“Ag Analytics” track at the upcoming 2017 INFORMS Annual Meeting in Houston is organised by Robin Lougee. Unfortunately, the submissions deadline has past but it might be of interest to our community.  It’s a challenge for the track to get people who aren’t traditional INFORMS members from the larger agriculture analytics community to pay for themselves to attend - but they have got people from CGIAR, Raj Khosla (precision Ag, Colorado State University), and others lined up.

More info at: http://meetings2.informs.org/wordpress/houston2017/

There is an opening for an Assistant Professor in our Operations Research and Logistics group at Wageningen University. If you are interested follow the link:

http://www.wur.nl/en/Jobs/Vacancies/Show/Assistant-Professor-in-Operations-Research-and-Logistics-Tenure-Track.htm

Feel free to get in touch with Renzo Akkerman (sender of the information).

1st International Conference on Agro Big Data and Decision Support Systems in Agriculture September 27-29 2017, Montevideo, Uruguay http://www.bigdssagro.udl.cat/?q=node/75&language=en

The BigDSSAgro conference is devoted to decision support systems in agriculture, which combine models, databases and algorithms to support many real-world decision-making problems.

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We have an open tenure track position for Associate or Assistant Professor in Operations Research at Aalto University, as described in the two attachments and the following link: http://www.aalto.fi/en/about/careers/jobs/view/1140/

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Dear colleagues,

Concepcion Maroto, as an organizer of the stream OR in Agriculture (Area: OR in Natural Resources) for the 21^st Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, which will be held in Quebec, Canada, July 17-21, 2017, is inviting you to submit an abstract of your research in the area of OR in Agriculture,

OR in Agriculture (code 9985bcbf)

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