Announcement: ISMP 2015 - Last call for presentations and session proposals 22ND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING (ISMP 2015) www.ismp2015.org The organizers of ISMP 2015 have the great pleasure of inviting you to Pittsburgh, PA USA, July 12-17, 2015. ISMP is the international symposium on optimization and is held every three years on behalf of the Mathematical Optimization Society. Last Call for PRESENTATIONS and SESSION PROPOSALS Presentations on all theoretical, computational and practical aspects of mathematical programming in one of the program clusters are welcome. Invited and contributed presentations will be organized in parallel sessions, each session consisting of three talks. Interested session organizers are invited to contact the cluster chairs for their particular topic. The deadline for submitting titles and abstracts of presentations has been extended to *March 10, 2015*. This is the final deadline. There is a one talk per speaker policy at ISMP, i.e., no participant will be able to register more than one presentation. Abstract submission and registration can be done online, via the conference web page at www.ismp2015.org. Notice that ISMP does not have published proceedings and it is not possible to submit entire papers. But short abstracts of a talks (at most 750 characters) will appear in the book of abstracts. Important Dates *March 10, 2015: abstract submission deadline** *March 27, 2015: notification of abstract acceptance April 15, 2015: early registration deadline June 8, 2015: hotel reservation deadline July 12, 2015: opening ceremony at Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown Hotel Plenary and semi-plenary speakers and their talk titles for ISMP have been announced: Laurent El Ghaoui, University of California Berkeley Optimization in the Age of Big Data: Sparsity and Robustness at Scale Jim Geelen University of Waterloo, Canada Matroid minors project Daniel Kuhn Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland A Distributionally Robust Perspective on Uncertainty Quantification and Chance Constrained Programming Daniel A. Spielman Yale University Laplacian Matrices of Graphs: Algorithms and Applications Stephen J. Wright University of Wisconsin-Madison Coordinate Descent Algorithms Samuel A. Burer, University of Iowa A Gentle, Geometric Introduction to Copositive Optimization Roberto Cominetti, Universidad de Chile, Chile Equilibrium routing under uncertainty Michele Conforti Universita' di Padova, Italy A geometric approach to cut-generating functions Tamara G. Kolda, Sandia National Laboratories Optimization Challenges in Tensor Factorization Andrea Lodi, University of Bologna, Italy On Mathematical Programming with Indicator Constraints Asu Özdaglar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Fast Distributed Algorithms for Multi-agent Optimization Werner Römisch, Humboldt Universität Berlin, Germany Quasi-Monte Carlo methods for linear two-stage stochastic programming problems Frank Vallentin, University of Köln, Germany Mathematical optimization for packing problems Pascal van Hentenryck, NICTA, Australia Complexity, Approximation, and Relaxation of the Power Flow Equations Ya-xiang Yuan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Recent Advances in Trust-Region Algorithms For further details including the abstracts of these talks please visit http://www.ismp2015.org/?page_id=13. Conference Venue The symposium and opening ceremony will take place at the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown Hotel located at the confluence of Pittsburgh’s famed Three Rivers. The opening ceremony will feature the presentation of awards by the Mathematical Optimization Society and will be followed by the welcome reception. The conference banquet will be on Wednesday July 15th featuring a river cruise on the Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio Rivers, with uncompromised view of beautiful landscapes and towering skyscrapers of Pittsburgh. The scientific talks will be scheduled on Monday-Friday 9:00am-6:00pm. Early registration rate for 2015 MOS members: Student or retiree: $190 Lifetime member: $290 Regular member: $375 Early registration rate for non-2015 MOS members: Student: $210 Retiree: $220 All others: $435 The registration rates for late registration are higher. More details (including clusters, cluster chairs, all registration rates, discounted MOS membership for 2016-2018, hotel, sponsorship opportunities, exhibits etc.) are available on the conference website at www.ismp2015.org. We look forward to welcoming you next year in Pittsburgh! The ISMP Organizing Committee -- Fatma Kilinc Karzan Assistant Professor of Operations Research Tepper School of Business Carnegie Mellon University fkilinc@andrew.cmu.edu (+1) 412 268 9198