[Turkmath:6675] 8th EUROPT Workshop, July 9-10, 2010, Aveiro, Portugal

[Gerhardwilhelm Weber]

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Welcome to EUROPT's 10th Anniversary!

8th EUROPT Workshop on ADVANCES IN CONTINUOUS OPTIMIZATION

July 9-10, 2010, Aveiro, Portugal.

Venue:
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This international workshop is organized by the EURO Working Group on
Continuous Optimization (EUROPT; http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT) as a
satellite meeting before the EURO XXIV conference in Lisbon
(http://www.euro2010lisbon.org/).

The workshop will be hosted by the University of Aveiro, one of the best and
modern universities in Portugal. Aveiro is located about 60 km to the south
from Porto. The town is surrounded by a system of marshlands that run 50
km parallel to the sea  and has famous channels where moliceiro boats sail.


Aims and Scope:
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This meeting continues in the line of the EUROPT workshops, the first held
in 2000 in Budapest, followed by the workshops in Rotterdam in 2001,
Istanbul in 2003, Rhodes in 2004, Reykjavik in 2006, Prague in 2007,
and Remagen in 2009.

The workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners in
continuous optimization and related fields to discuss and exchange their
latest works.

Topics:
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The topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
applications of continuous optimization to combinatorial problems;
complexity and efficiency of optimization algorithms; convex and
nonsmooth optimization; complementarity and variational problems;
derivative-free optimization; global optimization; linear and nonlinear
optimization; optimal control; multiobjective optimization; robust
optimization; semi-definite programming; semi-infinite programming;
stochastic optimization; large-scale optimization.

Invited Speakers:
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Immanuel Bomze, University of Vienna;

Mirjam Dur, University of Groningen;

Alexander Shapiro, Georgia Tech;

Tamas Terlaky, Lehigh University;

Luis Vicente, University of Coimbra;

Henry Wolkowicz, University of Waterloo

Important Dates:
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Deadlines for abstract submission: May 10;
Notification of acceptance: May 20;
Early registration: May 31.

Committees:
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Scientific Committee: Marco Lopez (Chair), Universidad de Alicante;
Domingos Cardoso, Universidade de Aveiro; Emilio Carrizosa, Universidad
de Sevilla; Joaquim Judice, Universidade de Coimbra; Diethard Klatte,
Universitat Zurich; Olga Kostyukova, Belarusian Academy of Sciences;
Marco Locatelli, Universita' di Torino; Florian Potra, University of
Maryland Baltimore County; Franz Rendl, Universitat Klagenfurt; Claudia
Sagastizabal, CEPEL (Research Center for Electric Energy); Oliver Stein,
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology; Georg Still, University of Twente.

Organizing Committee: Domingos Cardoso (Chair), Universidade de Aveiro;
Tatiana Tchemisova (co-Chair), Universidade de Aveiro; Miguel Anjos,
University of Waterloo; Edite Fernandes, Universidade do Minho; Vicente
Novo, UNED (Spain); Juan Parra, Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche;
Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Middle East Technical University.

Local Committee: Paula Carvalho, Joao Pedro Cruz, Jorge Sa Esteves, Carlos
Luz, Agnieshka Malinovska, Enide Andrade Martins, Antonio Pereira, Paula
Rama.

Secretariat: Agnieshka Malinowska (e-mail: europt2010 at europt2010.com)

Conference web site: http://www.europt2010.com

On behalf of the organizing committee, we invite you to participate in the
Workshop, giving a talk or organizing a thematic session.

Domingos M. Cardoso



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