OeGOR Summer-School for PhD-candidates and Post-Docs

The Austrian Society for Operations Research (OeGOR) organizes for the third time a summer-school for PhD-candidates and Post-Docs.

Invited Speakers:

Timo Gschwind (RPTU Kaiserslautern): Introduction to Column-Generation Theory and Application
Maximilian Schiffer (TU München): Combinatorial optimization augmented machine learning for contextual multi-stage problems

Date: 22.07.2024 – 26.07.2024
Place: University for Continuing Education (Donau Uni) Krems

Participation in the school is free of charge, if your institution or supervisor are members of OeGOR or of an OR-Society in a neighboring country. However, lunch will be organized centrally, thus requiring a meal contribution of ca. € 60.- (nonrefundable) to be paid until 21.06.2024. All other food, travel and hotel arrangements must be organized and covered by the participants.

Registration: send an e-mail until May 24, 2024 to raimund.kovacevic_AT_donau-uni.ac.at

Each invited speaker will give a two-day program. The participants are also invited to give a presentation of their work. Take the chance to create a bond with fellow students and with OeGOR!

All details can be found here

Job offer: University of Klagenfurt – Full Professor of Optimization

The University of Klagenfurt invites applications for a position as a Full Professor of Optimization (all genders welcome) at the Department of Mathematics.

This is a full-time position, available from 1 October 2024. Whether the position will be implemented in compliance with the provisions of Art. 98 (permanent) or Art. 99 of the Austrian Universities Act (limited to 5 years) will be decided in the course of the appointment procedure.

The professorship will be embedded within the new Area of Research Excellence „Multiple Perspectives in Optimization (MPOpt)“ with its well-established Doctoral Programme in Mathematics at the Department of Mathematics and within the Faculty of Technical Sciences (https://www.aau.at/en/tewi/). The department provides a vivid, friendly, and research-oriented environment.

Details can be found at
https://jobs.aau.at/en/job/full-professor-of-optimization-all-genders-welcome/

Application deadline: 17 April 2024

ÖGOR Preise für Masterarbeiten und Dissertationen 2024

Die Österreichische Gesellschaft für Operations Research (ÖGOR) vergibt den ÖGOR Dissertationspreis 2024 und den ÖGOR Masterarbeitspreis 2024 für hervorragende Dissertationen bzw. Master- und Diplomarbeiten (keine Bachelorarbeiten) aus dem Bereich des Operations Research (OR). Es können sowohl theoretische Arbeiten als auch praktische Anwendungen des OR eingereicht werden.

Die Arbeiten müssen im Zeitraum zwischen dem 1. Jänner 2023 und dem 17. Mai 2024 an österreichischen Universitäten oder Fachhochschulen approbiert worden sein. Arbeiten, die bereits im Vorjahr eingereicht wurden, können nicht noch einmal vorgeschlagen werden. Die Preise werden von der scc EDV-Beratung AG gesponsert.

Einreichfrist: 24. Mai 2024

Details zur Ausschreibung

Job offer: PhD position – Artificial Intelligence for Improved Container Loading Efficiency at TU Graz

A fully funded PhD position is offered for 3 years. The starting date is September 1, 2024 (slightly later or earlier starting dates are possible upon mutual consent). The annual gross salary is 50103.2 Euro (employment for 40 hours per week, no teaching obligations involved). The position is part of the research project “Artificial Intelligence for Improved Container Loading Efficiency” (AI4CL) which is funded by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) within the AI for Green funding call. The PhD student will be supervised by Eranda Dragoti-Cela and Bettina Klinz on the side of Graz University of Technology and by Stefan Lendl on the side of S2data.

The detailled job offer can be found here

Stellenausschreibung: Wissenschaftliche*r Mitarbeiter*in mit Doktorat (Karenzvertretung) – Institut für Produktionswirtschaft und Logistik, BOKU Wien

Die Stelle bietet die Möglichkeit zur Mitarbeit an einem Institut mit anwendungsnaher Forschung in enger Kooperation mit Projektpartner*innen an einer der führenden Life Sciences-Universitäten in Europa. Eine längerfristige Perspektive ist durch laufende Projekteinreichungen geplant. Mitarbeit in einem Forschungsprojekt zur simulationsbasierten Optimierung im Bereich Fertighausbau.

Details zur Stellenausschreibung

Networks: Call for Papers – Special Issue „Synchronisation in Vehicle Routing“

Guest Editors: Diego Cattaruzza, Stefan Irnich, Maxime Ogier, Frédéric Semet, Christian Tilk.

In classical Vehicle Routing Problems (VRPs), synchronization between vehicles is necessary only with respect to which vehicle visits which customer. However, thereare many applications of VRPs having additional synchronization requirements with regard to spatial, temporal, and load aspects. Examples include load transfers between vehicles, trucks pulling detachable trailers, combined routing of vehicles and crews, synchronizedoperations of service technicians or home health care staff, synchronized routing of snowplows etc. Such types of VRPs have recently attracted more and more interest from the OR community.

We are particularly interested in receiving strong, innovative, and insightful works that focus on the latest research on synchronization applications, models, and algorithmicapproaches within vehicle routing problems. These studies should make a significant contribution to the existing body of knowledge.

Please note that all papers submitted for this special issue will undergo the standard peer review procedures established by Networks.

Important dates
Submission deadline: April 26, 2024
Expected Publication: December 31, 2024

Submission guidelines
1) Connect to: https://wiley.atyponrex.com/journal/NET
2) Click on „Start submission“ and follow the steps.
3) Once at the „Additional Information“ section, in the „Is this for a special issue?“ zone, select „Yes, this is for a special issue“ and then choose „SynchroTransWorkshop Special Issue“ from the drop down menu.