The inaugural triennial International Conference on Continuous Optimization will take place on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, August 2-4, 2004; a website for the Conference is available at:
http://www.math.rpi.edu/iccopt/
This is a Mathematical Programming Society conference. It is a sister conference to IPCO, the Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization Conference, and is programmed the year after ISMP, the international symposium on mathematical programming.
It is organized in cooperation with the INFORMS' Optimization Section, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization.
The scientific program of ICCOPT will cover all major aspects of continuous optimization: theory, algorithms, applications, and related problems. A partial list of topics includes
The Conference will consist of a mixture of plenary, semiplenary, invited, and contributed talks. It is anticipated that at most four sessions will be scheduled in parallel. Selected papers will appear in a special issue of Mathematical Programming Series B.
A dedicated session will be devoted to papers by young colleagues, to be chosen by a panel of reviewers. See the separate Call for Papers by Young Researchers for details, including guidelines and submission information. Naturally, submission of papers by these researchers to the general conference is also highly encouraged!
You are cordially invited to attend the conference and to submit a contributed paper for presentation. Due to the limited number of available slots, the Program Committee may have to decline some submissions. Please send one of the Co-Chairs of the Local Organizing Committee (Jong-Shi Pang or John Mitchell) a note before April 1, 2004, indicating if you are interested in (a) attending the Conference, and/or (b) contributing a presentation.
To be determined at a later date.
The Conference will be preceded by a summer school for graduate students, junior faculty, and other interested participants, which will describe some of the recent exciting developments in continuous optimization. See separate announcement (forthcoming).
If you are interested in attending the Conference, please drop an email to the local organizers (addresses below).
Details for the Conference will be continuously updated and posted on the website http://www.math.rpi.edu/iccopt/.
We look forward to hearing from you and to seeing you next summer.
The Local Organizers of ICCOPT I,
Conference support staff: