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INFORMS Optimization Society 2008 Conference

Forum 'Annonces' - Sujet créé le 2007-08-23

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INFORMS Optimization Society 2008 Conference March 14 - March 16, 2008 "Theory, Computation, and Emerging Applications"



Call for papers



Optimization has long been a cornerstone for advancement of various industrial, government, and military applications. To highlight and support the role of optimization in current advances, and to promote interaction between researchers, the INFORMS Optimization Society launched a biannual conference starting in 2006. The 2006 Conference was held in San Antonio on February 3-5, 2006, and focused on "Optimization and HealthCare." The event featured plenary speakers Arkadi Nemirovski, Ronald Rardin, and Sorin Istrail, and had over one hundred attendees.



The themes for the INFORMS Optimization Conference 2008 are theory, computation and emerging applications.



Date: March 14 - March 16, 2008

Sponsor: INFORMS Optimization Society

Place: Atlanta, Georgia

Web: http://www.isye.gatech.edu/opt2008



Important Dates

Abstract submission deadline

-- Invited talk deadline: December 15, 2007

-- Contributed talk deadline: January 15, 2007 Early registration: Before February 22, 2008



Confirmed Keynote Speaker

Robert E. Bixby, ILOG and Rice University



Confirmed Plenary Speakers

Egon Balas, Carnegie Mellon University

Brenda Dietrich, INFORMS President and IBM Research

Yurii Nesterov, CORE and Catholic University of Louvain (UCL), Belgium



Program Chairs

Eva K Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology, evakylee@isye.gatech.edu

Sanjay Mehrotra, Northwestern University, mehrotra@iems.northwestern.edu



Program Committee

Alper Atamturk, University of California, Berkeley

Garud Iyengar, Columbia University

Hanif Sherali, Virginia Tech

John Birge, University of Chicago

Martin Savelsbergh, Georgia Tech

Panos Pardalos, University of Florida

Renato Monteiro, Georgia Tech

Ronald Rardin, University of Arkansas

Tamas Terlaky, McMaster University

Yin Zhang, Rice University

Yinyu Ye, Stanford University



Contributed Paper Program Chair

Shabbir Ahmed, Georgia Tech



Local Administrative Manager

Harry Sharp, Georgia Tech



Individual abstract submission is now open online. For those interested in organizing a session of talks, please contact program committees, or appropriate Cluster Chairs (below). Please contact program chairs for invited clusters.



Clusters Chairs:

-Shabbir Ahmed, sahmed@isye.gatech.edu

-Mihai Anitescu, anitescu@mcs.anl.gov

-Alper Atamturk, atamturk@berkeley.edu

-Michael Friedlander, mpf@cs.ubc.ca

-Ignacio Grossman, grossmann@cmu.edu

-Garud Iyengar, garud@ieor.columbia.edu

-Eva Lee, evakylee@isye.gatech.edu

-Sanjay Mehrotra, mehrotra@iems.northwestern.edu

-Jean-Philippe P. Richard, jprichar@purdue.edu

-Hanif Sherali, hanifs@vt.edu

-Yinyu Ye, yinyu-ye@stanford.edu



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Eva K. Lee, Ph.D.

Associate Professor & Director, Center for Operations Research in Medicine Industrial & Systems Engineering | Winship Cancer Institute Georgia Institute of Technology | Emory University School of Medicine

Atlanta, GA 30332-0205 | Atlanta, GA 30322



Phone : (404) 894-4962

Fax : (404) 894-2301

URL : http://www.isye.gatech.edu/~evakylee

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