The National Science Foundation is sponsoring a series of tutorials that will take place October 9-10, 2004, immediately prior to the conference. These tutorials have been organized by the tutorials chair, David P. Morton.

State-of-the-art surveys in stochastic programming will be presented at the Gallagher Theater, Student Union Memorial Center.

Please click the following line to view the presentation slides of the Tutorials:
1. Andy Philpott -
Introduction to Modelling using Stochastic Programming
2. Maarten H. van der Vlerk -
Introduction to algorithms for recourse models
3. Shabbir Ahmed -
Stochastic integer programming: An algorithmic perspective
4. Rene Henrion -
Optimization Problems with Probabilistic Constraints
5. Georg Pflug -
Scenario Estimation and Scenario Generation
6. Pavel Popela -
Stochastic Programming Applications
7. Gautam Mitra -
Software Tools for Stochastic Programming (Asset and Liability Management Model)

Please click here for more information on:
"Pre-Conference Tutorial Program and ILOG Workshop"

Participants
The tutorials are open to Ph.D. students, other academics and non-academics, and will assume graduate-level knowledge in optimization and in probability. The tutorials are free to full-time academics. A registration fee of $500 applies to non-academic participants. Those attending the tutorials are encouraged to also attend the subsequent SPX Conference.

Scholarships
Full-time Ph.D. students (both US and international) are eligible for scholarships that may used to offset tutorial-related travel costs. Twenty scholarships of up to $500 will be awarded. Please note that faculty nominations are required, and we do not anticipate funding more than one student per department.The deadline for nominations is 30 April 2004. Scholarship applications are available here.

Please contact David P. Morton, our Tutorials Chair, for further information.

If you have questions about the conference, please email us at spx@sie.arizona.edu.