Conference

The 35^th Annual Conference of the Operations Research Society of India (ORSI ) will be held in the College of Engineering, Guindy Campus of Anna University, Chennai - Madras, India. The Chennai Chapter and Bangalore Chapter of ORSI are jointly organizing this event. There is a Conference Home Page , which offers administrative and technical information.

For those interested in the evolvement of OR in India, an essay by Goutam Dutta and Arabinda Tripathy offers valuable insight: Country of Contrasts - INDIA: The world's largest democracy has enormous problems and opportunities for operations researchers, OR/MS Today , February 1998.

Pankaj Gupta and  Anshu Gupta (webmasters@apors2003.com) collected the following information on the Operations Research Society of India:

Founded in 1957, ORSI has the distinction of being first such society among the developing countries. That it was also the first among them to have got affiliated with IFORS in 1959-60 also goes to its credit. We did the developing world proud by sending by two of our members as the representatives to the first IFORS conference in Oxford in 1967. Today, the ORSI boasts of the tenth largest membership among the 45 member countries of IFORS.

Opsearch, the bi-monthly publication of ORSI is the first of its kind in the entire developing world. Being published since 1962, the journal is also older than many OR journals from the developed countries. Opsearch is covered by abstract services, including International Abstracts in OR (IAOR). Currently, in its 38th year of publication, the articles published in Opsearch are available from COPYRIGHT CLEARANCE CENTRE (CCC) of U.S.A.

Location

Chennai, Tamilnadu's capital, is the fourth largest city in India, after Calcutta, Bombay and Delhi. This coastal centre of trade has drawn traffic from all over the world for centuries and maintains a cosmopolitan quality as well as a Tamil air - Dravidian people of southern India and northern Sri Lanka. The centre of South India's film industry, its skyline is ablaze with bright movie billboards advertising the latest celluloid fantasies.

A wealth of sightseeing spots is described by the Tourist information of Chennia : Kapaleswara, Mahabalipuram, Fort St. George, Zoological Park, Guindy National Park and Snake Park Doveton House, Art Gallery, Rahaat Plaza, Spencer Plaza, Valluvar Kottam, Government Museum, Marina and Aquarium, and Kanchipuram.. Also, Destination India by Lonely Planet may help you to plan your visit. Last but not least, forthcoming, the Conference Home Page will point you to special conference tours.