Sunday, December 27, 2009

[DMANET] Call for submission MOPTA 2010

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
MOPTA 2010: Abstract Submission deadline: June 16, 2010

Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA 2010)
August 18-20, 2010, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/

SCOPE
The conference is an annual event aiming to bring together a diverse
group of people from both discrete and continuous optimization, working
on both theoretical and applied aspects.
Our target is to present a diverse set of exciting new developments from
different optimization areas while at the same time providing a setting
which will allow increased interaction among the participants.
We aim to bring together researchers from both the theoretical and applied
communities who do not usually have the chance to interact in the framework
of a medium-scale event.

CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS INCLUDE
Egon Balas, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University;
http://public.tepper.cmu.edu/facultydirectory/FacultyDirectoryProfile.aspx?id=39
Mung Chiang, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University;
http://www.princeton.edu/~chiangm
Donald Goldfarb, Dept. of IE and OR, Columbia University;
http://www.columbia.edu/~goldfarb
Arkadi Nemirovski, School of ISyE, Georgia Institute of Technology;
http://www.isye.gatech.edu/faculty-staff/profile.php?entry=an63
Anthony T. Patera, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, MIT;
http://meche.mit.edu/people/faculty/index.html?id=66
H. Edwin Romeijn, Dept. of IOE, University of Michigan;
http://www.ise.ufl.edu/romeijn
Andrzej Ruszczynski, RUTCOR and Dept. of MSIS, Rutgers University;
http://www.rusz.rutgers.edu/

AIMMS-MOPTA MODELING COMPETITION:
An optimization modeling competition, sponsored by AIMMS is organized.
Finalist will present their results at a special session of MOPTA 2010.
Problem released January 2010.

CONTRIBUTED TALKS
Each accepted paper will be allotted a 25 minute talk. Authors wishing
to speak and/or organize a session should submit an abstract via the
conference WEB page by June 16, 2010.

IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract Submission deadline: June 16, 2010
Early registration deadline: July 15, 2010
Conference date: *18-20 August 2010*.

IMPORTANT NOTE:
Bethlehem, PA is just one hour drive west of the NewArk (EWR)
International Airport, less than an hour drive north of Philadelphia.
Participants may fly to the Allentown-Bethlehem (ABE) airport, 10 minutes
drive from Lehigh University.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee
Tamas Terlaky, terlaky@lehigh.edu (Chair, Lehigh University)
Please direct questions to: Pietro Belotti, belotti@Lehigh.EDU
Contact for modeling competition: Imre Polik, imp208@lehigh.edu
Further information is available at: http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta/

We are looking forward to welcoming you at MOPTA 2010 in Bethlehem at
Lehigh University in August 2010.

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Tamás Terlaky, George N. and Soteria Kledaras '87 Endowed Chair Professor.
Chair, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
P.C. Rossin College of Engineering and Applied Science
Lehigh University, Harold S. Mohler Laboratory
200 West Packer Avenue, Bethlehem, PA 18015-1582
Phone: (610) 758-4050
Email: terlaky@lehigh.edu
Fax: (610) 758-4886
http://www.lehigh.edu/~tat208
http://www.lehigh.edu/~inime
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