Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling (MAPSP)

This page is dedicated to the past and future of my favorite scheduling conference, MAPSP. I offer a beer at MAPSP 2011 to anyone that makes a contribution to this page. Photographs would be particularly appreciated.

• 1993 Menaggio, Italy
  • Photo

• 1995 May 22-26, Wernigerode, Germany
  • Photo

• 1997 April 7-11, Queens College, Cambridge, England
  • Web page with list of talks and participants
    
  • Local Organizer: Richard Weber
  • Invited Speakers:
    • David Shmoys
    • David Johnson
    • Jan Karel Lenstra
    • Kevin Glazebrook
    • Yves Crama
  • Social Highlight: Punting from pub to pub down the cam

• 1999 June 14-18, Renesse, Netherlands
  • Main web page
  • Program
  • Local Arrangements: Jan Karel Lenstra and Steef van de Velde
  • Invited Speakers:
    • Michel Goemans
    • Martin Grotschel
    • Michael Pinedo
    • Lex Schrijver
    • Eric Taillard
    • Richard Weber
    • Joel Wein
    • Gerhard Woeginger
  • Social Highlight: Playing soccer on the beach during the long lunch breaks

• 2001 June 17-22, Aussois, France
  • Group Photo
  • Photos courtesy of Alexander Kononov
  • Talks
  • Invited Speakers:
    • Jacek Blazewicz
    • Peter Brucker
    • Wim Nuijten
    • Rolf Mohring
    • Maurice Queyranne
  • Social Highlight: Playing mafia

• 2003 March 30 - April 4, Aussois, France
  • Main web page
  • Talks
  • PC Chair: Jacek Blazewicz and Jan Weglarz
  • Local Organizer: Denis Trystam
  • Invited Speakers:
    • Gerhard Woeginger
    • Ed Coffman
    • Chris Potts
    • Jacques Carlier
    • Gerd Finke
  • Social Highlight: Playing mafia and skiing in Chamonix

   

• 2005 June 6-10, Siena, Italy
  • web site: http://mapsp2005.dii.unisi.it/
  • Talks
    
  • Local Organizer: Alessandro Agnetis
  • PC Chair: Gerhard Woeginger
  • PC: Alessandro Agnetis, Chris Potts, Jacek Blazewicz, Kirk Pruhs, Federico Della Croce, Jiri Sgall, Han Hoogeveen, Martin Skutella, Cor Hurkens, Maria Grazia Speranza, Jan Karel Lenstra, Frits Spieksma, Stefano Leonardi, Joel Wein, Alix Munier
    
  • Invited Speakers:
    • Wim Verhaegh
    • Susanne Albers
    • Christos Papadimitriou
    • Michael Trick
    • Dorothea Wagner
  • Social Highlight: Evening drinks in Il Campo that Rick Steves says is the nicest square in Italy. This is also the square in the opening sequence of the James Bond movie Quantum of Solace.
    

• 2007 July 2-6, Istanbul Turkey
  • web site: http://mapsp2007.ku.edu.tr/
  • Some photos (Group 1) (Group 2) (Group 3) (Group 4) courtesy of Ceyda Oguz
    
  • Selected papers appeared in a special issue of Journal of Scheduling
    
  • Local Organizer: Ceyda Oguz
  • PC Chair: Kirk Pruhs
  • PC: Kirk Pruhs, Erwin Pesch, Rene Sitters, Luca Becchetti, Jeff Edmonds, Leah Epstein, Marc Uetz, Maxim Sviridenko, Cliff Stein, Lene Favrholdt, Ceyda Oguz
    
  • Invited Speakers:
    • Cliff Stein
    • Nikhil Bansal
    • Claire Mathieu
    • Martin Skutella
    • Sandor Fekete
  • Conference program and list of participants
    
  • Social Highlight: Swimming in the Black Sea, and a cruise down the Bosphorus River celebrating the career of Peter Brucker.
    

• 2009 June 29 - July 3,  Abbey Rolduc, The Netherlands. Photos. History 
• web site http://www.unimaas.nl/mapsp2009/
• Schedule
  
• Local Organizers: Marc Uetz and Tjark Vredeveld
• PC Chair: Cliff Stein
• PC: Marek Chrobak, Tak-Wah Lam, Alberto Marchetti, Nicole Megow, Rolf Möhring, Cindy Phillips, Chris Potts, Sergey Sevastyanov, René Sitters, Cliff Stein, Eric Torng, Marc Uetz, Tjark Vredeveld, Gerhard Woeginger
  
• Invited Speakers
• Sanjoy Baruah
• Chandra Chekuri
• Friedrich Eisenbrand
• Tim Roughgarden
• Frits Spieksma
  
• Steef van de Velde's confernce summary
• Photos
• Some photos taken by Chandra Chekuri, mostly of the outing to Maastricht
• photos from the official web site, including the group photo
  
• Social Highlight: A four team round robin soccer tournament. Cliff Stein uses a tactic from American football to score a goal. Pictures of Cliff (game 1, game 2, game 3) Pictures of Steef van de Velde ( game 1, game 2, game 3 )
  

• 2011 (tentatively) June 19-24, The Sport Center, Nymburk, Czech Republic
  
• PC Chair: Rolf Mohring
• Local Organizer and PC co-chair: Jiri Sgall
• In addition to the usual soccer tournament, Steef van de Velde will additionally organize a sand volleyball tournament, since this is a sport at which the Dutch believe that they can beat the Germans.

• Currrent MAPSP Steering Committee:
• Jan Karel Lenstra
• Kirk Pruhs
• Cliff Stein
• Marc Uetz
• Gerhard Woeginger