Announcements
SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP21) will take place in Spokane, Washington, U.S. on July 20--23, 2021.
For more information, please kindly refer to the OP21 website.
Thanks for your support.
Organizing Committee Co-Chairs
Tamás Terlaky, Lehigh University, USA
Defeng Sun, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Organizing Committee Members
Xiaodong Hu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Adil Bagirov, Federation University, Australia
Akiko Yoshise, University of Tsukuba, Japan
Peter Richtarik, KAUST, Saudi Arabia
Gabriele Eichfelder, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany
Fabio Schoen, University of Florence, Italy
Jean Bernard Lasserre, LAAS/CNRS, France
Henry Wolkowicz, University of Waterloo, Canada
Uday Shanbhag, Penn State University, USA
Genetha Gray, Salesforce, USA
Pietro Belotti, FICO, UK
Local Organizing Committee
Xiaojun Chen (Co-chair), PolyU
Defeng Sun (Co-chair), PolyU
Chuanying Dang, City University of Hong Kong
Ting Kei Pong, PolyU
Anthony Man-cho So, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Xiaoqi Yang, PolyU
Xiaoming Yuan, Hong Kong University
Man-Chung Yue, PolyU
Zaikun Zhang, PolyU
Plenary Speakers
Amir Ali Ahmadi, Princeton University, USA
Donald Goldfarb, Columbia University, USA
Didier Henrion, University of Toulouse, France
Michael Hinze, University of Koblenz · Landau, Germany
Satoru Iwata, University of Tokyo, Japan
Ivana Ljubic, ESSEC Business School, France
R. Tyrrell Rockafellar, University of Washington, USA
Margaret Wiecek, Clemson University, USA
Minitutorials
I. Quantum Computing and Optimization, Speaker: Giacomo Nannicini, IBM, USA
II. AI, Machine Learning and Optimization, Speakers: Lin Xiao, Microsoft Research, USA; Lihong Li, Google Inc., USA
Description
The SIAM Conference on Optimization will feature the latest research on the theory, algorithms, software, and applications of optimization. A particular emphasis will be put on applications of optimization in AI and data science, quantum computing, health care, finance, aeronautics, control, operations research, and other areas of science and engineering. The conference brings together mathematicians, operations researchers, computer and computational scientists, engineers, software developers and practitioners, thus providing an ideal environment to share new ideas and important problems among specialists and users of optimization in academia, government, and industry.
Themes
- Applications in Health Care
- Applications in Energy Networks and Renewable Resources
- Applications in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
- Combinatorial and Mixed Integer Nonlinear Optimization
- Conic Linear Optimization
- Derivative-free Optimization
- Discrete and Combinatorial Optimization
- Equilibrium Programming
- Graphs and Networks
- Nonlinear Optimization
- Optimization in Engineering
- PDE Based Optimization
- Polynomial and SoS Optimization
- Stochastic and Robust Optimization
Important Deadlines
Submission deadlines:
January 5, 2020: Minisymposium Proposal Submissions.
February 16, 2020: Contributed Lecture, Poster, and Minisymposium Presentation Abstracts.
Travel fund application deadline:
December 12, 2019: SIAM Student Travel Award and Post-doc/Early Career Travel Award Applications.
March 10, 2020.
See the Hotel Information page.
Sponsors
- SIAM Activity Group on Optimization
- The Croucher Foundation
- K.C. Wong Education Foundation
- The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
- CAS AMSS-POLYU Joint Laboratory of Applied Mathematics(PolyU)
