Overview of the workshop

The yearly Cargese workshop aims to bring together researchers in combinatorial optimization around a chosen topic of current interest. It is intended to be a forum for the exchange of recent developments and powerful tools, with an emphasis on theory. Other goals include: the promotion of interactions between participants and discussion of open problems. This year the workshop will have about 60 participants, including PhD students and postdocs. There will be morning and afternoon sessions. Morning sessions will be dedicated to longer survey-type talks or open problems. The afternoon sessions will be dedicated to discussions as well as shorter talks on related topics. In their spare time, we encourage researchers to enjoy the beautiful landscape and opportunities of the island, besides solving a few open problems.


The 2019 edition

The Tenth Cargese Workshop on Combinatorial Optimization, to be held on September 2nd - 6th, 2019, will be focused on Proofs from the Book in Combinatorial Optimization.

Distinguished speakers

  • Daniel Dadush, Networks and Optimization group, CWI, Amsterdam
  • Jesús A. De Loera, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Davis
  • Fritz Eisenbrand, Discrete Optimization Group, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  • Satoru Iwata Department of Mathematical Informatics, University of Tokyo
  • András Frank, Department of Operations Research, Eötvös Loránd University
  • Volker Kaibel Institute for Mathematical Optimization, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität, Magdeburg
  • Neil Olver Department of Econometrics and Operations Research, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
  • Britta Peis Management Science, RWTH Aachen University
  • Sebastian Pokutta Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
  • R. Ravi, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Thomass Rothvoss Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Washington, Seattle
  • Bruce Shepherd Department of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
  • Mohit Singh Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta
  • Martin Skutella Institut für Mathematik, Technische Universität Berlin
  • Ola Svensson School of Computer and Communication Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
  • Jens Vygen Research Institute for Discrete Mathematics, University of Bonn

Mathematicians are known to be the only ones that can lay down in a sofa, close their eyes and pretend to work.

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Steering committee

  • Fritz Eisenbrand, Discrete Optimization Group, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Michel Goemans, Department of Mathematics, MIT, USA
  • Monique Laurent, Networks and Optimization group, CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • R. Ravi, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

Organizing committee

Previous editions