<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body>S<br><br><br>-------- Original message --------<br>Subject: [Studenti] [Fwd: Lettre MODE] <br>From: buttazzo@dm.unipi.it <br>To: news@cvgmt.sns.it,studenti@dm.unipi.it,dottorandi@dm.unipi.it, borsisti@dm.unipi.it,assegnisti@dm.unipi.it <br>CC: <br><br><br><div style="word-break:break-all;">-------------------------- Messaggio originale ---------------------------<br>Oggetto: Lettre MODE<br>Da: "Thierry Champion" <champion@univ-tln.fr><br>Data: Mar, 5 Marzo 2013 18:47<br>A: lettre-mode-smai@emath.fr<br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br><br><br>Lettre MODE<br>mars 2013<br><br>-----------------------------------------------------------<br>Envoyez vos contributions en format simple texte �<br>champion@univ-tln.fr avant la fin du mois.<br><br>Pri�re d'indiquer "pour la lettre MODE" dans l'objet.<br><br>L'inscription et la d�sinscription automatiques se font en �crivant �<br>lettre-mode-smai-request@emath.fr<br>et en mettant dans le sujet suivant le cas subscribe ou unsubscribe.<br><br>Vous pouvez �galement retrouver les lettres MODE sur le site :<br><br>http://smai.emath.fr/spip.php?article330&lang=fr<br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br>Table des mati�res<br><br>Renouvellement comit� de liaison MODE<br>0- Renouvellement du comit� de liaison MODE - Appel � candidature<br><br>-- Th�ses et Postes<br>1- PhD study at the Singapore University of Technology and Design<br>2- Post-doctoral positions in stochastic optimization at Princeton<br>University<br>3- Post-doctoral position in optimization at University of Calgary<br>4- Post-doc position in optimization, U. Edinburgh<br>5- Poste MC 26/27 : Optimisation et analyse de sensibilit�<br>6- Poste MC 0436 (26) � Dijon<br>7- Poste PR 26 � Paris 1<br>8- Faculty positions at the Singapore University of Technology and Design<br><br><br>-- Conf�rences et �v�nements<br>9- Annonces de s�minaires<br>10- Optimization and Big Data (Workshop, Trek & Colloquium)<br>11- Optimization: Theory, Applications, and Algorithms<br>12- Journ�es du GDR MOA<br>13- Recent Advances on Optimization, July 24-26, 2013, Toulouse, France<br>14- Nonconvex Programming: Local and Global approaches" at the<br>EURO-INFORMS Conference<br>15- International workshop on advances in Regularization, Optimization,<br>etc...<br>16- MOPTA Conference, Lehigh University, August 14-16, 2013<br>17- 16th French-German-Polish conference on Optimization, Krakow, Poland<br><br>-- Autres<br>18- In Memoriam: Robert R. Phelps (1926-2013)<br>19- Appel � projets pour �coles de recherche CIMPA 2015<br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>0- Renouvellement du comit� de liaison MODE - Appel � candidature<br>(source: budeau MODE)<br><br><br>Chers coll�gues,<br><br>Comme chaque ann�e, le groupe SMAI-MODE va renouveler un tiers (5 membres<br>cette ann�e) de son comit� de liaison. Le r�sultat des �lections sera<br>proclam� lors<br>de la r�union du groupe pr�vue le mardi 28 mai lors de la conf�rence de<br>la SMAI.<br><br>Voici la liste des sortants :<br>- Samir Adly<br>- Philippe Bich<br>- Fr�d�ric Bonnans<br>- Marc-Olivier Czarnecki<br>- Michel de Lara<br><br>Seuls P. Bich et M. de Lara sont r��ligibles.<br>--------------------------------------<br><br>Les membres sont invit�s � faire acte de candidature avec profession de<br>foi de<br>5 � 10 lignes aupr�s de:<br><br>Fr�d�ric.Bonnans@inria.fr <mailto:Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric.Bonnans@inria.fr>,<br>corvellec@univ-perp.fr <mailto:corvellec@univ-perp.fr><br>ou Aude.Rondepierre@math.univ-toulouse.fr<br><mailto:Aude.Rondepierre@math.univ-toulouse.fr><br><br>La date limite de candidature est le 25 mars prochain.<br><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>1- PhD study at the Singapore University of Technology and Design<br>(source: J. Renault)<br><br><br>There exist excellent opportunities for bright and motivated students<br>who want to pursue PhD study at the newly established Singapore<br>University of Technology and Design (SUTD) within the Engineering<br>Systems and Design (ESD) Pillar.<br><br>SUTD has been established in collaboration with MIT with a mission to<br>advance knowledge and nurture technically grounded leaders and<br>innovators to serve societal needs. Professor Thomas Magnanti, former<br>Dean of Engineering at MIT (and former President of INFORMS), is the<br>Founding President of SUTD.<br><br>The faculty in ESD is growing rapidly with a steady-state target of<br>over 70 faculty members, making it one of the largest such<br>multidisciplinary programs in the world, blending the fields of<br>operations research, management science, applied probability and<br>statistics, applied mathematics, and decision sciences.<br><br>Based in one of the world's biggest financial and technological hubs,<br>with an ever-growing academic community, and a culturally diverse and<br>vibrant population, the ESD PhD program at SUTD aims to provide<br>students with a strong technical foundation that emphasizes<br>inter-disciplinary and collaborative research. The program is<br>mentoring-intensive with a unique flexible advising structure that<br>allows students to work with multiple faculty members and vice-versa.<br>Qualified PhD applicants are offered highly attractive financial<br>packages covering tuition, a monthly stipend and support for<br>conference and workshop travel.<br><br>Additional information about SUTD and the ESD Pillar may be found at<br>http://esd.sutd.edu.sg/<br><br>Specific information about the PhD program can be found at<br>http://esd.sutd.edu.sg/phd/<br><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>2- Post-doctoral positions in stochastic optimization at Princeton<br>University<br>(source: F. Bonnans)<br><br>We are looking to fill several post-doctoral or more senior research<br>positions in the broad<br>area of computational stochastic optimization (broadly defined) under<br>the supervision of<br>Professor Warren Powell in the Department of Operations Research and<br>Financial Engineering.<br><br>Two positions will work in the area of energy systems focusing on the<br>development of<br>stochastic optimization models of problems arising in energy markets,<br>control of energy<br>generation and demand response, pricing, bidding and storage. We have<br>special interest<br>in high performance computing, and we will be looking to parallelize<br>algorithms to exploit<br>this architecture.<br><br>A third position will work in the area of optimal learning in the<br>context of materials science<br>(see http://optimallearning.princeton.edu<br><http://optimallearning.princeton.edu/>). Some background in chemistry<br>and laboratory<br>science is useful but not required.<br><br>Applicants for all positions should have a strong background in<br>probability and<br>statistics/machine learning, demonstrated skills in writing journal<br>quality papers, a high<br>comfort level with computational research, and an ability to work as a<br>member of a vibrant<br>team in stochastic optimization (http://castlelab.princeton.edu<br><http://castlelab.princeton.edu/>) and energy systems<br>(http://energysystems.princeton.edu <http://energysystems.princeton.edu/>).<br><br>A Ph.D. in operations research, computer science, applied math,<br>electrical engineering or<br>related field is required. We are looking for people who can start the<br>summer of 2013.<br>Appointments are for one year with the possibility of renewal pending<br>satisfactory<br>performance and continued funding.<br><br>Applications will be considered from the date of this announcement until<br>filled.<br>To apply, please visit our website at http://jobs.princeton.edu<br><http://jobs.princeton.edu/>, create an online application,<br>and submit a CV and cover letter with contact information for three<br>references to Requisition<br>Number 1300104.<br><br>Princeton University is an equal opportunity employer and complies with<br>applicable EEO<br>and affirmative action regulations.<br><br>Warren B. Powell<br>Professor, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering<br>http://www.castlelab.princeton.edu<br><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>3- Post-doctoral position in optimization at University of Calgary<br>(source: M. Mongeau, M. Th�ra)<br><br><br>As a part of Collaborative Research Group on Optimization: Theory,<br>Applications<br>and Algorithms<br><br>http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific/collaborative-research-groups/optimization-theory-algorithms-and-applications-2012-2015<br><br>partly funded by Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS),<br>applications<br>are invited for a post-doctoral position in optimization at University<br>of Calgary,<br>Calgary AB Canada. The position is for 1-year, with possible extension<br>to 2 years,<br>with a tentative starting date of September 1 2013.<br><br>A successful candidate should hold a PhD in Mathematics, Applied<br>Mathematics,<br>Computer Science, Operations Research or related area.<br><br>Of primary interest are applicants interested in the following topics:<br>-computational methods for solving conic optimization problems over<br>p-cones, and/or<br>-applications of optimization to optimal radiotherapy treatment<br>planning, and/or<br>-curvature of the central path.<br>Alternative PDF research proposals will also be considered.<br><br>Applicants are required to submit a CV, a statement of research<br>interests, and provide<br>two letters of reference. Application materials must be submitted by<br>e-mail to Dr. Yuriy<br>Zinchenko (http://people.ucalgary.ca/~yzinchen/<br><http://people.ucalgary.ca/%7Eyzinchen/>) at yzinchen@ucalgary.ca<br><mailto:yzinchen@ucalgary.ca><br>with the subject line "CRG PDF application".<br><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>4- Post-doc position in optimization, U. Edinburgh<br>(source: P. Armand, J.-C. Gilbert)</div><br><br>I look for a talented young researcher who would like to work on very<br>large scale optimization,<br>in particular, might take the matrix-free interior point method<br><br>http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~gondzio/reports/mtxFree.html<br><br>a step further. I would be grateful if you could pass this advert to any<br>person who might be<br>interested in a one-year post-doc position:<br><br>https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=009782<br><br>Regards, Jacek Gondzio<br><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>5- Poste MC 26/27 : Optimisation et analyse de sensibilit�<br>(source: D. Aussel, F. Bonnans)<br><br><br>Etablissement: LJK<br>Descriptif: Il existe une forte demande d'outils math�matiques et<br>algorithmiques nouveaux<br>de l'optimisation en grande dimension appliqu�e dans les domaines de<br>l'apprentissage<br>statistique et du traitement de donn�es nonhomog�nes. Les jeux de<br>donn�es � traiter, mais<br>aussi les mod�les qui les r�gissent contiennent par ailleurs des<br>incertitudes dont il s'agit<br>d'estimer et de maitriser l'impact.<br>L'optimisation dans le contexte de donn�es massives, l'analyse<br>d'incertitudes et l'optimisation<br>robuste pour minimiser leur influence, sont des probl�matiques qui<br>apparaissent dans plusieurs<br>domaines applicatifs dans lesquel le LJK est beaucoup investi et a<br>obtenu une reconnaissance<br>internationale : traitement et indexation d'images, climatologie et<br>sciences de l'environnement,<br>d�veloppement durable, g�nomique, analyse de donn�es multi-media, de<br>donn�es bancaires<br>et financi�res.<br>Le LJK souhaite recruter un ma�tre de conf�rence, qui cherche �<br>d�velopper des aspects<br>m�thodologiques ou applicatifs de ces th�matiques, transverses �<br>plusieurs �quipes et<br>d�partements du laboratoire. La priorit� sera donn�e aux candidats<br>poss�dant un excellent<br>dossier de recherche, souhaitant mener leur recherche dans un<br>environnement multidisciplinaire,<br>notamment au travers des activit�s du labex Persyval-lab ou de la maison<br>de la mod�lisation<br>Maimosine.<br><br>Contacts : Anatoli Iouditski Anatoli.Iouditski@imag.fr<br>Zaid Harchaoui Zaid.Harchaoui@inria.fr<br><br>Une description plus d�taill�e :<br><br>http://lear.inrialpes.fr/job/2013/mdc_2627_997.html<br><br><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>6- Poste MC 0436 (26) � Dijon<br>(source: D. Aussel)<br><br><br>Profil : controle, optimisation, transport<br><br>L'Universite de Bourgogne souhaite recruter pour septembre 2013 un maitre<br>de conferences en mathematiques appliquees. La personne recrutee sera<br>affectee au Departement de mathematiques et rattachee a l'Institut de<br>mathematiques (UMR CNRS 5584). Les competences du laboratoire recouvrent<br>des domaines varies tels que la geometrie et les systemes dynamiques, la<br>physique mathematique, le controle et l'optimisation, les probabilites et<br>les statistiques. Les axes de recherche prioritaires pour ce poste sont :<br>- le controle optimal,<br>- l'optimisation,<br>- le transport optimal.<br><br>Institut de mathematiques de Bourgogne : http://math.u-bourgogne.fr<br>(contact : Luis Paris, mailto:luis.paris@u-bourgogne.fr)<br><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>7- Poste PR 26 � Paris 1<br>(source: P. Gourdel)<br><br><br>Profil : Math�matiques de la d�cision : Assurance, Finance, Actuariat<br><br>Enseignement : Le besoin en enseignement r�sulte du d�part en retraite du<br>responsable du master Pro IRFA (Ing�nierie du Risque en Finance et<br>Assurance)<br>en septembre 2013. Ce master est l'unique sp�cialit� professionnelle de<br>notre<br>master et joue un r�le central dans notre offre de formation. Elle<br>accueille la<br>majorit� des �tudiants de M1 qui poursuivent en M2 dans notre UFR.<br>Le candidat recrut� devra prendre des responsabilit�s au sein de ce<br>master M2.<br><br>Recherche : le candidat rejoindra le Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne,<br>�quipe<br>Economie Math�matique et Jeux en renfor�ant le potentiel d'encadrement<br>doctoral et en animant la recherche sur la th�matique de la th�orie de la<br>d�cision qui s'inscrit � l'interface de l'�conomie math�matique,<br>de la<br>finance<br>et de l'assurance.<br><br>Contact : Pascal Gourdel : 01 44 07 89 40<br>e-mail : gourdel@univ-paris1.fr<br><br>https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/ListesPostesPublies/ANTEE/2013_1/0751717J/FOPC_0751717J_4133.pdf<br><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>8- Faculty positions at the Singapore University of Technology and Design<br>(source: J. Renault)<br><br><br>The Engineering and System Design (ESD) Pillar of Singapore University<br>of Technology and Design (SUTD) has several openings at all levels in<br>different fields.<br><br>http://faculty.sutd.edu.sg/~marco_scarsini/?page_id=209<br><http://faculty.sutd.edu.sg/%7Emarco_scarsini/?page_id=209><br><br>SUTD is a public university recently established in collaboration with<br>MIT. The faculty in ESD is growing rapidly with a steady-state target<br>of over 70 faculty members, making it one of the largest such<br>multidisciplinary programs in the world, blending the fields of<br>operations research, management science, applied probability and<br>statistics, applied mathematics, and decision sciences.<br><br>Additional information about SUTD and the ESD Pillar may be found at<br>http://esd.sutd.edu.sg/<br><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>9- Annonces de s�minaires<br>(sources: P.L. Combettes, J.B. Hiriart-Urruty, R. Laraki, N. Igbida, G.<br>Mercier)<br><br><br>Une rubrique pour signaler succinctement les s�minaires ayant<br>lieu ce mois-ci et organis�s dans nos laboratoires.<br>N'h�sitez pas � l'alimenter, pr�f�rentiellement via un lien vers<br>la page du s�minaire et une liste de conf�renciers,<br><br>**<br>S�minaire Parisien d'Optimisation (attention : Jussieu, salle 101, barre<br>15-16)<br><br>http://www.ljll.math.upmc.fr/~plc/spo.html<br><br>Lundi 18 mars<br>15h00 : M. Schweighofer (U. Konstanz, Allemagne)<br>16h00 : A. Lemenant (U. Pisa, Italie)<br>**<br>**<br>S�minaire Parisien de TH�orie des Jeux<br><br>http://sites.google.com/site/theoriedesjeux/<br><br>Lundi 18 mars : B. Sandholm (Wisconsin)<br>Lundi 25 f�vrier : M. Nunez (Cergy)<br>**<br>**<br>S�minaire de l'�quipe MOD � Limoges (salle 203, batiment XLIM)<br><br>http://www.unilim.fr/pages_perso/noureddine.igbida/mod.html<br><br>Vendredi 8 mars : C. Jean-Alexis (U. Antilles-Guyane)<br>Vendredi 15 mars : B. Maury (U. Paris Sud)<br>Vendredi 22 mars : P. Weiss (Institut de Math. Toulouse)<br>**<br>**<br>S�ance du Groupe de Travail Calcul des Variations (U. Orsay, bat. 425,<br>salle 121-123)<br><br>lundi 18 f�vrier<br>14h : S. Masnou (U. Lyon I)<br>15h15 : G. Croce (LMAH, Le Havre)<br>**<br><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>10- Optimization and Big Data (Workshop, Trek & Colloquium)<br>(source: D. Aussel)<br><br><br>Edinburgh, Scotland, May 1-3, 2013<br><br>Website + Registration:<br>http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~prichtar/Optimization_and_Big_Data<br><br>No registration fee thanks to EPSRC funding (Mathematics for Vast<br>Digital Resources + The Centre for Numerical Algorithms and<br>Intelligent Software)<br><br>May 1-2: Workshop (Fourteen 40-minute talks, 7 on each day)<br><br>Confirmed speakers:<br>Olivier Fercoq (Edinburgh)<br>Jacek Gondzio (Edinburgh)<br>Zaid Harchaoui (INRIA)<br>Desmond Higham (Strathclyde)<br>Martin Jaggi (Ecole Polytechnique)<br>Anatoli Juditsky (Joseph Fourier)<br>Imre Polik (SAS)<br>Shai Shalev-Shwartz (Jerusalem)<br>Martin Takac (Edinburgh)<br>Steve Wright (Wisconsin-Madison)<br><br>Poster Session (best poster wins an iPad mini - sponsored by SAS)<br><br>May 3: Morning: Trek to Arthur's Seat (a 350m years old extinct<br>volcano in the city centre), Afternoon: Colloquium Talk by Steve<br>Wright, Best Poster Award Ceremony, Networking Reception<br><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>11- Optimization: Theory, Applications, and Algorithms<br>(source: M. Th�ra)<br><br><br>Sponsored by Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences (PIMS),<br>www.pims.math.ca <http://www.pims.math.ca/>,<br>and one of the 2013 Thematic Activities of PIMS Collaborative Research Group<br>"Optimization: Theory, Applications, and Algorithms", the 2013 Summer<br>School on<br>Optimization will be taking place at University of Calgary from June 14<br>till June 28.<br><br>The school will consist of three individual lecture blocks, compressed<br>into an<br>equivalent of a one semester graduate level course. Block lectures will<br>be led by<br>the corresponding mentors --distinguished optimizers external to U of<br>Calgary--<br>with each block followed by a mid-term type evaluation. We are happy to<br>announce<br>that Drs. Miguel Anjos (CRC, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal), Heinz<br>Bauschke<br>(CRC, UBCO), Antoine Deza (CRC, McMaster),Warren Hare (UBCO), Yves Lucet<br>(UBCO),<br>and Shawn Wang (UBCO) will be mentoring the summer school. Tentatively<br>classes<br>will run daily 9am-12 noon, followed by students group work and free time.<br>For more detials of the course content please consult the attached PDF<br>description.<br><br>It is the intent to offer the sumer school as a graduate course<br>registered with U of<br>Calgary (approval pending). Therefore, participants from Western Deans'<br>Agreement<br>affiliated sites, wcdgs.ca <http://wcdgs.ca/>, will be eligible for a<br>graduate course credit via the<br>agreement. Students from other universities wishing to obtain an<br>equivalent credit<br>will have to work with their graduate school or equivalent on individual<br>basis.<br><br><br><br>The summer school will provide partial to full financial support to<br>selected students.<br>To apply for participation, submit a resume and a support level from the<br>supervisor<br>by e-mail to yzinchen@ucalgary.ca <mailto:yzinchen@ucalgary.ca> with<br>exact subject line:<br><br>Application 2013 Summer School<br><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>12- Journ�es du GDR MOA<br>(source: D. Aussel)<br><br><br>Chers membres du GdR, ne tardez pas � vous inscrire (inscription<br>gratuite mais<br>obligatoire sur<br>http://gdrmoa.math.cnrs.fr/activites/journees-annuelles-gdr-moa-2013/)<br>pour les<br> Journ�es 2013 du GdR MOA<br> Du 17 au 19 juin 2013<br> Institut Henri Poincar� (IHP) Paris<br><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>13- Recent Advances on Optimization, July 24-26, 2013, Toulouse, France<br>(source: A. Rondepierre)<br><br><br>An international conference on optimization will be organized under the<br>umbrella<br>of a research programme supported by the RTRA STAE foundation in<br>Toulouse from<br>the 24th to 26th of July 2013.<br>The conference will address topics in unconstrained and constrained<br>optimization,<br>with and without derivatives. It will be also the occasion to celebrate<br>the many<br>contributions made by Philippe L. Toint to the field. A half-day<br>session related to<br>the RTRA data assimilation project "ADTAO" will be part of this conference.<br><br>Contributed talks and posters related to the topics of the conference<br>are welcome,<br>and will be added to the programme as far as schedule constraints permit.<br><br>Deadlines:<br><br>01.01.2013: Online registration open<br>15.03.2013: Due date for contributed presentations<br>30.03.2013: Due date for poster presentations<br>15.04.2013: Notification of acceptance<br>15.05.2013: Registration deadline<br><br>Registration:<br><br>Thanks to our sponsors, no registration fees are required. However<br>registration<br>is mandatory.<br>Registration information (name, firstname, affiliation) should be sent<br>directly to<br>Brigitte Yzel (yzel@cerfacs.fr <mailto:yzel@cerfacs.fr>).<br><br>Information on how to submit your contribution can be found on the webpage<br>of the conference:<br><br>http://www.fondation-stae.net/fr/optimization-july2013.html<br><br>Looking forward to welcoming you in Toulouse,<br>On behalf of the scientific and local organization committees,<br>Coralia Cartis, Nick Gould, Serge Gratton and Xavier Vasseur.<br><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>14- Nonconvex Programming: Local and Global approaches" at the<br>EURO-INFORMS Conference<br>(source: P. D. Tao)<br><br><br>XXVI EURO-INFORMS Joint International Conference, July 1-4, 2013, Rome.<br><br>The XXVI EURO-INFORMS Joint International Conference "All roads lead to<br>OR" will be held in<br>Rome on July 1 -- 4, 2013. Please visit http://euro2013.org/<br><http://www.euro-2009.de/> for all currently available key details.<br><br>We would like to invite you and your interested colleagues to contribute<br>to the "Nonconvex<br>Programming: Local and Global approaches" stream organized by Le Thi<br>Hoai An and Pham<br>Dinh Tao, in the "Continuous optimization" area.<br><br>All works on "Nonconvex Programming: Local and Global Approaches -<br>Theory, Algorithms<br>and Applications"are welcome.<br><br>Our stream is partitioned into four sessions:<br><br>1) Recent developments from Nonconvex Programming (the session's code is<br>b6d5d0b3)<br><br>Recent developments from different Nonconvex Optimization fields:<br>Nonconvex Programming,<br>Global Optimization, Multicriteria Optimization, Mixed Integer<br>Programming, Large-scale<br>Nonlinear Programming, Complementarity and Variational Inequality<br>Problems, Mathematical<br>Programs with Equilibrium Constraints<br><br>2) Recent advances in DC (Difference of Convex functions) programming<br>and DCA<br>(DC Algorithms): theory, algorithms and applications (the session's code<br>is cf8a3aec)<br><br>3) Nonconvex Programming approaches for Machine Learning and Data Mining<br>(the session's code is 454bec3f)<br><br>In traditional areas such as Classification, Regression, Clustering,<br>Probabilistic Modeling, and<br>Association Analysis, and in new paradigms such as stream data,<br>uncertain data, massive<br>data, feature selction.<br><br>4) Novel opportunities of Nonconvex Programming for Industry and Finance<br>(the session's code is d7c5a43b)<br><br>Models and Optimization Methodes for various applications such as<br>Communication<br>Network, Transport, Supply Chain Management, Auto Manufacturing,<br>Aerospace Engineering,<br>Air Traffic Management, Genomics, Biomedical Engineering, Computational<br>Biology, Financial<br>Optimization, Mechanical and Structural Engineering, Optimal Control,<br>Robotics, Pattern<br>Recognition, Computer Vision, Image Processing, ...<br><br><br>Your are invited to submit an Abstract to a session in our stream at<br><br>http://www.euro-online.org/conf/display.php?page=welcome<br><br>section "Abstract in an invited session" by using the option 'submit<br>invited abstract' and<br>introducing the code of session.<br><br>The extended deadline of submission is March 15th.<br>Please feel free also to circulate this announcement.<br><br>Le Thi Hoai Anhoai-an.le-thi@univ-lorraine.fr<br><mailto:hoai-an.le-thi@univ-lorraine.fr>,<br>http://lita.sciences.univ-metz.fr/~leth<br><http://lita.sciences.univ-metz.fr/%7Elethi><br>and Pham Dinh Tao pham@insa-rouen.fr <mailto:pham@insa-rouen.fr><br><br><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>15- International workshop on advances in Regularization, Optimization,<br>etc...<br>(source: M. Th�ra)<br><br><br>July 8-10, 2013, Leuven, Belgium<br><br>http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/sista/ROKS2013<br><br>Scope One area of high impact both in theory and applications is kernel<br>methods<br>and support vector machines. Optimization problems, learning and<br>representations<br>of models are key ingredients in these methods. On the other hand<br>considerable<br>progress has also been made on regularization of parametric models,<br>including<br>methods for compressed sensing and sparsity, where convex optimization plays<br>a prominent role. The aim of ROKS-2013 is to provide a<br>multi-disciplinary forum<br>where researchers of different communities can meet, to find new<br>synergies along<br>these areas, both at the level of theory and applications.<br><br>Call for abstracts : The ROKS-2013 program will feature invited plenary<br>talks, oral<br>sessions and poster sessions. Interested participants are cordially<br>invited to submit<br>an extended abstract (max. 2 pages) for their contribution. After the<br>workshop a<br>number of selected contributions will be invited for an edited book.<br><br>For further information see http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/sista/ROKS2013 .<br><br>Important dates :<br>- Deadline extended abstract submission: March 4, 2013<br>- Notification of acceptance: April 8, 2013<br>- Deadline for registration: June 3, 2013<br>- International Workshop ROKS-2013: July 8-10, 2013<br><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>16- MOPTA Conference, Lehigh University, August 14-16, 2013<br>(source: M. Th�ra)<br><br><br>The thirteenth annual Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and Applications<br>(MOPTA)<br>Conference will be held at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, on<br>August 14-16<br>(Wednesday to Friday), 2013.<br><br>This is an invitation for session organizers, contributed talks, and<br>posters.<br>If interested, then please contact: Frank E. Curtis<br><frank.e.curtis@lehigh.edu <mailto:frank.e.curtis@lehigh.edu>><br><br>Current conference and program information is available at:<br><br>http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta <http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/%7Emopta><br><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>17- 16th French-German-Polish conference on Optimization, Krakow, Poland<br>(source: J.-B. Hiriart-Urruty)<br><br><br>Voici depuis peu le site web du prochain colloque FGP'13<br><br>http://www.fgp13.agh.edu.pl/<br><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>18- In Memoriam: Robert R. Phelps (1926-2013)<br>(source: M. Th�ra)<br><br><br>By Jon Borwein, on February 17th, 2013<br><br>Robert Ralph Phelps born March 22, 1926 died on January 4, 2013 aged 86,<br>and we invite you to read the following :<br><br>http://experimentalmath.info/blog/2013/02/in-memoriam-robert-r-phelps/<br><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>19- Appel � projets pour �coles de recherche CIMPA 2015<br>(source: M. Th�ra)<br><br><br>Le CIMPA lance son appel � projets annuel pour des �coles de recherche<br>en 2015. Nous vous prions de bien vouloir publier et diffuser le plus<br>largement possible l'annonce ci-jointe.<br>D'avance merci pour votre collaboration.<br>Bien cordialement,<br>Claude Cibils<br>Directeur du CIMPA<br><br>CIMPA<br>4 avenue Joachim<br>B�t. A<br>06100 Nice<br>FRANCE<br>Tel : (33) 4 92 07 79 30 Fax : (33) 4 92 07 05 02<br>email : cimpa@unice.fr <mailto:cimpa@unice.fr><br>http://www.cimpa-icpam.org<br><br><br><br>-------------------------------------------------------------<br><br>Thierry Champion<br>-- <br>Laboratoire Imath -- Universit� du Sud Toulon-Var<br>page personnelle: http://champion.univ-tln.fr<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Studenti mailing list<br>Studenti@mail.dm.unipi.it<br>https://mail.dm.unipi.it/listinfo/studenti<br></body>