• January 30, 2009 - Deadline for Abstract Submission.
• February 13, 2009 - Notification of acceptance.
• February 27, 2009 - Deadline for early registration and authors registration.
• March 26-27, 2009 - 6th ESICUP Meeting.

Meeting Aims and Objectives
The 6th ESICUP Meeting is the 2009 regular meeting of ESICUP and follows meetings in Wittenberg (Germany), Southampton (United Kingdom), Porto (Portugal), Tokyo (Japan) and L'Aquila (Italy).
ESICUP gathers practitioners, researchers and Operations Research educators with interests in the area of Cutting and Packing. The purpose of ESICUP is to improve communication among individuals working in this field. Besides the promotion of publications, the activities of the group include the maintenance of a web page and the organization of meetings. Founded in 1988, during the EURO/TIMS Conference in Paris, by Prof. Gerhard Waescher and Prof. Harald Dyckhoff, it has now around 600 members, registered on the web site, from the entire world. ESICUP is since 2003 a Working Group of the Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO).

Topics of Interest
In this meeting contributions dealing with any aspect of the Cutting and Packing problems formulation, resolution or application are welcomed. This includes theoretical achievements, algorithms development and real-world implementations. Different problems, related with Cutting and Packing, are also welcomed. Typical, but not exclusive topics of interest are:

• One-Dimensional Problems
• Two-Dimensional Rectangular Problems
• Nesting and irregular shapes packing
• Three-Dimensional Packing
• Bin-Packing
• Container Loading
• Problem generators and benchmarks
• Additional Objectives and Constraints in C&P
• Typologies
• Industrial applications 

• Ramón Álvarez-Valdés, (chair) University of Valencia
• José Manuel Tamarit, University of Valencia
• Francisco Parreño, University of Castilla-La Mancha
• José Manuel Belenguer, University of Valencia

• José Fernando Oliveira, (chair) University of Porto
• Ramón Álvarez-Valdés, University of Valencia
• Julia Bennell, University of Southampton
• António Miguel Gomes, University of Porto
• Gerhard Wäscher, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg