Conference preparation; updated country statistics

At this moment there are 299 registered participants, and this number will not significantly change. Today we have sent an email for sharing with all the participants up-to-date information about conference preparation, e. g. web-site updates.

  

You can see statistics of the conference participants by country on the chart below (a larger image is available on click). The red line shows cumulated number of participants on the right-hand axis. If you want to cooperate with other participants from your country when traveling to Jyvaskyla in summer, you can use special contact forum. 

Invited speakers update

There are only 3 invited speakers left: Jared Cohon, Jyrki Kangas and Stanley Zionts.
You can find information about them at www.jyu.fi/en/congress/mcdm2011/Prog/speakers

Registration of presenting persons has finished

As you all know, March 15th was the deadline for registration of the presenting persons, and simultaneously the deadline for early-bird registration. It is time to look at some statistics.

At this moment, 277 persons from 42 countries have been registered and among them, presenters of 245 talks. We expect some more presenting persons to be registered, as the deadline is extended to March 22th on their requests.

The following diagram shows country statistics: bars present participant numbers and the line cumulated number (on the right-side axe).   



UPD. One participand made a mistake when registering: noone from Tonga; +1 from The Netherlands.

The deadline for submitting abstracts has passed

As you know from the Call for Abstracts, the Conference was planned for about 200 participants.

Surprisingly, we have received so many abstracts that developing the conference program becomes a challenge. This positive problem will be solved from two opposite directions:

• Increasing the number of talks. Whether to add the 5th parallel session or to make conference days longer? – this is really hard choice.
• Rejecting part of abstracts, which is much more unpleasant side of the issue. The reviewers are asked to raise the bar for the abstract quality; a number of good abstracts will be probably left behind by the Program Committee, which is a matter of program composition.

If your abstract will be rejected, please do not take it on personal account but on the account of the program tighteness; and consider the possibility to present your results and ideas in a discussion session!

Financial support for young scholars and PhD students

One possibility to cover travel expences to the MCDM2011 conference is taking part in the special pre-conference seminar for young scholars.
UPD: You can also apply for conference fee reimbursement directly at the Conference Committee

1st Call for abstracts

Finally 1st Call for abstracts is published on the conference web-site.

Plenary speakers (in alphabetical order)

Jared Cohon (President, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA)

James P. Ignizio (Professor, University of Texas - Pan American, USA)

Jyrki Kangas (Director General, Metsähallitus, Finland)

Stanley Zionts (Adjunct Professor, The State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, USA)

Call for Applications: MCDM Doctoral Dissertation Award

The International Society on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) will honor the MCDM Doctoral Dissertation Award to a young scholar who has recently obtained a doctoral degree and completed an excellent doctoral dissertation in MCDM and/or related research fields. The award will be announced at the 21st International Conference on MCDM.

The finalists are expected to give a talk at the conference and the final decision will be made after these talks.

Deadline for applications: February 1, 2011. See details on the conference web-page.

Session types

Information about session types is updated. There will be four types of sessions: invited, contributed, industrial and discussion.
Note that a participant cannot give more than one talk in the conference (except for discussion sessions).
See more information about session types on the conference web-page.

The 21st International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making

Welcome to the land of Midnight Sun - June 13-17, 2011! 

Welcome to the 21st International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making! The theme for the Conference is Environment and Policy, which are active areas of application of MCDM tools in Finland (as well as around the world). The Conference will be held in the Agora Building, located on the Mattilanniemi campus of the University of Jyväskylä.

Read more about the conference on the official web-page.

Follow this blog to be up-to-date about conference preparation status.