ORMS Today
February 1998

Calendar

1998


May 6-7: Chicago Risk Management Conference, at the Drake Hotel in Chicago. For more information, contact Ann Culverhouse, University of Michigan, Center for Professional Development, 273 Chrysler Center, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2092; Phone: (313) 647-7200; Fax: (313) 647-7182; E-mail: aculverh@engin.umich.edu. Information about the conference can be found at: http://cpd.engin.umich.edu/cpd/conference/chicago

June 3-5: Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology, Santa Fe, N.M. Co-sponsored by the American Statistical Association Section on Physical & Engineering Sciences and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Hosted by Sandia and Los Alamos. For more information, contact Robert G. Easterling, Chair of the Management Committee, at the following e-mail address: rgeaste@sandia.gov

June 8-12: 14th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va. For more information, contact: MCDM 98, Center for Risk Management of Engineering Systems, 103 Albert Small Building, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., 22903; Phone: (804) 924-0960; Fax: (804) 924-0865; E-mail: mcdm98@virginia.edu. Information about the conference can be found at: http://www.virginia.edu/~risk/mcdm98.html

June 16-19: 20th International Conference Information Technology Interfaces in Pula, Croatia. For more information, contact: Damir Kalpic, Chairman of the International Program Committee, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, University of Zagreb; Phone: 385 1 6129 919; Fax: 385 1 6129 915; E-mail: damir.kalpic@fer.hr

June 23-25: 66th MORS Symposium at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif. Attendance is by invitation only and is limited to U.S. citizens with appropriate clearance and need-to-know certified. Invitations can be obtained by calling MORS, 101 S. Whiting St., #202, Alexandria, VA 22304; Phone: (703) 751-7290; Fax: (703) 751-8171; E-mail: morsoffice@aol.com

June 25-26: The XIXth National Conference on Operational Research/Industrial Engineering (YA/EM'98) at the Middle East TechnicalUniversity, Industrial Engineering Department. For more information, contact: Professor Nesim Erkip, Industrial Engineering Department, Middle East Technical University, 06531 Ankara, Turkey; Phone: 90 312 210 2271; Fax: 90 312 210 1268; E-mail: yad@rorqual.cc.metu.edu.tr. More information about the conference can be found at: http://www.metu.edu.tr/~www68/yad/

July 20-22: Optimization '98 at the University of Coimbra in Coimbra, Portugal. For more information, contact Professor L.N. Vicente, Departamento de Matemática, Universidade de Coimbra, 3000 Coimbra, Portugal; Phone: +351 39 7003199; Fax: +351 39 32568; E-mail: opti98@it.uc.pt. Information about the conference can be found at: http://opti.uc.pt/~opti98

July 25-28: The Third International Conference on Management (ICM'98) in Shanghai, China. For more information, contact Professor Chongfeng Wu, School of Management, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200052, China; Email: mgmtschl@mail.sjtu.edu.cn or lxu@paladin.wright.edu.

Aug. 8-16: 1998 VII International Conference on Stochastic Programming at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. The conference is divided into three sections: pre-conference tutorial program, organized by Julia Higle (Aug. 8,9); main conference, organized by William Ziemba and Roger Wets (Aug. 10-15); and post conference asset-liability management seminar, organized by William Ziemba and John Mulvey. Information about the conference can be found at http://www.interchg.ubc.ca/ziemba/SP98html

Aug. 25-28: The Third International Conference on Systems Science and Systems Engineering (ICSSSE'98)in Beijing, China. For more information, contact Professor Jian Chen, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. Email:jchen@mail.tsinghua.edu.cn or lxu@paladin.wright.edu.

Sept. 13-16: The Quest for Quality & Productivity in Health Services Conference (QQ&PHS) in Memphis, Tenn. For more information, contact IIE Member and Customer Service; Phone: (800) 494-0460 or (770) 449-0460; Fax: (770) 441-3295; E-mail: cs@www.iienet.org

Contingent on National Science Founcation funding, it is anticipated that four NSF-CBMS (Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences) Conferences will be held in the during the summer of 1998. These conferences are intended to stimulate interest and activity in mathematical research. Each five-day conference features a distinguished lecturer who delivers 10 lectures on a topic of current research in one focused area of the mathematical sciences.

  • May 4-8: Wavelet Analysis as a Tool for Computational and Harmonic Analysis at the University of Central Florida, Orlanda, Fla. Ronald Coifman will serve as this conference's lecturer. For more information, contact Lokenath Debnath, conference organizer; Phone: (407) 823-2478 or (407) 823-2754; E-mail: ldebnath@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu

  • May 25-29: Blocks of Finite Reductive Gropus, Deligne-Lustig Varieties and Complex Reflections Group at the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas. Michel Broué will serve as this conference's lecturer. For more information, contact J. Matthew Douglass, conference organizer; Phone: (817) 565-2155; E-mail: douglass@unt.edu

  • June 14-18: Lectures on Division Algebras at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colo. David J. Saltman will serve as this conference's lecturer. For more information, contact Frank DeMeyer, conference organizer; Phone: (970) 491-6327; E-mail: demeyer@math.colostate.edu

  • June 22-26: Ergodic Theory, Groups and Geometry at the University of Minnesota. Robert J. Zimmer will serve as this conference's lecturer. For more information, contact Scot Adams or Dave Witte, conference organizers; Phone: (612) 625-5507; E-mail: (Adams) adams@math.umn.edu; (Witte) dwitte@math.okstate.edu





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