EURO PhD school on 'Routing and Logistics'

EURO  PhD school on 'Routing and Logistics'

First announcement

Location and dates

The EURO PhD School on 'Routing and logistics' will take place at the
Department of Economics and Management of the University of Brescia  from
June 24th (Wednesday) to July 3rd (Friday), 2015.

Scope and organization

The School aims at training PhD students in the area of routing and
logistics and is made possible thanks to the financial support of EURO (the
Association of European Operational Research Societies).  The topics
include: introduction to routing and logistic problems, branch-and-cut
methods, branch-and-price methods, design and analysis of heuristics,
worst-case analysis, arc routing problems, optimization problems in
logistics, software and applications.

The School will be organized in morning and afternoon sessions. Social
activities will be organized as well. All morning sessions will be devoted
to lectures delivered by experienced and well-known scientists. The
afternoon sessions will take place in a computer lab and  will be aimed at
enabling the students to learn how the models and methods presented in the
morning sessions can be implemented.

Scientific Prerequisites

The interested students should know linear programming, mixed integer
linear programming and a computer language.

Admission

Participants have to be from a EURO member society country, or studying in
a EURO member society country. They have to be enrolled in a PhD program,
and, preferably, in an early stage of their studies. A maximum number of 35
participants will be accepted. To apply,  interested students are requested
to send their curriculum vitae (including their academic track record), a
letter outlining their motivation to attend, and a letter of recommendation
from their supervisor to the Scientific Committee of the EPS,
[email protected]. The deadline is January 31st, 2015. Please also see the
instructions provided at the school web site eps-ral.unibs.it.

A registration fee of 300 EURO will cover accommodation, material, coffee
breaks, lunches, social activities and social dinner. VeRoLog will cover
the fee for two students.

Organizing committee

M. Grazia Speranza (chair), Enrico Angelelli, Claudia Archetti, Luca
Bertazzi, Carlo Filippi,  Renata Mansini, Michele Vindigni, Nicola
Bianchessi, Simona Cherubini, Gianfranco Guastaroba, Dario Fontana,
Valentina Morandi.