The 17th British-French-German Conference on Optimization

Imperial College London, UK on June 15th-17th, 2015.


Dear Colleagues,

We would like to draw your attention to the 17th British-French-German Conference on Optimization held at Imperial College London, UK, on June 15th-17th, 2015. The conference will address all aspects of optimization and its applications, including optimization theory and algorithm design, robust and stochastic optimization, variational inequalities and convex analysis as well as applications in control theory,
energy, finance, operations management and engineering. More information about the conference series, which started in Oberwolfach in 1980, can be found at http://optimisation.doc.ic.ac.uk/bfg2015. Further enquiries can also be sent to bfg2015@imperial.ac.uk.

Deadlines
05 Jan '15: Extended abstract submission opening
27 Feb '15: Proposals deadline for invited sessions
06 Mar '15: Submission deadline for extended abstracts
13 Mar '15: Notification of abstract acceptance
08 May '15: Early registration deadline

Plenary Speakers
Dimitris Bertsimas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Regina Burachik, University of South Australia, Australia
Michael Ferris, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA
William Hager, University of Florida, USA
Stefan Ulbrich, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany
Michel Pierre, ENS Cachan, Antenne de Bretagne, France

Semi-Plenary Speakers
Paul Armand, Universite de Limoges, France
Amir Beck, The Technion, Israel
Erick Delage, HEC Montreal, Canada
Serge Gratton, CERFACS, France
Karthik Natarajan, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Martin Skutella, Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany

Organising Committee
Ruth Misener, Imperial College London, UK
Panos Parpas, Imperial College London, UK
Stratos Pistikopoulos, Texas A&M University, USA
Berc Rustem, Imperial College London, UK
Nilay Shah, Imperial College London, UK
Wolfram Wiesemann, Imperial College London, UK

Scientific Committee
Danny Ralph, University of Cambridge, UK (chair)
Henri Bonnel, Universite de la Nouvelle-Caledonie, New Caledonia
Jean-Baptiste Caillau, Universite de Bourgogne & CNRS, France
Mounir Haddou, INSA Rennes, France
Daniel Kuhn, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Helmut Maurer, Universitat Munster, Germany
Edouard Oudet, Universite Joseph Fourier, France
Teemu Pennanen, King's College London, UK
Sabine Pickenhain, TU Cottbus, Germany
Andrea Walther, Universitat Paderborn, Germany
Michael Ulbrich, TU Munchen
Huifu Xu, City University London, UK