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EURO WISDOM Forum (Women In Society: Doing Operational Research and Management Science) & first webinar

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Relaying the following message from EURO

Following the EURO 2018 Women in Science and EURO 2019 Women in OR sessions, interested members of the OR community are working with the EURO Executive Committee on an initiative to create the EURO WISDOM Forum (Women In Society: Doing Operational Research and Management Science).

This initiative restates the need for gender main-streaming and affirms that OR/MS can offer exciting opportunities for all women if they have equal access to resources and adequate training. Gender main-streaming aims to integrate a gender dimension into existing institutions and practices in order to achieve meaningful gender equality.

WISDOM is a forum to support, empower, and encourage the participation of all genders in OR/MS within EURO. In particular, it aims to promote inclusivity by the following actions:1. Advise/make recommendations/highlight best practices to the EURO executive on issues facing women in OR. Such guidelines can be disseminated to EURO member societies and Working Groups. Positive progress, outcomes and activities of member societies can serve as a template for other member societies;2. Promote championing, networking and mentoring, particularly of women at the early stages of their career in OR;3. Promote a conversation around how OR can be utilised to help create a diverse and inclusive future.

In January 2020, all EURO member societies were invited to nominate one or two members to participate in establishing the EURO WISDOM Forum. At the moment, the WISDOM Forum organising committee (OC) includes 21 members from 10 European OR societies including two EURO representatives, the EURO Vice Presidents Julia Bennell and Claudia Archetti. The chair of the WISDOM OC is Paula Carroll and the Secretary is Annunziata Esposito Amideo, both from the University College Dublin, Ireland.

The WISDOM Forum will operate through three subcommittees focusing on Research, Events and Public Relations (PR). The subcommittees chairs are: Research : Paula Carroll, Events :
Renata Mansini (University of Brescia ,Italy), and PR: Tatiana Tchemisova (University of Aveiro, Portugal).


Our first event is a webinar on “Bias/Fairness and Artificial Intelligence”. You can register for the webinar and subscribe to WISDOM Forum updates by emailing WISDOM@euro-online.org.
Webinar Format* Expert panellists explains data bias in their respective disciplines and application areas (~10/15 minutes each);* Roundtable discussion with audience participation (~15 minutes).
Panellists

Prof Alan Smeaton is Professor of Computing at Dublin City University, Ireland and a Founding Director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at DCU. He will speak on Data bias in automatic image and video captioning and its impact. For more information about Alan see https://www.computing.dcu.ie/~asmeaton/

Dr Claire Gormley is an Associate Professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics in University College Dublin, Ireland and a Funded Investigator in the Insight Centre for Data Analytics and the VistaMilk research centre. Her research develops novel statistical methods for the analysis of complex data arising from substantive problems. The methods solve applied problems across a range of disciplines, including epigenetics, metabolomics, genomics, social science, sports science and political science. She will speak on Be fair to the models: the importance of assumptions in data analytics and modelling. For more information about Claire see https://people.ucd.ie/claire.gormley;

Dr Fintan Costello, is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Ireland. His research interests cover a number of different areas in computer science, psychology and maths. His main interests are: biases in human reasoning and decision making; processes of rational inference in cognition; the origins of bias and rationality in human thought; computational models of probabilistic reasoning; computational models of decision making. He will speak on Bias and rationality in human reasoning (and why the same biases apply to AI). For more information about Fintan see https://people.ucd.ie/fintan.costello.

Dr Susan Leavy is an Assistant Professor in the School of Information and Communication Studies, University College Dublin, Ireland with research interests in artificial intelligence and digital policy, developing interdisciplinary frameworks for the governance and regulation of machine learning algorithms. She will speak on Gender bias and Artificial Intelligence. For more information about Susan see https://people.ucd.ie/susan.leavy

FacilitatorDr Paula Carroll, UCD, Chair WISDOM Forum

Analytics for a better world initiative & first webinar

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Relaying the following communication from Dimitris Bertsimas (MIT) & Dick den Hertog (Tilburg University)

Dear all,

COVID-19 is one of the big challenges our society is facing nowadays, and there are many more. We believe that Analytics can be of much value to improve our world. It is encouraging to see that more and more (especially young) Analytics researchers are enthusiastic to use Analytics to make this world a better place. Analytics has, e.g., already contributed significantly to the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. 

To make these contributions of Analytics for a Better World more visible, and to stimulate research in this area, we have started a new initiative: ”Analytics for a Better World Webinars (ABW-W)”.   Every month we will organize one webinar (most probably via Zoom) on a high societal impact Analytics project. The focus of the webinars is not on theoretical innovation, but on impact. These webinars will be recorded, and the videos can be used in your Analytics courses.

The first speaker is Prof. Dimitris Bertsimas (MIT, Cambridge) who will present the ongoing  work of his group of 20+ PhD and Master students and colleagues at MIT (http://www.covidanalytics.io/team) on a variety of aspects of COVID-19 as detailed in  covidanalytics.io. The website contains many  downloadable models and data.

Specifically, he will discuss  

1) a new epidemiological model of the evolution of COVID-19, detailed in https://github.com/COVIDAnalytics/DELPHI

2)  a new machine learning model (based on optimal classification trees) for predicting mortality using data from an Italian hospital from Cremona Italy detailed in http://www.covidanalytics.io/risk_calculator. Depending on progress he will discuss how to prioritize patients to use ICUs to save more lives.

3) a new optimization model for allocating ventilators  among states in the US detailed in http://www.covidanalytics.io/ventilator_allocation

4) a data generation process from 130+ papers written in March 2020 regarding COVID-19 detailed in http://www.covidanalytics.io/dataset  and insights gleaned from it http://www.covidanalytics.io/interactive-graph

The emphasis of this work has been rapid prototyping and implementation. This talk also represents an invitation to researchers around the world to contribute with ideas and analyses of their own in a collaborative spirit with the objective to address this pandemic using analytics. 

The precise date and especially the time, depends on the geographical locations of the participants, and will be determined later.

If you are interested in participating in ABW-W, please write an e-mail to Dick den Hertog (D.denHertog@tilburguniversity.edu). 

Please, feel free to forward this e-mail to others who might be interested in this new initiative.

Kind regards,

Dimitris Bertsimas (MIT, Cambridge, US)
Dick den Hertog (Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands)

IFORS 2020 – First Announcement and Call for Papers

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The Organizing and Program Committees for IFORS 2020 welcomes all operations researchers to attend the 22nd Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies (IFORS).

The IFORS 2020 conference will highlight global developments in Operations Research and show how the tools of Operations Research are expanding their impact on society, health, science and industry. IFORS conferences, held only once every three years, provide a platform for experts from around the world to showcase the diverse potential of state-of-the-art Operations Research techniques and technologies. IFORS 2020 offers a unique opportunity to network with Operations Research analysts, industrial users of Operations Research, and academic and industry experts from all parts of the globe.

This is the first IFORS conference to be held in Asia since the 15th conference in China 20 years ago. It is thus an exciting opportunity to bring together Operations Researchers from the field in Asia, where it has experienced vigorous and rapid growth, with colleagues from all regions of the world.

The conference includes a Wednesday-afternoon social event where you can choose among a variety of tours, such as the Demilitarized Zone tour, where you can witness the history of Korea’s division, the Industrial Tour to Korea’s leading ICT companies, as well as other programs that will explore K-POP and Hallyu, K-Beauty and KCulture, and show you the most historic buildings and markets in the city.

The timing of the meeting in late June assures that it will be warm and sunny.

Four plenary speakers headline the scientific program:

  • Gang Yu, who is co-founder and CEO of 111, Inc and previously head of world-wide supply chain for Amazon, VP for worldwide procurement for Dell Inc and CEO of Yihaodian, a leading e-commerce company in China;
  • Robin Keller, Professor at UC Irvine and former editor-in-chief of the Journal Decision Analysis, her research spans the areas of multiple attribute decision making, fairness, perceived risk, and planning protections against terrorism, environmental, health, and safety risks;
  • Luk Van Wassenhove, Professor at INSEAD whose research focuses on business models and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, he co-edited several special issues on humanitarian operations for leading international journals; and
  • Maria Conceição Andrade Silva (EURO Plenary), Professor at Católica Porto Business School, Portugal, who is a world expert in Data Envelopment Analysis, and in the field of efficiency and productivity measurement, having applied it in many contexts, including bank branches, schools, retail outlets, water companies, general practice units, hospitals and courts.

The abstract submission system is available online, via
https://www.euro-online.org/conf/ifors2020/.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstract Submission Deadline – January 17, 2020
Abstracts Accepted/Rejected Deadline – January 31, 2020
Early-bird Registration Deadline – February 28, 2020
Speakers Registration Deadline – March 1, 2020

IFORS, and the IFORS Conference Organizing Committee and Program Committee are looking forward to greeting you in Seoul in 2020!

FORS järjestää EURO -konferenssin vuonna 2022

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Suomen Operaatiotutkimusseura on saanut järjestettäväkseen EURO 2022 -konferenssin. Konferenssi järjestetään 4.-7. heinäkuuta 2022  Aalto-yliopiston kampuksella Otaniemessä, Espoossa.

EURO -konferenssi on Euroopan operaatiotutkimusseurojen kattojärjestön EURO:n kahtena vuonna kolmesta järjestettävä päätapahtuma. Siihen osallistuu tyypillisesti yli 2000 ihmistä operaatiotutkimuksen kaikilta osa-alueilta yli 70 maasta ympäri maailman. Se on siis mitä mainioin tilaisuus tavata alan parhaat asiantuntijat ja kuulla esityksiä uusimmasta tutkimuksesta, menetelmäkehityksestä ja käytännön sovelluksista. Konferenssin saapuminen Suomeen tarjoaa täten suomalaiselle operaatiotutkimus- ja analytiikkaosaamiselle erinomaisen näkyvyyden kansainvälisten asiantuntijoiden joukossa.

Lisätiedot:

Antti Punkka
Chair, conference organizing committee
antti.punkka@aalto.fi

Juuso Liesiö
Co-chair, conference organizing committee
juuso.liesio@aalto.fi

EURO 2018 -konferenssi Valenciassa: puhujat ja toinen kutsu abstrakteille

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EURO 2018 -konferenssi järjestetään Valenciassa, Espanjassa, heinäkuun 8.-11.2018. Ensimmäiset puhujat on nyt julkaistu ja samalla järjestäjät esittävät toisen kutsun abstrakteille.

Lisätietoja alta löytyvästä viestistä:

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29th European Conference on Operational Research Valencia, Spain, July 8-11, 2018

http://www.euro2018valencia.com/

Abstract submission – https://www.euro-online.org/conf/euro29/

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
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We have the great pleasure of inviting you to take part in the 29th EURO Conference to be held in Valencia, Spain, on 8-11 July, 2018.

The Scientific and Organization Committees, chaired by Greet Vanden Berghe, Rubén Ruiz and Ramón Álvarez-Valdés, are preparing a high quality scientific program and an exciting social program for the Conference.

We have pleasure in announcing the Plenary Speakers:

Cynthia Barnhart – Chancellor of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and IFORS Distinguished Lecturer

Roger Z. Ríos-Mercado – Professor of Operations Research, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León (UANL), México

Gerhard Woeginger – Professor at RWTH Aachen University Chair of the Algorithms and Complexity Group

We are also pleased to announce the Keynote Speakers:

  • Carol Alexander – University of Sussex
  • Maria Antónia Carravilla – University of Porto
  • Elaine Chew – Queen Mary University of London
  • Santo Fortunato – Indiana University
  • Patrick Jaillet – MIT
  • Pinar Keskinocak – Georgia Tech
  • David Matchar – Duke-NUS Medical School
  • Dolores Romero Morales – Copenhagen Business School
  • Anita Schöbel – Universität Göttingen
  • Tamás Terlaky – Lehigh University
  • Iris Vis – University of Groningen

Many additional events and speakers will enrich the program, so please visit the webpage for updates http://www.euro2018valencia.com/

We are convinced that EURO 29 will be an excellent opportunity for the OR community to get together again in a pleasant atmosphere, and, thus, we are looking forward to meeting you in sunny Valencia, in 2018!

CALL FOR PAPERS AND SESSIONS:
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Researchers, academics, practitioners, and students interested in any branch of Operational Research, mathematical modelling or economic analysis are invited to submit abstracts or organize sessions.

Invited and contributed papers will be organized in parallel sessions. In general, sessions will be a part of the Conference streams, and streams are grouped in 25 Main Areas. The list of main areas and streams can be followed here .

Each participant may present no more than one paper at the Conference.

Abstract submission system is available online, via the Conference web page or directly here .

Abstracts: max. 1500 characters; submission deadline: March 5, 2018.

Researchers who wish to organize a stream or an invited session or contribute with a paper within an invited session should contact a Programme Committee member of the corresponding area.

MAKING AN IMPACT:
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”Making an Impact” includes a wide variety of sessions aimed at helping practitioners to do a better job. It is organized by the EURO Working Group on Practice of OR, the network for O.R. practitioners in industry, consultancy, government and beyond. It will be packed with opportunities to:

*Explore the challenges every practitioner faces, and share solutions *Try out new techniques – are they any good for you *See case studies showcasing important applications *Exchange ideas and expertise with people in similar fields *Meet leading academics and discover what they can do for you – and what you can do for them *Build your network among like-minded professionals

For more information and to get involved please see the webpage .

IMPORTANT DATES:
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Abstracts:
Abstract submission open: Friday, October 13, 2017 Abstract submission deadline: Monday, March 5, 2018

Registration:
Registration open: Friday, December 1, 2017 Early registration deadline: Friday, April 6, 2018 Author registration deadline: Friday, April 20, 2018

REGISTRATION FEES:
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Regular: 400 EUR (early); 500 EUR (late),
Student/Retired: 200 EUR (early); 300 EUR (late), Accompanying persons: 125 EUR.

Early registration ends April 6, 2018.

Please note that the Conference Gala Dinner on Tuesday is not included in the registration fee (75 euros).

Registration is available online via the Conference web page

FURTHER INFORMATION:
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For detailed information about Valencia, please, visit the Conference webpage

We look forward to welcoming you to our very exciting conference in Valencia!

Greet Vanden Berghe, Ramón Álvarez-Valdés, and Rubén Ruiz

For any further information please contact:

CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT:
Address: Plaza Virgen de la Paz, 3, 46001, Valencia, Spain
Phone: (+34) 963 262 600
Email: euro2018valencia@upv.es<mailto:euro2018valencia@upv.es>
From Monday to Friday 9:00-15:00 CEST

Ralph L. Keeneyn luento Otaniemessä huomenna to 18.1. klo 16-17

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On Thursday, 18 January 2018, Prof. Ralph L. Keeney will give a public lecture entitled Value-Focused Decisions at the Aalto University. This lecture is held at 16.00-17.00 in lecture hall E (Otakaari 1, Espoo) and organized within the Aalto Systems Forum Series. Prof. Keeney is very well known for his pioneering work on value-focused thinking, and his lecture will offer valuable insights to all. Coffee and opportunities for informal discussions will be available after the talk.

More information on the lecture: http://sal.aalto.fi/en/aaltosystemsforum/keeney/

FORS hakee uutta sihteeriä

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FORS:n sihteerillä on näköalapaikka sekä suomalaiseen että kansainväliseen operaatiotutkimuksen kenttään. Sihteeri on aktiivisesti mukana seuran toiminnassa ja osallistuu mm. seuran seminaarien järjestämiseen ja toimii seuran INFORS-lehden toimittajana.

Sihteerin tehtävästä maksetaan palkkio.

 
Lisätietoja tehtävästä: Sihteerihaku2018
Lähetä hakemuksesi sekä CV:si osoitteeseen sihteeri@operaatiotutkimus.fi
Haun DL: 19.1.2018