[Opt-Net] ISMP 2015 - second call for presentations and session proposals

[Fatma Kilinc-Karzan]

Announcement: ISMP 2015 - Second call for presentations and session 
proposals

22ND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING (ISMP 2015)
www.ismp2015.org

The organizers of ISMP 2015 have the great pleasure of inviting you to 
Pittsburgh, PA  USA, July 12-17, 2015. ISMP is the world congress of 
mathematical optimization and is held every three years on behalf of the 
Mathematical Optimization Society.

Second Call for PRESENTATIONS and SESSION PROPOSALS

Presentations on all theoretical, computational and practical aspects of 
mathematical programming in one of the program clusters are welcome. 
Invited and contributed presentations will be organized in parallel 
sessions, each session consisting of three talks. Interested session 
organizers are invited to contact the cluster chairs for their 
particular topic.

The deadline for submitting titles and abstracts of presentations is 
March 2, 2015. There is a one talk per speaker policy at ISMP, i.e., no 
participant will be able to register more than one presentation. 
Abstract submission and registration can be done online, via the 
conference web page at www.ismp2015.org. Notice that ISMP does not have 
published proceedings and it is not possible to submit entire papers. 
But short abstracts of a talks (at most 1200 characters) will appear in 
the book of abstracts.

Important Dates

March 2, 2015: abstract submission deadline
March 27, 2015: notification of abstract acceptance
April 15, 2015: early registration deadline
June 8, 2015: hotel reservation deadline
July 12, 2015: opening ceremony at Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown Hotel


Plenary and semi-plenary speakers for ISMP have been announced:

Plenary Speakers

Laurent El Ghaoui, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Jim Geelen, University of Waterloo, Canada
Daniel Kuhn, EPFL, Switzerland
Daniel A. Spielman, Yale University, USA
Stephen J. Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA


Semi-plenary Speakers

Samuel A. Burer, University of Iowa, USA
Roberto Cominetti, University of Chile, Chile
Michelangelo Conforti, University of Padova, Italy
Tamara G. Kolda, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Andrea Lodi, University of Bologna, Italy
Asu Ozdaglar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Werner Roemisch, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Frank Vallentin, University of Koeln, Germany
Pascal van Hentenryck, NICTA, Australia
Ya-xiang Yuan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China


Conference Venue

The symposium and opening ceremony will take place at the Wyndham Grand 
Pittsburgh Downtown Hotel located at the confluence of Pittsburgh’s 
famed Three Rivers. The conference banquet will be on Wednesday July 
15th and that scientific talks are Monday-Friday 9:00am-6:00pm.


Early registration rate for 2015 MOS members:

Student or retiree: $190
Lifetime member: $290
Regular member: $375

Early registration rate for non-2015 MOS members:

Student: $210
Retiree: $220
All others: $435

The registration rates for late registration are higher.

More details (including clusters, cluster chairs, all registration 
rates, discounted MOS membership for 2016-2018, hotel, sponsorship 
opportunities, exhibits etc.)  are available on the conference website 
at www.ismp2015.org.

We look forward to welcoming you next year in Pittsburgh!

The ISMP Organizing Committee


-- 
Fatma Kilinc Karzan
Assistant Professor of Operations Research
Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University
fkilinc at andrew.cmu.edu
(+1) 412 268 9198