[Opt-Net] CFA: Mathematical Optimization at the 5th International Congress on Mathematical Software, Berlin, Germany

[Ambros Gleixner]

                         Call for Abstracts
                        ICMS 2016 Session on

                      MATHEMATICAL OPTIMIZATION
               http://events.zib.de/ICMS_MathOpt_2016/

                             as part of

       The 5th International Congress on Mathematical Software
                      July 11 - 14 2016, Berlin
                       http://icms2016.zib.de/


Aim and Scope
=============

One out of four mathematical software packages listed in the database
swMATH.org is categorized under the search term "optimization".  This
indicates the prominent role of computational research in the field of
optimization, and vice versa.  This session aims at spanning the broad
range of mathematical optimization software from algorithms for
continuous, convex optimization that exploit strong duality theory to
solver software for nonconvex problem classes, including packages that
support the modeling process.

Recent developments that deserve special, though not exclusive
attention are the integrated handling of nonconvex constraints from
discrete and continuous optimization, the exploitation of increasingly
available parallel hardware architecture, and arithmetically exact
methods that render optimization a tool for mathematical theory
exploitation.  The session shall provide a forum for discussing common
and distinct challenges and future trends.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to

   - linear and nonlinear programming solvers,
   - conic optimization and interior-point methods,
   - mixed-integer optimization,
   - algorithms for complementarity problems,
   - (mixed-integer) optimal control,
   - multi-objective and multi-level optimization,
   - modeling languages and solver interfaces,
   - testing and benchmarking of optimization software,
   - software design,
   - parallel algorithms,
   - numerical stability,
   - optimization over large data sets,
   - applications of optimization software in practice,
   - etc.


Organizers
==========

Ambros Gleixner (Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany)
http://www.zib.de/gleixner/

Christian Kirches (IWR Heidelberg/TU Braunschweig, Germany)
http://www.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/groups/optimus/people/kirches/

John Mitchell (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
http://www.rpi.edu/~mitchj/

Ted Ralphs (Lehigh University, USA)
http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~ted/

Contact: icms_mathopt_2016 at zib.de


Submission
==========

For giving a talk, submit a short abstract (about 200 words
in plain text) to

    icms_mathopt_2016 at zib.de

Optionally, speakers may submit an extended abstract
(between 4 and 8 pages) for publication in the proceedings

   - Short abstract due:         March 31, 2016
   - Extended abstract due:      April 21, 2016
   - Congress:                 July 11-14, 2016

For more details on the submission, see the session web page
at http://events.zib.de/ICMS_MathOpt_2016/.