{"id":83,"date":"2006-06-29T14:03:59","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T18:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/?p=69"},"modified":"2006-06-29T14:03:59","modified_gmt":"2006-06-29T18:03:59","slug":"off-to-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/06\/29\/off-to-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"Off to Iceland!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"110\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Iceland Geyser\" title=\"Iceland Geyser\" src=\"http:\/\/www.euro2006.org\/images\/geyser220.jpg\" \/>I leave tomorrow for Iceland for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euro2006.org\">EURO 2006<\/a> conference.   Busy time:  in addition to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifors.org\">IFORS<\/a> Administrative Committee Meeting, I am giving a semi-plenary on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.euro-online.org\/euro21\/display.php?page=treate_abstract&#038;frompage=edit_session_cluster&#038;sessionid=850&#038;paperid=3618\">&#8220;The Society of Operations Research&#8221;<\/a> (more on social capital and OR) and introducing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhsmith.umd.edu\/dit\/faculty\/gass.html\">Saul Gass<\/a> as the IFORS Distinguished Lecturer.<\/p>\n<p>They expect more than 1700 participants at this conference, almost triple their initial expectations of 600.  This has been a huge issue for the organizers since it is a busy period in Reykjavik and there are only about 3000 rooms in the city.  They have done an amazing job!<\/p>\n<p>Since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.informs.org\/Conf\/Pittsburgh06\">INFORMS Pittsburgh<\/a> is also looking larger than expected (with more than 3200 abstracts submitted) it is clear there is quite a bit of enthusiasm for conferences.  I am not sure why that is&#8230;  perhaps the economy is better so people have more travel funds.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to post some thoughts from the conference, along with some Reykjavik pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I leave tomorrow for Iceland for the EURO 2006 conference. Busy time: in addition to the IFORS Administrative Committee Meeting, I am giving a semi-plenary on &#8220;The Society of Operations Research&#8221; (more on social capital and OR) and introducing Saul Gass as the IFORS Distinguished Lecturer. They expect more than 1700 participants at this conference, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/06\/29\/off-to-iceland\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Off to Iceland!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,27,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-ifors","category-pittsburgh-2006"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mat.tepper.cmu.edu\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}