Announcement: ISMP 2015 - First call for participation 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. At ISMP 2015 there will be more than 1500 talks on all aspects of mathematical optimization and we expect more than 2000 participants! Important Dates April 15, 2015: early registration deadline June 8, 2015: hotel reservation deadline July 12, 2015: opening ceremony at Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown Hotel July 17, 2015: scientific program ends at 6pm 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. Pittsburgh is defined by its rivers, set on a "Golden Triangle" of land where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers meet to form the Ohio. The conference dinner will be on Wednesday July 15th featuring a river cruise on the Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio Rivers, with panoramic views of beautiful landscapes and towering skyscrapers of Pittsburgh. The scientific talks will be scheduled on Monday-Friday 9:00am-6:00pm. Registration Please register on our webpage www.ismp2015.org by choosing the menu item "Registration" and following the instructions there. 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 (after April 15, 2015) will be $100 higher for all categories. 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