--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><div id=":zm"><br>FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT: Call for contributed sessions/talks/posters<br>MOPTA 2012, July 30 to August 1, 2012 , Lehigh University<br>
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *<br><br>The 12th Annual MOPTA (Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and Applications)<br>Conference will be held at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, from Monday<br>
to Wednesday, July 30 to August 1, 2012.<br><br>Plenary speakers include:<br><br> Kurt M. Anstreicher (University of Iowa)<br> Edgar Blanco (MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics)<br> Andrew V. Goldberg (Microsoft Research)<br>
Mark S. Roberts (University of Pittsburgh)<br> Michael Trick (Carnegie Mellon University)<br> Santosh S. Vempala (Georgia Institute of Technology)<br> Henry Wolkowicz (University of Waterloo)<br> Stephen J. Wright (University of Wisconsin-Madison)<br>
<br>This is an invitation for contributed talks as well as organized sessions and<br>poster sessions. If interested please contact: Luis F. Zuluaga <<a href="mailto:inmopta@lehigh.edu" target="_blank">inmopta@lehigh.edu</a>><br>
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Current program information is available at: <a href="http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/%7Emopta/" target="_blank">http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/</a><br><br>MOPTA aims at bringing together a diverse group of people from both discrete and continuous<br>
optimization, working on both theoretical and applied aspects. There will be a small number of<br>invited talks from distinguished speakers and contributed talks, spread over three days.<br>Our target is to present a diverse set of exciting new developments from different optimization<br>
areas while at the same time providing a setting which will allow increased interaction among<br>the participants. We aim to bring together researchers from both the theoretical and applied<br>communities who do not usually have the chance to interact in the framework of a medium-scale<br>
event.<br><br>We hope to welcome you in Bethlehem, PA.<br><br>Organizing Committee:<br><br> Luis F. Zuluaga (Chair)<br> Tamás Terlaky<br> Katya Scheinberg<br> Ted K. Ralphs<br> Robert H. Storer<br> Aurélie C. Thiele<br>
Larry V. Snyder<br> Eugene Perevalov<br> Frank E. Curtis<br><br><br> Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering<br> Lehigh University<br> 200 W. Packer Ave.<br> Bethlehem PA 18015<br> Fax: <a href="tel:610-758-4886" value="+16107584886" target="_blank">610-758-4886</a><br>
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