[APDIO] ICCOPT 2013, Portugal, July 27 - August 1

["A. Ismael F. Vaz" <aivaz@dps.uminho.pt>]

             ICCOPT 2013 (second announcement)

ICCOPT 2013, The Fourth International Conference on Continuous Optimization
of the Mathematical Optimization Society will take place in Lisbon,
Portugal, from July 27 to August 1, 2013, and includes a Conference (July 29
- August 1) and a Summer School (July 27-28).

The Conference plenary speakers are: Paul I. Barton, Michael C. Ferris,
Yurii Nesterov, Yinyu Ye.

The Conference semi-plenary speakers are: Amir Beck, Regina Burachik, Sam
Burer, Coralia Cartis, Michel De Lara, Victor DeMiguel, Michael
Hintermüller, Ya-xiang Yuan.

In addition, several clusters or streams of organized sessions are being
prepared (topics and co-chairs available from the website).

The deadline for submitting an abstract is April 15.
 
The Summer School (July 27-28) is directed to graduate students and young
researchers, and includes two courses: (i) PDE-Constrained Optimization, by
M. Ulbrich and C. Meyer; (ii) Sparse Optimization and Applications to
Information Processing, by M. A. T. Figueiredo and S. J. Wright. The
deadline for applications is May 15.

There will be a paper competition for young researchers in Continuous
Optimization (deadline April 1; information available from the website).

The website is http://eventos.fct.unl.pt/iccopt2013