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Announcement: ISMP 2015 - Last call for presentations and session
proposals<br>
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22ND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING (ISMP 2015)<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.ismp2015.org">www.ismp2015.org</a><br>
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The organizers of ISMP 2015 have the great pleasure of inviting you
to Pittsburgh, PA USA, July 12-17, 2015. ISMP is the international
symposium on optimization and is held every three years on behalf of
the Mathematical Optimization Society.<br>
<br>
Last Call for PRESENTATIONS and SESSION PROPOSALS<br>
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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.<br>
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The deadline for submitting titles and abstracts of presentations
has been extended to <b>March 10, 2015</b>. This is the final
deadline. 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 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.ismp2015.org">www.ismp2015.org</a>. 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 750 characters) will
appear in the book of abstracts.<br>
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Important Dates<br>
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<b>March 10, 2015: abstract submission deadline</b><b><br>
</b>March 27, 2015: notification of abstract acceptance<br>
April 15, 2015: early registration deadline<br>
June 8, 2015: hotel reservation deadline<br>
July 12, 2015: opening ceremony at Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown
Hotel<br>
<br>
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Plenary and semi-plenary speakers and their talk titles for ISMP
have been announced:<br>
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Laurent El Ghaoui,<br>
University of California Berkeley<br>
Optimization in the Age of Big Data: Sparsity and Robustness at
Scale<br>
<br>
Jim Geelen<br>
University of Waterloo, Canada<br>
Matroid minors project<br>
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Daniel Kuhn<br>
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland<br>
A Distributionally Robust Perspective on Uncertainty Quantification
and Chance Constrained Programming<br>
<br>
Daniel A. Spielman<br>
Yale University<br>
Laplacian Matrices of Graphs: Algorithms and Applications<br>
<br>
Stephen J. Wright<br>
University of Wisconsin-Madison<br>
Coordinate Descent Algorithms<br>
<br>
Samuel A. Burer,<br>
University of Iowa<br>
A Gentle, Geometric Introduction to Copositive Optimization<br>
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Roberto Cominetti,<br>
Universidad de Chile, Chile<br>
Equilibrium routing under uncertainty<br>
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Michele Conforti<br>
Universita' di Padova, Italy<br>
A geometric approach to cut-generating functions<br>
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Tamara G. Kolda,<br>
Sandia National Laboratories<br>
Optimization Challenges in Tensor Factorization<br>
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Andrea Lodi,<br>
University of Bologna, Italy<br>
On Mathematical Programming with Indicator Constraints<br>
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Asu Özdaglar,<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
Fast Distributed Algorithms for Multi-agent Optimization<br>
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Werner Römisch,<br>
Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany<br>
Quasi-Monte Carlo methods for linear two-stage stochastic
programming problems<br>
<br>
Frank Vallentin,<br>
University of Köln, Germany<br>
Mathematical optimization for packing problems<br>
<br>
Pascal van Hentenryck,<br>
NICTA, Australia<br>
Complexity, Approximation, and Relaxation of the Power Flow
Equations<br>
<br>
Ya-xiang Yuan,<br>
Chinese Academy of Sciences, China<br>
Recent Advances in Trust-Region Algorithms<br>
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For further details including the abstracts of these talks please
visit <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ismp2015.org/?page_id=13">http://www.ismp2015.org/?page_id=13</a>.<br>
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Conference Venue<br>
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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 opening ceremony will feature
the presentation of awards by the Mathematical Optimization Society
and will be followed by the welcome reception. The conference
banquet will be on Wednesday July 15th featuring a river cruise on
the Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio Rivers, with uncompromised view
of beautiful landscapes and towering skyscrapers of Pittsburgh. The
scientific talks will be scheduled on Monday-Friday 9:00am-6:00pm.<br>
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Early registration rate for 2015 MOS members:<br>
<br>
Student or retiree: $190<br>
Lifetime member: $290<br>
Regular member: $375<br>
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Early registration rate for non-2015 MOS members:<br>
<br>
Student: $210<br>
Retiree: $220<br>
All others: $435<br>
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The registration rates for late registration are higher.<br>
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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 <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.ismp2015.org">www.ismp2015.org</a>.<br>
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We look forward to welcoming you next year in Pittsburgh!<br>
<br>
The ISMP Organizing Committee <br>
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Fatma Kilinc Karzan
Assistant Professor of Operations Research
Tepper School of Business
Carnegie Mellon University
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fkilinc@andrew.cmu.edu">fkilinc@andrew.cmu.edu</a>
(+1) 412 268 9198</pre>
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