Call For Papers – deadline March 1st ************************************************************ ********* Session on "OR Methods and Their Applications in Healthcare for Development" 23rd European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXIII), Bonn, Germany, July 5-8, 2009, (see http://www.euro-2009.de). ************************************************************ ********* You are invited to submit an abstract to present a paper at "OR Methods and Their Applications in Healthcare for Development" in the stream "OR for Development", which will be concerned with developing countries. It is within the main stream 15, OR for Development and Developing Countries at the EURO XXIII conference. Please use code number cfbfe97b for submission of invited abstracts, or email us of your intention to submit an abstract (address below). All kinds of papers are welcome whether theoretical or practical case studies. As you may know, the acceptance of papers is based on abstracts. Submission is on-line and the deadline for abstract submission is 1st March, 2009. The deadline for early registration is 1st April, 2009. May we also mention A EURO ORD Workshop on OR for Developing Countries --- Young Researchers and PhD Symposium, July 4, 2009, University of Applied Sciences, Remagen (near Bonn), Germany. Contact: Chandra Sekhar [log in to unmask] or Honora Smith, see below. Also may we give details of a special issue: http://www.euro-2009.de/Call%20for%20Papers%20-%20Organizacija% 20special%20issue.pdf on this topic, to which you are welcome to submit if you join us in July 2009! Many thanks Honora Smith, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber If you plan to submit an abstract can you please contact either of us: Dr Honora Smith School of Mathematics University of Southampton, UK, e-mail: [log in to unmask] Prof. Dr. Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber Institute of Applied Mathematics Middle East Technical University 06531 Ankara, Turkey E-mail: [log in to unmask]