ICAPS 2012 is being held nearby São Paulo. The Planning and Scheduling Summer School (well, it is winter here in the Southern hemisphere right now) was really interesting, but I might say that there is much that I need to learn about planning. Up to now, I was just an operations research practitioner with a lot of interest in scheduling problems. That changed somewhat with Roman Barták’s class about solving planning problems with CP (which is a technique I enjoy a lot). Besides, planning represents a quite different way of observing the reality and solve its problems. I will try to play a little with its methods someday.
To conclude with these first impressions, the Doctoral Consortium held this morning was a valuable source of advice from young post-docs and professors. I wish I heard some of those when I was still an undergrad student. Nevertheless, many of them are still valid to plan my career.
Thiago Serra 