April 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 on Information Technology Interfaces in Pula, Croatia. For more information, contact: Damir Kalpíc, 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 certification. For more information, contact: 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 Technical University, 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 20-23: 16th International Conference of the System Dynamics Society at the Quebec Hilton in Quebec City, Canada. Plenary sessions will emphasize state-of-the-art applications and advances in simulation modeling and systems thinking. For more information, contact R. Joel Rahn, 3460 DeNevers, Ste-Foy, Quebec, Canada G1X 2E1; E-mail: rjrahn@microtec.net 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; E-mail: 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. 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; E-mail: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 Foundation funding, it is anticipated that four NSF-CBMS (Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences) Conferences will be held 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, Orlando, Fla. Ronald Coifman will serve as the conference 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 Groups, Deligne-Lustig Varieties and Complex Reflections Group at the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas. Michel Broué will serve as the conference 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 the conference 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 the conference lecturer. For more information, contact Scott Adams or Dave Witte, conference organizers; Phone: (612) 625-5507; E-mail: (Adams) adams@math.umn.edu; (Witte) dwitte@math.okstate.edu Table of Contents OR/MS Today Home Page OR/MS Today copyright © 1998 by the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. All rights reserved. Lionheart Publishing, Inc. 506 Roswell Street, Suite 220, Marietta, GA 30060, USA Phone: 770-431-0867 | Fax: 770-432-6969 E-mail: lpi@lionhrtpub.com URL: http://www.lionhrtpub.com Web Site © Copyright 1998 by Lionheart Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved.