History of IPCO

The origins of IPCO

Since then, IPCO has become one of the main events in mathematical programming. It has a high level of quality and an excellent visibility within the community. By all conceivable measures, the IPCO conference series is a success.

A concise history of IPCO

IPCO I was held at the University of Waterloo, Canada, May 28-30, 1990. It was organized by Ravi Kannan and William R. Pulleyblank. There were 76 papers submitted and 36 papers accepted. The proceedings (ISBN 0-88898-099-X) were published by University of Waterloo Press.
IPCO II was held at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA, May 25-27, 1992. It was organized by Egon Balas, Gerard Cornuejols, and William R. Pulleyblank. There were 74 papers submitted and 33 papers accepted. The proceedings were published by University Printing and Publications, Carnegie Mellon University.
IPCO III was held at Centro Ettore Majorana, Erice, Italy, April 29 - May 1, 1993. It was organized by Giovanni Rinaldi and Laurence A. Wolsey. There were 83 papers submitted and 35 papers accepted. The proceedings were published by CIACO, Louvain-la-Neuve.
IPCO IV was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, May 29-31, 1995. It was organized by Egon Balas and Jens Clausen. There were 105 papers submitted and 36 papers accepted. The proceedings (ISBN 3-540-59408-6) were published as Volume 920 in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
IPCO V was held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, June 3-5, 1996. It was organized by William H. Cunningham, S. Thomas McCormick, and Maurice Queyranne. There were 99 papers submitted and 36 papers accepted. The proceedings (ISBN 3-540-61310-2) were published as Volume 1084 in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
IPCO VI was held at Rice University, Houston, USA, June 22-24, 1998. It was organized by Robert Bixby, Andrew Boyd, and Roger Z. Rios. There were 77 papers submitted and 32 papers accepted. The proceedings (ISBN 3-540-64590-X) were published as Volume 1412 in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
IPCO VII was held in Graz, Austria, June 9-11, 1999. It was organized by Gerard Cornuejols, Rainer E. Burkard, and Gerhard J. Woeginger. There were 99 papers submitted and 33 papers accepted. The proceedings (ISBN 3-540-66019-4) were published as Volume 1610 in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
IPCO VIII was held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, June 13-15, 2001. It was organized by Karen Aardal and Bert Gerards. There were 108 papers submitted and 32 papers accepted. The proceedings (ISBN 3-540-42225-0) were published as Volume 2081 in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
IPCO IX was held at MIT, Boston, USA, May 27-29, 2002. It was organized by Bill Cook and Andreas Schulz. There were 110 papers submitted and 33 papers accepted. The proceedings (ISBN 3-540-43676-6) were published as Volume 2337 in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
IPCO X was held at Columbia University, New York, USA, June 9-11, 2004. It was organized by Dan Bienstock and George Nemhauser. There were 109 papers submitted and 32 papers accepted. The proceedings (ISBN 3-540-22113-1) were published as Volume 3064 in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
IPCO XI was held at the TU Berlin, Germany, June 8-10, 2005. It was organized by Michael Juenger and Volker Kaibel. There were 119 papers submitted and 34 papers accepted. The proceedings (ISBN 3-540-26199-0) were published as Volume 3509 in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
IPCO XII was held at Cornell University, USA, June 25-27, 2007. It was organized by Matteo Fischetti and David Williamson. There were 120 papers submitted and 36 papers accepted. The proceedings (ISBN 978-3-540-72791-0) were published as Volume 4513 in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
IPCO XIII was held at Bertinoro, Italy, May 26-28, 2008. It was organized by Andrea Lodi, Alessandro Panconesi, and Giovanni Rinaldi. There were 95 papers submitted and 32 papers accepted. The proceedings (ISBN 978-3-540-68886-0) were published as Volume 5035 in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

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