ACP Summer School on Practical Constraint Programming (deadline extension)
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2014 ACP Summer School in Constraint Programming
Practical Constraint Programming
June 16-20 2014, Bologna (IT)
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* DEADLINE EXTENSIONS *
* Registration: May 25 *
* Rooms (direct booking): May 25 *
* Rooms (arranged by us): May 9 *
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Chairs
Alessio Bonfietti (Universita di Bologna, Italy)
Michele Lombardi (Universita di Bologna, Italy)
Pierre Schaus (ICTEAM, UCLouvain, Belgium)
The event is co-organized with the CEUR Foundation
=== TOPICS AND SPEAKERS ===
The 2014 edition of the ACP Summer School will be held in Bologna (Italy), with
the topic "Practical Constraint Programming".
The school is meant for CP researchers and practitioners with an academic or
industrial background, interested in using Constraint Programming and Hybrid
Methods to tackle real world optimization problems.
The school lecturers include renowned experts in the field as well as young
talented researchers. In particular, lectures will be given by:
* Michela Milano (University of Bologna)
* Pascal Van Hentenryck (NICTA)
* Laurent Perron (Google)
* Paul Shaw (IBM)
* Willem-Jan van Hoeve (Carnegie Mellon University)
* Andrea Lodi (University of Bologna and IBM)
* Louis-Martin Rousseau (CIRRELT, Polytechnique de Montreal)
* Hadrien Cambazard (Grenoble Institute of Technology)
The lectures will cover technical topics as well as the experience of the
speakers about tackling real world problems. More details can be found on the
school web site at: http://school.a4cp.org/summer2014/
The school will also feature a substantial amount of hands-on sessions,
organized by Laurent Perron, using the "Google or-tools" system (participants
should bring their laptops).
The school has a fee of 150EU and the application deadline is May 25 2014
=== APPLICATION ===
Any motivated candidate is encouraged to apply: this includes Ph.D. students,
but also Master Students, Post-Docs, researchers, and professionals or R&D
staff from the industry.
The school has a fee of 150EU. The fee covers all course materials, coffee
breaks, WiFi Internet Connection at the conference centre, and the social
program (including a dinner in an Italian restaurant). You can register here:
http://school.a4cp.org/summer2014/registration
=== ACCOMMODATION ===
Rooms are available for a convenient price at Camplus Living Bononia (the same
building where the lectures take place). For more information, check the summer
school web site. As a guideline, rooms should be booker directly by the
participants. It is possible to ask us to arrange a double/multiple room to
further reduce the costs: in case you are interested, we should be informed by
**May 9**.
=== SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT INFORMATION ===
contact email: acpsummerschool2014@gmail.com
registration: http://school.a4cp.org/summer2014/registration
deadline for applications: May 25