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============================================== FOURTH/FINAL ANNOUNCEMENT: Call for participation MOPTA Conference, Lehigh University, August 14-16, 2013 ==============================================

The thirteenth annual Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA) Conference will be held at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, on August 14-16 (Wednesday to Friday), 2013.

Confirmed plenary speakers: Brian Denton (University of Michigan) Abhijit Deshmukh (Purdue University) Omar Ghattas (University of Texas at Austin) Ignacio Grossmann (Carnegie Mellon University) Zhi-Quan (Tom) Luo (University of Minnesota) Jorge Nocedal (Northwestern University) Henry Wolkowicz (University of Waterloo)

Confirmed invited session organizers: Amir Ali Ahmadi (IBM Research): Eigenvalue Optimization and Applications Miguel F. Anjos (Polytechnique Montréal): Optimization for Smart Grids Hande Y. Benson (Drexel U.): Applications of MINLP Hongbo Dong (U. of Wisconsin at Madison): Semidefinite Optimization Jackie Griffin (Northeastern U.): Healthcare Jason Hicken (RPI): PDE-Constrained Optimization Alberto Lamadrid (Lehigh U.): Models for Electricity Markets Eugene Perevalov (Lehigh U.): Optimization, Information and Complexity Katya Scheinberg (Lehigh U.): Machine Learning / Derivative Free Optimization Larry Snyder (Lehigh U.): Optimization for Smart Grids Robert J. Vanderbei (Princeton U.): Recent Advances in Sparse Linear Programming Andreas Wächter (Northwestern U.): Nonlinear Optimization

This is an invitation for participation, contributed talks, and posters.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: *June 14, 2013*.

Current conference and 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 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 hope to welcome you in Bethlehem, PA!

Organizing Committee:

Frank E. Curtis (Chair) Tamás Terlaky 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