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This course is only a brief introduction to the world of optimization and we hope it is just the beginning of your engagement with the community. During and after this course you can engage with the optimization community by participating in online groups, attending conferences, and enrolling in summer schools. Below are lists of well established venues that can help you get involved with the community.

Internet Communities

• Association for Constraint Programming (ACP)
• Optimization Online
• OR Exchange
• sci.op-research
• NEO VRP

Optimization Conferences

• Constraint Programming : 2013, 2012, 2011
• EURO
• Informs
• Integration of Artificial Intelligence and Operations Research techniques in Constraint Programming : 2013, 2012, 2011
• Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization : 2013
• International Symposium Mathematical Programming : 2012
• Mixed Integer Programming Workshop : 2013

Summer Schools

• ACP Summer School : 2013, 2012, 2011
• International Optimisation Summer School : 2014, 2013

Blogs

• Constraint Applications Blog by Helmut Simonis
• Constraint Programming
• Constraint Programming Standardization Blog
• Computational Operations Research
• disORiented
• greenOR
• Michael Trick’s Operations Research Blog
• My Constraint Programming Blog
• Operations Research in the World Around Us
• OR at Work
• O.R. by the Beach
• OR Complete
• OR in an OB World
• ThinkOR - Think Operations Research
• Yet Another Math Programming Consultant