<html><head><style>body{font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px}</style></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial;font-size:13px; color: rgba(0,0,0,1.0); margin: 0px; line-height: auto;"><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Dear colleagues, </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">the 90th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM) will take place from </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> **February 18-22, 2019 in Vienna, Austria**</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">(<a href="http://jahrestagung.gamm-ev.de/">http://jahrestagung.gamm-ev.de/</a>). </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">On behalf of the organizing committee we would like to invite you and</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">the members of your group to contribute a talk to the</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> **Section S16 "Optimization"**</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">This year, we are happy to have two distinguished speakers on this topic: </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> * Alexandra Schwartz (TU Darmstadt) </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> (<a href="http://www.graduate-school-ce.de/index.php?id=schwartz">http://www.graduate-school-ce.de/index.php?id=schwartz</a>) </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> * Andreas Potschka (Heidelberg University) </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"> (<a href="https://typo.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/groups/mobocon/research-group/dr-andreas-potschka/">https://typo.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de/groups/mobocon/research-group/dr-andreas-potschka/</a>) </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Contributed talks will have a length of 15 minutes plus 5 minutes for </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">discussion. </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">For more detailed information concerning the submission of abstracts </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">as well as registration, please visit the conference website at </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><a href="http://jahrestagung.gamm-ev.de/index.php/2019/2019-online-registration">http://jahrestagung.gamm-ev.de/index.php/2019/2019-online-registration</a> </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Deadline for abstract submission this year is already <a href="http://airmail.calendar/2018-10-31%2012:00:00%20CET">on October 31, 2018</a>;</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">notification of acceptance of abstract <a href="http://airmail.calendar/2018-11-23%2012:00:00%20CET">November 23, 2018</a>.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Online registration for speakers opens in August, 2018 and will close on </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><a href="http://airmail.calendar/2018-12-14%2012:00:00%20CET">December 14, 2018</a>. Deadline for early bird registration is <a href="http://airmail.calendar/2018-11-30%2012:00:00%20CET">November 30, 2018</a>.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">We are looking forward to seeing and in Vienna! In the meantime, if you have </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">any questions regarding the scope or organization of Section S16 (in particular </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">regarding the distinction to S19 "Optimization of differential equations"), don't </div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">hestitate to contact us.</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Christian Kirches (<a href="mailto:c.kirches@tu-bs.de">c.kirches@tu-bs.de</a>)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Christian Clason (<a href="mailto:christian.clason@uni-due.de">christian.clason@uni-due.de</a>)</div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;"><br></div><div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">(Section Organizers) </div><div><br></div></div></body></html>