ISOLDE XVI is over. We thank all participants for wonderful days together. Information about past and future events can be found at isoldeconference.org. ISOLDE XVII will take place in Chicago, IL and Milwaukee, WI, USA on June 15-19, 2026 to be organized by Gita Taherkhani (Loyola University Chicago) and Diana Ramirez-Rios (University at Buffalo).

About ISOLDE XVI

ISOLDE XVI took place from June 25 to June 30 in Kaiserslautern and Baden-Baden, Germany. 

Aims and Scope:

The meeting intends to gather the operations research community from different parts of the world to share experiences in the field of locational analysis. We invite participation from all areas related to location theory including, but not limited to:

  • Continuous Location
  • Network Location
  • Discrete Location
  • Hub Location
  • Location and Logistics
  • Location Decisions in Traffic Planning
  • Network Design
  • Location under Uncertainty
  • Location-Routing
  • Applications of Location Problems
  • Territory Design

Program Committee:

Stefan Nickel (chair) (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany)
Teresa Melo (co-chair) (Saarland University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Sibel Alumur (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Hannah Bakker (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany)
Zvi Drezner (California State University, Fullerton, USA)
Jörg Kalcsics (University of Edinburgh, UK)
Kathrin Klamroth (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany)
Dmitry Krass (University of Toronto, Canada)
Gilbert Laporte (HEC Montréal, Canada)
Vladimir Marianov (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
Alan Murray (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
Justo Puerto (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain)
Francisco Saldanha da Gama (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Mihiro Sasaki (Nanzan University, Japan)
Anita Schöbel (Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau and Fraunhofer ITWM, Germany)
Boglárka G.-Tóth (University of Szeged, Hungary)

Organization Committee:

Anita Schöbel (chair) (Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau and Fraunhofer ITWM, Germany)
Stephanie Beck (Fraunhofer ITWM, Germany)
Ilka Blauth (Fraunhofer ITWM, Germany)
Nicolas Fröhlich (Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany)
Steffen Grützner (Fraunhofer ITWM, Germany)
Knut Haase (Universität Hamburg, Germany)
Horst Hamacher (Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany)
Kathrin Klamroth (Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany)
Lena Leiß (Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany)
Teresa Melo (Saarland University of Applied Sciences, Germany)
Sarah Miezal (Rheinland-Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany)
Sven Müller (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Stefan Nickel (Karlsruher Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany)

Funding