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| O. Vasilieva | |
| Andrew Eberhard | |
| Siegfried Schaible | |
| H.Y.Jing | |
| John Mitchell | |
| A. Rubinov | |
| G-W. Weber and A. Rubinov | |
| G-W Weber et al | |
| Liqun Qi | |
| V.F. Demyanov | |
| V.F. Demyanov | |
| V.F. Demyanov | |
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The 48th Annual Meeting of the Australian mathematical Society is being held at RMIT University, in Melbourne Australia from September the 28th till October the 1st. We have 7 exciting Invited Speakers including a Fields Medalist, Vladimir Voevodsky (from Princeton, USA), an expert in Algebraic Geometry who will speak on "A categorical approach to probability theory". There are 8 Special sessions, in Algebra, Coding and Cryptography, Combinatorics, Complex Systems, Group Actions, PDEs and harmonic analysis, and Geometry and Topology, as well as the special sessions on Nonsmooth analysis and optimization with applications.
There will be two invited speakers in optimization and control. Lou Caccetta from Curtin University (part of the Complex systems/optimization special sessions) will speak on "Industrial Modelling and Optimization". Representing control and nonsmooth analysis we have as a plenary speaker Boris Mordukhovich (Wayne State, USA) who is speaking on "Optimal Control of Evolution and Partial Differential Inclusions".
A number of local and international experts are participating in the Nonsmooth analysis and optimization special session. These include Boris Mordukhovich, Lou Caccetta, Alex Rubinov, Alex Kruger, Adil Bagirov, Andrew Eberhard, Musa Mammadov and many more including a number of students.
During the conference the Medal of the Australian Mathematical Society, the George Szekeres Medal and the B.H. Neumann Prize (for the best student talk) will be presented.
On Wednesday, special sessions for teachers will be organised by ICE-EM, the International Centre of Excellence for Education in Mathematics. Special visitor rates are in place for registrants who want to attend CTAC 2004 at Melbourne University (and vice versa).
The local organising commitee for the AustMs meeting consists of Kathy Horadam (Director), Andrew Eberhard (Session Coordinator and Local Committee) and Asha Rao (Local Committee)
The speaker timetable and other program details are now posted on the website: http://www.ma.rmit.edu.au/austms04 For information and registration please visit the website.
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In ORB 9 (March 2003) I reported about the growth of the Working Group on Generalized Convexity (WGGC) in Asia. The most recent (7th) International Symposium on Generalized Convexity/Monotonicity was held at the Hanoi Institute of Mathematics in Vietnam in 2002. Previous symposia in the series took place in Vancouver, Canada (1980), Canton, NY, USA (1986), Pisa, Italy (1988), Pecs, Hungary (1992), Luminy-Marseille, France (1996) and Samos, Greece (1999). Proceedings are available; see web page of WGGC (www.genconv.org).
The 8th International Symposium on Generalized Convexity/Monotonicity will be held in Varese, Italy on July 4-8, 2005. The First Announcement of GC8 has just appeared and can be accessed from this message (see attached file). During GC8 WGGC will celebrate its 10th anniversary since its inception during the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming in Ann Arbor, MI, USA in 1994. WGGC is an interdisciplinary research group of applied mathematicians which has grown to over 300 members in more than 40 countries. Generalized convex and generalized monotone models are considerably more adaptable to real-world situations than their convex/monotone counterpart. We invite the readers of ORB interested in generalizations of convexity/monotonicity to join us in Varese in the lake district of Northern Italy not far from the Alps. Please consult the web page as more information becomes available ().
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A brief synopsis and an abbreviated table of contents are attached. Some additional detail can be found on the web at the Springer site springeronline.com (search on keywords from the title or the ISBN) or amazon.com and background information at www.math.wsu.edu/faculty/nazareth .
Feedback is welcome, and, if you like the booklet, please recommend it to students and others as a way to open a window on optimization and enliven standard course offerings/textbooks in the field.
Brief Synopsis of Book:
Optimization is the art, science and mathematics of finding the `best' member of a finite or infinite set of possible choices, based on some objective measure of the merit of each choice in the set. Three key facets of the subject are:
This slim and inexpensive paperback provides a gentle introduction to the above topics. It assumes very little in the way of mathematical background, and its presentation strikes a balance between the specific details of a representative set of models, algorithms, and their associated duality, on the one hand, and the `big picture' of optimization as summarized by visual schematics and associated commentary, on the other. It is aimed at college students beginning their studies in optimization (and is also accessible to college-bound students in science and mathematics in high schools), general readers looking for an overall sense of the field of optimization, and specialists in optimization interested in developing new ways of teaching the subject to their students. In particular, it can be used as a front end to complement and enliven any of the currently available texts in optimization (network flows, linear and nonlinear programming) that treat the subject more comprehensively.
Abbreviated Table of Contents:
Preface * Comments on Style and Print Size * Simple Motivating Examples * A Quintessential Optimization Problem * Duality on Bipartite Networks * A Network Flow Overview * Duality in Linear Programming * The Golden Age of Optimization * An Algorithmic Revolution * Nonlinear Programming * DLP and Extensions * Optimization: The Big Picture * References * Index * About the Author
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The inaugural International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT-I) was held at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute between August 2 and 4, 2004. Approximately 120 papers were presented, drawn from all areas of continuous optimization. Over 200 researchers from all over the world attended the conference. The conference was preceded by a two-day summer school with lectures given by several world-renowned researchers. These lectures were enjoyed by almost 100 attendees, comprising a good mix of graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty members.
Highlights of the conference included plenary and semiplenary presentations by Ronny Ben-Tal, Olvi Mangasarian (given by Kristin Bennett due to illness), Terry Rockafellar, Sven Leyffer, Arnold Neumaier, Carsten Scherer, Alex Shapiro, Paul Tseng and Shuzhong Zhang. One of the novel features of the conference was a session of presentations by young researchers, with the presentations selected from submissions made to a panel headed by Adrian Lewis. This session gave the winners Bharath Rangarajan and Lin Xiao an opportunity to present their research to a large audience.
Social events included the conference banquet, which took place on a cruise on the Hudson River.
The success of the conference highlights the vitality of the field of continuous optimization, with the fruitful interaction of theoretical depth, computational testing, and broadening impact and applicability. The next ICCOPT conference in 2007 is eagerly anticipated.
For more information on the conference, see the webpage at http://www.math.rpi.edu/iccopt/
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ICOTA6 (International conference on Optimization: Technique and Applications) will be held in Ballarat (Australia) on December 9-11, 2004. Some workshops (tutorials) will be held on December 8. See www.ballarat.edu.au/icota More than 170 talks will be presented at the conference.
About 50 delegates will come from Australia, more than 40 will represent China and around 25 delegates will come from Japan.
The range of talks is very large. Some talks are devoted to optimization theory and related topics including generalised convexity and multicriteria optimization, some delegates will discuss numerical methods in optimization (both continuous and combinatorial) and also heuristics , a broad range of industrial applications will be presented (including problems of oil industry, electricity markets etc).
The 2nd Australia-China workshop on optimization will he held in Ballarat immediately after ICOTA on December 12-13. A keynote lecture will be given by Prof. Alexander Shapiro (USA). About 15 invited lectures will be presented at this workshop mainly by Australian and Chinese experts in optimization. Workshop is free for participants from Australia and China.
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At July 2-5, 2006, there will be a special scientific and social event taking place in Reykjavik, Iceland:
EURO XXI - 21st European Conference on Operational Research
which will cover a lot of mathematical methods and applications in science, technology, economy and social life.
We from POP and EUROPT (EURO Working Group on Continuous Optimization http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/), are organizing a stream on sessions in the field of continuous optimization and related themes.
This stream will consists of several substreams organized by a number our two groups: members, which will be invited soon. Of course, if you are interested to prepare one or another session in such a substream, you are very welcome!
Those substreams will be concerned with the following fields:
Right before EURO XXI there will also be the 5th workhop of EUROPT in Reykjavik. This two-day event may also be interesting to you!
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http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/EUROPT-Workshop%20-%20ORB%20-ohne.doc
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The Third International Conference on Optimization and Control with Applications (OCA 2004) was held in Chongqing and Chengdu, China, during July 25-31, 2004. About 110 optimization and control researchers from China, Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, USA, Canada, UK, Italy and Poland participated in the conference and gave 89 talks. Franco Giannessi delivered a keynote lecture, Lou Caccetta, Xiaoqiang Cai, Xiaojun Chen, Tom Coleman, Gianni Di Pillo, Shu-Cherng Fang, Masao Fukushima, David Gao, V. Jeyakumar, Takahito Kuno, Duan Li, Y.C. Lim, Zhi-Quan Luo, Danny Ralph, Jie Sun, Wenyu Sun, Tetsuro Tanino, Song Wang, Felix Wu, Soon-Yi Wu, Jia-an Yan, David Yao, Jen-chin Yao, Yinyu Ye and Wuyi Yue gave invited lectures. The National Natural Science Foundation of China, Chongqing Science and Technology Commission, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, The Institute of System Science, Chongqing Normal University, Chongqing University, Sichuan University sponsored OCA 2004. Liqun Qi and Kok Lay Teo served as the Directors of OCA 2004. Xinmin Yang, Xiaoqi Yang, Jiuping Xu served as the Program Chairs of OCA 2004.
As part of the OCA 2004 participants toured Jiuzhaigou - the fairyland of China.
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According to a legend, Erice, son of Venus g and Neptune, founded a small town on the top of a mountain more than three thousand years ago. Notwithstanding the several changes, the small town Erice maintains an old, fascinating structure made by bricks and stones.
On 1963, a group of scientists founded in Erice an international "E.MAJORANA" Centre for the development of culture and science. Within the Centre, the INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS "G.STAMPACCHIA" has carried out several international meetings, both in pure and applied areas. (See Prof. Giannessi's article in ORB, issue 5 ). We present here some photographs from the recent Erice meetings. These pictures are taken from V.Demyanov's album "Places and faces in Optimization"
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Prof. V.G. Boltaynskii and his wife. All people who know Maximum Principle, know this name.
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