OR for Better Management of Sustainable Development

EURO XXI in Iceland, July 2-5, 2006

21st European Conference on Operational Research

I'm pleased to note that the conference does appear to really align its content with its theme. Semi-Plenary Sessions planned include only two that are "just math", plus another which addresses the means of solving mathematical programs:

• Unified Approaches and Techniques for Approximation Algorithms to NP-hard Problems, Dorit Hochbaum, University of California, Berkeley, USA
• How Good are Interior Point Methods? Tamás Terlaky, McMaster University, Canada
• Global Optimization in Practice: Software and Applications, János D. Pintér, PCS, Inc and Dalhousie University, Canada

One which is about markets:

• Pricing and Revenue Management with Endogenous Demand
  Ioana Popescu, INSEAD, France

Two which address methodological questions in a more general setting, and one which addresses methodology in the realm of sustainable development:

• Social Choice and Computer Science
  Fred S. Roberts, DIMACS, and Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
• Problem Structuring and Formulation in Decision Aiding
  Valerie Belton, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom
• Problem Structuring and Sustainable Development
  Jonathan Rosenhead, London School of Economy and Political Science, UK

Finally, four which address real-world domains:

• Operational Research and Fisheries Management
  Ragnar Arnason, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland
• Dynamics and Control of Epidemic Processes
  Gustav Feichtinger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Energy, Environmental Management, and Sustainable Development
  Klaus S. Lackner, The Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA
• Design and Optimization of Emission Trading Markets and Sustainable Bargaining Systems
  Stefan W. Pickl, Universitaet der Bundeswehr, Munich, Germany

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It would even be possible (albeit a luxury and not very reasonable for a non-presenter) to then attend ISMP 2006 in Rio de Janeiro from July 30 to August 4.