There were almost 40 entrants in the competition, and there were many outstanding submissions. The Selection Committee had a very hard time picking just four winners. The winners are (in alphabetical order): Michael Friedlander, Emre Mengi, Bharath Rangarajan, and Lin Xiao. Two special sections have been organized at the conference on Tuesday morning to enable these winners to present. One of the Selection Committee members will give a more detailed report on the competition at the conference, when the names of three "Honourable Mentions" will also be released.
CALL for PAPERS by YOUNG RESEARCHERS in CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION
Inaugural Mathematical Programming Society
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION (ICCOPT) I
held on the campus of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy,
New York, U.S.A., August 2-4, 2004
http://www.math.rpi.edu/iccopt/
Submissions are invited for a special session at ICCOPT I dedicated to papers authored by young researchers.
The submitted papers should be in the area of continuous optimization and satisfy one of the following three criteria:
a) passed the first round of normal refereeing process in an open journal; b) published in the year of 2002 or after (including forthcoming); c) certified by a thesis advisor or postdoctoral mentor as a well-polished paper that is ready for submission to an open journal.
Papers can be single-authored or multi-authored, subject to the following criterion:
d) Each paper must have at least one principal author who was under age 30 on January 1st 2000 and has not earned a Ph.D before that date. In case of joint authorship involving senior researchers (i.e., those who fail both the age test and the Ph.D. test), one senior author must certify the pivotal role and the principal contribution of the qualifying author in the work. The Selection Committee will decide on questions on eligibility in exceptional cases.
The selection criteria will be based solely on the quality of the paper, including originality of results and potential impact.
The following items are required for submission:
A) the paper for consideration; B) a brief description of the contribution (limited to 2 pages) C) a statement about the status of the paper: not submitted, under review, accepted, or published (when) in a journal; D) a certification of the principal author's eligibility in terms of age and Ph.D. (by the first author's advisor or department chair); E) in case of joint authorship involving a senior researcher, a certification by the latter individual about the qualifying author's pivotal role and principal contribution.
The deadline for submission is April 5, 2004. Submission should be sent electronically in Adobe Acrobat pdf format, to the Chair of the Selection Committee, Professor Adrian S. Lewis, email address: aslewis at cecm.sfu.ca.
Up to 4 papers will be selected; the selected papers will be featured in a dedicated session in ICCOPT I; travel expenses of the first authors of the selected papers will be partially paid for by the Conference. If a selected paper has not been published nor submitted for publication, the author(s) will be invited to submit the paper for publication in the special Mathematical Programming, Series B issue of ICCOPT papers, which will be subject to the usual review of a Mathematical Programming paper.
Selection Committee: