[Opt-Net] The 7th International Seminar on Optimization and Variational Analysis (OVA7)

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The 7th International Seminar on Optimization and Variational Analysis 
(OVA7) will be held in University of Alicante, the days 1, 2 and 3 of 
June of 2016. This will be the seventh edition of a series of seminars 
organized, since 2007, by the "Optimization and Stability" research 
groups of Alicante and Miguel Hernández (Elche) Universities. The 
website of the event is http://ova7th.wix.com/ova7

This edition will basically consist of 4 plenary talks of 50 minutes, 22 
invited talks of 35 minutes, and a poster session. There will be a 
special session devoted to applications, which will be funded by the 
Gaspard Monge Program for Optimization and Operations Research (PGMO). 
Its principal aim is to establish contacts and to improve the background 
of the involved groups in the tools and techniques of optimization and 
variational analysis, as well as related topics like vector 
optimization, generalized differentiation, and functional analysis, 
among others.

OVA7 will have some special significance because it will be dedicated to 
70th birthday of Prof. Michel Théra (Université de Limoges, France). 
This fact constitutes a challenge for the organizers of the workshop and 
for the Scientific Committee, which is composed by J. Borwein, R. 
Correa, I. Ekeland, M. Goberna, F. Giannessi, J.-B. Hiriart-Urruty, M. 
López-Cerdá, J. Parra, and C. Sagastizabal.

Profs. Regina Burachick, Ivar Ekeland, Jon Borwein and Heinz Bauschke 
have already accepted to be Plenary Speakers in the workshop.

The days 6, 7 and 8 of June, immediately after OVA7, there will be in 
Cartagena (Carthago Nova, 125 km. from Alicante), a new edition of ALEL 
(ALEL 2016), co-organized by the Functional Analysis group of the 
University of Murcia and the universities of Limoges, Alicante and 
Miguel Hernández (Elche). The website of this related event is 
http://www.um.es/beca/alel2016

Looking forward to meeting you in Alicante, during OVA7.