NSERC VCO Network
VCO Summer School 2012
We are pleased to invite you to the Value Chain Optimization (VCO) Summer School 2012 that will take place at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay in Ontario, from May 16th to 18th, 2012.
The 2012 edition of the VCO Summer School starts with a field trip to visit forest operations and sawmill in the Thunder Bay area. The core program is a mix of presentations, showcases, and networking activities. All relevant information related to this Summer School can be found here.
We encourage you to also register for the BIOFOR conference (May 14-15, 2012). This conference focuses on bioenergy, biorefining and bioeconomy, and is being organized by CRIBE and the BRI at Lakehead University. More information about this conference (program, speakers, etc.) can be found at this adress.
Bioenergy from Forest Conference - Bioenergy from root to boiler - from 27th August to 1st of September 2012, at Jyväskylä and Jämsä, Finland
The Conference will focus on the factors affecting the future of the bioenergy systems, management, total procurement chains, the effects of the energy markets, the influence of green marketing and other trends affecting forestry, agriculture, industry and climate.
For more information, please refer to the link below:
CORS/MOPGP’2012
The 54th Annual conference of the Canadian Operational Research Society and the 10th International Conference on Multiple Objective Programming and Goal Programming (CORS/MOPGP’2012) will be held in the wondrous city of Niagara Falls from June 11 to 13, 2012. For further information please visit us
THE FOURTH EurOMA SUMMER SCHOOL
The fourth EurOMA Summer school in operations Management will take place in Budapest, Hungary, between July 9 and 13, 2012.
For the application process please refer to the instructions provided on this website (in the "registration" section).
Students Recruitment- VCO Research Projects
The NSERC Strategic Research Network on Value Chain Optimization (VCO) is looking for candidates to work on different Research Projects (Ph.D).
See the Recruitment section for more informations.
A Ph.D position is open at the Téluq Université du Québec à Montréal (campus of Québec or Montréal). The topic is "Metamodel for knowledge modelling and sharing to support collaborative engineering of decision support systems within fores value chains". See the Recruitment section for more informations.
All VCO workshops reports are now available!
All 6 VCO workshops reports (Biomass, Transportation and Logistics, Agility, Sustainability, Scenario Analysis, Strategic Forest Management) are now available online. Please click here to download
Workshops on Value Chain Optimization - Presentations available!
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IUFRO 2012, Estoril, Lisbon, July 8-13th 2012
IUFRO 2012.pdf
This conference is designed to bring together researchers in forest products and related fields from around the world. Discussion will embrace progress in research to meet rapidly increasing demands for all kinds of forest products, while maintaining the forest as a source of such products and a resource for social, economic and environmental benefits.
For further information on this upcoming event and instructions for authors, please visit the conference website and complete the form "Expression of interest" under the menu " Call for papers".