A Joint EUROPT-OMS Meeting

(July 4-7, 2007, Prague, Czech Republic)
　

Conference Website: http://cio.umh.es/europt-oms/

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT, CALL FOR PAPERS AND ORGANIZING SESSIONS

The conference aims to review and discuss recent advances and promising research trends in continuous and discrete optimization theory, methods, applications and software development.

TOPICS INCLUDE:
* Linear and Nonlinear Optimization
* Integer and Combinatorial Optimization
* Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization
* Global Optimization
* Semi-definite Programming
* Semi-infinite Programming
* Multi-objective Optimization
* Stochastic Optimization
* Complementarity and Variational Inequality Problems
* Derivative-free Optimization
* Network Optimization
* Scheduling Problems
* Optimization in Technological, Bio- and Social Systems
* Financial Optimization
* Optimal Control
* Automatic Differentiation
* Optimization Software

This international conference is the first joint Meeting organized by the journal Optimization Methods and Software (OMS)
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10556788.html
and the Working Group on Continuous Optimization (EUROPT)
http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/
of the Association of European Operational Research Societies (EURO).  The EUROPT-OMS Conference will be held prior to the 22nd European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXII)
in Prague
http://euro2007.vse.cz/
and the 6th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM 2007) in Zurich
http://www.iciam07.ch/index

INVITED SPEAKERS:
Frederic Bonnans (France)
Yury Evtushenko (Russia)
Komei Fukuda (Switzerland)
Luigi Grippo (Italy)
Dorit Hochbaum (USA)
Tibor Illes (Hungary)
Adrian Lewis (USA)
Michal Kocvara (Czech Republic)
Alexander Martin (Germany)
Florian Potra (USA)
Liqun Qi (China)
Philippe Toint (Belgium)
Stefan Ulbrich (Germany)
Stephen Wright (USA)
Yinyu Ye (USA)
Ya-xiang Yuan (China)

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS:
Oleg Burdakov (Sweden), Conference Co-Chair
Florian Jarre (Germany), Conference Co-Chair
Karel Zimmermann (Czech Republic), Conference Co-Chair
Gerhard Wilhelm Weber (Turkey), Program Committee Chair
Marco A. López (Spain), Organizing Committee Chair
Martin Gavalec (Czech Republic), Local Organizing Committee Chair
Complete list of the Committees Members is available on the conference
web site.

CONFERENCE VENUE:
The conference will be hosted by the University of Economics,  Prague. The University Campus is located within 15 minutes
walking distance of the historical centre of Prague.

HOTEL ARRANGEMENTS:
Prague has a large capacity in a wide variety of accommodation facilities, ranging from luxurious five-star hotels to economical two star hotels, and to student hostels. Many of the hotels are easily accessible from the conference venue - within 5-20 minutes by walking, underground, bus or tram. The prices are between EUR 50-60 for two star hotels, EUR 70-80 for three star hotels and around EUR 20 for student hostels. More details on room reservation will be given in the second announcement.

ABSTRACT SUBMISSION:
Abstracts should not exceed one page. Details of the submission are available on the conference web site.

SESSION ORGANIZATION:
Proposals of organizing sessions on various topics are welcome
and can be sent to G.W. Weber and M. Dür by email: gweber@metu.edu.tr
and duer@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de.
 
SOFTWARE EXHIBITION:
Optimization software developers are invited to participate in the software exhibition. The basic computer facility for software demonstration will be provided by the conference.

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS:
Papers presented at the conference will be considered for peer-reviewed publication in a special issue of the journal
Optimization Methods and Software. More detailed information will be available on the conference web site.

DATES AND DEADLINES:
Deadline for abstract submissions: April 30, 2007.
Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2007.
Deadline for early registration: May 31, 2007.
 
REGISTRATION FEE:
Early registration: EUR 200 (EUR 100 for students).
Late  registration: EUR 250 (EUR 125 for students).

SPONSORS AND PARTNERS:
EURO, Taylor & Francis, University of Economics (Czech Republic),
University of Hradec Kralove (Czech Republic), Alicante University
(Spain), Middle East Technical University (Turkey), Universidad
Miguel Hernández de Elche (Spain).

CONFERENCE WEB AND EMAIL ADDRESSES:
Web address: http://cio.umh.es/europt-oms/
Email address: europt-oms2007@uhk.cz