[cmath] MOPTA 2008 - First call for submissions

[manjos at uwaterloo.ca]

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 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS : The 8th Annual MOPTA Conference
 Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications 2008
    August 18 - 20, 2008, University of Guelph
             Guelph, Ontario, Canada
     http://www.mathstat.uoguelph.ca/mopta
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The 8th annual MOPTA Conference (MOPTA 08) will be held at the campus of
the University of Guelph. It will be hosted by the Department of
Mathematics and Statistics in the College of Physical Engineering and
Science and is co-sponsored by the Fields Institute, MITACS, and the
University of Waterloo. This year's event will include special sessions
and a banquet celebration in honour of the 60th birthday of Henry
Wolkowicz.

SCOPE
The conference attracts a diverse group of people from both discrete
and continuous optimization. We aim to bring together researchers
from the theoretical and applied communities who do not usually get the
chance to interact in the framework of a medium-scale event.

PLENARY SPEAKERS
-- Florian Jarre, Mathematical Institute, University of Dusseldorf
-- Don Jones, General Motors
-- Joaquim Judice, Dept. Mathematics, University of Coimbra
-- Jean Lasserre, LAAS-CNRS
-- Panos Pardalos, Dept. Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of
Florida
-- Georgia Perakis, Sloan School of Management, MIT
-- Yves Smeers, Dept. Mathematical Engineering, Catholic University of
Louvain

PARTICIPATION
This is an invitation for organized sessions as well as contributed
talks and posters.

Participants interested in organizing an invited session should
contact the chair of the organizing committee (Miguel Anjos,
manjos(at)uoguelph.ca).

Authors wishing to present their research in the form of a contributed
talk or poster are encouraged to submit their abstract (in PDF format)
by June 6, 2008 via the conference web page at
http://www.mathstat.uoguelph.ca/mopta/abstracts.php

Notification of acceptance/rejection will be sent shortly after the
submission deadline of June 6, 2008.

The up-to-date program and registration information are available at
http://www.mathstat.uoguelph.ca/mopta/program.php
http://www.mathstat.uoguelph.ca/mopta/registration.php