[APDIO] 2016 SCALE Latin America Conference

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

Invitation to 2016 MIT SCALE Latin America Conference 

 

The purpose of 2016 MIT SCALE Latin America Conference is to provide a forum for sharing emerging, applied and multi-disciplinary research on all aspect related to logistics and supply chain management relevant to Latin America and the Caribbean. We are soliciting abstracts for conference presentations as well as papers.

 

Relevant links:

• Conference website: http://scale.mit.edu/events/2016-scale-latin-america-conference
• Call for Abstracts/Papers: http://scale.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2016_scale_latam_call_for_papers.pdf
• Student Paper Competition: http://scale.mit.edu/sites/default/files/2016_scale_latam_student_competition.pdf

Key Dates:

• July 1, 2015 - Call for Abstracts/Papers Opens
• October 15, 2015 - Call for Abstracts/Papers Closes (EXTENDED DEADLINE)
• November 1, 2015 - Authors Notified 
• November 15, 205 - Registration Opens
• January 15, 2016 - Last Day to Submit Final Papers
• February 28, 2016 - Registration Closes
• March 21, 2016 - Conference Opens

Additional information

Presentations, Abstracts and Papers will be posted on the MIT SCALE website after the conference unless the author or authors advise us otherwise. Papers will also invited for consideration for publication in a special journal issue.

 

Conference Committee Information

Scientific Committee

Hugo Yoshizaki (hugo@usp.br), Brasil

Josué C Velázquez-Martínez (josue.velazquez@itesm.mx), México

Edgar E Blanco, MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (USA)

 

Conference Organization Chair

Isabel Agudelo (iagudelo@logyca.org), Center for Latin-American Logistics Innovation, LOGyCA (Colombia)

 

Program Committee Members

• Teaching/Educational Methods – Lars Sanches (Brasil); Gerardo Heckmann (Argentina)

• Sustainability – Mario Chong (Perú); Nicolás Giraldo (Colombia)

• International Trade & Logistics – Rosa González (Chile) and Martín Tanco (Uruguay)

• Applied OR – Hugo Yoshizaki (Brasil) and Mario Vélez (Colombia)

• Urban Logistics – Christopher Mejía-Argueta (Netherlands) and Claudio Cunha (Brasil)

• Tutorials – Isabel Agudelo (Colombia) and Michelle Rodriguez (Perú)

• Student Competition – Josué C Velázquez-Martínez (México) and Ximena Córdova (Ecuador)

 

 

Event information will be updated frequently on the conference website:

http://scale.mit.edu/events/2016-scale-latin-america-conference