[Opt-net] Call for Nominations Tseng Lectureship in Optimization

[Sven Leyffer]

Extended Deadline: December 31, 2011

Paul Y. Tseng Memorial Lectureship in Continuous Optimization

The Mathematical Optimization Society invites nominations for the 
Paul Y. Tseng Memorial Lectureship in Continuous Optimization. This 
prize was established in 2011 and will be presented for the first 
time at the Twenty First International Symposium of Mathematical 
Programming (ISMP) in 2012, and triennially at each ISMP thereafter. 
The lectureship was established on the initiative of family and 
friends of Professor Tseng, with financial contributions to the 
endowment also from universities and companies in the Asia-Pacific 
region. The purposes of the lectureship are to commemorate the 
outstanding contributions of Professor Tseng in continuous 
optimization and to promote the research and applications of 
continuous optimization in the Asia-Pacific region.

The lectureship is awarded to an individual for outstanding 
contributions in the area of continuous optimization, consisting 
of original theoretical results, innovative applications, or 
successful software development. The primary consideration in the 
selection process is the quality and impact of the candidate's 
work in continuous optimization. A secondary consideration is to 
select candidates with strong interests to promote continuous 
optimization research in the Asia-Pacific region. However, there 
is no geographic restriction on the candidates.

The prize will be presented at the 2012 International Symposium on 
Mathematical Programming (ISMP), to be held August 19-24, 2012, in 
Berlin, Germany. The Tseng lecture will be arranged in a time slot 
devoted to the presentation of named lectures at ISMP-2012. 

Nomination Material:
The nomination must include a nomination letter of no more than 
two pages and a short CV of the candidate (no more than two pages, 
including selected publications). In addition, the nominator should 
also arrange for 1-2 letters of recommendation. All nomination 
materials should be sent (preferably in electronic form, as pdf 
documents) to the chair of the selection committee, 
   Sven Leyffer, 
   Mathematics and Computer Science Division, 
   Argonne National Laboratory, 
   Argonne, IL 60439, USA, 
   leyffer at mcs.anl.gov.

Extended Deadline:
All nomination materials must be received by December 31, 2011.

Paul Y. Tseng Memorial Lectureship Committee:
  * Sven Leyffer (chair), Argonne National Laboratory, USA.
  * Duan Li, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
  * Stefan Ulbrich, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.
  * Naihua Xiu, Beijing Jiaotong University, China.