COLCE 2006

DIMACS and ExxonMobil Workshop on
COMPUTATIONAL OPTIMIZATION AND LOGISTICS CHALLENGES IN THE ENTERPRISE (COLCE)

April 19-20, 2006

ExxonMobil Research & Engineering (EMRE)
1545 Us Highway 22 E,

Annandale, NJ 08801-3096

Note: All participants (including DIMACS partner institutions) are strongly urged to register online by Friday April 14^th, for the logistics and security clearance at the site.

Dinner banquet will be held on April 19^th at the Mountain View Chalet.

Directions to ExxonMobil site: The workshop will be held at ExxonMobil Research site, which is located at 1545 Us Highway 22 E, Annandale, NJ 08801-3096.

From Newark Airport: Take I-78 West, Go 40 miles. Take exit 18 (Annandale). Take on the ramp to Annandale. At the first intersection, make a left turn (onto I-78 E/Route 22 East ramp). Go 0.1 mi, then turn right at the first traffic light.

From Rutgers Busch Campus: Take I-287 North, Go 11 mi. Take exit 21B (I-78 W) to Easton PA. Go 12 mi, then take exit 18 to Annandale. At the first intersection, make a left turn (onto I-78 E/Route 22 East ramp). Go 0.1 mi, then turn right at the first traffic light.

Organizers:

     W. Art Chaovalitwongse (Rutgers,DIMACS)
    Kevin C. Furman (EMRE)
    Fred Roberts (DIMACS)

Research Topics:

	Enterprise-Wide Optimization
	Advances in Optimization
	Financial Mathematics & Optimization
	Planning & Long-Term Investment
	Transportation & Logistics Optimization
	Optimization under Uncertainty
	Simulation Optimization
	Process Scheduling

Plenary Talks:

	Ignacio Grossmann (CMU)
	George Nemhauser (GA Tech)
	Panos Pardalos (Florida)
	Martin Savelsbergh *(GA Tech)*
	Andrzej Ruszczynski (Rutgers)
	John Dennis (Rice)
	Marianthi Ierapetritou (Rutgers)
	Mauricio Resende (AT&T)

Invited Talks:

	Warren Powell (Princeton)
	Tayfur Altiok *(Rutgers)*
	Leyuan Shi (Wisconsin)

Program Committee: (alphabetical order)

Tayfur Altiok (Rutgers U.)

Anthony Chen (Utah State U.)

John Dennis (Rice U.)

Ding-Zhu Du (U. Textas at Dallas)

Amr El-Bakry (ExxonMobil Upstream Research)

Ignacio Grossmann (CMU)

Panos Kouvelis (Washington U. St. Louis)

Lei Lei (Rutgers U.)

John Mulvey (Princeton U.)

George Nemhauser (GA Tech)

Carlos Oliveira (Oklahoma State U.)

Panos Pardalos (U. Florida)

Warren Powell (Princeton U.)

Mauricio Resende (AT&T Labs Research)

Michael Rothkopf (Rutgers U.)

Andrzej Ruszczynski (Rutgers U.)

Nick Sahinidis (U. Illinois)

Martin Savelsbergh (Georgia Tech)

Bhaskar Sengupta (EMRE)

Leyuan Shi (U. Wisconsin)

Jin-Hwa Song (EMRE)

Local Organizer:

Jin-Hwa Song (EMRE)

Wei Zeng (Rutgers U.)

Abhinav Jha (Rutgers U.)