Tuesday, July 27th

8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast
Survey IX: (Chair: Toshihide Ibaraki)
9:00 - 9:50 David Williamson: Approximation algorithms
9:50 - 10:10 Coffee break
Survey X: (Chair: Toshihide Ibaraki)
10:10 - 11:00 Dorit Hochbaum: A unified technique for approximation algorithms for integer programs with three variables per inequality
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee break
Survey XI: (Chair: Toshihide Ibaraki)
11:20 - 12:10 András Recski: Combinatorics of grid-like frameworks
 
12:10 - 2:00 Lunch break
Survey XII: (Chair: Egon Balas)
2:00 - 2:50 Jim Orlin: Neighborhood search made difficult (with Ravi Ahuja)
2:50 - 3:10 Coffee break
Survey XIII: (Chair: Egon Balas)
3:10 - 4:00 Fred Glover: Tabu search and evolutionary methods: unexpected developments (with Gary Kochenberger)
4:00 - 4:15 Coffee break
Communications B: (Chair: Jim Orlin)
4:15 - 4:30 Friedrich Eisenbrand: A note on the membership problem for the elementary closure of a polyhedron
4:30 - 4:45 Jeff Linderoth: Issues in parallel branch and price (with Martin W.P. Savelsbergh)
4:45 - 5:00 Kazuhise Makino: Partial and multiple transversals (with Endre Boros, Vladimir Gurvich and Leo Khachiyan)
5:00 - 5:15 Coffee break
Communications C: (Chair: Leo Khachiyan)
5:15 - 5:30 Andrea Grosso: Finding the Paretian solutions for the total and maximum tardiness one-machine scheduling problem (with Federico Della Croce and Roberto Tadei)
5:30 - 5:45 Stephen Hill: An application of branch and cut to open pit mine scheduling (with Louis Caccetta)
5:45 - 6:00 Stefan Tschoeke: Solving the weekly and the fully-dated fleet assignment problem for large airlines
6:00 - 6:15 Guochuan Zhang: On-line algorithms for minimizing Makespan on a single batch processing machine with dynamic job arrivals (with Xiaoqiang Cai and C.K. Wong)