Speakers

PLENARY SPEAKERS:

	Hal VARIAN School of Information, Haas School of Business, and Department of Economics, University of California at Berkeley, and Google, USA Predicting the Present with Search Engine Data
	George L. NEMHAUSER H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE), Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA, USA Integer Programming: the Global Impact
	John LITTLE Sloan School of Management, MIT, USA Applications of Little’s Law

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

The Program Committee has the regret to announce that Adam N. LETCHFORD will not be able to join in Rome for the conference. His talk has been canceled. The PC has appointed Prof. François Vanderbeck as Keynote speaker. His talk will be dedicated to “Extended formulations, column generation and stabilization: synergies in the benefit of large scale applications”. We are looking forward to listening him.

 

 

	Enrique BENAVENT LÓPEZ Department of Statistics and Operations Research, University of València, Spain Exact methods for Arc Routing Problems
	Ashish GOEL Management Science and Engineering and (by courtesy) Computer Science, Stanford University, USA Some Algorithmic Aspects of Social Commerce
	Adam N. LETCHFORD Last minute Cancellation Management school, Lancaster University, United Kingdom The Simple Plant Location Problem: a Case Study in Combinatorial Optimisation
	François VANDERBECK Institut de Mathematiques (IMB), Universite Bordeaux 1 Extended formulations, column generation and stabilization: synergies in the benefit of large scale applications
	Sanjay MEHROTRA Department Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, USA Optimizing Healthcare: Budgets, Operations, Policies, and Beyond
	Linet ÖZDAMAR Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Yeditepe University, Turkey Models and Solutions for Emergency Logistics
	Joel SOKOL H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (ISyE), Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Industry Interaction and the Future of OR Education

TUTORIAL SPEAKERS:

	Dimitri BERTSIMAS Sloan School of Management, MIT, USA A computationally tractable theory of performance analysis in stochastic systems
	Stéphane DAUZÈRE-PÉRÈS Centre Microélectronique de Provence, Ecole Nationale Supérieur des Mines, Saint-Etienne, France Tutorial on Dynamic Lot Sizing
	Zonghao GU Gurobi Optimization Inc, Houston, USA Mixed Integer Programming: Algorithms, Computation, Software and Applications
	Hoai An LE THI Laboratory of Theoretical & Applied Computing (LITA), Université de Lorraine, France Difference of convex functions optimization
	Günther RAIDL Institute of Computer Graphics and Algorithms, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Metaheuristics and Hybrid Optimization Approaches – A Unifying View
	Rakesh VOHRA Department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA Mechanism Design and Linear Programming

IFORS Invited Tutorial

	Clovis GONZAGA Department of Mathematics, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florianópolis, Brazil Interior Point Methods for Mathematical Programming