[Opt-Net] Abstract Submission Deadline Approaching: EURO mini-Conference on Optimization in the Natural Sciences

[Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber]

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                   Call for Abstracts (Extended dates)
      EURO mini-Conference on Optimization in the Natural Sciences
                          (EURO mini 2014)
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  Dear Colleagues,

  the organizers of the EURO mini-Conference on Optimization in the   
Natural Sciences (EURO mini 2014) have a pleasure to invite you to   
take part in this conference to be held in Aveiro, Portugal on 5-9   
February, 2014, http://minieuro2014.web.ua.pt/.

  The conference aims at discussing the latest research in   
optimization and its applications to the Natural Sciences. The main   
objective of the meeting is to encourage the exchange of knowledge   
and recent achievements, and to establish collaborations among   
researchers and practitioners working in the areas of
  Computer  Science / Optimization / Statistics, and Physics /  
Chemistry /  Biology / Medical Sciences.

  We welcome abstracts related to any  aspects of optimization in the  
Natural Sciences, in particular,
related to the following topics:

  Topics
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  o Analysis of microarray data or next generation sequencing
  o Applications of modeling and optimization in physics, biology,   
chemistry, and medicine
  o Billiard theory and applications
  o Biomedical engineering
  o Design optimization
  o Data visualization for optimal decisions
  o Image processing
  o Infinite and semi-infinite optimization with applications
  o Inverse problems
  o Linear and nonlinear optimization and applications
  o Multi-criteria optimization with applications
  o Multi-scale optimization with applications
  o Optimal control applied to biological models
  o Optimal mass transfer
  o Optimization in bioinformatics and computational biology
  o Shape optimization
  o Solution of optimization problems using statistical methods
  o Statistics in high-dimensional data
  o Statistical methods and visualization
  o Statistical and probabilistic modeling
  o Wave scattering


  Abstracts should be written in English and contain no more than 600  
characters (no formulas or mathematical notations are allowed). Each  
attendee is allowed to present ONE paper at the conference. To submit  
an abstract, please use the abstract submission system of EURO-Online  
available on the conference website (http://minieuro2014.web.ua.pt/).

  Location and Venue
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The conference will be held in Aveiro city (Portugal). Aveiro is  
located about 80km from the Porto Airport and 250km from Lisbon  
Airport. However is quite easy and quick to travel from any of these  
cities to Aveiro: 2h30 from Lisbon and 40min from Porto.

  Aveiro is situated on the estuary of Vouga river and is surrounded  
by a system of marshlands that run 50km parallel to the sea. The  town  
has famous channels where typical boats (moliceiro) sail, bridges and  
pastel-coloured houses that are somewhat reminiscent of  Amsterdam or  
Venice.  A special attention deserve:  Aveiro Cathedral (15th-18th  
centuries)  and its gothic cross; Misericórdia Church; São Bartolomeu  
and Senhora das Barrocas chapels; 18th-century churches of Santo  
António, Nossa  Senhora da Apresentação and São Gonçalo; the Regional  
Museum (housed  in the ancient Convento de Jesus); the city hall and  
beautiful  building in the New Art style; the train station and the  
beautiful  tiles of the old Fonte Nova factory (1916) where the  
Cultural and
  Congress Center is situated now; the Infante D. Pedro park; the   
Barra and Costa Nova beaches (the last one is also known for its   
typical beach houses); Humberto Delgado square; Carcavelos bridge  and  
S. Roque channel.

  Invited Speakers
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  o Aleksander Dudin, Belarusian State University, Belarus,    
http://www.apa.bsu.by/
  o Giuseppe Buttazzo, Department of Mathematics, University of Pisa,   
Italy, http://www.dm.unipi.it/pages/buttazzo/
  o Gueorgui Smirnov, University of Minho, Portugal,   
http://intranet.uminho.pt/4881.page
  o Leonid Bunimovich, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA,
   
http://people.math.gatech.edu/~bunimovh/<http://people.math.gatech.edu/%7Ebunimovh/>
  o Michael Greenacre, Department of Economics and Business,   
University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain,
  http://www.barcelonagse.eu/faculty.php?id=118
  o Sergey Tabachnikov, Pennsylvania State University, Department of   
Mathematics, USA, http://www.math.psu.edu/tabachni/

  Important Dates
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  o Extended deadline for abstract submission: 15/11/2013
  o Notification of acceptance: 30/11/2013
  o Deadline for registration fee payment for inclusion in the   
abstract book: 15/01/2014

  Registration Fee
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  o Regular early (up to 7/12/2013): 285 euros
  o Regular late (up to 15/01/2014): 360 euros
  o Student early (up to 1/12/2013): 150 euros
  o Student late (up to 15/01/2014): 200 euros
  o Accompanying person:  50 euros
  Conference fee includes a get-together party, coffee breaks,   
participant's package, abstract book and participation in all the   
sessions.

  Organizing Institutions
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  o EURO - The Association of European Operational Research Societies,
  http://www.euro-online.org<http://www.euro-online.org/>.
  o EUROPT - EURO Working Group on Continuous Optimization,
  http://europt.iam.metu.edu.tr/.
  o CIDMA - Center for Research & Development in Mathematics and   
Applications, http://cidma.mat.ua.pt/ma/home.php.
  o Department of Mathematics, University of Aveiro, http://www.ua.pt/dmat/.

   Secretariat
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  Neusa Lagarto, neusa at ua.pt<mailto:neusa at ua.pt>.

  Contacts
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  For all questions please contact:
  DMAT-miniEURO2014 at ua.pt<mailto:DMAT-miniEURO2014 at ua.pt>.
  Please visit our website http://minieuro2014.web.ua.pt/ for more information.