On August 17th, I will present an article about what I’ve been working on my M.Sc. thesis at the Brazilian Symposium on Operations Research (shortened SBPO in Brazil). This article is authored by me and some colleagues from work. We are tackling the problem of scheduling offshore resources to develop oil wells with Constraint Programming (CP). It took a great effort to present so much about the problem and how to solve it in a way that it accessible to a broader audience (I hope we have managed to do that). There are four other papers competing for the best paper award. We will try our best there. Anyway, I’m glad by the nomination.
The 2011 SBPO will be held in Ubatuba, a beach town half-way between São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.
Thiago Serra 
Thiago, good luck with the paper competition!
Thank you!