ORM, Operations Research Applications in Mining, is an academic initiative to facilitate the meeting of operations researchers and industrial specialists to discuss about the new challenges that mining industry is facing.

ORM 2008 is going to be held in Viña del Mar. The purpose of the workshop is to present leading work in the area; discuss state-of-the-art techniques to model mining problems and to develop a research network in this area.

Conference themes

• Mine Design
• Financial Evaluation of Projects
• Production Planning and Logistics
• Supply Chain Optimization
• Stochastic Optimization
• Mineral resource depletion strategies
• Energy and water consumption in mining
• Models and Algorithms

Octavio Araneda (Codelco)

Brian K Baird (BHP Billiton )

Marcus Brazil (University of Melbourne)

Louis Caccetta (Curtin University)

Eduardo Coloma (Maptek)

Kadri Dagdelen (Colorado School of Mines)

Rafael Esptein (Universidad de Chile)

Juan Ignacio Guzmán  (CRU Strategies)

Alexandra Newman (Colorado School of Mines)

Morteza Osanloo (University of Amirkabir)

Enrique Rubio (Universidad de Chile)

Michael Samis (Ernst & Young )

Doreen Thomas (University of Melbourne)

Kevin Wood (Naval Postgraduate School)

Andres Weintraub (Universidad de Chile)