Dear scheduling researcher,

We are delighted to announce the talk given by Lars Mönch (Uni of Hagen). The title is "Scheduling Problems in Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication Facilities: Part 2". The seminar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, March 16 at 14:00 UTC.

Join Zoom Meeting https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/94701637415?pwd=TWI4ZDVINUNRd3pjWktQNjFDRXJJZz09 Meeting ID: 947 0163 7415 Passcode: 919535

You can follow the seminar online or offline on our Youtube channel as well: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUoCNnaAfw5NAntItILFn4A

The abstract follows. Semiconductors enable the systems and products that we use to work, communicate, travel, entertain, harness the energy, treat illness, make new scientific discoveries, and more. Semiconductor manufacturing is among the most complex manufacturing systems in existence today. This complexity makes scheduling semiconductor manufacturing systems extremely difficult. In this two-part seminar, we discuss scheduling problems in this challenging domain. In the second part, we discuss batch scheduling problems, multiple orders per job scheduling problems, and scheduling problems that include time lags for the jobs. Moreover, scheduling problems related to cluster tools will be also briefly considered. Solution techniques, mainly based on problem decomposition and metaheuristics, will be also discussed. Finally, future research direction for scheduling semiconductor wafer fabrication facilities will be identified. The next talk in our series will be given by: Christian Artigues (LAAS - CNRS) | March 30 | Mixed integer linear programming for resource-constrained scheduling

For more details, please visit https://schedulingseminar.com/

With kind regards

Zdenek, Mike and Guohua