Lunteren (January 14 - 16, 1997)

The program of this conference contained only two mini-courses:
A. Nemirowski (Technion, Haifa, Israel): Polynomial time algorithms in convex programming.
C.H. Papadimitriou (University of California, Berkeley, USA): On-line algorithms.
The other invited speakers were M.A.H. Dempster (University of Cambridge, UK), A.V. Goldberg (NEC, Princeton, USA), V. Schmidt (University of Ulm, Germany), S. Sorin (Ecole Polytechnique, Paris) and G. Weiss (University of Haifa, Israel). The mini-symposium had as theme "New trends in Operations Research for Finance", with speakers: M.A.H. Dempster (University of Cambridge, UK), M. Salomon (Rabo, Zeist) and C. Dert (ABN-AMRO, Amsterdam). 15 PhD students presented a lecture on their own work.