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 2018 edition
The Ninth Cargese Workshop on Combinatorial Optimization, to be held on October 15th - 19th, 2018, will be focused on "Algorithms from structure, structure from algorithms.
Previous editions
- 2017: Eight Cargese-Porquerolles Workshop (Computational Combinatorial Optimization)
- 2016: Seventh Cargese Workshop (Dicrete geometry and algorithms for integer programming)
- 2015: Sixth Cargese Workshop (Fast algorithms)
- 2014: Fifth Cargese Workshop (Extended Formulations II)
- 2013: Fourth Cargese Workshop (Submodular Functions)
- 2012: Third Cargese Workshop (the Traveling Salesman Problem)
- 2011: Second Cargese Workshop (Rounding in Comb. Opt.)
- 2010: First Cargese Workshop (Extended Formulations I)
Distinguished speakers
- Karthik Chandrasekaran, Computer Science Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering, University of Illinois
- Gwenaël Joret, Computer Science Department at the Université Libre de Bruxelles
- Erik Jan van Leeuwen , Utrecht University
- Rico Zenklusen, Institute for Operations Research, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich
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, USA
Organizing committee
- Samuel Fiorini, Département de Mathématique, ULB, Brussels, Belgium
- Gianpaolo Oriolo, DICII, Università di Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
- Gautier Stauffer, G-SCOP - Grenoble INP, France
- Paolo Ventura, IASI/CNR, Rome, Italy
