Recent Advances on Optimization, July 24-26, 2013, Toulouse, France An international conference on optimization will be organized under the umbrella of a research programme supported by the RTRA STAE foundation in Toulouse from the 24th to 26th of July 2013. The conference will address topics in unconstrained and constrained optimization, with and without derivatives. It will be also the occasion to celebrate the many contributions made by Philippe L. Toint to the field. A half-day session related to the RTRA data assimilation project "ADTAO" will be part of this conference. Contributed talks and posters related to the topics of the conference are welcome, and will be added to the programme as far as schedule constraints permit. Confirmed invited speakers: Stefania Bellavia - University of Florence (Italy) Andrew Conn - IBM T.J. Watson Research Center (USA) John Dennis - Rice University (USA) Andreas Griewank - Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany) Michael Kocvara - The University of Birmingham (UK) Jorge More - Argonne National Laboratory (USA) Benedetta Morini - University of Florence (Italy) Jorge Nocedal - Northwestern University (USA) Michael Powell - Cambridge University (UK) Annick Sartenaer - University of Namur (Belgium) Mike Saunders - Stanford University (USA) Katya Scheinberg - Lehigh University (USA) Luis Nunes Vicente - University of Coimbra (Portugal) Ya-xiang Yuan - Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) Stephen Wright - University of Wisconsin (USA) Deadlines: 01.01.2013: Online registration open 15.03.2013: Due date for contributed presentations 30.03.2013: Due date for poster presentations 15.04.2013: Notification of acceptance 15.05.2013: Registration deadline Registration: Thanks to our sponsors, no registration fees are required. However registration is mandatory. Registration information (name, firstname, affiliation) should be sent directly to Brigitte Yzel (yzel@cerfacs.fr). Information on how to submit your contribution can be found on the webpage of the conference: http://www.fondation-stae.net/fr/optimization-july2013.html Looking forward to welcoming you in Toulouse, On behalf of the scientific and local organization committees, Coralia Cartis, Nick Gould, Serge Gratton and Xavier Vasseur. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.