Lunteren (January 11 - 14, 1994)

During this 19th Conference on the Mathematics of OR, the LNMB workshop consisted of three mini-courses:
R.E. Bixby (Rice University and CPLEX Optimization Inc.):
Linear programming: the computational state of the art.
E.G. Coffman Jr. (AT&T Bell Labs, Murray Hill):
Stochastic matching theory: its guises and tools, with applications.
P.W. Diaconis (Harvard University):
Geometry and Markov chains, aimed at applications.
Futhermore, lectures were presented by R. Fourer (Northwestern University, Evanston), A. Frank (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest), K. Jörnsten (Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen), G. Latouche (University of Brussels) and B. Peleg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem). Also, 16 PhD students presented their own results. Furthermore, there was a mini-symposium on "New developments in the operational planning of organizations: modeling and optimization".