This PhD school on Robust Optimization will take place on 8-11 September, 2026 in Porquerolles, France, for four days (arrival on Monday, departure Friday late afternoon or Saturday morning), in line with the previous school organized in 2024.

 

The registration costs will be around 800 euros, which will cover all expenses for the 4 days of the school as well as well as the dinner on Monday. It will end on Friday around 16:00.

 

The school will be comprised of lectures and practical sessions spread over 4 days and will cover different aspects of robust optimization:

• Tuesday: Boris Detienne – modelling, basic considerations, dualization
• Wednesday: Ayse N. Arslan – multi-stage settings, decision rules
• Thursday: Vincent Leclère – distributionally robust optimization
• Friday: Michaël Poss – combinatorial robust optimization 

 

The practical sessions will involve some coding in the Julia language using the mathematical programming package JuMP. It is, therefore, expected that the participants be familiar the basics of the package, which can be downloaded here: https://jump.dev/JuMP.jl/stable/.

We additionally encourage you to install an open source optimization solver package such as Cbc, GLPK or HiGHS.