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Conference Themes
The major themes include, but are not limited to:
Machine Learning and Data Mining
Mixed Integer Programming
Nonlinear Equations
Optimal Control and Optimal Design
Optimization in Industry
Semidefinite Programming
Organizing Committee
Philip E. Gill (Co-chair)
University of California, San Diego
C.
T. Kelley (Co-chair)
North Carolina State University
Michael
C. Ferris
University of Wisconsin, Madison
Adrian S. Lewis
University of Waterloo, Canada
Ekkehard W. Sachs
University of Trier, Germany
Robert B. Schnabel
University of Colorado, Boulder
Virginia Torczon
College of William and Mary
Margaret H. Wright
Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies
Dates to Remember
Minisymposia
Contributed Presentations
Registration
The conference program, registration, hotel, and
transportation information will be available on the Web at www.siam.org/meetings/op99/
in December 1998.
Notice of
Acceptance or Rejection
Authors will be notified as to whether or not their
abstracts have been accepted by November 23, 1998.
 Questions?
E-mail [email protected]
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immediately preceding the conference at the same location on Sunday,
May 9, 1999
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SIAM Short Course on "An
Introduction to Optimization in Finance"
Instructors:
Thomas F. Coleman, Cornell University
Ron Dembo, Algorithmics, Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
 SIAM
Short Course on "Post-Solution Analysis in Mathematical Programming"
Organizer and Instructor:
Harvey J. Greenberg, University of Colorado, Denver
Dennis-Tapia Day
A special one-day celebration,
jointly honoring the 60th birthdays of Professors John E. Dennis and
Richard A. Tapia, on Sunday, May 9, 1999, immediately preceding the
Sixth SIAM Conference on Optimization. The celebration will consist
of a day of technical presentations by current and former students of
Dennis and Tapia, followed by an evening banquet honoring both.
All conference attendees are welcome to attend the technical sessions
(no additional charge); all attendees, and their spouses or guests,
are welcome to attend the banquet (charge to cover costs).
During the banquet, there will be an opportunity for toasts,
tributes, and roasts. The organizers hope many conference
attendees will join in this tribute to two of the pioneers of
numerical optimization!
This special event is organized
by Paul T. Boggs, Richard H. Byrd, Jorge Nocedal, Robert B. Schnabel,
and Virginia Torczon.
Invited Presentations
SIAM and the Conference
Organizing Committee are proud to announce that the following
mathematicians and scientists have accepted their invitations to
speak at the conference.
- What's the Answer? An Industrial Perspective on Optimization
- John T. Betts, Boeing Information and Support
Services, The Boeing Company
- Hybrid Methods for Sensitivity Computations in
Optimal Design
- John A. Burns, ICAM/Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University
- Quasi-Newton Methods: From Davidon to Automatic Differentiation
- John E. Dennis,
Rice University
- Advances in the Formulation and Solution of
Difficult Combinatorial Optimization Problems
- Karla L. Hoffman, George Mason University
- Semidefinite Programming
- Michael
L. Overton, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
The following invited speakers
will give their presentations to a joint session of the Optimization
conference and the Annual
Meeting.
- Krylov, Lagrange, Newton and Schwarz:
Combinations and Permutations
- David E. Keyes,
Old Dominion University and ICASE-NASA Langley Research Center
- Optimization in Machine Learning and Data Mining
- Olvi L. Mangasarian,
University of Wisconsin, Madison
How to Contribute
Minisymposium
A minisymposium is a two-hour session consisting of
four related talks on a well-focused topic consistent with the
conference themes. Each speaker will have 25 minutes for presentation
and 5 minutes for audience questions. A number of minisymposia are
being invited by the conference organizing committee to supplement
the conference themes.
The organizing committee also encourages proposals for
minisymposia in areas related to the conference themes. Prospective
minisymposium organizers are asked to submit a proposal consisting of
a title, a description (not exceeding 100 words) and a list of
speakers and titles of their presentations. Each minisymposium
speaker should submit a 75-word abstract in LaTeX
format to [email protected].
To obtain a minisymposium proposal form, please
complete and submit the request for
information reply form, or e-mail your request to [email protected].
The form is also available on the World Wide Web at www.siam.org/meetings/miniform.htm.
Presentations in Lecture or
Poster Format
Contributions in lecture or poster format are invited
in all areas of optimization consistent with the conference themes.
Each contributor must submit a 75-word
abstract in LaTeX format to [email protected].
Submissions must include a title, author(s) names and affiliations,
and postal address, e-mail, telephone number, and fax of the
submitting author. Accepted papers will be assigned by the organizing
committee to either a lecture presentation or a poster. Contributors
should indicate which format they prefer. A lecture consists of a
15-minute presentation plus 5 minutes for audience questions. A
poster presentation consists of the use of visual aids, such as
8.5" x 11" sheets for mounting on a 4' x 6' poster board
and will be presented in an informal setting that allows presenters
to discuss their research with individual attendees. A poster board
will be available at the conference for each poster presenter. The
poster session will be a two-hour plenary session.
The Organizing Committee
reserves the right to limit the number of presentations an individual
speaker may present in contributed sessions or minisymposia.
Electronic Submission
Every presenter of either a minisymposium or
contributed or poster presentation must submit a 75-word abstract to [email protected],
using the LaTeX macro via the Web at archive.siam.org/tex/confs/conftex.htm.
The 75-word abstracts will appear in the final program.
About Atlanta
Our conference headquarters is located in the heart of
downtown Atlanta --- convenient to Peachtree Center, Georgia World
Congress Center, the Georgia Dome, and fabulous shopping at
Underground Atlanta. It is an international city, with world-class
facilities to match, an airport voted the best-liked in North
America, and the biggest, too, to accommodate the hundreds of daily
flights that put your hometown within a few hours of Atlanta. The
city is a rare combination of the Old South and the Now
South. Come to Atlanta to discover the best of both worlds! |
