The first school in Operations Research supported by IFORS and EURO will be held at Porto-Novo (Benin) on November 14-19, 2011.
       The main purpose of this school is to accompany the effort of developing OR in Africa. Hence, the school is mainly destined to African young researchers and graduate students (Masters and Ph.D) but also to teachers that would to update their experience on Operations Research. This event aims at showing how OR could help in resources management and contribute to the development in Africa.
       The program involves short courses (6 hours) and some advanced mini courses (1 hour) and students selected presentations (30mn including questions) in the following (non exhaustive) topics:

    1. Linear Programming
    2. Mixed Integer Programming
    3. Non-linear Programming
    4. Stochastic Programming
    5. Graph Theory
    6. Combinatorial optimization
    7. Cutting plane algorithms
    8. Applications of OR in Telecommunications and Energy
    9. Applications tools (GLPK, CPLEX, MATLAB, etc.)
   10.Heuristics and Meta heuristics

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Teachers and Invited Speakers

    1. Celso Ribeiro, Federal University of Fluminense, Brazil (Combinatorial Optimization – CO)
    2. Philippe Mahey, ISIMA, Clermont-Ferrand France (Decomposition Methods, DM)
    3. Adam Ouorou, France Telecom, Orange Labs (OR in Telecommunications, ORT)
    4. Bertrand Tchantcho, University of Cameroon (Network Stability,  NS)
    5. Babacar Ndiaye, Cheikh Anta Diop University (Global Optimization, GO)
    6. Simone de Lima Martins,  Federal University of Fluminense, Brazil  (Applications of Metaheuristics in Telecommunications, AMT)
    7.Sanni Mustapha, University of Abomey Calavi (Linear Programming, LP)
  

Name and address of the host Institute

Institut de Mathématiques et de Sciences Physiques (IMSP)
Po. Box 613, Porto-Novo, Bénin.
Main contact :
Prof Joël TOSSA
Dr Aboubacar MARCOS
Tel.: (00229)20 22 24 55 ; Fax (00229)20 22 24 55
E-mail: joel.tossa@imsp-uac.org,   abmarcos@imsp-uac.org

Organizing Committee

Directors
Adam Ouorou, France Telecom – Orange Labs R&D
Hugo Scolnik, Departamento de Computación, Facultad de Ciencias, Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

Local organizing committee

-   Aboubacar MARCOS (University of Abomey-Calavi, Bénin)              
-   Liamidi Leadi (University of Abomey-Calavi, Bénin)
-   Guy DEGLA (University of Abomey-Calavi)
−  Moustapha SANNI (University of Abomey-Calavi)

PROGRAM

Each practice session is a practical case study to do with the students, using available software
(e.g. GLPK)

Sponsors

IFORS (http://ifors.org, main sponsor)	ORANGE GROUP(http://www.francetelecom.com/en_EN/innovation)
ROADEF (www.roadef.org)
EURO (www.euro-online.org)