Announcement: ISMP 2015 - 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 world congress of mathematical optimization and is held every three years on behalf of the Mathematical Optimization Society.
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.
Abstract submission and registration are now open. The deadline for submitting titles and abstracts of presentations is March 2, 2015. 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.
Plenary and semi-plenary speakers for ISMP have been announced:
Plenary Speakers
Laurent El Ghaoui, University of California, Berkeley, USA Jim Geelen, University of Waterloo, Canada Daniel Kuhn, EPFL, Switzerland Daniel A. Spielman, Yale University, USA Stephen J. Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Semi-plenary Speakers
Samuel A. Burer, University of Iowa, USA Roberto Cominetti, University of Chile, Chile Michelangelo Conforti, University of Padova, Italy Tamara G. Kolda, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Andrea Lodi, University of Bologna, Italy Asu Ozdaglar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Werner Roemisch, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Frank Vallentin, University of Koeln, Germany Pascal van Hentenryck, NICTA, Australia Ya-xiang Yuan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
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 conference banquet will be on Wednesday July 15th and that scientific talks are Monday-Friday 9:00am-6:00pm.
Important Dates*
***March 2, 2015: abstract submission deadline April 15, 2015: early registration deadline June 8, 2015: hotel reservation deadline July 12, 2015: opening ceremony at Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown Hotel*
* 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 will be 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