcelona
• Julian Pfeifle, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
• Vincent Pilaud, CNRS & LIX, École Polytechnique
• Francisco Santos, Universidad de Cantabria

PS: Apologies for multiple posting. If you want to be added / removed from our mailing list send a message to GACsantander2024@unican.es

[DMANET] PhD positions at LSE in Algorithms and Optimisation

Subject: PhD positions at LSE in Algorithms and Optimisation

The Operations Research group in the Department of Mathematics at LSE
invites applications by potential PhD students to work on topics within
the research interests of the group. Such topics include: algorithmic
game theory; algorithms and theory of linear, convex and integer
programming; approximation algorithms; algorithms beyond the worst-case;
combinatorial optimisation; matroid theory; multiagent learning; network
design and optimisation; and random structures and phase transitions.
For more specifics, please consult the personal pages of the faculty:
https://www.lse.ac.uk/Mathematics/Research/Operations-Research

Applicants will be considered for LSE PhD studentships covering fees and
paying GBP £19,668/year for up to 4 years, usually tax free. The award
of these scholarships is competitive, based on academic performance.

The application deadline to be eligible for funding is *15 January 2024*.

For further information about the PhD programme and application
procedures, please see
https://www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse/Graduate/degree-programmes-2024/MPhilPhD-Mathematics
and
https://www.lse.ac.uk/Mathematics/Prospective-Students

For academic questions, applicants can contact Prof Gregory Sorkin
(g.b.sorkin@lse.ac.uk). For administrative and regulatory questions,
please contact Emily Jackson (e.jackson2@lse.ac.uk).

LSE values diversity and strives to promote equality at all levels. We
strongly encourage applications from women, ethnic minorities, and
members of other groups under-represented in higher education.

[DMANET] [Postdoc/Non-tenure-track positions] IBS Discrete Mathematics Group, Daejeon, Korea

THE IBS DISCRETE MATHEMATICS GROUP (DIMAG) RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
(DUE: DEC. 3, 2023)

The IBS Discrete Mathematics Group (DIMAG, https://dimag.ibs.re.kr/) in
Daejeon, Korea invites applications for three research fellowship positions.

DIMAG is a research group that was established on December 1, 2018 at
the Institute for Basic Science (IBS), led by Prof. Sang-il Oum. DIMAG
is located at the headquarters of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS)
in Daejeon, South Korea, a city of 1.5 million people.

Successful candidates for research fellowship positions will be new or
recent Ph.D.'s with outstanding research potential in all fields of
discrete mathematics with emphasis on structural graph theory,
combinatorial optimization, matroid theory, and algorithms.

These appointments are for about two years, and the starting salary is
no less than KRW 59,000,000. The appointment is one-time renewable up to
5 years in total contingent upon the outstanding performance of the
researcher. The expected appointment date is September 1, 2024, but it
is negotiable within the same calendar year.

These are purely research positions and will have no teaching duties.

Application Deadline: December 3, 2023, Sunday. (Anywhere on Earth)

Application Instruction: https://dimag.ibs.re.kr/hiring/

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Sang-il Oum (엄상일) https://dimag.ibs.re.kr/home/sangil/
CI, Discrete Mathematics Group, Institute for Basic Science (IBS).
KAIST Endowed Professor, Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, KAIST.
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[DMANET] [Scheduling seminar] Maria Elena Bruni (Uni of Calabria) | November 29 | Enhancing project resilience: a risk-averse approach to payment delays

Dear scheduling researcher,

We are delighted to announce the talk given by Maria Elena Bruni (Uni of
Calabria).
The title is " Enhancing project resilience: a risk-averse approach to
payment delays ".
The seminar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, November 29 at 14:00 UTC.
Please check carefully the summer/winter time change in your country.

Join Zoom Meeting
https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/92922491900?pwd=TU9uWlpSSHJxSjlnUitxcjdDWkR3UT09
Meeting ID: 929 2249 1900
Passcode: 781666

You can follow the seminar online or offline on our Youtube channel as well:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUoCNnaAfw5NAntItILFn4A

The abstract follows.
The onset of the pandemic and the conflict in Europe have disrupted our
society, supply chains, and economies. The effects of these global
shocks are evident in every type of project - whether related to the
energy transition, the renewal of transport infrastructure, or the
construction industry- impacted by the highest rates of inflation in
more than 30 years and by a significant cash flow crisis. In this
complex landscape, delays in payments have become a common risk factor
for projects, since they create a time lag between the expenses incurred
by the contractor and the progress payments received from the client.
The challenges associated with obtaining continuous project finances
often place undue financial strain on contractors that may seek loans
from financial institutions to maintain their daily operations. These
loans must be returned with interest, increasing financing costs, and
considerably lowering the Net Present Value. In this talk, we delve into
cash flow and project scheduling strategies to mitigate late payment
impacts and enhancing project resilience, presenting a distributionally
robust risk-averse model that minimizes the financing cost by accurately
estimating the amount and timing of the expenses and revenues throughout
the project life cycle and foreseeing possible cost overruns and cash
flow fluctuations. Joint work with Oncu Hazir.

The next talk in our series will be:
Céline Swennenhuis (ALGO, TU Eindhoven) | December 13 | A Subexponential
Time Algorithm for Makespan Scheduling of Unit Jobs with Precedence
Constraints.

For more details, please visit https://schedulingseminar.com/

With kind regards

Zdenek, Mike and Guohua

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Industrial Informatics Department,
Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics,
Czech Technical University in Prague,
Jugoslavskych partyzanu 1580/3, 160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic
https://rtime.ciirc.cvut.cz/~hanzalek/

[DMANET] Internship in France: Benders decomposition for robust assembly line balancing

An internship on Benders decomposition for robust assembly line balancing is proposed to master students in Operations Research, from February to August 2024.

Please find more details (including contacts) in the pdf file:

https://www.lamsade.dauphine.fr/~arossi/internship.pdf

Best regards,

Prof. André Rossi

Co-Head of MIDO department (Mathematics & Computer Science)

LAMSADE UMR CNRS 7243

Université Paris Dauphine - PSL

Place du Maréchal de Lattre de Tassigny

75016 PARIS

http://www.lamsade.dauphine.fr/~arossi/

Office P628 - Tel: +33 1 44 05 47 24

Friday, November 24, 2023

[DMANET] CPAIOR 2024 - Submission Deadline Extended

NEW PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINES:
Abstracts: December 4, 2023 (AoE: anywhere on Earth)
Full papers: December 11, 2023 (AoE)

****** This call can be seen online: https://sites.google.com/view/cpaior2024/call-for-papers ******

The 21st International Conference on the Integration of Constraint Programming, Artificial Intelligence, and Operations Research (CPAIOR 2024) will be held in Uppsala, Sweden, from May 28 to May 31, 2024. Full information is at https://sites.google.com/view/cpaior2024/.

The aim of the conference is to promote a space where researchers from Constraint Programming (CP), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Operations Research (OR) present innovative techniques, new applications, and original cutting-edge ideas, thereby encouraging researchers from one area to learn from the others. Of particular interest to the conference are papers that integrate concepts and methodologies from these different fields, either proposing interesting new techniques for complex/practical problems or expanding our theoretical insights and cross-field understanding. However, high-quality original papers from a single area are welcome when also relevant to the other communities involved. The conference also strongly encourages regular papers or experience reports showcasing CP/AI/OR techniques on challenging real-world applications.

The program committee invites submissions that include, but are far from limited to, the following topics:
New methodologies in the interface between predictive and prescriptive pipelines, such as machine learning techniques applied to tackle optimization problems and, conversely, CP/OR techniques to address AI and machine learning tasks.
Novel relaxation and inference methods based on constraint propagation, polyhedral techniques/cutting planes, convex/second-order conic optimization, graph-based algorithms, dynamic programming, and decision diagrams for optimization.
New search perspectives involving enumeration/branch-and-bound strategies, innovative decomposition techniques (e.g., based on column generation/Benders), intelligent backtracking, incomplete search, and learning-based heuristics.
Advanced integrated methods that expose new model transformations, communication strategies across MIP/CP/SAT solvers, distributed solution techniques, and solver selection (e.g., portfolio approaches).
Innovative models and applications of CP/AI/OR techniques.
Implementation or evaluation of CP/AI/OR techniques and optimization systems.

Submissions are of two types: regular papers (submitted for publication and presentation) and extended abstracts (submitted for presentation only). The conference will recognize a distinguished paper award and a student paper award.

Instructions for Regular Papers

Regular papers present original unpublished work and can be of two types:
long papers (at most 15 pages plus references)
short papers (at most 8 pages plus references)

Both long and short papers will undergo rigorous review and are subject to the same criteria of quality. Both types are also eligible for the distinguished paper or student paper award. Short papers are particularly encouraged for interesting and novel work in progress, for which the practical or theoretical relevance is not yet fully identified.

The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs>. All regular papers should be prepared and submitted in the format used for that series (LNCS instructions <https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines?referer=www.springer.de&countryChanged=true>).

Submission schedule for regular papers (both long and short):
Abstracts: December 4, 2023 (AoE: anywhere on Earth)
Full papers: December 11, 2023 (AoE)
Rebuttal phase: January 15 – 18, 2024 (AoE)
Notification: February 1, 2024

Instructions for Extended Abstracts

Extended abstracts should be one or two pages in length and may present preliminary work or work already published in other outlets. The extended abstracts are submitted for presentation only (if accepted), and will not be formally published in the LNCS conference volume. A collection of the accepted extended abstracts will be published on the conference website. A submission representing work submitted or published in another outlet should state that outlet. Extended abstracts will be reviewed to ensure appropriateness for the conference.

Submission schedule for extended abstracts:
Extended abstracts: March 6, 2024 (AoE)
Notification: April 3, 2024

Submission Process

All regular papers and extended abstracts are to be submitted electronically in PDF format by following the instructions at EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpaior2024.

For any queries on the submission process, please contact the Program Chair, Bistra Dilkina, at cpaior2024@gmail.com <mailto:cpaior2024@gmail.com>.

Looking forward to seeing you in Uppsala!

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Andreína Francisco, PhD
CPAIOR Publicity Chair
Assistant Professor in Artificial Intelligence

Division of Computing Science
Department of Information Technology
Uppsala University, Sweden
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[DMANET] CFP Stream "OR IN PORT OPERATIONS" - EURO 2024 Copenhagen

OR IN PORT OPERATIONS Stream (EURO 2024)

33 rd European Conference on Operational Research

Copenhagen, Denmark, 30 th June - 3 rd July, 2024

https:// euro2024cph.dk//

ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:

You are invited to take part in the OR in Port Operations stream in the 33 rd European Conference on Operational Research (Copenhagen, Denmark). This stream welcomes presentations of operations research applications related to port and hinterland transport operations. Researchers, academics, and practitioners in any branch of operations research, e.g., mathematical modelling, heuristics, decision analysis, etc., are invited to submit abstracts to the following sessions.

SESSIONS AND ORGANIZER CONTACT:

- Seaside Planning (code: 67ab9c5d). Frank Meisel, meisel@bwl.uni-kiel.de

- Port Hinterland Transport (code: 5be716c8). Zhaojie Xue, zjxue@szu.edu.cn and Jintao You, youjintao@163.com

- Sustainable Freight Transportation (code: ee4b361b). Claudia Caballini, claudia.caballini@polito.it and Mahnam Saeednia, m.saeednia@tudelft.nl

- Machine Learning and Optimization in Ports (code: 4751597b). Frederik Schulte, f.schulte@tudelft.nl

- Energy Management in Ports and Shipping (code: 12b59882). Cagatay Iris, c.iris@liverpool.ac.uk

- Container Stacking and Yard Planning (code: 95df285a). Christopher Expósito, cexposit@ull.edu.es

- Port Network Design (code: 06adb394). Eduardo Lalla, e.a.lalla@utwente.nl , Rosa G. González, rgonzalez@uandes.cl

For submitting to a session within this stream, you have to ins ert the code accompanying the title. For additional information, you can contact the corresponding session chair.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Due date for abstract submissions: March 3 rd , 2024.

Registration system open: November 5 th , 2024.

Early registration deadline: March 24 th , 2024.

Author final registration deadline: April 21 st , 2024.

Submission link: https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro33/

POST-CONFERENCE PUBLICATION

Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a post-conference special issue in the International Transactions of Operations Research.

STREAM CHAIRS:

Eduardo Lalla-Ruiz, University of Twente, The Netherlands ( e.a.lalla@utwente.nl ).

Rosa G. González-Ramírez, University of los Andes, Chile ( rgonzalez@uandes.cl ).

We look forward to seeing you in Copenhagen in June 2024!

Rosa Guadalupe González Ramírez
Profesora Asociada Ordinaria
Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Aplicadas
Av. Mons. Álvaro del Portillo 12.455
Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
Teléfono: +56 2 2618 2129
http://www.uandes.cl/

Compromiso UANDES: Imprime solo lo necesario y cuidemos nuestra casa común.

[DMANET] CFP Diagrams 2024

*** Call for Papers: Diagrams 2024 ***

14th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Diagrams
September 27 – October 1, 2024
University of Münster, Germany
www.diagrams-conference.org/2024<http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2024>

*** Highlights ***

- Proceedings published by Springer
- Graduate Symposium
- Three Tracks: Main, Philosophy, and Psychology and Education
- Best Paper and Best Student Paper awards
- Keynote speakers: Mateja Jamnik, Catarina Dutilh Novaes and Barbara Tversky
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The Diagrams conference provides a united forum for all researchers with an interest in the study of diagrams. The conference fosters multi-disciplinarity and allows researchers from areas such as computer science, mathematics, psychology, philosophy, history (of science, art, etc.), education research, and more to meet and share their perspectives on the theory and application of diagrams.
Authors can submit to the conference through different tracks: Main track, Philosophy track and Psychology & Education track. Please submit to the track that fits the main contribution of your research best.
For information about the topics of interest for each track, see:
http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2024/index.php/calls/main-track/
http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2024/index.php/calls/philosophy/
http://www.diagrams-conference.org/2024/index.php/calls/psychology-and-education/

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SUBMISSION
We invite submissions for peer review in the following submission categories:
- Long Papers (16 pages),
- Short Papers (8 pages),
- Posters (4 pages – this is both a maximum and minimum requirement),
- Abstracts, i.e. non-archival contributions (3 pages).

Submission date: March 1, 2024.
At least one author of each accepted submission is expected to attend the conference to present their research and respond to questions presented by delegates. Multiple submissions are accepted.
Long Papers, Short Papers and Posters will be published in the conference proceedings. The proceedings will be published by Springer shortly before the conference. Abstracts will not be included in the published proceedings but will be made available on the conference web site. Abstracts allow for conference presentations without the need to publish a paper.
More details, including formatting instructions and all important dates, can be found at https://diagrams-conference.org/2024.
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Mikkel Willum Johansen
Associate professor
Department of Science Education
University of Copenhagen
Tlf: (+45) 28 72 84 41

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Thursday, November 23, 2023

[DMANET] Reminder: Call for submissions to the special issue in NACO for POP23

Dear Colleagues,

We organize a special issue in the journal Numerical Algebra, Control and Optimization (NACO, www.aimsciences.org/naco ):

Title: "Recent advances in polynomial optimization theory and methods"
Submission deadline: December 31, 2023. (Now extended to January 31, 2024)
The submission instructions for this special issue can be found at

homepages.laas.fr/henrion/pop23/Special-Issue-POP2023.pdf

We look forward to your submissions to this special issue. Please let us know if you have any questions.

Thank you very much!

Best regards,

Jiawang Nie on behalf of
Didier Henrion,
Monique Laurent,
Victor Magron,
Edouard Pauwels,
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[DMANET] Second Announcement: CG Challenge 2024

Dear colleagues,

We are happy to announce the Sixth Computational Geometry Challenge,
as part of CG Week in Athens, Greece, June 10-14, 2024.

As in previous years, the objective will be to compute good solutions
to instances of a difficult geometric optimization problem.
The specific problem chosen for the 2024 Challenge is
Maximum Polygon Packing, as follows.

Description
Given a convex region, P, in the plane, and a collection
of simple polygons, Q_1,…, Q_n, each Q_i with a respective value of c_i,
the task is to find a subset S of {1,…,n} and a feasible
packing within P of the polygons Q_i (without rotation) for i in S.

Objective
Maximize the total value \sum_{i\in S} c_i of the packed polygons.

Motivation
Optimal packing problems have an extensive history in Computational
Geometry.
They are also relevant in many practical contexts.

Even the one-dimensional version of the problem (the Knapsack Problem)
is NP-hard; furthermore, some geometric variants have been shown to be
∃R-complete [1], which most likely implies that they are not in the
class NP.

Details of the competition (such as benchmark instances, data formats,
specific constraints on feasible packings, such as integer coordinates,
as well as rules for submission and evaluation) will be announced in the
coming weeks. Appropriate steps will be undertaken (e.g., by restricting
the classes of feasible subsets) to ensure straightforward, automated
verification of solutions, but also ensure original algorithmic
contributions.

The contributors with the most outstanding solutions will be recognized
at CG Week 2024 and invited to present their results, both at the event
and in the proceedings.

We are looking forward to your contributions and welcome questions
and comments!

Instances
A large number and variety of input polygonal regions P will be
provided for the competition. These will be released at a later time.
(See below.)

Credit
The underlying problem was suggested by Mikkel Abrahamsen, Copenhagen.

References
[1] M. Abrahamsen, T. Miltzow and N. Seiferth,
"Framework for ER-Completeness of Two-Dimensional Packing Problems,"
2020 IEEE 61st Annual Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science
(FOCS), 2020,
pp. 1014-1021, doi: 10.1109/FOCS46700.2020.00098.

Challenge Team
Sándor Fekete, Phillip Keldenich, Dominik Krupke, Stefan Schirra

Advisory Board
Bill Cook, Andreas Fabri, Dan Halperin, Michael Kerber,
Philipp Kindermann, Joe Mitchell, Kevin Verbeek

Timeline
A first batch of test instances will be released in late July 2023;
the actual benchmark instances for the Challenge will be released
in late September. The contest will close in early 2024.

• First test instances: July 31, 2023
• Contest instances: September 29, 2023
• Contest Closes: January 22, 2024
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Theory Announcements

Thursday, November 30, 2023

[DMANET] IFORS Developing Countries Online Resources

[DMANET] PhD/Postdoc positions at Chair of IT Security, Brandenburg University of Technology

[DMANET] Postdoc position in Graph Theory at KIT

[DMANET] Benders Day - A workshop to celebrate the 100th birthday of Jacques Benders!

[DMANET] Assistant/Associate Professor positions in Algorithms at University of Southern Denmark

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

[DMANET] Faculty position in CS, University of Sao Paulo

[DMANET] Four Tenure-track or Tenured positions at the rank of Assistant Professor or Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manitoba

[DMANET] Postdoc opportunity at LSE Mathematics - deadline 21 December 2023

[DMANET] OLISSIPO Winter School | Mathematical modelling of inter-cell and communities’ interactions with a focus on metabolism | February 6-9, 2024

Tuesday, November 28, 2023

[DMANET] CFP: DCFS 24

[DMANET] Postdoctoral position in MINLP at the Politecnico di Milano

[DMANET] BCC thesis prize 2024

[DMANET] Special issue: Learning based Solution Techniques for Optimization in Logistics and Transportation Systems (TRE)

[DMANET] Research Assistant Positions within Programming at the University of Bergen (Remote work also possible within Norway) - Deadline: December 10.

[DMANET] Faculty Positions at KFUPM

[DMANET] Upcoming seminar: 07 December, 2023 - IoT in digital agriculture

[DMANET] Fwd: PhD Opportunities in Optimization and Operational Research at the University of Edinburgh

[DMANET] CALL FOR PAPERS - WiMob 2024

[DMANET] Heureka Student Award 2023 (2nd Call)

Monday, November 27, 2023

[DMANET] GAC Santander 2024, Deadlines approaching

[DMANET] PhD positions at LSE in Algorithms and Optimisation

[DMANET] [Postdoc/Non-tenure-track positions] IBS Discrete Mathematics Group, Daejeon, Korea

[DMANET] [Scheduling seminar] Maria Elena Bruni (Uni of Calabria) | November 29 | Enhancing project resilience: a risk-averse approach to payment delays

[DMANET] Internship in France: Benders decomposition for robust assembly line balancing

Friday, November 24, 2023

[DMANET] CPAIOR 2024 - Submission Deadline Extended

[DMANET] CFP Stream "OR IN PORT OPERATIONS" - EURO 2024 Copenhagen

[DMANET] CFP Diagrams 2024

Thursday, November 23, 2023

[DMANET] Reminder: Call for submissions to the special issue in NACO for POP23

[DMANET] Second Announcement: CG Challenge 2024

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