Dear scheduling researcher, We are delighted to announce the talk given by John W. Fowler (Arizona State Univ.). The title is " Scheduling Problems in Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication Facilities: Part 1". The seminar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, March 2 at 14:00 UTC. Join Zoom Meeting https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/96133782270?pwd=VVFGRGJoSS9IZ1d5NkRyamFiZUh5QT09 Meeting ID: 961 3378 2270 Passcode: 292650 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 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 first part, we describe the manufacturing process and identify typical scheduling problems found in semiconductor manufacturing systems at the workstation, work area, factory, and supply chain levels. We also discuss approaches for scheduling problems with secondary resources and for factory level scheduling. The next talk in our series will be given by: Lars Mönch (Uni of Hagen) | March 16 | Scheduling Problems in Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication Facilities: Part 2 For more details, please visit https://schedulingseminar.com/ With kind regards Zdenek, Mike and Guohua -- Zdenek Hanzalek Industrial Informatics Department, Czech Institute of Informatics, Robotics and Cybernetics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Jugoslavskych partyzanu 1580/3, 160 00 Prague 6, Czech Republic https://rtime.ciirc.cvut.cz/~hanzalek/