EURO Summer Institute OR in Agriculture and Agrifood Industry

Second Call for Papers: EURO Summer Institute OR in Agriculture and Agrifood Industry Lleida, Spain, July 19th-August 1st, 2014

Aims and Scope Aim of this EURO Summer Institute is to bring together young scientists with academic experts on OR methods besides the development of innovative applications mainly for Agriculture and Agrifood Industry. This ESI will combine tutorial lectures on stochastic programming, games theory, decision graphs, simulation, production planning and software presentations with student contributions and scientific discussions around agriculture and agrifood industry.

Invited Speakers (confirmed)
Marcela Gonzalez (Chile) - Laureano Escudero (Spain)- Anders R. Kristensen (Denmark)- Ví­ctor M. Albornoz (Chile) -Andrew Higgins (Australia) -Frederik Garcia (France) - Laura Riesgo (Spain) - Concepción Maroto (Spain) - Rene Villalobos (USA) - Ilan Halachmi (Israel) - Jacqueline Bloemhof (Netherlands)

Participation
Participation is limited to a group of about 20 students, normally aged 25-35, who have significant experience in the field, and are authors of at least one high-quality paper which has not yet been published, nor submitted for publication. During ESI all participants are invited to give a talk of 30 minutes on their submitted paper.

Each national OR Society is entitled to send at least one participant (possibly up to three) to the ESI. The costs of the ESI are met by EURO and other organisations, excluding the participants' travel expenses which are normally met by the corresponding national OR Societies. Students interested in participating in ESI 2014 should send their application, together with their curriculum vitae, their list of publications and an unpublished paper corresponding to this year's theme, to their national OR Society.

Deadline
The deadline for application at the national OR Societies is 15th December, 2013.

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