Workshop on Challenges of Continuous Optimization in Theory and Applications

 Aim and Scope of the Workshop, Scientific Committee: 

         Aim and Scope of the Workshop

The workshop aims to bring together researchers from smooth and nonsmooth optimization and from related fields of discrete optimization, operations research, economy and technology. It intends to be a  forum for the exchange of recent scientific developments and  for  the  discussion  of new trends. The scope of the conference includes all aspects of smooth, nonsmooth and discrete optimization  from  fundamental  research to numerical methods and applications. 

 
Topics

Linear and nonlinear programming, semidefinite and semi-infinite optimization, complementarity problems,
derivative-free, global and stochastic optimization,  nondifferentiable analysis,  optimal control,
optimization of technological, bio- and social systems, financial optimization.

 
Scientific Committee:

• Jean-Louis Goffin (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) 
• Tibor Illes (Eötös University, Budapest, Hungary) 
• Florian Jarre (University of Düsseldorf, Germany) 
• Bülent Karasözen (Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey) 
• Jozsef Kolumban (Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania) 
• Mustafa Pinar  (Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey) 
• Boris Polyak (Institute of Control Science, Moscow, Russia) 
• Kees Roos (Deft University of Technology, The Netherlands) 
• Alexander Rubinov (School of Information Technology and  Mathematical Sciences, Ballarat, Australia) 
• Katya Scheinberg (Columbia University, IBM, New York, USA) 
• Oliver Stein (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
• Marc Teboulle (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) 
• Tamas Terlaky (McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada) 
• Maxim Todorov (Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico) 
• Theodore Trafalis (University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA) 
• Metin Türkay (Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey) 

Invited Speakers: 

Miguel Goberna (University of Alicante, Spain) 

Kathrin Klamroth (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) 

Marco A. López   (University of Alicante, Spain) 

Arkadi Nemirovski (Israel Institute of Technology,  Haifa,  Israel)

Moshe Sniedovich (The University of Melbourne, Australia) 

Theodore Trafalis (University of Oklahoma, Norman, USA)