Scientific Program

• 120 minutes of lectures by senior experts including 15 minutes of Q&A;

• 45 minutes presentation by PhD students aiming to describe their research outcomes followed by 15 minutes discussions;

• 60 minutes workshops. During each workshop, every senior scholar will cooperate with 2-3 laureates to improve their papers’ drafts. Hence, the laureates will give every day some feedback and suggestions for their future work. During these 10 days of ESI, all papers should be significantly improved day by day so that they will be almost ready for submission to the special issue of AnOR at the end of the ESI.

Each day’s activity is organized into four sessions:

1. Session 1, starts at 9:00 with a lecture given by a senior scholar;

2. Session 2, starts after the coffee break with a student’s presentation.

3. Session 3, after the lunch break includes two students’ presentations.

4. Session 4, after the coffee break, consists of a student presentation and Workshop coordinated by the senior scholars.

The timetable for the core activities during the insitute is: