The department has announced vacant PhD Research Scholar positions. The application deadline is 15 September 2021 with start date 15 August 2022: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/207167/phd-research-scholar-positions-in-business-economics-and-management-science

The University of Klagenfurt is pleased to announce the following open position at the Department of Mathematics at the Faculty of Technical Sciences with a negotiable starting date, commencing on October 1, 2021 at the latest:

Assistant Professor (postdoc), non-tenure track (all genders welcome)
Level of employment: 100 %
Minimum salary: € 55,242.60 per annum (gross); classification according to collective agreement: B1 lit. b
Limited to: 6 years
Application deadline: July 7, 2021
Reference code: 207/21

More information at: https://jobs.aau.at/en/job/assistant-professor-postdoc-non-tenure-track-all-genders-welcome/

Open Position: Optimisation & Decision Support Consultant at Tieto Norway (Oslo)

We seek a high performing Consultant to work in our Optimisation and Decision Support Practice which delivers consulting and implementation services to our customers globally. The selected candidate will be working with some of the largest oil & gas companies in the world helping them improve their decision processes through designing and implementing optimisation algorithms, providing advanced decision support and implementing KPI based planning methods.

Responsibilities
. Facilitating and leading workshops with clients, with the purpose of analysing and gathering user requirements and documenting business processes
. Analysis of business requirements and present findings concisely.
. Model decision processes and value chains
. Performing opportunity mapping, gap analysis, identify risks, identify dependencies and recommendations for process improvement
. Integration of domain-specific optimisation models across the oil and gas value chain

Skills
. Keen interest in taking decision making and algorithm performance to the next level.
. Self-driven, ambitious and willing to take ownership of projects/tasks
. Desire to learn and adapt new skills, tools and technologies
. Willing to work in a highly complex environment
. Able to cooperate with business stakeholders at multiple levels of an organization
. Excellent communication skills (written and verbal) in English
. Ability to work in multi-cultural set up and in distributed teams
. Ability to start with minimum information and proactively gain knowledge
. Solid understanding of the upstream Oil & Gas value chain

Qualifications
. Master’s degree or higher within Operations Research, Cybernetics, Algorithm design or similar
. Experience from business consulting, optimisation consulting, advanced analytics consulting or similar is preferable

To apply, please send a CV and a cover letter to Jorgen.Rakke@tieto.com

About Tieto

At Tieto we are a team of professionals spread across many countries who are working on the frontline of a wide range of industries. We inspire, we engage and we deliver. We have global capabilities and a strong presence where our clients need it – in the Nordics or via local delivery centres across the globe.
Are you looking for a career with a company that both challenges and cares? Welcome to Tieto. We are committed to developing enterprises and society through information technology. We believe in openness, independent thinking, and in giving our people the freedom to be their exceptional selves. We are the largest Nordic IT services company providing full lifecycle services for both private and public sectors. Our work puts us at the frontline of a wide range of industries.
We offer you the chance to make a difference and be part of the forefront of emerging businesses and technology, exchanging ideas with the best professionals. You will cooperate with colleagues in an international and evolving working environment, and increase your knowledge in a variety of areas.
We offer you a challenging position with great opportunities for professional growth. With us you will have the opportunity to directly influence your career development. If you have a good idea, people will listen to you. We believe that trust fosters freedom and creativity. Our culture is built on transparency and active sharing – a truly open environment.
Interested? We look forward to receiving your application and the opportunity to discuss with you!

Call for applications to the NHH Summer course on Rural Logistics

We invite applicants for the summer course on Rural Logistics offered by the Department of Business and Management Science at NHH Norwegian School of Economics. The applicants must be Ph.D. or Master students. The course will run from Sunday August 12 morning to Saturday August 18 lunch, 2018.
For this course, there is no registration fee but the number of places is limited. To apply the candidates must submit a CV and a recommendation letter from a professor, preferably the thesis adviser. This application must submitted before June 1 by email to Julio C. Góez at julio.goez@nhh.no. The results of the selection process will be announced on June 15.

Lunches and social activity:
During the course, there will be lunches and refreshments offer. Additionally, we will have an afternoon with a social activity and dinner. The cost for the lunches, social activity and dinner is NOK 1350, and this cost must be covered by the attendees.

Accommodation:
The attendees have the option to share a room at the Bergen Hostel Montana, which includes breakfast. The cost per person for this accommodation is NOK 4500 for seven nights, and it must be cover by the attendees. To reserve a place with this option the attendees must confirm the reservation with Natalia Florez at Natalia.Florez@nhh.no before June 20.

EURO-NORS Scholarship:
We currently have three scholarships sponsored by EURO and NORS to cover the following local expenses:
• Local accommodation in double rooms at the Bergen Hostel Montana, which includes breakfast;
• Lunches and refreshments during the course breaks
• And one afternoon with a social activity and dinner

The rest of the meals must be cover by the applicant; the travel expenses are not included in the scholarship.

To qualify for this scholarship the student must come from one of the countries with an existing society associated with EURO. The three beneficiaries of the scholarship will be selected from the pool of applicants qualified to take it, and the results of the selection process will be announced on June 15.

Course Description:
The Far North has its special challenges in terms of logistics planning. This course on rural logistics, focused on areas with a low density of people, long distances and difficult access conditions. Logistics planning in rural areas, such as the High North, is very different from logistics planning in cities and densely populated areas. The logistic issues related with rural areas are not well cover by the existing literature, for example timing of services is much more important than capacity – the bus is never full, but IS there a bus? We will focus on developing planning models for logistics when distances are vast, environmental uncertainties high, and connectedness is more important than capacity (contrary to city logistics). The course will be open to both master and PhD students. For more information contact Julio C. Góez at julio.goez@nhh.no.

This course has six modules:
1. Introduction to rural logistics
2. Industrial logistics in remote areas
3. Maritime transportation
4. Healthcare in underserved areas
5. Distribution in rural areas
6. Collaborative logistics

Course Lecturers
1. Marilène Cherkesly, UQAM
2. Claude Comtois, U. de Montréal
3. Teodore Garbriel Crainic, UQAM
4. Kjetil Fagerholt, NTNU
5. Mario Guajardo, NHH
6. Marie-Ève Rancourt, HEC Montréal
7. Stein W. Wallace, NHH

SINTEF Digital is searching for Postdoctoral candidate at SINTEF Optimization

The Optimization group at SINTEF Digital is looking for a professional and dedicated postdoctoral candidate. The candidate will be working within the basic research project “Design and Experimental Analysis of Novel Integrated Optimization Methods” (AXIOM) funded by the Research Council of Norway. Keywords are discrete optimization, matheuristics, cooperative methods, parallel and heterogeneous computing, GPU, vehicle routing, inventory routing. The duration of the position will be two years, with the intention to make it a permanent position if all parties are interested.

About SINTEF Optimization:

The Optimization group currently consists of 17 researchers and software engineers. It is one of eight groups within the Department of Mathematics and Cybernetics. For the past 20 years, we have been developing optimization methods, software prototypes, libraries, and components. We have built expertise at an international level and have a good publication record. The group conducts basic and applied research on discrete optimization for planning, scheduling, routing, sequencing, and timetabling. Our main market areas are transportation: road, railway, maritime, aviation; healthcare; sports; energy; and finance. We develop our own software libraries that have been refined over many years and contain a range of different solution methods (exact and approximate), but we also utilize commercial solvers. We commercialize our results, either through existing solution vendors, spin-off companies, or directly to end users. Our revenues come from users in industry and the public sector, often supported by Norwegian or EU funding bodies.

The AXIOM project: SINTEF has two partners: 1) Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management at NTNU (project owner) 2) Molde University College. Collaboration with world leading research groups from Portugal, Canada, USA, Italy, Brazil is an integral part. The main objective is to design novel integrated methods for solving complex discrete optimization problems. Expected results are innovative methods that combine elements from exact methods and metaheuristics and utilize cooperative search, task parallelism, and data parallelism. AXIOM has four work packages (WPs). WP1 starts from exact methods and analyzes how these methods can be extended and improved using heuristics. WP2 investigates how exact methods are best utilized within a metaheuristic framework. WP3 develops cooperative search methods that fully utilize all processing units of modern PCs and are flexible and scalable. In WP4 experimental data are collected, analyzed, and synthesized into new knowledge and understanding. The candidate will mainly work within WP3.

Qualifications: As a postdoc in AXIOM, your responsibilities will involve development of cooperative search methods for vehicle routing problems. We are looking for candidates with a PhD in applied mathematics, operations research, or computer science. Fluency in English is expected, along with excellent communication and presentation skills. Moreover, you should be curious, inventive, have a proactive attitude, and be a good team player.

Expertise: We require a solid background in combinatorial optimization. We seek candidates with expertise in several of the following areas:

• Parallel computing (task and data parallelism, heterogeneous computing)
• Mathematical programming and decomposition methods
• Heuristics, metaheuristics, and matheuristics
• Cooperative search
• Vehicle routing and inventory routing

Software development skills:

• We are looking for candidates with excellent programming skills (C#, C++),
  GPU programming in particular (CUDA).

We offer:

• Challenging research tasks in a project team of international experts.
• A good work environment with skillful, experienced, and creative research
  colleagues.
• Well-established national and international scientific and industrial networks.
• Competitive salary (subject to qualifications).
• A large degree of autonomy, and flexible working hours.
• Social benefits (pension plan, insurance, possibility for kindergarten, etc.).

Duration: The duration will be two years, with the intention to make it a permanent position if all parties are interested. Start date: July 1 2018.

To apply, click here.

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology is searching for a postdoctoral candidate with background in Operations Research at the Department of Industrial Economics and Technology Management. More information here: NTNU-Post-doc-position

* Call for Applications – 15 January till 15 March 2018 * The German-Norwegian Scholarship Programme for Energy Sciences * www.eon-stipendienfonds.de *

E.ON Stipendienfonds is a scholarship fund designed to promote and strengthen German-Norwegian academic relations in the field of energy sciences. This is achieved by awarding mobility grants to Master / PhD students and junior researchers. In addition, the aim is to organize workshops, conferences and seminars and further expand the existing alumni network.

The next invitation to apply for scholarships runs from 15 January till 15 March 2018. Applications may only be submitted online.

Scholarships
The exchange scholarship is offered by E.ON Stipendienfonds to Norwegian and German Master and PhD students studying Energy Sciences in the partner country, Germany or Norway, with a strong and clear focus on Energy in a wide sense – ideally with an interdisciplinary approach.

• Here you can find the actual Call for Applications for scholarships.

DTU CEE Summer School brings together academics and industry professionals from around the world, in an intensive 5-day course, where they learn about the latest developments in optimization for energy systems, connect, and exchange ideas. Distinguished speakers from the US and Europe, excelling both in research and teaching, are invited to give 4-hour lectures both providing the fundamentals and introducing advanced topics in their field.

The DTU CEE Summer School 2018 aims to give participants practical experience with the latest developments in optimization for energy systems. Participants of the course will:

• Gain practical experience with optimization techniques applied to energy systems
• See relevant examples of these techniques used in cutting-edge research
• Sharpen their peer review and feedback skills by reviewing other participants’ work

The summer school focuses in particular on optimal power flow, distributionally robust optimization, convex relaxations, data-driven methods, integrated energy systems and consumer-centric electricity markets.  More information about registration and program available here.