Report for SJOM 2008

The 4^th Sino-Japanese Optimization Meeting (SJOM 2008) was held during 27^th August to 31^st August, 2008, at National Center for Theoretical Sciences, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. With all your supports, SJOM 2008 has come to a successful end and has received positive comments. We would like to thank all of you for coming a long way to Tainan and contributing to the events, which keep the optimization research area growing and promote the connections.

During the five meeting-days of SJOM 2008, 2 keynote talks, 14 plenary talks, and 78 contributed talks were held. Totally, 126 users registered the conference and 102 people showed up. The URL links are conference group photos:

http://www.ncts.ncku.edu.tw/sjom/images/P8290062.JPG http://www.ncts.ncku.edu.tw/sjom/images/P8290061.JPG

If not combining China and Taiwan, the Japanese constitute 38% of the total 102 participants and thus form the largest single group.

The special issue will be published on Pacific Journal of Optimization, which is edited by Prof. Soon-Yi Wu and Prof. Nobuo Yamashita. The submitting deadline is at the end of March 2009. For more information, please check the website: http://www.ncts.ncku.edu.tw/sjom/index.html

Thank you again for your efforts in SJOM 2008. We are looking forward to seeing all of you again at Beijing in 2011.

Soon-Yi Wu
Organizing committee chair of SJOM 2008
Professor of Department of Mathematics
National Cheng Kung University
Tainan, Taiwan