http://www.orbel.beBelgian Operational Research Society Newsletter http://orbel.be/news-letter-display.php?news=709*** Announcement on behalf of the ISMP 2027 Organizing Committee ***   ISMP 2027 – Announcement of Plenaries, Semi-Plenaries, and Streams   26th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP 2027) Amsterdam, The Netherlands July 25–30, 2027 https://ismp2027.m...http://orbel.be/news-letter-display.php?news=708IV European Conference on Queueing Theory (ECQT 2026) May 11–13, 2026 Reykjavík, Iceland # General Information The European Conference on Queueing Theory (ECQT) is now a consolidated tradition for the members of the queueing theory community in Europe and abroad. After three previou...http://orbel.be/news-letter-display.php?news=707MIC 2026 - 16th Metaheuristics International Conference 8 - 11 June, 2026 Ischia Island (Napoli), Italy www.mic2026.unina.it ********************* Submission deadline: February 27, 2026 Number of days to deadline: 21 ********************* Aims, Themes & Scope: As per tradition, looking at th...http://orbel.be/news-letter-display.php?news=704We would like to invite you to a LIM seminar on optimization for railway transport on the afternoon of Tuesday, February 24, 2026, in Leuven (Belgium). Inneke Van Hoeck and I organize this seminar on the occasion of the public defense of her PhD, together with the KU Leuven Institute for Mobility (L...http://orbel.be/news-letter-display.php?news=705Dear OR Society, on behalf of Croatian Operational Research Society (CRORS) can you please forward this e-mail to your Society members. Namely, we are organizing the 21st International Conference on Operational Research - KOI 2026 which will be held 23-25 September, 2026 in Brela, Croatia (mo...http://orbel.be/news-letter-display.php?news=706MIC 2026 - 16th Metaheuristics International Conference8 - 11 June, 2026Ischia Island (Napoli), Italywww.mic2026.unina.it*********************Submission deadline: February 27, 2026Number of days to deadline: 21*********************Aims, Themes & Scope: As per tradition, looking at the previous ...http://orbel.be/news-letter-display.php?news=703IV European Conference on Queueing Theory (ECQT 2026) May 11–13, 2026 Reykjavík, Iceland # General Information The European Conference on Queueing Theory (ECQT) is now a consolidated tradition for the members of the queueing theory community in Europe and abroad. After three p...http://orbel.be/news-letter-display.php?news=702Dear Colleague,  The Steering Committee of the European Conference on Queueing Theory (ECQT) is pleased to invite applications for the 2026 edition of the Takács outstanding dissertation award in the ...http://orbel.be/news-letter-display.php?news=701Dear Colleagues, The OR Education stream at IFORS 2026 (12–17 July 2026, Vienna, Austria) provides a focused forum to exchange experiences, present innovative teaching practices, and critically discuss current challenges in OR/MS education. Abstract submission deadline: 15 March 2026Abs...http://orbel.be/news-letter-display.php?news=700Dear ORBEL members, Three messages related to the ORBEL40 conference: Deadline for registration for the ORBEL40 conference is January 27, 2026: https://feb.kuleuven.be/orbel40/registration. You can submit your preferences for talks you want to attend, which will allow to optimize the conference...http://orbel.be/news-letter-display.php?news=699Dear all, We are delighted to announce that the next edition of the European Conference on Queueing Theory (ECQT) will be held on May 11–13, 2026 in Reykjavík, Iceland. A call for abstracts will follow soon, along with more information on the con...http://orbel.be/news-letter-display.php?news=698Dear colleagues,   VeRoLog, the EURO working group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics optimization, is organizing its 2026 doctoral dissertation prize. The prize is open to PhD theses in operations research for transportation and logistics that were defended between  January 1, 2025 and De...http://orbel.be/news-letter-display.php?news=697Dear National Society Presidents and Representatives   I’m delighted to let you know that the abstract submission system for the 24th IFORS Triennial Conference in 2026 is now open.   Conference details can be found at: Home   Abstract submission: Abstract submission &n...http://orbel.be/news-letter-display.php?news=696DA2PL 2026 (From Multiple Criteria Decision Aid to Preference Learning) aims to bring together researchers from decision analysis and machine learning. It provides a forum for discussing recent advances and identifying new research challenges in the intersection of both fields, thereby supporting a ...http://orbel.be/news-letter-display.php?news=695 Call for Applications for the EURO Doctoral Dissertation Award 2026 The EDDA jury will only consider dissertations in Operational Research defended between 1 January 2024 and 31 December 2025. The dissertation must have been defended in a University located in a member count...http://orbel.be/news-letter-display.php?news=694The 22nd ESICUP meeting on Cutting & Packing will be organized in beautiful Natal, Brazil. The dates are April 27-30, 2026. More details of the meeting can be found on the meeting's webpage: https://www.euro-online.org/websites/esicup/22nd-esicup-meeting/ Abstract submission details can be...http://orbel.be/news-letter-display.php?news=693  Dear colleagues and friends,  The next ORBEL conference will be held in Leuven on February 5 and 6 (2026); all information is available on the website https://feb.kuleuven.be/orbel40 The abstract submission deadline has been extended until Monday December 15.  This is the ultimat...http://orbel.be/news-letter-display.php?news=692INOC 2026 - Call for Papers INOC 2026, the International Network Optimization Conference, provides a forum for researchers in the broad field of network optimization to present and publish their latest results and ongoing research. INOC is the conference of the European Network Optimization Group (...http://orbel.be/news-letter-display.php?news=691 https://www.euro-online.org/web/pages/1568/natcor-bursaries NATCOR (http://www.natcor.ac.uk/), a National Taught Course Centre in Operational Research, delivers taught courses to PhD students, from across Europe, on a number of different topics in OR. Attending Courses EURO is advertisin...http://orbel.be/news-letter-display.php?news=690  Dear colleagues and friends, we look forward to hosting all of you in Leuven on February 5 and 6 (2026) for the next ORBEL conference. The abstract submission system is open via the website https://feb.kuleuven.be/orbel40 Important dates: Abstract submission deadline: December 5, 2025 No...