Professor Alex Rubinov Was Awarded EUROPT FELLOW 2006

　

The Managing Board of EUROPT appointed

                      Prof. Dr. Alexander Rubinov
                   (University of Ballarat, Australia)

to become

                        EUROPT FELLOW 2006 .

Professor Rubinov is a renowned expert in nonsmooth and global optimization. By his contributions to our EUROPT and EURO
events and EJOR special issues and, as a special donation of excellence and cordiality, this vivid support of the collaboration  and friendship between EUROPT and POP (Pacific Optimization Research Activity Group) he has in an exceptional way served our EURO working group and its members. This has given depth, width and perspective to a multitude of common undertakings and individual lives. 

At the occasion of "The 5th Ballarat Workshop on Global and Non-Smooth Optimization: Theory, Methods and Applications",
University of Ballarat,  November 28- 30, 2006, the congratulation and laudatio will be personally given to Professor Rubinov by a delegation of EUROPT members consisting of Prof. Dr. Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Prof. Dr. Adil Bagirov and Prof. Dr. Bülent Karasözen. Then, all the EUROPT members present want to praise our friend in teacher Prof. Dr. Rubinov in the name of our EURO Working Group on Continuous Optimization,EUROPT.

Ankara, September 5, 2006