List of Participants

Gabriela Alexe, RUTCOR, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Email: alexe@rutcor.rutgers.edu

Sorin Alexe, RUTCOR, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Email: salexe@rutcor.rutgers.edu

Kent Andersen, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, Email: kha@andrew.cmu.edu

Alper Atamturk, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA, Email: atamturk@ieor.berkeley.edu

Sharon Aviran, Technion – Israel, Email: Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel, Email: asharon@tx.technion.ac.il

Ansuman Bagchi, Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, New Jersey, USA, Email: ansuman_bagchi@merck.com

Laura Silvia Bahiense da Silva Leite, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Email: laura@cos.ufrj.br

Foued Ben Abdelaziz, LAGENDO Laboratory, Institute Superieur de Gestion Tunis, Tunisia, Email: foued@rutcor.rutgers.edu

Egon Balas, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, Email: eb17@andrew.cmu.edu

Yaw Bimpeh, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway, Email: yawbi@math.ntnu.no

Alexander Bockmayr, LORIA, Nancy, France, Email: bockmayr@loria.fr

Endre Boros, RUTCOR, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Email: boros@rutcor.rutgers.edu

Peter J. Brucker, University of Osnabrueck, Germany, Email: peter@mathematik.uni-osnabrueck.de

Renato Bruni, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy, Email: bruni@dis.uniroma1.it

Rainer E. Burkard, Technical University Graz, Graz, Austria, Email: burkard@opt.math.tu-graz.ac.at

Eranda Çela, Technical University Graz, Graz, Austria, Email: cela@opt.math.tu-graz.ac.at

Vašek Chvátal, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Email: chvatal@cs.rutgers.edu

Gerard Cornuéjols, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, Email: gc0v@andrew.cmu.edu

Yves Crama, University of Liege, Belgium, Email: y.crama@ulg.ac.be

Norm Curet, Department of Defense, Severn, Maryland, USA, Email: ndcuret@afterlife.ncsc.mil

Ismael de Farias, Engineering, Buffalo, NY, USA, Email: defarias@eng.buffalo.edu

Thomas Davoine, RUTCOR, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Email: davoine@rutcor.rutgers.edu

Vladimir Deineko, The University of Warwick, Coventry, UK, Email: orsvd@wbs.warwick.ac.uk

Darinka Dentcheva, FAM & RUTCOR, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Email: darina@rutcor.rutgers.edu

Paolo Detti, University of Rome "RomaTre", Rome, Italy, Email: detti@dia.uniroma3.it

Brenda Dietrich, IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA, Email: dietric@watson.ibm.com

Moshe Dror, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA, Email: mdror@mail.bpa.arizona.edu

Jonathan Eckstein, MSIS & RUTCOR, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Email: jeckstei@rutcor.rutgers.edu

Friedrich Eisenbrand, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Saarbrücken, Germany, Email: eisen@mpi-sb.mpg.de

Saleh Elmohamed, NPAC, Syracuse University, NY, USA, Email: saleh@npac.syr.edu

Ozlem Ergun, MIT, Boston, MA, USA, Email: ozie@mit.edu

Torsten Fahle, University of Paderborn, Germany, Email: tef@uni-paderborn.de

Fred Glover, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA, Email: Fred.Glover@Colorado.EDU

Mark K. Goldberg, Rensselaer, Troy, New York, USA, Email: goldberg@cs.rpi.edu

Andrea Grosso, DAI, Politecnico di Torino, Italy, Email: grosso@cimabue.polito.it

Vladimir Gurvich, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, Email: gurvich@rutcor.rutgers.edu

Peter Hahn, Sci-Tech Services, Inc., Philadelphia, PA, USA, Email: Peter_Hahn@compuserve.com

Leslie Hall, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Email: lah@jhu.edu

Peter L. Hammer, RUTCOR, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Email: hammer@rutcor.rutgers.edu

Jill Hardin, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, Email: jill@udaloy.isye.gatech.edu

Stephen P. Hill, Curtin University, Western Australia, Email: hillsp@euler.cs.curtin.edu.au

Dorit S. Hochbaum, University of California, Berkeley CA, USA, Email: dorit@hochbaum.IEOR.Berkeley.EDU

Alan Hoffman, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA, Email: hoffa@watson.ibm.com

Toshihide Ibaraki, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, Email: ibaraki@kuamp.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Marianthi Ierapetritou, Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Email: marianth@sol.rutgers.edu

Alexander Kelmans, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA, Email: kelmans@rutcor.rutgers.edu

Ralf Keuthen, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK, Email: rxk@cs.nott.ac.uk

Leo Khachiyan, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Email: leonid@cs.rutgers.edu

Gary A. Kochenberger, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA, Email: gkochenberger@castle.cudenver.edu

Alex Kogan, FAM & RUTCOR, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Email: kogan@rutcor.rutgers.edu

Ephraim Korach, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel, Email: korach@bgumail.bgu.ac.il

Bernhard Korte, Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics, Bonn, Germany, Email: dm@or.uni-bonn.de

Jacob Krarup, DIKU, Copenhagen, Denmark, Email: krarup@diku.dk

Andre Kundgen, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA, Email: kundgen@math.uiuc.edu

Eva K. Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, Email: evakylee@isye.gatech.edu

Yuri Levin, RUTCOR, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Email: ylevin@rutcor.rutgers.edu

Vadim E. Levit, Holon Institute of Technology, Arts, and Sciences, Holon, Israel, Email: levitv@barley.cteh.ac.il

Jeffrey T. Linderoth, Argonne National Labs, USA, Email: linderoth@mcs.anl.gov

Ying Liu, RUTCOR, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Email: yingliu@rutcor.rutgers.edu

Andrea Lodi, University of Bologna, Italy, Email: alodi@deis.unibo.it

Marco E. Lübbecke, Braunschweig University of Technology, Braunschweig, Germany, Email: m.luebbecke@tu-bs.de

Thomas L. Magnanti, MIT, Boston, MA, USA, Email: magnanti@mit.edu

Peter Majlender, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, Email: mpeter@cs.elte.hu

Kaz Makino, University of Osaka, Japan, Email: makino@sys.es.osaka-u.ac.jp

Silvano Martello, DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy, Email: smartello@deis.unibo.it

Carlo Meloni, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy, Email: meloni@peano.dis.uniroma1.it

Mikhail Nediak, RUTCOR, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Email: msnediak@rutcor.rutgers.edu

David Neu, RUTCOR, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Email: djneu@idt.net

Vincent Nwana, Brunel University, Middlesex, UK, Email: vincent.lebga.nwana@brunel.ac.uk

James B. Orlin, MIT, Boston, MA, USA, Email: jorlin@mit.edu

Augustyn Ortynski, Nortel Networks, Richardson, TX, USA, Email: august@nortelnetworks.com

Marcio de Moraes Palmeira, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Email: marcio@ele.puc-rio.br

Gabor Pataki, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA, Email: gabor@ieor.columbia.edu

Uri N. Peled, The University of Illinois at Chicago, USA, Email: uripeled@uic.edu

Ljubomir Perkovic, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA, Email: lperkovi@mcs.drexel.edu

Michael Perregaard, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, Email: michael4@andrew.cmu.edu

David Pisinger, DIKU, Copenhagen, Denmark, Email: pisinger@diku.dk

Susan Powell, London School of Economics, London, UK, Email: s.powell@lse.ac.uk

William R. Pulleyblank, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA, Email: pblk@us.ibm.com

Tania Querido, CEFET-RJ, Engineering Department, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Email: querido@openlink.com.br

David J. Rader, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA, Email: David.J.Rader@Rose-Hulman.Edu

S. Raghavan, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA, Email: sr141@umail.umd.edu

Radhika Ramamurthi, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA, Email: ramamurt@math.uiuc.edu

András Recski, Technical University of Budapest, Hungary, Email: recski@or.uni-bonn.de

Herzl Regev, Department of Computer Science, Rutgers University, New Jersey, Email: hregev@paul.rutgers.edu

Jorge Riera-Ledesma, Universidad de la Laguna, Canary Islands, Spain, Email: jriera@ull.es

Andre Rohe, Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics, Bonn, Germany, Email: rohe@or.uni-bonn.de

Jay Rosenberger, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, Email: jay@akula.isye.gatech.edu

Michael Rothkopf, RUTCOR, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Email: rothkopf@rutcor

Andrzej Ruszczynski, FAM & RUTCOR, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Email: rusz@rutcor.rutgers.edu

Andrew Schaefer, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, Email: schaefer@isye.gatech.edu

Dushyant Sharma, MIT, Boston, MA, USA, Email: dushyant@mit.edu

Santokh Singh, MSIS, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Email: santokh@rutcor

Fabio Tardella, University of Rome "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy, Email: tardella@imc.pi.cnr.it

Erlendur Smari Thorsteinsson, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, Email: esth@cmu.edu

Paolo Toth, DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy, Email: ptoth@deis.unibo.it

Michael Trick, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, Email: trick@cmu.edu

Stefan Tschoeke, University of Paderborn, Germany, Email: sts@uni-paderborn.de

Tonguc Unluyurt, RUTCOR, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, Email: tonguc@rutcor.rutgers.edu

Richard Van Slyke, Polytechnic University, Brooklyn, NY, USA, Email: rvslyke@poly.edu

Dieter Vanderbussche, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA, Email: dieter@akula.isye.gatech.edu

Jeetmanyu Vin, Chemical & Biochemical Engineering, Rutgers University, New Jersey, Email: jvin@sol.rutgers.edu

Béla Vizvári, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary, Email: vizvari@rutcor.rutgers.edu

David Warme, System Simulation Solutions, Inc., Alexandria, VA, USA, Email: warme@s3i.com

David Williamson, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA, Email: dpw@watson.ibm.com

Henry Wolkowitz, University of Waterloo, Canada, Email: hwolkowi@orion.math.uwaterloo.ca

Laurence A. Wolsey, CORE, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, Email: wolsey@core.ucl.ac.be

Guochuan Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Email: gczhang@cse.cuhk.edu.hk