============================================== SECOND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: 14th MOPTA Conference, Lehigh University, August 13-15, 2014 http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/ ==============================================

Dear Friends and Colleagues With apologies for cross-postings...

We cordially invite you to contribute to the fourteenth annual "Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and Applications" (MOPTA) conference, organized at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, August 13-15, 2014.

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 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 welcome contributed talks, and we are also very interested in hearing from people who could organize a session centered around one of their topics of expertise. MOPTA sessions have 3 speakers, with 30 mins per presentation including Q&A's. Speakers will be kindly asked to submit their abstract on the MOPTA website. The deadline for abstract submission is June 13th.

Please contact Boris Defourny (defourny@lehigh.edu) if you would like to organize a session for MOPTA.

Boris Defourny. Organizing Committee Chair

See more at http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta

============================================== SECOND CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: 14th MOPTA Conference, Lehigh University, August 13-15, 2014 http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/ ==============================================

The fourteenth annual Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA) Conference will be held at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, on August 13-15 (Wednesday to Friday), 2014.

Confirmed plenary speakers:

* Miguel Anjos (École Polytechnique de Montréal) * Gérard Cornuéjols (Carnegie Mellon University) * Darinka Dentcheva (Stevens Institute of Technology) * Philip Gill (University of California, San Diego) * Vahab Mirrokni (Google Research and New York University) * Asu Ozdaglar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) * Warren Powell (Princeton University) * Andreas Wächter (Northwestern University)

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: June 13, 2014.

Current conference and program information is available at: http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta

We hope to welcome you in Bethlehem, PA!

Organizing Committee:

Boris Defourny (Chair) Tamás Terlaky Frank E. Curtis (SIAM representative) 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