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FOURTH/FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Call for participation
MOPTA Conference, Lehigh University, August 14-16, 2013
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The thirteenth annual Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and Applications
(MOPTA) Conference will be held at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA,
on August 14-16 (Wednesday to Friday), 2013.
Confirmed plenary speakers:
Brian Denton (University of Michigan)
Abhijit Deshmukh (Purdue University)
Omar Ghattas (University of Texas at Austin)
Ignacio Grossmann (Carnegie Mellon University)
Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo (University of Minnesota)
Jorge Nocedal (Northwestern University)
Henry Wolkowicz (University of Waterloo)
Confirmed invited session organizers:
Amir Ali Ahmadi (IBM Research): Eigenvalue Optimization and Applications
Miguel F. Anjos (Polytechnique Montréal): Optimization for Smart Grids
Hande Y. Benson (Drexel U.): Applications of MINLP
Hongbo Dong (U. of Wisconsin at Madison): Semidefinite Optimization
Jackie Griffin (Northeastern U.): Healthcare
Jason Hicken (RPI): PDE-Constrained Optimization
Alberto Lamadrid (Lehigh U.): Models for Electricity Markets
Eugene Perevalov (Lehigh U.): Optimization, Information and Complexity
Katya Scheinberg (Lehigh U.): Machine Learning / Derivative Free
Optimization
Larry Snyder (Lehigh U.): Optimization for Smart Grids
Robert J. Vanderbei (Princeton U.): Recent Advances in Sparse Linear
Programming
Andreas Wächter (Northwestern U.): Nonlinear Optimization
This is an invitation for participation, contributed talks, and posters.
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: *June 14, 2013*.
Current conference and program information is available at:
http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta
MOPTA aims at bringing together a diverse group of people from both
discrete and continuous optimization, working on both theoretical and
applied aspects. There will be a small number of invited plenary talks
from distinguished speakers as well as organized sessions and contributed
talks, spread over three days. Our target is to provide a diverse set of
exciting new developments from different areas of optimization research
while at the same time providing a setting which will allow increased
interaction among the participants. We aim to bring together researchers
from both the theoretical and applied communities in the framework of a
medium-scale event who do not usually have the chance to interact in larger
meetings.
We hope to welcome you in Bethlehem, PA!
Organizing Committee:
Frank E. Curtis (Chair)
Tamás Terlaky
Katya Scheinberg
Ted K. Ralphs
Luis F. Zuluaga
Robert H. Storer
Aurélie C. Thiele
Larry V. Snyder
Eugene Perevalov
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Lehigh University
200 W. Packer Ave.
Bethlehem PA 18015
Fax: 610-758-4886
