Lunteren (January 13 - 15, 1998)

As usual, there were three mini-courses:
D. Bertsimas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA): Optimization of stochastic systems.
B. Hajek (Coordinated Science Laboratory, Urbana, USA): Dynamic load balancing equilibria.
D. Williamson (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, USA): Approximation algorithms.
The other lectures were presented by B. Gavish (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA), M. Laurent (LIENS, Paris, and CWI, Amsterdam) and R. Möhring (Technical University Berlin, Germany). There was a mini-symposium on Telecommunication and Operations Research with as speakers: B. Gavish (Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA), J.L. van der Berg (KPN Research, Leidschendam) and C.P.M. van Hoesel (Maastricht University). 12 PhD students presented their own research results.