Date :August 18-22, 2002

Venue :Yellow Mountain International Hotel, Tunxi City, AnHui Province

Sponsors and Organizers :

    The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
    The Institute of System Science, CAS (ISS)
    Nanjing Normal University (NNU)
    Anhui University of Science and Technology (AUST)

Topics :

    Duality
    Engineering Applications
    Financial Optimization
    Global Optimization
    Nonlinear Programming
    Optimal Control
    Software of Optimization and Control
    Stochastic Programming
    Structural Optimization
    Systems of Nonlinear Equations
    Variational Inequalities

Special Issues :

    a. A special issue of Optimization, Guest Editor : Alex Rubinov.
    b. A special issue of Journal of Global Optimization on "Duality", Guest Editor : David Gao.
    c. A special issue of Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulisve Systems, Series B (Algorithm and Applications) on "Financial
        Optimization", Guest Editor : Shouyang Wang.

Organizing Committee :

Directors :  Liqun Qi (PolyU)
                  Kok Lay Teo (PolyU)

Scientific Advisors :  David Gao (USA)
                                Lei Guo (ISS)
                                Xinghe Zhou (NUU)

Local Chair :  Wenxiang Zhang (AUST)

Program Chairs :  Wenyu Sun (NNU)
                            Shouyang Wang (ISS)
                            Xiaoqi Yang (PolyU)

Treasurer :  Zhicai Xu (AUST)

Invited Speakers including :

   N.U. Ahmed, University of Ottawa, Canada
   Daizhun Cheng, The Institute of System Sciences, CAS, Beijing
   Xiuli Chao, North Carolina State University, USA
   Xiaotie Deng, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
   Jiu Ding, The University of Southern Mississippi, USA
   Ivar Ekeland, University of Paris-Dauphine, France
   Masao Fukushima, Kyoto University, Japan
   Jaroslav Haslinger, Charles University, Czech
   C.T. Kelley, North Carolina State University, USA
   Masakazu Kojima, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
   Qiang Lu, Tsinghua University, Beijing
   Zhi-quan Luo, McMaster University, Canada
   John B. Moore, The Australian National University, Australia
   Dumitru Motreanu, Universite de Perpignan, France
   Panos M. Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
   Alex M. Rubinov, University of Ballarat, Australia
   Michel Thera, Universite de Limoges, France
   Soon-yi Wu, The National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
   Chengxian Xu, The Xian Jiao Tong University, Xian
   Shuzhong Zhang, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Secretary :

Program Secretary :  Eva Yiu (PolyU)  <maevayiu@polyu.edu.hk>

Location and Tour :

The Yellow Mountains (Huangshan) is one of the most beautiful places in China and in the world.  For registered participants and accompanying persons, there is a free tour to this most beautiful place.  Click here to see its Nature Beauty.

There is an international airport at Tunxi.  Its name is the Yellow Mountain International Airport, which is connected by flights with Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong.

The distance from the Yellow Mountain Airport (TXN) to the Yellow Mountain Hotel is 2km.  The telephone of the Yellow Mountain Hotel is 86-559-2565678.

All flight information to and from TXN can be found in web:

http://www.intohuangshan.com

In particular, everyday there are two flights (MU5511, 7:30-8:20 and MU5583, 18:10-19:10) from Shanghai to TXN and two flights (MU5512, 8:50-9:40 and MU5584, 21:30-22:25) from TXN to Shanghai.

How to participate :

If you wish to contribute a talk in OCA2002, please send your abstract before June 10, 2002, to one of the Program Chairs.   The e-mail addresses of three Program Chairs are:

    Wenyu Sun, <wysun@pine.njnu.edu.cn>
    Shouyang Wang, <sywang@rose.nsfc.gov.cn>
    Xiaoqi Yang, <mayangxq@polyu.edu.hk>

If you wish to attend OCA2002 but not to give a talk, please contact the Local Chair :

    Wenxiang Zhang <wxzhang@hnit.edu.cn>

Registration :

Registration fee for an overseas participant :

Full Registration fee (including hotel fee with own room on August 17-22 nights, meals and tours during the workshop) : US$400.

Registration fee for an accompanying person without requiring an additional room : US$100.

Registration fee for an accompanying person requiring an additional room : US$400.

Deposit : 10% of the registration fee needs to be sent to the following account (for overseas participants):

   Client : Huainan Institute of Technology
   Address : Huainan Anhui Province China
   Bank : Huainan Branch, Bank of China
   Account Number : 03668408093014

before July 10, 2002.  It is fine to send the full registration fee to this account before that date.

Registration fee for a domestic participant (including meals and tours during the workshop, but not including hotel fee) and deposit payment methods can be checked with a program chair.

Arrival and Department

On August 17 and 23, the conference will arrange buses to the Yellow Mountain Airport to meet and to send participants of the conference respectively.  For participants of OCA 2002, who arrive and depart on these two days, please inform Prof. Zhicai Xu <slx@aust.edu.cn> your arrival and departure flights before July 31 to arrange the transportation.

Homepage Address :

http://www.polyu.edu.hk/~ama/events//OCA2002an1.htm

or

http://www.math.vt.edu/people/gao/conference/oca2002.html
 

Last updated on 5 August 2002