EURO Practitioners’ Forum 5th Annual Conference: OR in Collaboration

Monday 14 October – Tuesday 15 October, 2024, University of Coimbra

REGISTRATION (FREE) and TRAVEL INFORMATION

Conference programme

The theme of this year’s conference is the Collaboration of Operations Research practitioners with practitioners from other fields, like Machine Learning, Econometrics, Simulation, etc. We will talk about inspiring examples of synergies arising across fields, where multiple disciplines amplify each other in the ultimate quest to deliver impact on business, society, economics, and human lives in general. Speakers are also invited to share their experiences of difficulties they have encountered with such multi-disciplinary collaboration and any insights or strategies on how to address these.

Please visit the conference page for program details.

Submission guidelines

We invite submissions which showcase successful collaboration examples of Operations Research with other fields and look forward to insightful discussions and networking opportunities with practitioners from various fields.

Please send your (maximum of) 1-page abstract in MS Word or PDF format to [email protected]

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Important Dates

Submission deadline: 28 June, 2024
Notification of acceptance: 30 July, 2024
Author registration: 5 September, 2024
Early registration (latest date for registration with conference dinner): 12 September, 2024
Registration deadline: 30 September, 2024
Event: 14-15 October, 2024

Organisation committee:

Vladimir Fux (Zalando), Carlos Henggeler Antunes (Univ. Coimbra), Maria João Alves (Univ. Coimbra), Ricardo Saldanha (SISCOG), Susanne Heipcke (FICO), Andy Harrison (QinetiQ)

Venue information

The conference will take place in the Student Hub, University of Coimbra, Portugal. The Student Hub is located on the ground floor of the Faculty of Medicine building, Rua Larga, right in the heart of the historical town.

See this document for detailed travel instructions and maps.

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