Dear colleagues, A quick reminder about our upcoming *in-person workshop* *Optimization for Interpretable Machine Learning: Classification and Clustering* to be held on *Monday, October 5, 2026*, at *ESSEC Business School, Cergy (Paris area), France*. The workshop will bring together researchers working at the interface of Mathematical Optimization and Machine Learning, with a particular focus on classification, clustering, interpretability, and structured learning models. The *updated *list of invited speakers is: - *Zacharie Alès* — ENSTA Paris, UMA Laboratory, France - *Lavinia Amorosi* — Sapienza University of Rome, Italy - *Farnaz Farzania* — Copenhagen Business School, Denmark - *Javier Marenco* — Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina - *Justo Puerto* — IMUS, University of Seville, Spain - *Fabian Wilschewski* — University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany The *workshop program is now available on the event website*, together with further information and the registration form: https://sites.google.com/essec.edu/oiml-workshop/home Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. *Registration will remain open until Friday, September 25.* We hope to see many of you in Cergy! Best regards, *Diego Delle Donne* ESSEC Business School ********************************************************** * * 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/ * **********************************************************