New POP Working Committee
Chairman ------------------Liqun Qi | Liqun Qi | |
| Alex Rubinov | |
| Liqun Qi | |
| Xiaoling Sun | |
| Jim Wilson | |
| Dingguo Pu | |
| Wenyu Sun | |
| Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber | |
| Xiaoqi Yang | |
| Xiaoling Sun | |
| Liqun Qi | |
|
Rhiannon
Rees Taylor & Francis Ltd |
New POP Working Committee
Chairman ------------------Liqun Qi
Dear POP Members,
I announce that I now step down from the post of
the POP Working Committee Chairman and Professor Alex Rubinov will be the
next POP Working Committee Chairman.
At this moment, I
wish to say thanks to all of you for your support to the POP
activities. With your support, POP is now a driving force
for optimization in this region. We now have more than 500
members from about 50 countries and regions. We now have two
journals (PJO and JIMO) and two regular conference series (ICOTA and SJOM)
associated with POP, and an electronic newsletter (ORB) issued regularly. As a
membership fee free organization, we are proud of our achievements.
I
think that POP is a community organization. Hence its leader should
be rotated. But POP is an informal community organization, hence, it
only needs to rotate the post of the Working Committee Chairman sometimes. I
have been at this post for more than four years. Hence, it is time
for me to step down. The POP Board and Working Committee decided that
Professor Alex Rubinov will be the next POP Working Committee Chairman. The POP
Working Committee and the ORB Committee have also reshuffled themselves
recently.
Professor Alex Rubinov is one of the foundation members of
POP. He has chaired ORB during 2001-2004, and ICOTA6 in 2004.
He has been a member of the POP Board and the POP Working Committee since
2000. We trust that he will lead POP to make it further active and
prosperous.
Thank you very much for your support again.
Liqun Qi
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Message from the New
Chairman ------------------Alex Rubinov
Dear POP Members,
You may already know that Prof. Liqun
Qi recently stepped down from the post of the Chairman of the POP Working
Committee. I am honoured to succeed him in this post as the new
Chairman.
Professor Liqun Qi is a great mathematician and one of the
leading experts in our field. He is the one of most highly cited
mathematicians (See ORB, issue 12, December 2003) and it is impossible to
overestimate his role in the creation of our research group. It was his idea to
create the POP, however we all know that often good ideas die after difficulties
in implementation. Liqun, with the help of the working committee and the board,
implemented this idea successfully and we now have a strong and large research
group.
His contributions are greatly valued and were highlighted during
the most recent POP board discussion. I include only a few comments from our
messages:
"I would like to express my deep thanks to you for your lots of
efforts and works so far for POP".
"I appreciate your tremendous effort
in promoting POP"
"It took a lot of energy, time and passion for
organising a community that has more that 500 members across all
continents."
Currently POP is a research group that includes more than
500 members from 50 countries with two journals, two conference series and an
electronic newsletter. POP forms a convenient collaboration framework between
members of the optimization community of our region. POP's strength as a
research group was recently recognised by the subscription discount our members
received to "Optimization" and "Optimization method and software" (publishing
house Taylor & Frances)
As the next Chairman of the POP Working
Committee I will do my best for further development of the group. If you
have any suggestions concerning POP activity, please feel free to discuss it
with me. My e-mail address is: amr@ballarat.edu.au.
Alex Rubinov
The Changes of The POP Working Committee and The
ORB Editorial Board --------------------Liqun Qi
The POP Working Committee and the ORB Editorial Board have made
some changes in April.
The POP Working Committee now has seven
members:
The POP Working Committee
Masao Fukushima (Japan), PJO
Houyuan Jiang (UK), Member Liaison
Liqun Qi (Hong
Kong), Chair
Alex Rubinov (Australia), Other
Links
Xiaoling Sun (China), ORB
Tamaki Tanaka (Japan), Meeting News
Xiaoqi
Yang (Hong Kong), Website
The new Editor of ORB is Prof. Xiaoling
Sun
Dear POP Members,
I am honored to take
on the role of the Editor of ORB Newsletters. I will work hard to make my
contribution to the POP community.
I would like to take this
opportunity to announce a new website of the ORB
Newsletters:
http://202.121.199.216/mathematics/or/ORBNewsletter.html
POP members can make their contributions by submitting Research News, POP member News, Proposal for member interview, Conference report and other information our members may be interested in. We also appreciate your suggestions to improve the quality of this newsletters.
Xiaoling Sun
Prof. Shu-Cherng Fang Received
the Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Professorship
Award-------Jim Wilson
I am pleased to announce that Shu-Cherng Fang is
one of two NCSU faculty members who will receive the Alumni Association
Distinguished Graduate Professorship Award in May 2005. This is the
university's highest award for teaching and research at the graduate level, and
Shu-Cherng's achievements in graduate education bring honor to the Department of
Industrial Engineering and to the entire College of Engineering. Each year, at
most two faculty members of the whole university receive this award.
James R. Wilson, Professor & Head
Dept. of
Industrial Engineering
North Carolina State University
International Workshop on Optimization Shanghai, 2005
(IWOS2005) -------------- Dingguo Pu International Workshop on Optimization
Shanghai, May 28-30, 2005
The International Workshop
on Optimization: Theory, Methods, Software and Applications was
successfully held in Tongji University, Shanghai, China, on May 28-30, 2005.
The workshop was jointly organized and supported
by The National Science Foundation of China, Operations Research Society of
Shanghai, Tongji University, City University of Hong Kong, Shanghai SIAM-OR
Committee and Shanghai University of Electric Power. 140 experts, researchers
and graduate students, from 15 countries and areas of the world, attended the
workshop.
The aims of this workshop was to bring together
experts from all of the world in the area of optimization theory, methods,
Software and applications to meet and exchange their recent research findings
and to discuss possible joint projects.
The chairman of organizing committee, Professor Dingguo Pu, form Tongji University, announced the beginning of the workshop, The chairman of Programming Committee, Professor J. Zhang, from City University of Hong Kong, China, gave the welcome speeches. Professor Y. Li, the president of Tongji University and Professor J. Jiang, the dean of Mathematical Department of Tongji University, gave the congratulatory speeches. There are 17 invited talks and 40 other talks. The topics of the workshop include linear and nonlinear programming, global optimization, optimal control, integer programming, multiobjective programs, scheduling, LCPs, optimization modeling, software and applications.
Nanjing International Conference on Scientific Computing
---------------- Wenyu SunNanjing International Conference on Scientific Computing
June 4-8, 2005
Nanjing International Conference on Scientific Computing has been held in Nanjing Normal University in June 4-8, 2005. The conference covers the topics such as numerical PDE, numerical algebra, optimization methods and software, applications of scientific computing in science and engineering. The conference is one of the most important international conference over the world this year. Various renowned computational mathematicians and almost all winners of “Feng Kang Scientific Computing Prize” attended the conference, and presented plenary speaks and invited speaks. In the conference, there are 17 plenary speaks, 54 invited speaks, and 75 contributed speaks. These works reflect the current research trend on all areas of scientific computing.
The chairman of the conference, member of Chinese Academy of Science, Professor Zhongci Shi, and the chairman of organizing committee, President of Nanjing Normal University, Professor Yongzhong Song gave the welcome speeches respectively. The conference is run and programmed by co-chairmans Professor Wenyu Sun and Professor Zhilin Li. The following experts attended the meeting and presented their talks:
Professor Uri M. Asher, University of British Columbia;
Professor Tomas Banks, North Carolina State University;
Professor Hermann Brunner, Newfoundland University;
Professor Oleg Burdakov, Linkoping University;
Professor Tony Chan, University of Carlifornia at Los Angels
Professor Qiang Du, Pensyvalia State University;
Professor Weinan E, Princeton University;
Professor Bjorn Engquist, UT Austin;
Professor Lisa Fauci, Tulane University;
Professor Massao Fukushima, Kyoto University;
Professor Thomas Hou, California Institute of Technology;
Professor Stanley Osher, University of California at Los Angels;
Professor Chiwang Shu, Brown University;
Professor Josef Stoer, Wurzburg University;
Professor Eitan Tadmor, Maryland University;
Professor Tao Tang, Baptist University;
Professor Philippe Toint, Namur University;
Professor Pingwen Zhang, Peking University.
The main optimization speaks are as follows:
Oleg Burdakov (Linkoping U, Sweden), Fast optimization algorithms for problems with monotonicity constraints;
Chuangying Dang (CityU, Hong Kong), Triangulations and applications in simplicial methods for optimization;
Masao Fukushima (Kyoto U, Japan), A matrix splitting methods for symmetric affine second-order cone complementary problems;
Bingsheng He (Nanjing U, China), Implicit complementary problems: Applications and Algorithms;
Chong Li (Zhejing U, China), Strong CHIP for infinite system of closed convex sets in normed linear spaces;
Maijian Qian (California State U, USA), The developments of proximal point algorithm for monotone operators;
Yunqiu Shen (Western Washington U, USA), Solving rank-deficient separable nonlinear equations;
Oliver Stein (Univ of Duisburg-Essen, Germany), Design centering from a new point of view;
Josef Stoer (Wurzburg U, Germany), Minimizing strictly convex quadratic functions on the convex hull of a large point set;
Defeng Sun (National Univ of Singapore), A dual optimization approach to inverse quadratic eigenvalue problems with partial eigenstructure;
Philippe Toint (Namur, Belgium), A recursive trust-region methods for multi-scale unconstrained minimization;
Stefan Ulbrich (TU Munchen, Germany), Recent developments in PDE-constrained optimization;
Chengxian Xu (Xi’an Jiaotong U, China), Continuous methods for max-cut problems;
Huifu Xu (Univ of Southampton, UK), Convergence analysis of sample average approximation methods for a class of stochastic mathematical programs with equality constraints;
Shuzhong Zhang (Chinese U, Hong Kong), Complex quadratic optimization and semidenite optimization;
The selected conference talks will be published in special issue of “Applied Numerical Mathematics“ and special issue of “Journal of Computational Mathematics”.
Message
from Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber ----------------
Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber Dear friends and members of EUROPT,
Warm regards to you! This e-mail
is devoted to one of our dear colleagues and friends, who is very meritorious
for many ones of
us and for EUROPT at all: Professor Dr. Alexander Rubinov,
from University of Ballarat, Australia.
Some weeks ago, Professor Rubinov
- dear Alex - completed his term as the Chairman of ORB (January 2000 - March
2005).
ORB is "The Optimization Research Bridge" of POP, Pacific Optimization
Activity Group (for ORB please cf.
http://www.ballarat.edu.au/ard/itms/CIAO/ORBNewsletter/).
In these years, Alex has been and he still is a driving force for a
lot of
scientific enterprises and, in particular, of the close and fruitful
collaboration between POP and EUROPT, between those different
regions of the
world and on the person stage of friendship and looking forward in a common
vision. During that period, many reports of EUROPT members became published in
ORB, many POP members became EUROPT members, and vice versa.
Alex served in
different scientific events organized by EUROPT, he is a guest editor of EJOR
together with us, a member of
Advisory Board or the new group "Young People
for Operational Research in the Developing Countries" (YORC) founded
and
supported by EUROPT members. There is a common supervision of students together
with Alex, and a special care
of the nations of Middle East and Central Asia
is a matter of Alex' and our heart. An important expression and precious
celebration
of the closeness between EUROPT and POP will take place at "EURO
XXI 2006" (http://www.euro2006.org/)
where both
optimization groups have prepared and are organizing a remarkable
number of interesting streams.
Before, in a few weeks, we wish you,
dear Alex, and many of our friends a pleasant and successful "The 1st
International Conference
on Control and Optimization with Industrial
Applications" in Baku (http://www.aseu.ab.az/coia-2005/).
We
would like to express to Professor Alexander Rubinov our sincere gratitude for
what he initiated and did for us as Chairman
of ORB, are looking forward to a
further good and joyful collaboration and friendship with him! With Professor
Xiaoling Sun who has been become his successor, we will certainly work together
very well and wish him all the best as the new "Editor"!
Dear Alex, you
are very important for us; thank you very cordially for all your care and
efforts!
With friendly regards
and best wishes to all our
members,
Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber
vice-coordinator
http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/
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Link: Interview with Professor Alex Rubinov---------------------Xiaoqi Yang
POP Members News -------------- Liqun Qi Journal Discount for POP Members:
Optimization Methods & Software, Optimization------------------Rhiannon
Rees
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