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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT: Call for contributed sessions/talks/posters MOPTA 2012, July 30 to August 1, 2012 , Lehigh University * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *

The 12th Annual MOPTA (Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and Applications) Conference will be held at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, from Monday to Wednesday, July 30 to August 1, 2012.

Plenary speakers include:

Kurt M. Anstreicher (University of Iowa) Edgar Blanco (MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics) Andrew V. Goldberg (Microsoft Research) Mark S. Roberts (University of Pittsburgh) Michael Trick (Carnegie Mellon University) Santosh S. Vempala (Georgia Institute of Technology) Henry Wolkowicz (University of Waterloo) Stephen J. Wright (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

This is an invitation for contributed talks as well as organized sessions and poster sessions. If interested please contact: Luis F. Zuluaga < inmopta@lehigh.edu>

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

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 a small number of invited talks from distinguished speakers and contributed talks, spread over three days. Our target is to present a diverse set of exciting new developments from different optimization areas 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 who do not usually have the chance to interact in the framework of a medium-scale event.

We hope to welcome you in Bethlehem, PA.

Organizing Committee:

Luis F. Zuluaga (Chair) Tamás Terlaky Katya Scheinberg Ted K. Ralphs Robert H. Storer Aurélie C. Thiele Larry V. Snyder Eugene Perevalov Frank E. Curtis

Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering Lehigh University 200 W. Packer Ave. Bethlehem PA 18015 Fax: 610-758-4886

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