Selected Topics in Large Scale Discrete Optimization

Tutorial Series at DIMACS - 1998-99

DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Room 431, Rutgers University




Friday, October 30, 1998, 1:00 PM - 3:30 PM
MODELS AND ALGORITHMS FOR RAILWAY CREW MANAGEMENT
by Paolo Toth, University of Bologna, Italy

Wednesday, December 9-10, 1998, 2 lectures
PROGRESS IN LINEAR PROGRAMMING BASED BRANCH-AND-BOUND: MODELING AND METHODOLOGY
by George L. Nemhauser, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

April 9,15,21,28 and May 5, 1999, 5 lectures
OPTIMAL CONNECTED PARTITIONS OF GRAPHS
by Bruno Simeone, "La Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy

Thursday - Friday, April 29-30, 1999, 4 lectures
METAHEURISTICS
by Fred Glover, Jim Kelly and Manuel Laguna, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO

Friday, May 7 and Thursday, May 13, 1999, 4 lectures
DISCRETE OPTIMIZATION IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND VLSI DESIGN
by Michel Minoux, Universitè Paris 6, Paris, France

Tuesday, June 1, 1999, 3-6 PM
LOCAL SEARCH ALGORITHMS IN DISCRETE OPTIMIZATION
by Toshihide Ibaraki, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Thursday, June 10, 1999, 4-5 PM
DYNAMIC LOAD BALANCING ON HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS
by Ewald Speckenmeyer, University of Köln, Germany