[Opt-Net] Conference on Optimization Methods and Software (December 2017, Cuba)

[Oleg Burdakov]

*Apologies for cross posting. Please forward to interested people*

The 4th Conference on Optimization Methods and Software
December 16-20, 2017, Havana, Cuba
http://wias-berlin.de/workshops/oms2017/index.html
It is organized in relation to the 25th anniversary of the journal
Optimization Methods and Software (OMS)
http://www.tandfonline.com/goms

The conference aims to review and discuss recent advances and promising 
research trends in optimization theory, methods, applications and 
software development.

*TOPICS* include, but are certainly not limited to the following subjects:
Linear and Nonlinear Optimization; Integer and Combinatorial 
Optimization; Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization; Global Optimization; 
Semi-definite Optimization; Semi-infinite Optimization; Multi-objective 
Optimization; Stochastic Optimization; Complementarity and Variational 
Inequality Problems; Derivative-free Optimization; Network Optimization; 
Scheduling Problems; Optimal Control; Inverse Problems; Automatic 
Differentiation; Optimization Software.

*PLENARY SPEAKERS* the list is composed of OMS board members
http://wias-berlin.de/workshops/oms2017/Speaker.html
Andrew R. Conn (USA)
Claudia D'Ambrosio (France)
Jonathan Eckstein (USA)
Serge Gratton (France)
Andreas Griewank (Ecuador)
Francesca Guerriero (Italy)
Roland Herzog (Germany)
Michael Hintermüller (Germany)
Thorsten Koch (Germany)
José Mário Martinez (Brazil)
Athanasios Migdalas (Sweden)
Yurii E. Nesterov (Belgium)
Dominique Orban (Canada)
Panos M. Pardalos (USA)
Florian A. Potra (USA)
Fabio Schoen (Italy)
Anthony Man-Cho So (Hong Kong)
Tamas Terlaky (USA)
Philippe Toint (Belgium)
Stefan Ulbrich (Germany)
Robert Vanderbei (USA)
E. Alper Yildirim (Turkey)
Ya-xiang Yuan (China)

*ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS*
Abstracts should not exceed 400 words. Details of the submission are
available on the conference web site.
http://wias-berlin.de/workshops/oms2017/reg.html
Papers presented at the conference will be considered for peerreviewed 
publication in a special issue of the journal Optimization Methods and 
Software.

*SESSION ORGANIZATION*
Proposals of organizing sessions are welcome and can be sent to
Tamás Terlaky by email terlaky[at] lehigh.edu

*DATES AND DEADLINES*
Abstract submissions: October 15, 2017
Notification of acceptance: October 31, 2017
Early registration: November 15, 2017

*REGISTRATION FEE* (early/late) in the Cuban Convertible Peso (CUC)
Regular participant: 350/400 CUC
Student:             150/175 CUC
Accompanying person: 100/120 CUC
*REGISTER AT*
http://wias-berlin.de/workshops/oms2017/reg.html

*CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS*
Oleg Burdakov (Sweden), Conference Chair
Tamás Terlaky (USA), Program Committee Chair
José Mário Martinez (Brazil), Organizing Committee Chair
Michael Hintermüller (Germany), Organizing Committee co-Chair
Emre Alper Yildirim (Turkey), Organizing Committee co-Chair
Sira M. Allende (Cuba), Local Organizing Committee Chair

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Oleg Burdakov,
Editor-in-Chief of the journal Optimization Methods & Software (OMS)
http://www.tandfonline.com/goms

Division of Optimization,    | Phone:  +46 13 281473
Department of Mathematics,   | Mobile: +46 (0)70 0895219
Linkoping University,        | E-mail: Oleg.Burdakov at liu.se
SE - 58183 Linkoping, Sweden | http://users.mai.liu.se/olebu87/
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