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The scientific program of ICCOPT will cover all major aspects of continuous optimization: theory, algorithms, applications, and related problems. A partial list of topics includes
* linear, nonlinear, and convex programming
* equilibrium programming
* semidefinite and conic programming
* stochastic programming
* complementarity and variational inequalities
* nonsmooth and variational analysis
* nonconvex and global optimization
* optimization of partial differential systems
* applications in engineering, economics, finance, statistics, game theory, and bioinformatics
* energy modeling and electric power market modeling
* optimization over computing grids
* modeling languages and web-based optimization systems.
In all of these areas, we welcome both theoretical results and computational studies, and also novel applications to practical problems.
Within each of these topics, there are significant new developments and unsolved problems, as well as classical issues awaiting resolution. To name a few of the exciting recent developments in continuous optimization, we mention robust optimization via semidefinite and conic programming, optimization of matrix-valued functions, mathematical programming with equilibrium constraints, multidisciplinary optimization involving partial differential equations, differential variational systems, and optimization involving nonsmooth functions.
The Conference is sponsored in part by the Mathematical Programming Society. It is organized in cooperation with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) and the SIAM Activity Group on Optimization.
You are cordially invited to attend the conference and to submit a contributed paper for presentation. Due to the limited number of available slots, the Program Committee may have to decline some submissions. Please send one of the Co-Chairs of the Local Organizing Committee (Jong-Shi Pang or John Mitchell) a note before March 1, 2004, indicating if you are interested in (a) attending the Conference, and/or (b) contributing a presentation.
The Conference will be preceded by a summer school for graduate students, junior faculty, and other interested participants, which will describe some of the recent exciting developments in continuous optimization. See separate announcement (forthcoming).