{"id":27,"date":"2009-08-09T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/?p=27"},"modified":"2020-09-22T02:02:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T02:02:13","slug":"mista-conference-almost-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/graham-kendall.com\/blog\/mista-conference-almost-there\/","title":{"rendered":"MISTA Conference: Almost There"},"content":{"rendered":"

The MISTA conference<\/a> is almost upon us.<\/p>\n

It was an early start this morning (3am) in order to get to Dublin on the 06:35 flight out of East Midlands Airport. We were actually in the hotel by 09:00 and, thankfully, they had rooms ready so it was not too bad.<\/p>\n

We spent the day getting things ready, as far as we could. The real work will start tomorrow and it looks like being a long day. I think we’ll open the registration desk at 07:30 and we’ll return from the Guinness Storehouse at around midnight.<\/p>\n

In between that, we have a Plenary Talk by Moshe Dror (“\u2018Strong\u2019-\u2018Weak\u2019 Precedence in Scheduling: Extended Order Implications<\/span>“), followed by 36 papers, split into nine sessions (the full program can be downloaded from here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

For me (and this is a personal viewpoint; not talking as the conference chair) the highlight is the Sports Scheduling session as this is a particular interest of mine, as you’ll see from my previous blog postings. The papers in this session are:<\/p>\n