<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><b class="">Optimization & Big Data (Workshop, Trek & Colloquium)</b><br class="">Edinburgh, Scotland, May 6-8, 2015<br class=""><a href="http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~prichtar/Optimization_and_Big_Data_2015/" class="">http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~prichtar/Optimization_and_Big_Data_2015/</a><br class=""><br class="">1) Call for abstracts: <br class=""><br class="">A call for contributed presentations is open<br class="">There is a Best Contribution Prize (certificate + 500 EUR), sponsored by Amazon Berlin<br class="">Prize Committee: Arkadi Nemirovski and Rodolphe Jenatton (Amazon)<br class=""><br class="">2) Dates:<br class=""><br class="">April 18, 2015: Submission of abstracts + Early Bird registration (the Early Bird fee is £30)<br class="">April 20, 2015: Notification of acceptance (acceptance of abstracts will be done on a rolling basis - if you want to get <br class="">confirmation of acceptance sooner to help you plan for the event, submit sooner)<br class="">April 25, 2015: Submission deadline for deluxe posters<br class=""><br class="">3) Confirmed invited speakers:<br class=""><br class="">Coralia Cartis (Oxford)<br class="">Jonathan Eckstein (Rutgers)<br class="">Garud Iyengar (Columbia)<br class="">Rodolphe Jenatton (Amazon Berlin)<br class="">Jakub Konecny (Edinburgh)<br class="">Francois Glineur (Louvain)<br class="">Donald Goldfarb (Columbia)<br class="">Robert Gower (Edinburgh)<br class="">Arkadi Nemirovski (Georgia Tech) - keynote speaker<br class="">Zheng Qu (Edinburgh)<br class="">Peter Richtarik (Edinburgh)<br class="">Katya Scheinberg (Lehigh) <br class=""><br class="">4) Programme: <br class=""><br class="">The first two days are devoted to the scientific programme (invited and contributed talks & poster sessions). On the last day we <br class="">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 <br class="">by the keynote speaker and a reception. <br class=""><br class="">***<br class=""><br class="">Kind regards,<br class=""><br class="">Zheng Qu and Peter Richtarik (organizers)<br class=""><br class="">***<br class=""><br class="">Peter Richtarik<br class="">The School of Mathematics<br class="">University of Edinburgh<br class=""><a href="http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~richtarik" class="">http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~richtarik</a><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><br class="">
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