How to Organize an OR Workshop: the AIROYoung Experience

Rossana Cavagnini (), Veronica Dal Sasso (), Valentina Morandi () and Alice Raffaele ()
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Rossana Cavagnini: RWTH Aachen University
Veronica Dal Sasso: Optrail s.r.l.
Valentina Morandi: Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Alice Raffaele: University of Trento

SN Operations Research Forum, 2020, vol. 1, issue 4, 1-14

Abstract: Abstract AIROYoung is the Young Researchers Chapter of AIRO (Italian Association of Operations Research). In this work, we focus on the AIROYoung Workshop, an annual event which has been reuniting young researchers constituting this community from 2017. Describing all the editions of the initiative, we highlight the main guidelines we have been following so far to organize it (e.g., no registration fee, grants for free accommodation, no parallel sessions, and a look to sustainability). We analyze surveys filled by participants to present qualitative and quantitative data about our workshops and to show how interest and attendance have increased through the years. We talk about some innovations we have introduced to improve quality (e.g., the PhD school “from young researchers to young researchers” and the pitch talk session). We then share our personal opinion and, last but not least, we invite young researchers to join in the preparation of the next AIROYoung Workshops.

Keywords: OR community; AIROYoung; Workshop; Organization skills (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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