Important dates Abstract submission Committees List of participants Country statistics PhD students Program Plenary speakers Peer reviewed publications Travel and practical information Tromsø Pre and post conference activities Accommodation Registration and booking Sponsors Pictures TRISTAN VIII	Sponsors If your organization could be interested in sponsoring TRISTAN VII, please get in touch with one of the organizers.   Due to the generous support from EUME, the European chapter on metaheuristics, we have been able to waive the conference fee for a number of PhD students. Transportation Science & Logistics Society of INFORMS We gratefully acknowledge the official sponsorship and financial support from the Transportation Science and Logistics Society of INFORMS. We gratefully acknowledge the official sponsorship and financial support from EURO. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the eVITA and Smartrans programmes of The Research Council of Norway. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from Distribution Innovation AS. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from Jeppesen. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from DNV. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from MARINTEK. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support from Tromsø kommune (the Municipality of Tromsø). Published April 11, 2008