Call for Participation

10th International Conference on PARAMETRIC OPTIMIZATION AND RELATED TOPICS
(paraoptX)

Karlsruhe, Germany, September 20 - 24, 2010

http://www.ior.kit.edu/paraoptX.php

Dear colleague,

we cordially invite you to the upcoming 10th International Conference on Parametric Optimization and Related Topics. The international conference series "Parametric Optimization and Related Topics" was founded in 1985 and, since then, took place each 2-3 years in different places: the latter six conferences were held in Enschede (1995), Tokyo (1997), Dubrovnik (1999), Puebla (2002), Cairo (2005), and Cienfuegos (2007). From September 20 to 24, 2010, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology will host the conference paraoptX.

Parametric optimization is a part of mathematical programming and has emerged as an exciting research area in theory, numerics and applications. It investigates the properties of solutions to optimization problems under data perturbations or uncertainty. Many relations to other disciplines of operations research, like stochastic programming, complementarity problems, mixed-integer problems, model-building, numerical methods, multi-objective optimization and optimal control, originate from these properties.

paraoptX welcomes papers as well as proposals for special sessions on any area in parametric optimization or related topics. We hope that the conference will continue to help link researchers and practitioners from different areas of mathematical programming from around the world.


INVITED SPEAKERS
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o Christodoulos A. Floudas (Princeton University, Princeton, USA)
o Sven Leyffer (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne IL, USA)
o Boris Mordukhovich (Wayne State University, Detroit MI, USA)
o Jiri Outrata (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)
o Teemu Pennanen (Helsinki University of Technology, Helsinki, Finland)
o Andreas Waechter (IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights NY, USA)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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o Chair: Jan-J. Rueckmann (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
o Chair: Oliver Stein (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
o Wolfgang Achtziger (Technische Universitaet Dortmund, Germany)
o Roberto Cominetti (Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile)
o Asen Dontchev (National Science Foundation, Ann Arbor, USA)
o Miguel Goberna (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
o Andreas Griewank (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany)
o Juergen Guddat (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany)
o Francisco Guerra (Universidad de las Americas, Puebla, Mexico)
o Alfredo Iusem (IMPA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
o Florian Jarre (Heinrich-Heine-Universitaet Duesseldorf, Germany)
o Hubertus Th. Jongen (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
o Christian Kanzow (Universitaet Wuerzburg, Germany)
o Diethard Klatte (Universtiaet Zuerich, Switzerland)
o Michal Kocvara (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
o Marco Lopez (Universidad de Alicante, Spain)
o Juan Enrique Martinez Legaz (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain)
o Diethard Pallaschke (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
o Panos Pardalos (University of Florida, Gainesville FL, USA)
o Werner Roemisch (Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany)
o Ruediger Schultz (Universitaet Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
o Alexander Shapiro (Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA)
o Georg Still (Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands)
o Jie Sun (National University of Singapore, Republic of Singapore)
o Kok Lay Teo (Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia)
o Tamas Terlaky (Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA, USA)
o Michel Thera (Universite de Limoges, France)
o Jane Ye (University of Victoria, Canada)



ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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o Chair: Oliver Stein (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
o Stefan Nickel (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
o Jan-J. Rueckmann (University of Birmingham, United Kingdom)
o Marcel Sinske (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
o Paul Steuermann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
o Karl-Heinz Waldmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)



DEADLINES AND FEES
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Abstract submission: May 21, 2010
Notification of acceptance: June 4, 2010
Early Registration: June 18, 2010

Registration fees:

early: 200 Euro (students: 100 Euro)
late: 300 Euro (students: 150 Euro)


For all further details please visit the conference webpage
http://www.ior.kit.edu/paraoptX.php .

We are looking forward to welcoming you in Karlsruhe!

Oliver Stein and Jan-J. Rueckmann