MIP 2011

Date: June 20-23, 2011 (immediately following IPCO XV June 15-17)
Location: University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Registration: http://www.math.uwaterloo.ca/~mip2011/
Poster submission deadline: March 15, 2011

You are cordially invited to participate in the upcoming workshop in Mixed Integer Programming (MIP 2011). The 2011 Mixed Integer Programming workshop will be the eighth in a series of annual workshops held in North America designed to bring the integer programming community together to discuss very recent developments in the field. The workshop is especially focused on providing opportunities for junior researchers to present their most recent work. The workshop series consists of a single track of invited talks. MIP 2011 is scheduled immediately following IPCO XV, which will take place at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY from June 15-17 (http://ipco2011.uai.cl).

Confirmed speakers:

Amitabh Basu - UC Davis
Gerard Cornuejols - Carnegie Mellon University
Claudia D'Ambrosio - University of Bologna
Santanu Dey - Georgia Tech
Sarah Drewes - UC Berkeley
Samir Elhedhli - University of Waterloo
Marcos Goycoolea - Universidad Adolfo Ibanez
Willem-Jan van Hoeve - Carnegie Mellon University
Adam Letchford - Lancaster University
Leo Liberti - Ecole Polytechnique
Marco Luebbecke - RWTH Aachen University
Susan Margulies - Rice University
Alex Martin - Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Giacomo Nannicini - Carnegie Mellon University
Michael Perregaard - FICO
Sebastian Pokutta - MIT
Oleg Prokopyev - University of Pittsburgh
Sebastian Sager - University of Heidelberg
Domenico Salvagnin - University of Padova
Gautier Stauffer - University of Bordeaux 1
Laura Sanita - Ecole Polythechnique Federale de Lausanne
Levent Tuncel - University of Waterloo
Francois Vanderbeck - University of Bordeaux 1
Robert Weismantel - ETH Zurich

In addition to the invited talks, there will be a poster session for which we invite all participants to submit an abstract. To submit an abstract, please register for the conference at the above web page, then email a 1-2 page PDF containing your abstract to mip2011@uwaterloo.ca by March 15. Space for posters may be limited, and we may not be able to accommodate all posters; we expect to send out notifications by March 30.

The workshop is designed to provide ample time for discussion and interaction between the participants, as one of its aims is to facilitate research collaboration. Thanks to the generous support by our sponsors, registration is free, and travel support is available. Students and postdocs who wish to apply for travel support are strongly encouraged to submit a poster abstract no later than March 15, as funding priority will be given to students and postdocs who have submitted poster abstracts. We expect to make funding decisions by March 30.

See you in Waterloo!

Sincerely,

Shabbir Ahmed (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Ricardo Fukasawa (University of Waterloo)
Ted Ralphs (Lehigh University)
Juan Pablo Vielma (University of Pittsburgh)
Giacomo Zambelli (London School of Economics)

(MIP 2011 Organizing Committee, mip2011@uwaterloo.ca)