1st International Optimisation Summer School 2013


				9th Summer School of the Association for Constraint Programming 1st International Optimisation Summer School 6th to 11th January 2013 ANU's Kioloa Costal Campus Kioloa New South Wales Australia toby.walsh@nicta.com.au

Overview:
The theme of the school is solving large scale combinatorial optimisation problems in practice. The school is intended for PhD students and postdocs, and will include both introductory and advanced material.

Topics covered include: introduction to constraint programming, modelling, integer programming, global constraints, uncertainty, vehicle routing, scheduling, supply networks and research skills.

Lecturers include Simon Dunstall, Phil Kilby, Pascal van Hentenryck, Martin Savelsbergh, Peter Stuckey, Mark Wallace and Toby Walsh.

The school will be held at ANU's seaside conference retreat at Kioloa Kioloa on the New South Wales coast, 3 hours drive south of Sydney.

Congratulations to Carleton Coffrin for the winning t-shirt design (on the left), and to the two runners up, Hassan Hijazi (middle) and Yan Pei (right)

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Many thanks to the many entrants.