Monday, July 25, 2011

[DMANET] Global Optimization Workshop (GOW12) - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
Global Optimization Workshop 2012 (GOW12)
Natal, Brazil, 26-29th June, 2012.


Global Optimization (GO) is a discipline aimed at finding global
optima for hard nonconvex optimization problems. The workshop will
bring together researchers dealing with this topic. We shall have at
most two parallel streams. Accordingly, only a limited number of
contributions will be accepted. A special issue of the Journal Of
Global Optimization will contain (fully refereed) papers derived from
works presented at the workshop.

GOW12 will take place in Natal, northeast of Brazil. The "City of the
Sun", as it is well-known, has a typical tropical climate, around
29°C, with the sun shining almost all the year. Bordered by the
Atlantic Ocean and surrounded by dunes, Natal has the perfect
combination of beautiful beaches, warm waters, lush nature and a
welcoming people, receiving more than two million Brazilian and
foreign tourists every year.

Wikipedia link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natal,_Rio_Grande_do_Norte

Submission instructions:
------------------------------------------

Submit a 4-page extended abstract formatted using the LaTeX style
http://www.4nets.com.br/gow12/arquivos/central/latex_style.zip
through the EasyChair website
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gow12

Important Dates:
------------------------------------------

Deadline for the submission of abstracts: February 6th, 2012
Notification of acceptance: April 6th, 2012
Deadline for reduced fee: April 20th, 2012
Welcome reception: June 25th, 2012
Start of conference: June 26th, 2012

Invited speakers:
------------------------------------------
Jon Lee (University of Michigan, USA)
Leo Liberti (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
Nelson Maculan (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Frederic Messine (ENSEEIHT, France)
Panos Pardalos (University of Florida, USA)

Scientific Committee:
------------------------------------------

Daniel Aloise, Natal, Brazil (co-chair)
Charles Audet, Montreal, Canada
Pietro Belotti, Clemson, USA
Sonia Cafieri, Toulouse, France
Manoel Campelo, Fortaleza, Brazil
Emilio Carrizosa, Sevilla, Spain
Marcia Fampa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Xavier Gandibleux, Nantes, France
Pierre Hansen, Montreal, Canada (co-chair)
Eligius Hendrix, Malaga, Spain
Carlile Lavor, Campinas, Brazil
Marco Locatelli, Parma, Italy
Marcel Mongeau, Toulouse, France
Dominique Orban, Montreal, Canada
Sylvain Perron, Montreal, Canada
Mauricio G. C. Resende, Florham Park, USA
Celso C. Ribeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Caroline Rocha, Natal, Brazil
Sebastian Sager, Heidelberg, Germany
Fabio Tardella, Rome, Italy
Ider Tseveendorj, Versailles, France
Robert Weismantel, Zürich, Switzerland
Tapio Westerlund, Abo, Finland

Local Organizing Committee
------------------------------------------

Daniel Aloise (General Chair), Natal, Brazil
Dario J. Aloise, Mossori, Brazil
Caroline Rocha, Natal, Brazil
Mariana Almeida, Natal, Brazil
Samuel Xavier de Souza, Natal, Brazil

Contact:
------------------------------------------

For more details, see the conference website at
http://gow12.dca.ufrn.br
For more information, please write an email to
gow12natal@gmail.com

----------------------------------------------------
Daniel Aloise
President of the Organizing Committee

**********************************************************
*
* Contributions to be spread via DMANET are submitted to
*
* DMANET@zpr.uni-koeln.de
*
* Replies to a message carried on DMANET should NOT be
* addressed to DMANET but to the original sender. The
* original sender, however, is invited to prepare an
* update of the replies received and to communicate it
* via DMANET.
*
* DISCRETE MATHEMATICS AND ALGORITHMS NETWORK (DMANET)
* http://www.zaik.uni-koeln.de/AFS/publications/dmanet/
*
**********************************************************