OR in Life Sciences and Education - Trends, History and Ethics

Description

That this new Selected Topic of "OR in Life Sciences and Education - Trends, History and Ethics" is given, reflects both the rapid changes which the modern world is experiencing, as challenges and chances, and that our OR has responded to these developments by offering scientific hospitality to researchers and practioneers, by providing and refining the methods needed. The foundation of corresponding EURO Working Groups and of working groups of national OR societies has been milestones on this way. Those changes are sometimes associated with labels such as, e.g., global warming, financial crisis, globalization, swine flu, and there are the UN Millennium Development Goals, especially, to fight poverty. Our new Selected Topic invites colleagues from all disciplinary backgrounds to meet, to present and further discuss how modern, interdisciplinary OR with its quantitative methods contributes to urgent problems of our societies, of nature ("bio") and environment, with a special emphasis on the "human factor", the "social factor", on the improvement of living conditions and on ethics.