Caros colegas, O EURO irá financiar 2 viagens a jovens investigadores para participar na Escola ELAVIO 2016. Os candidatos devem ser proficientes em língua Espanhol e Inglesa. O prazo para concorrer, junto da APDIO, é o dia 30 de novembro de 2015. Os candidatos devem enviar para o presidente da APDIO, por correio eletrónico, os documentos necessários (ver em baixo). Cumprimentos.
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Dear National Society Presidents and Representatives. EURO will sponsor 2 trips for EURO young researchers to attend the ELAVIO 2016 School. Please see below the Call for Participation. We would be grateful if you could advertise this opportunity among your members. Please note that candidates will need language proficiency in Spanish and English, and also please note that the deadline for students to apply to their National Society is 30th November 2015.
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Call for Participation in ELAVIO 2016
EURO is pleased to announce the travel-sponsorship of up to two
participants to join the ELAVIO XX (ELAVIO 2016) - Latin-American Summer
School in Operations Research
(http://ifors.org/web/elavio-2016/)
ELAVIO 2016 will take place in the city of Cali, Colombia, between 9 and
13 May 2016
The ELAVIOs are schools supported by ALIO (the Latin-Iberoamerican
Association of Operations Research) and mainly are addressed to young
researchers and postgraduate students (both at the PhD and master level)
from Latin-Iberoamerican countries. However, Ph.D. students from all over
the world with excellent skills and special interest in the areas of
Operations Research, Informatics, and Applied Mathematics are also welcome
to apply.
The ELAVIO 2016 will take place in Cali which is known as the
"world capital of salsa" and is the third largest city in Colombia with
about 2.5 million inhabitants. Cali has a cultural, culinary and tourist
offer that will significantly enrich the experience for participants. Host
universities will be the Universidad del Valle (School of Industrial
Engineering) and the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Department of Civil
and Industrial Engineering), two of the main centers of scientific
research in the region and the country. The event is also co-organized by
the Universidad de Medellín (Department of Basics Sciences) and the
Universidad de Antioquia (Department of Industrial Engineering).
ELAVIO 2016 will be held at the "Casa Santa Maria de los
Farallones" Foundation (better known as "Casa de las Palmas"), which is a
convention center for personal development managed by the Pontificia
Universidad Javeriana of Cali.
ELAVIO 2016 will include mini-courses, invited talks, as well as
discussion panels where participants can share their research
advances, open problems, and related issues. Selected contributed papers
from participants will be presented in special tracks.
Research topics of the school include, but are not limited to:
1.Combinatorial optimization and polyhedral theory; linear, nonlinear and
integer programming.
2. Metaheuristics and its applications.
3. Discrete, continuous and agent based simulation, stochastic processes
and probabilistic models.
4. Applications of operational research to problem solving in the areas of
sustainability, health care, logistics, agroindustry, engineering,
telecommunications, finance and production, among others.
The official languages of the school are: English, Spanish and
Portuguese. Talks and lectures will be either in English or in Spanish (in
the latter case with English slides). Candidates selected MUST be
proficient in both Spanish and English. More details with regard to this
topic will be published on the website.
REGISTRATION AND GRANTS:
Students interested in applying for travel grant must send the following
documents (pdf file format) to their National OR Society:
- short curriculum vitae to include evidence of language proficiency in
Spanish and English;
- a recommendation letter from an academic of the applicant's university
or institute;
- summary (max. 2 pages) of a work to present at the school in case of
acceptance.
After selecting the best candidate, the National OR Society will send
his/her document with a short recommendation letter 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
Important dates:
30/11/2015 deadline for applications to be sent to National OR Society;
20/12/2015 deadline for the National Society to submit the candidates to
the IFORS VP;
10/01/2016 - submission of the candidates to ELAVIO organizers;
30/01/2016 - deadline for confirming paticipation
9-13/05/2015 - ELAVIO 2016.
The accepted candidates will receive the travel grant from EURO and
accommodation grant from ELAVIO.
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