Dear scheduling researcher,

We are delighted to announce the talk given by Andrea Schaerf http://www.dpia.uniud.it/schaerf/ (University of Udine).

The title is "Educational Timetabling: Problems, Benchmarks, Algorithms, and Practical Issues".

The seminar will take place on Zoom on Wednesday, July 7 at 13:00 UTC.

Join Zoom Meeting https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/98579414742?pwd=enQxM2wveUowQ3BZenB1QURKVStadz09 https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/98579414742?pwd=enQxM2wveUowQ3BZenB1QURKVStadz09

Meeting ID: 985 7941 4742 Passcode: 361848

You can follow the seminar online or offline on our Youtube channel as well:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUoCNnaAfw5NAntItILFn4A

The abstract follows.

Educational timetabling problems consist in scheduling a sequence of events (lectures, seminars, or exams) involving teachers and students in a prefixed period of time, satisfying a set of constraints of various types. In this talk, we critically review different formulations, public datasets, and search methods. In particular, we illustrate local search methods, their parameter tuning procedure, and their results. Finally, we discuss practical issues involved in the actual solution of timetabling problems.

The next talk in our series will be in September, stay tuned.

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

With kind regards

Zdenek, Mike and Guohua