<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="">Optimization and Big Data (Workshop, Trek & Colloquium)<br class="">Edinburgh, Scotland, May 6-8, 2015<br class=""><br class="">1) Call for abstracts:<br class=""><br class="">A call for contributed presentations is open. There is a Best Contribution Prize (certificate + 500 EUR), sponsored by Amazon Berlin. Prize Committee: Arkadi Nemirovski and Rodolphe Jenatton (Amazon).<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It is possible to attend without contributing - just register.<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2) Dates:<br class=""><br class=""><b class="">April 18, 2015: Submission deadline for abstracts </b><br class=""><br class=""><b class="">April 18, 2015: Early Bird registration deadline</b> (the Early Bird fee is £30 and is £45 afterwards)<br class=""><br class="">April 20, 2015: Notification of acceptance (acceptance of abstracts will be done on a rolling basis - if you want to get confirmation of acceptance sooner to help you plan for the event, submit sooner)<br class=""><br class="">April 25, 2015: Submission deadline for deluxe posters<br class=""><br class="">3) Keynote speaker: <br class=""><br class="">Arkadi Nemirovski (Georgia Tech)<br class=""><br class="">4) Confirmed invited speakers:<br class=""><br class="">Coralia Cartis (Oxford)<br class="">Patrick Louis Combettes (Paris 6) <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<br class="">Zheng Qu (Edinburgh) - organizer<br class="">Peter Richtarik (Edinburgh) - organizer<br class="">Katya Scheinberg (Lehigh) <br class="">Mark Schmidt (UBC)<br class=""><br class="">5) Website: <br class=""><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="">6) 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 will have a trek to Arthur's Seat: a 350m years old extinct volcano in the city centre. The workshop will end with a talk by the keynote speaker and a reception.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kind regards,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Zheng Qu and Peter Richtark (organizers)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" 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=""><br class="">
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