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EUROPT, Continuous Optimization Working Group of EURO

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Formation
  
2000

Region
  
Europe

Legal status
  
Working group

Purpose
  
To disseminate state-of-the-art knowledge and to support research in continuous optimization

Parent organization
  
Association of European Operational Research Societies

Website
  
europt.iam.metu.edu.tr//

The Continuous Optimization Working Group of EURO (also, EUROPT) is a working group whose objective is to promote original research in the field of continuous optimization at the European level. EUROPT is the unique European working group on continuous optimization. It is one of the largest working groups of EURO. It includes most of European researchers working on continuous optimization. Continuous optimization includes linear programming, convex optimization, global optimization

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History

EUROPT is one of the working groups of EURO, the Association of European Operational Research Societies. The Group was founded in 2000 in occasion of the EURO XVII Conference in Budapest.

Governance

The group has a Managing Board. The actual composition (2016-2018) of the Managing Board is:

  • Giancarlo Bigi, Website Editor
  • Sonia Cafieri, Newsletter Editor
  • Andreas Grothey, Treasurer
  • Dmitri Kvasov, Events Coordinator
  • Edmondo Minisci, Communication Coordinator
  • Fabio Schoen, Relations Coordinator
  • Julius Zilinskas, Chair

    • Past chairs who currently keep serving the working group as honorary chairs are:

  • Tibor Illés
  • Tamás Terlaky
  • Gerhard Wilhelm Weber

    • In the past the working group has been chaired also by

  • Janos Pinter
  • Kaisa Miettinen
  • Marco A. López Cerdá
  • Florian Jarre

    • Membership

    The group is suitable for people who are presently engaged in Continuous Optimization, either in theoretical aspects or in business, industry or public administration applications. Currently (2016), the group has over 1200 members.

    Fellowship

    Each year one fellowship is awarded to an outstanding researcher in the field. The winner is invited to deliver a plenary lecture at the annual workshop of the group. Past winners include Yaroslav D. Sergeyev, Panos Pardalos, Immanuel Bomze, Joaquim João Júdice, Juan Enrique Martinez-Legaz, Yurii Nesterov, Adil Bagirov, Cornelis Roos, Georg Still and Alexander Rubinov.

    Conferences

    EUROPT holds conferences on a regular basis (once a year during summer, usually just before the main EURO conference).

    The most recent Workshops of EUROPT have been:

  • 14th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization, July 1–2, 2016, Warsaw, Poland, www.europt2016.ia.pw.edu.pl
  • 13th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization, July 8–10, 2015, Edinburgh, UK, www.maths.ed.ac.uk/hall/EUROPT15/
  • 12th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization, July 10–12, 2014, Perpignan, France, europt2014.univ-perp.fr
  • 11th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization, June 26–28, 2013, Florence, Italy, www.europt2013.org
  • 10th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization, July 5–7, 2012, Siauliai, Lithuania, www.mii.lt/EUROPT-2012/

    • The 15th EUROPT workshop will be held in Montréal, Canada, on July 12–14, 2017 www.gerad.ca/colloques/europt2017.

    Publications

    In most cases, the annual conference is followed by peer reviewed special issue(s) of an international journal, presenting a selection of the contributions presented at the meeting. Recent special issues:

  • Optimization Methods and Software 30(2), 2015: Special Issue on Advances in Continuous Optimization on the Occasion of the 11th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization,
  • Optimization 64(6), 2015: Special Issue on Optimization in the Natural Sciences on the Occasion of the EURO Mini Conference,
  • Optimization 63(1), 2014: Special Issue on Recent Advances in Continuous Optimization on the Occasion of the 25th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXV 2012),
  • Journal of Global Optimization 60(1), September 2014: Special issue OR: Connecting Sciences Supported by Global Optimization Related to the 25th European Conference on Operational Research.

    • A newsletter is emailed to all members usually every three months. Recent newsletters are available:

  • europt.iam.metu.edu.tr/Newsletter36-EUROPT.pdf
  • europt.iam.metu.edu.tr/Newsletter35-EUROPT.pdf
  • europt.iam.metu.edu.tr/Newsletter34-EUROPT.pdf
  • europt.iam.metu.edu.tr/Newsletter33-EUROPT.pdf
  • europt.iam.metu.edu.tr/Newsletter32-EUROPT.pdf

    • References

    EUROPT, Continuous Optimization Working Group of EURO Wikipedia
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