[APDIO] EURO PhD school on ‘Routing and Logistics’

["A. Ismael F. Vaz" <aivaz@dps.uminho.pt>]

From: Sarah Fores <manager@euro-online.org>
Date: 19 de Outubro de 2014 18:37:04 WEST
To: "Member Society Presidents & Reps (EURO)" <societies@euro-online.org>, mscontacts@euro-online.org
Subject: EURO PhD School
Reply-To: manager@euro-online.org


Dear National Society Presidents and Representatives,

 
I would be grateful if you circulate the following call to your members. It is the announcement of the second EURO PhD School which will be held in Brescia next year. The event is also linked via the EURO web pages at: http://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/1540/euro-phd-schools-eps.
Living costs will be supported by the EURO PhD School but candidates will be expected to cover the travel costs, and national societies may choose to support candidates in this way.


With best wishes.

Sarah
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EURO  PhD school on ‘Routing and Logistics’

First announcement

Location and dates

The EURO PhD School on ‘Routing and logistics’ will take place at the Department of Economics and Management of the University of Brescia  from June 24th (Wednesday) to July 3rd (Friday), 2015.

Scope and organization

The School aims at training PhD students in the area of routing and logistics and is made possible thanks to the financial support of EURO (the Association of European Operational Research Societies).  The topics include: introduction to routing and logistic problems, branch-and-cut methods, branch-and-price methods, design and analysis of heuristics, worst-case analysis, arc routing problems, optimization problems in logistics, software and applications.

The School will be organized in morning and afternoon sessions. Social activities will be organized as well. All morning sessions will be devoted to lectures delivered by experienced and well-known scientists. The afternoon sessions will take place in a computer lab and  will be aimed at enabling the students to learn how the models and methods presented in the morning sessions can be implemented.

Scientific Prerequisites

The interested students should know linear programming, mixed integer linear programming and a computer language.

Admission

Participants have to be from a EURO member society country, or studying in a EURO member society country. They have to be enrolled in a PhD program, and, preferably, in an early stage of their studies. A maximum number of 35 participants will be accepted. To apply,  interested students are requested to send their curriculum vitae (including their academic track record), a letter outlining their motivation to attend, and a letter of recommendation from their supervisor to the Scientific Committee of the EPS, eps.ral@unibs.it. The deadline is January 31st, 2015. Please also see the instructions provided at the school web site eps-ral.unibs.it.

A registration fee of 300€ will cover accommodation, material, coffee breaks, lunches, social activities and social dinner. VeRoLog will cover the fee for two students.

Organizing committee

M. Grazia Speranza (chair), Enrico Angelelli, Claudia Archetti, Luca Bertazzi, Carlo Filippi,  Renata Mansini, Michele Vindigni, Nicola Bianchessi, Simona Cherubini, Gianfranco Guastaroba, Dario Fontana, Valentina Morandi. 

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Dr Sarah Fores
Manager of EURO