[Opt-Net] CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Optimization & Big Data (Edinburgh, May 6-8, 2015)

[Peter Richtarik]

Optimization & Big Data (Workshop, Trek & Colloquium)
Edinburgh, Scotland, May 6-8, 2015
http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~prichtar/Optimization_and_Big_Data_2015/ <http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~prichtar/Optimization_and_Big_Data_2015/>

1) Call for abstracts: 

A call for contributed presentations is open
There is a Best Contribution Prize (certificate + 500 EUR), sponsored by Amazon Berlin
Prize Committee: Arkadi Nemirovski and Rodolphe Jenatton (Amazon)

2) Dates:

April 18, 2015: Submission of abstracts + Early Bird registration (the Early Bird fee is £30)
April 20, 2015: Notification of acceptance (acceptance of abstracts will be done on a rolling basis - if you want to get 
confirmation of acceptance sooner to help you plan for the event, submit sooner)
April 25, 2015: Submission deadline for deluxe posters

3) Confirmed invited speakers:

Coralia Cartis (Oxford)
Jonathan Eckstein (Rutgers)
Garud Iyengar (Columbia)
Rodolphe Jenatton (Amazon Berlin)
Jakub Konecny (Edinburgh)
Francois Glineur (Louvain)
Donald Goldfarb (Columbia)
Robert Gower (Edinburgh)
Arkadi Nemirovski (Georgia Tech) - keynote speaker
Zheng Qu (Edinburgh)
Peter Richtarik (Edinburgh)
Katya Scheinberg (Lehigh) 

4) Programme: 

The first two days are devoted to the scientific programme (invited and contributed talks & poster sessions). On the last day we 
will have a trek to Arthur's Seat: a 350m years old extinct volcano in the city centre. The workshop will end with a colloquium talk 
by the keynote speaker and a reception. 

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Kind regards,

Zheng Qu and Peter Richtarik (organizers)

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Peter Richtarik
The School of Mathematics
University of Edinburgh
http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~richtarik <http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~richtarik>


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