ELAVIO 2016 - Latin-American Summer School in Operations Research
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. ELAVIO 2016 will take place in the city of Cali, Colombia, between 9 and 13 May 2016.
(http://ifors.org/web/elavio-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.
