[APDIO] Call for Applications for IFORS-EURO Scholar

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

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Subject: Call for Applications for IFORS-EURO Scholar
From:    secretary@ifors.org

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Call for Applications for IFORS-EURO Scholar to the EURO Summer Institute
in Hungary

June 15 – 27, 2015

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The office of the IFORS Vice President for EURO is pleased to announce the
sponsorship of a participant to join the EURO Summer Institute (ESIXXXII)
on Online Optimization to be held in Szeged, Hungary, June 15 – 27, 2015.
The Euro Summer and Winter Institutes (ESWI) are organized to encourage
good social and working relationships among promising young OR scientists.
The selected IFORS‐ EURO scholar will receive joint sponsorship from IFORS
and EURO. IFORS will sponsor the travel costs of the delegate coming from
non‐EURO member society. EURO will shoulder expenses related to the
registration, accommodation, meals, and social activities to the IFORS
fellow. Applicants from developing countries will be given preferential
treatment for the slot. Those who have joined EURO Institutes in the past
need not apply.

The ESIs and EWIs aim to facilitate the establishment of a network of
promising early stage researchers (with less than 10 years experience in
OR), thereby encouraging future collaborative work. ESIXXXI seeks to
involve about 20 participants. While featuring lectures by invited
speakers, the participants are expected to present and discuss their
papers. A special issue of an international journal will be produced,
based on the papers presented during the ESWI. The varied social program
prepared for the participants is one of the unique features that enhance
the learning activities. The applications should be sent by email to:

Professor Jacek Blazewicz
IFORS Vice President for EURO
Poznan University of Technology
Institute of Computing Science
60-965 Poznan, Poland
Tel: +48-61-8790 790
Fax: +48-61-8771 525
Email: jblazewicz@cs.put.poznan.pl

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Applications should include: (1) a complete CV with a list of papers and
(2) a paper proposal (complete text or 3-5 pages long extended abstract).

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Important dates
Deadline for applications: November 30, 2014
Notification of acceptance: December 15, 2014

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About ESIXXXII

Theme. In online optimization, algorithms reach decisions based only on
past events. These so-called online algorithms based on partial
information, cannot be expected to yield the optimal solution derived from
the use of all the necessary information. Thus, the output of online
algorithms should be compared with those produced by optimal offline
algorithms.
Contributions on closely related areas like semi-online optimization and
online aspects of algorithmic game theory are also welcome. Senior keynote
speakers will cover recent results and solution techniques of some special
topics (bin packing, scheduling, clustering, generalizations of
competitive analysis) and discuss open problems of the area.
Location. The Summer Institute will be held in Szeged the seat of Csongrád
County and the Dél-Alföld region and one of Hungary’s economic,
educational and cultural centers. The city is in South-East Hungary about
170 km far from Budapest, close to the Serbian and Romanian borders.
Hosting the Institute is one of Hungary’s most distinguished universities,
 the University of Szeged, located in the center of the city with many
faculties housed in old historical buildings.

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Background. EURO Summer and Winter Institutes (ESWI,
http://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/458/summerwinter-institutes)  
provide an excellent forum for PhD students and early career researchers
to discuss their research at length with experts in the field, as well as
to form links with other early stage researchers.

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Format. Around twenty early stage researchers (PhD students and/or those
who have less than two years research experience post PhD) from EURO
member societies will be invited to participate at the ESWI. Each
participant is expected present an unpublished work and discuss it with
colleagues and invited senior experts in the field. The ESI will also
present a series of lectures by the invited senior experts. After the ESI,
the papers can be submitted to a special issue of an OR publication to be
announced later.
With the main objective of providing a limited number of carefully
selected representatives the unique opportunity of establishing a personal
network, addressing an international audience, and eventually creating new
research groups around the chosen topic, the ESWI accepts only those who
have not participated in any ESWI in the past

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Homepage http://www.eswi.u-szeged.hu.

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