************Call for site proposals ICCOPT 2019 *****************

The ICCOPT Steering Committee of the Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS):

Jong-Shi Pang, Chair, jongship@usc.edu
Coralia Cartis        Coralia.Cartis@maths.ox.ac.uk
Dominique Orban       dominique.orban@gerad.ca
Nick Sahinidis        sahinidis@cmu.edu
Fabio Schoen          fabio.schoen@unifi.it
Mikhail Solodov       solodov@impa.br
Takashi Tsuchiya      tsuchiya@grips.ac.jp
Michael Ulbrich       mulbrich@ma.tum.de


is requesting proposals for organizing ICCOPT VI, the Sixth International
Conference on Continuous Optimization, which is scheduled to be held
in August 2019.  Being the flagship conference of the MOS in the
area of continuous optimization, ICCOPT is held every three years
at a site to be selected according to the criteria below.  For
information about the forthcoming one in 2016 and two prior ones,
visit the WEB-sites:

http://www.iccopt2016.tokyo/
http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/iccopt2013
http://www.iccopt2010.cmm.uchile.cl/

The proposal for organizing ICCOPT VI should include the candidate
site and Organizing Committee.  Selection criteria for the site are
based on the following considerations:

1. Existence of continuous-optimization researchers in the
proposed geographic area who are interested in and can assist
in the organization of ICCOPT VI.

2. Attendance open to prospective participants from all nations.

3. Availability of an attractive facility with a sufficient number of
meeting rooms, standard lecture equipment, etc., preferably on a
university campus.

4. Availability of a sufficient supply of reasonably economical hotels
and/or university dormitory rooms fairly near the meeting facility.

5. Sites outside the next one (Tokyo, Japan) and the one prior (Lisbon, Portugal),
such as Canada and the U.S. are particularly encouraged to apply, although the
Committee is interested in the most compelling proposal regardless of the continent.

Some characteristics of previous ICCOPT conferences:

1. Past such conferences had between 200 and 500 participants.

2. Plenary, semiplenary lectures, invited and contributed sessions,
poster session and poster competition.

3. The lengths of the first (at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
Troy, New York) second (at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada),
third (in Santiago, Chile), and next ICCOPT were 3, 4, 4, and 4
days, respectively, excluding the tutorial workshop mentioned
below.

4. A 1 or 2-day long tutorial workshop for graduate students.

5. All inclusive conference coffee and lunches.

6. Young Researchers Prize in Continuous Optimization.

7. Program and Prize committees formed in consultation with the
Steering Committee.

8. Social events, student's social, banquet.

9. Reasonably low registration fee.

10. No proceedings of papers, no competitive selection of talks,
but only one presentation per paid participant.

Further information can be obtained from any member of the Steering Committee.

Submission deadline: June 15, 2016 to the Chair of the ICCOPT Steering
Committee: Jong-Shi Pang (jongship@usc.edu).  Hosts of the candidate sites
should send an email to the Committee Chair by April 15, 2016 to indicate
interest to submit a proposal.

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