Thursday, March 14, 2024

[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!

We have the great pleasure to invite you to attend 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: Benders decomposition, a seminal result in the infancy
of optimization

- Dries Goossens: How Benders decomposition changed sports scheduling

- John Hooker: Logic-Based Benders Decomposition

- Ivana Ljubić: Benders Adaptive-Cuts Method for Two-Stage Stochastic
Optimization

- Stephen Maher: Should you implement Benders' decomposition?

- Ward Romeijnders: Benders' Decomposition Algorithms for Stochastic
Mixed-integer Programs

- Elina Rönnberg: Some experiences from designing acceleration
techniques for logic-based Benders decomposition


Although the workshop comes without fees, registration is mandatory.
Please visit our website

https://www.win.tue.nl/~chojny/bendersday/bendersday.html

to register for Benders Day and to find further information, including
abstracts of the talks and the full program.


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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