Dear Colleagues, Please find attached an announcement and cfp for the OR 2011 International Conference on Operations Research which will take place at the University of Zurich from August 30 to September 2, 2011. There will be a special stream on "Financial modeling, risk management and banking". Kind regards, Roland Mestel Institute of Banking and Finance University of Graz ************************************************************************** OR 2011 Zurich, Switzerland, August 30 to September 2, 2011 Announcement / Call for Papers This international conference on operations research will take place in Zurich, Switzerland. The conference of the three German speaking OR societies GOR, ÖGOR and SVOR is under the patronage of the Swiss OR Society (SVOR) and hosts at the same time the respective annual meetings of the three OR societies. The main goal of the conference is to bring together members of the international OR community to discuss scientific progresses in various subfields of OR in a truly interdisciplinary spirit. For further information, please visit the website: www.or2011.ch<http://www.or2011.ch> :: Plenary/Semi-plenary lectures: http://www.or2011.ch/topics_program/lectures :: Streams and chairs: http://www.or2011.ch/topics_program :: Program/organizing committee: http://www.or2011.ch/topics_program/program_committee All members of the OR/MS community are invited to participate in the OR 2011! Hans-Jakob Lüthi, chair organizing committee Director of the Institute for Operations Research (IFOR), ETH Zurich Karl Schmedders, chair program committee Director of the Institute for Operations Research (IOR), University of Zurich **************************************************************************