Lettre MODE 
avril 2013

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Table des matières 

-- Thèses et Postes
1- PhD scholarship is available in Business School, Shanghai University
2- Postdoctoral position in Online Algorithms at the University Pierre and Marie Curie
3- Postdoc positions (game theory)
4- Postdoc position at University of Colorado Denver
5- Postdoc positions in Quito
6- Poste de MCF à l'INP-ENSEEIHT-IRIT

-- Conférences et évènements 
7- Annonces de séminaires
8- Computational Nonlinear Optimization
9- International Spring School on Matrix Functions and their applications
10- International Conference on Stochastic Programming
11- Workshop Nonlinear optimization: a bridge from theory to applications
12- Journées Annuelles 2013 du GdR MOA
13- European Conference on Computational Optimization, Chemnitz University
14- ERC School "Geometric Functional Inequalities and Shape Optimization"
15- Colloque Allemagne-France-Pologne d'Optimisation 2013
16- International Seminar on Optimization and Related Areas (IMCA, Pérou)
17- Conference on Geometry and Algebra  of Linear Matrix Inequalities 
18- Ecole de recherche CIMPA, Equilibre de Nash généralisés, problèmes bi-niveaux et MPEC

-- Autres 
19- Prix de Thèse PGMO
20- Dissertation Prize Competition, INFORMS Society on Transportation Science and Logistics

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1- PhD scholarship is available in Business School, Shanghai University
(source: M. Théra)

An international PhD scholarship is available in Business School, Shanghai University of
Science and Technology, Shanghai, China.

The research topic is in Nonlinear Optimization with Management Science Applications.

The minimum requirement is a MPhil degree in applied mathematics or related fields.

Grateful if you can pass this message to interested candidates.

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2- Postdoctoral position in Online Algorithms at the University Pierre and Marie Curie
(source: C. Durr)

The Operations Research group of the Computer Science Department
(LIP6) at the University Pierre and Marie Curie offers a postdoctoral
position in online algorithms. The position is supported by the ANR
project NeTOC "New Techniques in Online Algorithms" that is focused on
recently introduced methods for the analysis of online algorithms.
Additional information on the research project can be found at the web
site https://sites.google.com/site/anrnetoc. The Operations Research
group consists of several researchers in the areas of algorithmic
design and analysis, mathematical programming and theoretical computer
science. The members of the group and their activities can be found at
http://www.lip6.fr/recherche/team_membres.php?id=320.

Candidates with strong qualifications in all areas of algorithm design
and theoretical analysis are encouraged to apply. Prior work on online
algorithms is desirable but not a requirement. Applicants should hold
a Ph.D. degree (in computer science or related disciplines) or be
close to obtaining it. Knowledge of French is not required, but good
communication skills and a solid knowledge of English are essential.

The position is available starting September 2013 (with some
flexibility on the starting date). Funding is available for one year,
with no provision of renewal. The salary is at the level of
approximately EU 2500 per month, with benefits such as health
insurance and social coverage included.  Travel funding will be
provided. There are no teaching responsibilities.

Applications (in English or French) must include a cover letter
highlighting the reasons for applying, a CV, a list of publications, a
short summary of the Ph.D thesis (up to two pages), a research
statement as well as names of at least three references with their
email addresses. Application material must be sent (preferably by
email as a single PDF attachment) to

Christoph Dürr
LIP6, case 169
Université Pierre et Marie Curie
4 place Jussieu
75252 Paris CEDEX 05
France

email: christoph.durr@lip6.fr

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3- Postdoc positions (game theory)
(source: R. Laraki)

This is to let you know that we are offering special postdoc positions for outstanding
people in the area of game theory and economic theory.

See attached announcement, or

        http://www.ma.huji.ac.il/hart/postdoc2013.pdf 

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4- Postdoc position at University of Colorado Denver
(source: M. Théra)

Assistant Research Professor in Applied Mathematics
The University of Colorado Denver invites applications for one or more two-year Assistant Research Professor appointments in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences starting in August 2013, subject to final budgetary approval.   The successful candidate will be expected to teach two classes per semester, work with graduate students on research projects, develop original research under the mentorship of current faculty, and participate actively in the life of the department.   The Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences currently has 18 tenured or tenure-track faculty whose research and teaching cover a wide range of areas, including optimization and operations research; graph theory, finite geometry, and combinatorics; computational and engineering mathematics; computational biology; math education; probability and statistics. The Department has approximately 45 Ph.D. students, 25 M.S. students, and 100 undergraduate mathematics majors.   UCD is the premier urban research university in Colorado, with two locations in the Denver metro area. The Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences is housed on the Auraria campus, located in the heart of Denver's business, cultural and recreational district. The campus attracts a diverse population of students, many of whom are non-traditional students. UCD is committed to recruiting and supporting a diverse student body, faculty and administrative staff, and strives to promote a culture of inclusiveness, respect, communication, and understanding.
Applications are accepted electronically at https://www.jobsatcu.com/postings/56741. Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.  
When applying at www.jobsatcu.com, applicants must include: A letter of intent, which addresses the job requirements and outlines qualifications. Full curriculum vitae. The names, addresses, daytime telephone numbers and e-mail addresses for three professional references. A Research Statement describing your research interests and goals. A Teaching Statement describing your teaching experience and teaching philosophy.
Questions should be directed to Stephen Billups at Stephen.Billups@ucdenver.edu.

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5- Postdoc positions in Quito
(source: J.-B. Hiriart-Urruty)

In the framework of the recently created Ecuadorian Research Center on Mathematical
Modelling (MODEMAT), there are three open postdoc positions to be filled.
The positions are in:
(1) parallel computing of solutions to partial differential equations,
(2) computational methods for image processing,
(3) optimization of public transportation systems.

More details are given at :
http://www.math.epn.edu.ec/modemat/

Contact:
Prof. Dr. Juan Carlos De los Reyes
Director
Centro de Modelizacion Matematica (ModeMat)
EPN Quito, Ecuador
juan.delosreyes@epn.edu.ec

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6- Poste de MCF à l'INP-ENSEEIHT-IRIT
(source: J. Gergaud)

Profil :  optimisation, contrôle optimal

L'INP-ENSEEIHT souhaite recruter pour septembre 2013 un maître de conférences
en mathématiques appliquées. La personne recrutée sera affectée au Département
de formation Informatique et Mathématiques Appliquées pour l'enseignement et à
l'équipe Algorithmes Parallèles et Optimisation (APO) de l’Institut de Recherche en
Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT) pour la recherche.
On trouvera sur la page web suivante le profil du poste ainsi que le comité de sélection.

http://www.inp-toulouse.fr/fr/recrutement/enseignants-chercheurs.html

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7- Annonces de séminaires 
(sources: P.L. Combettes, J.B. Hiriart-Urruty, R. Laraki, N. Igbida) 

Une rubrique pour signaler succinctement les séminaires ayant 
lieu ce mois-ci et organisés dans nos laboratoires. 
N'hésitez pas à l'alimenter, préférentiellement via un lien vers 
la page du séminaire et une liste de conférenciers, 

** 
Séminaire Parisien d'Optimisation (attention : Jussieu, salle 101, barre 15-16) 

http://www.ljll.math.upmc.fr/~plc/spo.html 

Lundi 15 avril
15h00 : H. Attouch (U. Montpellier 2) 
16h00 : J.-B. Caillau (U. Bourgogne) 
** 
** 
Séminaire Parisien de Théorie des Jeux 

http://sites.google.com/site/theoriedesjeux/ 

Lundi 8 avril : J. Bolte (TSE)
Lundi 15 avril : M. Peski (U. Toronto) 
Lundi 22 avril : T. Tomala (HEC) 
** 
** 
Séminaire de l'équipe MOD à Limoges (salle 203, batiment XLIM) 

http://www.unilim.fr/pages_perso/noureddine.igbida/mod.html 

Vendredi 5 avril : L. Brasco (AMU)
Vendredi 12 avril : N. Igbida (U. Limoges)
** 

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8- Computational Nonlinear Optimization
(source: D. Aussel)

Computational Nonlinear Optimization: 
Model Development, Algorithms, Software, and Applications 

An intensive course presented by 
János D. Pintér, PhD, DSc 
PCS Inc. & Dalhousie University, Canada 
www.pinterconsulting.com 

Venue and Dates 
Széchenyi István University, Gyor, Hungary, May 13-24, 2013 
http://uni.sze.hu/en_GB/home 

The course will be presented in 10 days, with the intention of 
covering materials equivalent to a full university semester.  Three 
hours of lectures will be presented per day (Monday to Friday); a 
corresponding amount of daily study effort is expected from the 
attendees. 

Course attendees - university students and professionals - should have 
a sufficient undergraduate mathematics background (calculus, algebra, 
probability); systems modeling and computational experience will be an 
asset. Upon completing the course, attendees will receive an official 
certificate from the University. 

For further details regarding the course, feel free to contact 
Dr. Pintér at janos.d.pinter@gmail.com. 

For details regarding logistics (travel, accommodation, etc.), please 
contact Ms. R. Varga at <vargar@sze.hu>. 

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9- International Spring School on Matrix Functions and their applications
(source: M. Théra)

Laboratoire Paul Painlevé
University Lille 1, France
May 15-17 , 2013

http://math.univ-lille1.fr/~bbecker/ssmf2013/

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10- International Conference on Stochastic Programming
(source: M. Théra)

Bergamo, Italy, during the week of July 8-12, 2013

http://dinamico2.unibg.it/icsp2013/

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11- Workshop Nonlinear optimization: a bridge from theory to applications
(source: M. Théra)

Erice, Italy
June 10-17, 2013

This is the 59th Workshop of the International School of Mathematics "G. Stampacchia"
at the Ettore Majorana Centre and Fondation for Scientific Culture (EMCFSC). It is the
seventh Workshop on Nonlinear Optimization and related topics.

Further information can be found at the URL:

http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~erice2013

or requested to the e-mail address:

erice2013@dis.uniroma1.it

The Scientific and Organizing Committe:
- Gianni DI PILLO, SAPIENZA, University of Rome, Italy
- Franco GIANNESSI, International School of Mathematics, EMCFSC, Erice, Italy
- Massimo ROMA, SAPIENZA, University of Rome, Italy

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12- Journées Annuelles 2013 du GdR MOA
(source: D. Aussel)

Institut Henri Poincaré
Du 17 au 19 juin 2013

L'inscription est gratuite mais obligatoire. Rendez-vous sur le site de la conférence :

http://gdrmoa.math.cnrs.fr/activites/journees-annuelles-gdr-moa-2013/

Pour des raisons d'organisation les inscriptions seront clôturées le mardi 30 avril.
N'hésitez pas à proposer des exposés (25'+5'). Afin, des aides aux doctorants sont possibles.
Merci de faire vos demandes auprès de D. Aussel (aussel@univ-perp.fr) avant le mardi 30 avril.
Notez cependant que toutes les demandes ne pourront probablement pas être satisfaites, mais
chaque étudiant sera informé au plus tard le 03 mai.

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13- European Conference on Computational Optimization, Chemnitz University
(source: M. Théra)

Second call for presentations
3rd European Conference on Computational Optimization (EUCCO)
Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, July 17-19, 2013

The 3rd European Conference on Computational Optimization (EUCCO) will
be held at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany, on July 17-19
(Wed-Fri), 2013. Previous EUCCO conferences were held 2004 in Dresden
and 2007 in Montpellier. It is the aim of this conference to bring
together scientists from the fields of algorithmic large-scale
optimization, optimization with PDEs, and applications.

Confirmed plenary speakers are: Barbara Kaltenbacher (Klagenfurt),
Christian Kanzow (Wuerzburg), Katja Mombaur (Heidelberg), Luis Nunes
Vicente (Coimbra), and Andreas Waechter (Chicago).
Moreover, a number of invited focus sessions are being organized.

This is an invitation for contributed presentations. Please note that the deadline
for abstact submissions is coming close: March 31.

Please find further information at http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/mathematik/eucco.

With best regards,
Roland Herzog

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14- ERC School "Geometric Functional Inequalities and Shape Optimization"
(source: A. Brancolini)

Naples, September 9-13, 2013.

The school will take place at the Accademia Pontaniana.

The speakers will be Dorin Bucur, Francesco Maggi, and Massimiliano Morini.

PhD students, post-docs are warmly welcomed to attend: there is available financial covering
of accommodation for up to 20 PhD students or young researchers.
For a more detailed program and some basic information, see
http://ercnapoli.altervista.org/

The school is sponsored by ERC Advanced Grant n.226234 "Analytic Techniques for Geometric
and Functional Inequalities" and Dipartimento di Matematica e Applicazioni "Renato Caccioppoli"
of Università degli Studi di Napoli.

Please do not hesitate to contact us at erc.napoli@gmail.com if further information is needed.

Organizers: Nicola Fusco, Marco Barchiesi, Alessio Brancolini, Chiara Leone, Anna Verde. 

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15- Colloque Allemagne-France-Pologne d'Optimisation 2013
(source: J.-B. Hiriart-Urruty, ainsi que F. Bonnans, J. Renault, M. Théra)

Ceci est simplement pour vous rappeler le prochain colloque France-Allemagne-Pologne
d'optimisation qui se déroulera fin septembre à Cracovie.
Il fait suite à la précédente édition, France-Allemagne-Autriche (AFG'11), qui s'est tenue
à Toulouse en septembre 2011.
Malgré la période défavorable (pour celles et ceux qui enseignent), il importe que la partie
française soit suffisamment représentée dans ce colloque. J'ai souvenir que dans l'édition
précédente du même type, à Cottbus (Allemagne) pour FGP'02 (en septembre 2002),
les collègues allemands et polonais s'étaient plaints du peu de nombre de collègues français
présents.
Ancienne capitale de la Pologne, Cracovie a également un attrait touristique et gastronomique.
http:/www.fgp13.agh.edu.pl/

L'appel à communications est également lancé, voir sur le site.

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16- International Seminar on Optimization and Related Areas (IMCA, Pérou)
(source: M. Théra)

Voir le site :

http://www.imca.edu.pe/isora2013/

We are pleased to announce the 11th edition of the International Seminar on Optimization and
Related Areas (ISORA) to be held during October 7-13, 2013, at the Instituto de Matemática y
Ciencias Afines (IMCA) in Lima, Peru. This seminar is dedicated to Professor Jean-Pierre Crouzeix
(a great collaborator of the institute, in particular with the Optimization Research group) on th
occasion of his 70th birthday. 

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17- Conference on Geometry and Algebra  of Linear Matrix Inequalities 
(source: D. Henrion)

12-16 November 2013 
Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques (CIRM), 
University of Marseille, Luminy, France. 
http://homepages.laas.fr/henrion/geolmi13 

This is a conference organized by Didier Henrion and Monique Laurent, jointly with the
3rd official meeting of the GeoLMI project funded by the French National Research Agency. 

The conference aims at bringing together various researchers in pure and applied
mathematics (real algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, functional analysis, continuous 
and discrete optimization) interested in linear matrix inequalities and their application areas
(operations research, system control, performance analysis of dynamical systems). 

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18- Ecole de recherche CIMPA, Equilibre de Nash généralisés, problèmes bi-niveaux et MPEC 
(source: D. Aussel)

Ecole de recherche CIMPA-UNESCO-MESR-MINECO
Equilibre de Nash généralisés, problèmes bi-niveaux et MPEC 
25 Novembre-06 Décembre, 2013, Université de Delhi, New Delhi, Inde

Objectifs :
L'école est dédiée à l'étude de trois classes de problèmes d'optimisation:
les problèmes d'équilibres de Nash généralisés, les problèmes bi-niveaux
et les problèmes d'optimisation à contraintes d'equilibre (MPEC). Les
aspects théoriques et numériques seront abordés ainsi que les applications
aux marchés de l'énergie.

Date limite d'inscription :  22 septembre 2013

Inscription en ligne pour les participants hors Inde : 
   http://www.cimpa-icpam.org/inscription/en/form.php
Les participants indiens doivent contacter directement : C. S. Lalitha, 
 cslalitha@maths.du.ac.in

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19- Prix de Thèse PGMO
(source: F. Bonnans)

Le Programme Gaspard Monge pour l'optimisation et la recherche opérationnelle (PGMO),
créé grâce à un mécénat d'EDF au sein de la Fondation Mathématique Jacques Hadamard
(FMJH), lance un appel à candidatures pour deux prix de thèse.
Ces deux prix d'un montant de 1 000 euros chacun seront attribués avec la participation
et le patronage scientifique de la ROADEF et de la SMAI (groupe thématique MODE).
Ils sont destinés à récompenser deux thèses de doctorat, soutenues en France lors de
l'année civile 2012, apportant des contributions significatives en optimisation et recherche
opérationnelle, aussi bien du point de vue théorique qu'applicatif, en mathématiques et/ou
informatique.

Modalités :
-La date limite de réception des candidatures est le dimanche 7 avril 2013 à minuit.
-Les jeunes docteurs peuvent candidater directement ou bien être présentés par une
personnalité extérieure.
-Pour être valable, une candidature doit obligatoirement comprendre, sous format électronique :
le manuscrit de thèse, les rapports de pré-soutenance de la thèse, un CV du jeune docteur avec
une liste de publications.

Le jury rendra ses conclusions le lundi 20 mai 2013. Les lauréats seront invités à présenter
leurs travaux lors d'une cérémonie ultérieure où le prix leur sera remis.

Virginie FRUCHARD – Assistante de gestion
Fondation Mathématique Jacques Hadamard – FMJH Université Paris-Sud 11 Mathématiques
Bâtiment 425 91405 Orsay Cedex
France
Tel : 01 69 15 66 56

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20- Dissertation Prize Competition, INFORMS Society on Transportation Science and Logistics
(source: M. Théra)

Nominations are invited for this years Dissertation Prize Competition sponsored by the INFORMS Society on 
Transportation Science & Logistics.This award is the oldest and most prestigious honor for doctoral 
dissertations in the transportation science and logistics area. The award is accompanied by a $500 honorarium 
for the winner. In addition, the winner and the recipient of an honorable mention (if any) each receives an 8x10 
plaque announcing the award.

The following criteria will be used in judging candidate dissertations.

Fundamental contribution and originality of the ideas or methods.
Practical importance or applicability in solving important real problems.
Clarity and excellence of the exposition.
Eligible doctoral dissertations are those completed and submitted between June 1, 2012 and May 31, 2013
in the  general area of transportation science and logistics.

To be considered, a dissertation must be nominated by the thesis supervisor, who should submit the following 
items, all electronically in Adobe PDF format:

A copy of the dissertation (in PDF),
An extended abstract (3-5 pages), separate from thesis (in PDF or MS Word),
A letter of nomination from the dissertation supervisor supporting the submission and stating his/her assessment 
of why the thesis is worthy of the award (in PDF or MS Word), and,
A completed nomination form:  TSL Dissertation Prize Nomination Form
Submissions should be sent electronically to Martine Labbé, Committee Chair, at mlabbe@ulb.ac.be. The deadline 
for receipt of submissions is June 30, 2013. The recommendations of the judges will be announced at the INFORMS 
Annual Meeting during the TSL business meeting

Lettre MODE 
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Vous pouvez également retrouver les lettres MODE sur le site : 

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Table des matières 

-- Thèses et Postes
1- PhD in Applied Mathematics
2- Post-doctoral position in optimization at University of Calgary
3- Postdoctoral position in Healthcare OR
4- Lectureship post in Mathematical Optimization
5- Permanent Position, Optimization, CERFACS, France 

-- Conférences et évènements 
6- Annonces de séminaires
7- Advances in Experimentation
8- International Conference on Variational Analysis and Optimization
9- Call for Abstracts EURO mini-Conference on Optimization in the Natural Sciences
10- Annonce Conférence SMAI-MODE 2014
11- Mini-cours sur l’optimisation polynomiale et le contrôle
12- Calculus of Variations and Optimization
13- School on Centralized and Distributed Multi-agent Optimization: Models and Algorithms 
14- Gene Golub SIAM Summer School Simulation, Optimization, and Identification in Solid Mechanics
15- Appel à communications pour CLAIO/CSMIO 2014

-- Autres
16- Recherche de contacts mathématiques - sociologie des réseaux
17-  Book : "Calculus Without Derivatives"

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1- PhD in Applied Mathematics
(source : M. Thera)

A PhD position (50% TV-L13) is available from January 2013 (or earlier) at the Institute for
Computational and Applied Mathematics of the University of Münster (Germany).
The research will be at the interface between analysis and scientific computing; topics
include optimization, calculus of variations, numerical analysis, image processing,
biological applications.
 
A Diploma or Master degree in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, or related fields is
required. The successful applicant will have a solid background in one of the above topics.
For inquiries and applications please contact:
 
Prof. Dr. Benedikt Wirth
Institut für Numerische und Angewandte Mathematik
Westfälische Wilhelms Universität Münster
Einsteinstraße 62, 48149 Münster (Germany)
Benedikt.Wirth@uni-muenster.de
carolin.gietz@uni-muenster.de
 
In the application please include: CV, copy of relevant certificates (diploma or master
degree), copy of the masters thesis or equivalent, names and contact information of at
least one referee, and a brief statement of research interests. The application should be
sent electronically as a single pdf-file to the above e-mail address.
 
We actively encourage applications from suitably qualified women. Female candidates
with equivalent qualifications and academic achievements will be preferentially
considered. We also welcome applications from candidates with severe disabilities.
Disabled candidates with equivalent qualifications will be preferentially considered.
We will accept applications until the position is filled.

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2- Post-doctoral position in optimization at University of Calgary
(source : M. Thera)

As a part of Collaborative Research Group on Optimization: Theory, Applications and Algorithms

http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific/collaborative-research-groups/optimization-theory-algorithms-and-applications-2012-2015

partly funded by Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), applications are invited for
a post-doctoral position in optimization at University of Calgary, Calgary AB Canada.
The position is for 1-year, with possible extension to 2 years, tentatively starting in Summer or
Fall of 2014.

A successful candidate should hold or be close to completion of a PhD in Mathematics,
Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, Operations Research or related area.

Of primary interest are applicants interested in the following topics:
- computational methods for solving conic optimization problems over p-cones, and/or
- applications of optimization to optimal radiotherapy treatment planning, and/or
- curvature of the central path.
Alternative PDF research proposals will also be considered.

The application Deadline is December 1st, with documents to be submitted via Mathjobs at
http://www.mathjobs.org/jobs/PIMS
When applying, please also send an email to Dr. Yuriy Zinchenko (http://people.ucalgary.ca/~yzinchen/)
at yzinchen@ucalgary.ca with the subject line “CRG PDF application”, expressing your interest.

Some general information of PIMS PDF position and the application procedure may be found at
http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific/postdoctoral

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3- Postdoctoral position in Healthcare OR
(source : M. Mongeau)

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in healthcare operations research
at the University of Toronto. The research focus will be in one of the following targeted
areas: cancer therapy, emergency response, global health. The exact project or projects
will be determined in part based on the candidate’s experience and interests. The
applicant will join a dynamic research group in the Department of Mechanical and
Industrial Engineering with a focus on developing advanced optimization methods to
solve challenging and relevant problems in healthcare. The department is located at
the downtown St. George campus in Toronto, Canada, one of the most vibrant, diverse,
and culturally rich cities in the world, and home to the largest research university in
Canada.

Applicants should have (or be close to completing) a PhD in Operations Research or a
related field. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in optimization and
modeling, with experience in robust optimization, inverse optimization, and/or large-scale
optimization. Other related experience will also be considered. The start date is flexible,
but preference will be given to candidates who can start in early 2014. The position is for
one year with the possibility of renewal based on mutual agreement. Salary and benefits
are competitive. There are no teaching responsibilities associated with this position.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Please submit your application,
including a cover letter, CV, publications, and contact information for three references
to the email address below.
Please use the subject line “HCOR PDF” in the email.

Timothy C. Y. Chan, PhD
Assistant Professor, Industrial Engineering Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering
Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering
University of Toronto
tcychan@mie.utoronto.ca | www.mie.utoronto.ca/faculty/chan 

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4- Lectureship post in Mathematical Optimization
(source : M. Thera)

School of Mathematics, College of Engineering and Physical Sciences University of Birmingham, UK

Applications are invited for a Lectureship post in Mathematical Optimization. We particularly welcome
candidates working in either of the following areas:
- PDE constrained optimization, including novel approaches like nonlinear multigrid and domain
decomposition methods, mixed-integer nonlinear programming, optimization with equilibrium constraints;
- Very large scale computational optimization with applications to data mining, compressed sensing,
image recognition and others;
- Discrete optimization, including optimization in abstract spaces, in particular over idempotent semirings
such as max-algebra or fuzzy algebra; mathematical foundations of these structures.

The successful candidate will have a PhD in an area of Mathematical and Computational Optimization with
a strong research track record in discrete, nonlinear, multi-disciplinary or computational optimization, or a
related area, and a genuine commitment to teaching, along with excellent presentation, communication
and interpersonal skills.

Informal enquiries can be directed to Professor Michal Kocvara
(tel. + 44 121 414 6598, email M.Kocvara@bham.ac.uk)
or Professor Paul Flavell
(tel. + 44 121 414 7566, emailP.J.Flavell@bham.ac.uk).

Starting salary in the range of GBP37,382 to GBP44,607 a year (potential progression on performance once
in post to GBP50,186).

Closing date: 2 January 2014
Reference: 36927

To download the details and submit an electronic application online visit:
www.hr.bham.ac.uk/jobs -> Current vacancies -> post number 36927

See also
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AHT272/lectureship-in-mathematical-optimization/

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5- Permanent Position, Optimization, CERFACS, France 
(source : P. Armand, M. Mongeau)

A position in numerical optimisation is open at CERFACS in the Parallel Algorithms Team.
The Parallel Algorithms project is looking for a bright, motivated person with a good research
record and the ability to join existing projects in numerical optimization with a strong initiative
in pursuing new research directions. A PhD in applied mathematics with a strong interest in
numerical optimisation and a solid experience in research. An experience with real-life problems
is appreciated. Application from young talented or well-established researchers are welcome.

The Parallel Algorithm project aims at designing optimisation codes and the related mathematical
theory to tackle frontier problems arising from industrial applications, including aeronautics and
geosciences. Candidates intending to work on derivative based or derivative free algorithms are
equally welcome. The present research activity will focus on both constrained and unconstrained
optimisation. The project will address in particular issues related to the global convergence and
control of the complexity of algorithms with respect to several aspects including noisy functions
and constraints, availability of derivatives, parallel algorithms.

The position is open as a postdoctoral position that will (very shortly, depending on experience)
be turned into a permanent position. Interested candidates should send applications containing
cover letter, CV (with a list of publications), the names and contacts of at least two referees before
end of January 2014 to both Serge Gratton (serge.gratton@enseeiht.fr) and Xavier Vasseur
(vasseur@cerfacs.fr). 

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6- Annonces de séminaires 
(sources: P.L. Combettes, G. Mercier, A. Rondepierre) 

Une rubrique pour signaler succinctement les séminaires ayant 
lieu ce mois-ci et organisés dans nos laboratoires. 
N'hésitez pas à l'alimenter, préférentiellement via un lien vers 
la page du séminaire et une liste de conférenciers, 

** 
Séminaire Parisien d'Optimisation (IHP, salle 05 ou 421) 

http://www.ljll.math.upmc.fr/~plc/spo.html 

Lundi 9 décembre 
15h00 : L. Condat (CNRS Grenoble)
16h00 : F. Gensbittel (Toulouse 1) 

Lundi 13 janvier 
15h00 :F. Coda-Marques (IMPA, Brazil)
16h00 : R. Luke (Universitat Gottingen) 

** 
** 
CT CalVa -- Calcul des Variations (LJLL Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CMAP Ecole Polytechnique) 

https://www.ljll.math.upmc.fr/fr/seminaires/gt_calcul_des_variations.html 

Lundi 16 décembre : 
10h00 : G. David 
11h00 : E. Serre

Lundi 6 janvier :
10h00 : A. Harrabi
11h : Y. Capdeboscq

** 
** 
Séminaire Pluridisciplinaire d'Optimisation de Toulouse (lieu : voir site) 

http://projects.laas.fr/spot/

Lundi 9 décembre :
14h00 : G. Allaire (Polytechnique Palaiseau) 
15h00: P. Weiss (ITAV-CNRS Toulouse)

Lundi 6 janvier :
14h : G. Stoltz
15h : N. Couellan

** 

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7- Advances in Experimentation
(source : G. Vigeral)

We are pleased to announce that the workshop "Advances in Experimentation" will take place
on December 12-13 at Université Paris 2 (Salle des Conseils, 12 place du Panthéon, Paris 5). 

Invited speakers are Alessandro Bonnatti (MIT), Sidartha Gordon (SciencesPo), Johannes Hörner
(Yale University), Nicolas Klein (Montreal University), Qingmin Liu (Columbia University),
Lucie Ménager (Paris 2 University and Lille University), Pauli Murto (Helsinski University),
Sven Rady (Bonn University), Eilon Solan (Tel Aviv University), and Caroline Thomas (Austin University).

Please find attached the detailed program. Updated and more detailed information is available on the
workshop website : https://sites.google.com/site/advancesinexperimentation/
To facilitate local organization, we would appreciate if you could confirm your participation by December 1rst
on the registration page of the website or to Chantal Marlats (ch.marlats@gmail.com).

We look forward to seeing you at the workshop.

Chantal Marlats and Lucie Ménager 

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8- International Conference on Variational Analysis and Optimization
(source : A. Jourani)

Conference in honor of Professor Lionel Thibault, one of the foremost contributors to the mathematical field
of Variational Analysis, and an example of an honorable mathematician and very devoted researcher.
The conference will be held from 7 to 10 January, 2014 at Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM),
University of Chile.

http://eventos.cmm.uchile.cl/thibault2014/

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9- Call for Abstracts EURO mini-Conference on Optimization in the Natural Sciences
(source : M. Thera)

the organizers of the EURO mini-Conference on Optimization in the  Natural Sciences
(EURO mini 2014) have a pleasure to invite you to  take part in this conference to be
held in Aveiro, Portugal on 5-9  February, 2014, http://minieuro2014.web.ua.pt/.

The conference aims at discussing the latest research in  optimization and its applications
to the Natural Sciences. The main  objective of the meeting is to encourage the exchange
of knowledge  and recent achievements, and to establish collaborations among  researchers
and practitioners working in the areas of Computer  Science / Optimization / Statistics, and
Physics / Chemistry /  Biology / Medical Sciences.

We welcome abstracts related to any  aspects of optimization in the Natural Sciences.

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10- Annonce Conférence SMAI-MODE 2014 
(source : O. Ley)

26-28 mars 2014, INSA de Rennes  et second APPEL À COMMUNICATIONS 

Informations détaillées: 
http://hjnet.math.cnrs.fr/MODE-Rennes.html 

Conférenciers pléniers: Piermarco Cannarsa (Rome), Thierry Champion (Toulon), Rida Laraki (Polytechnique),
Edouard Oudet (Grenoble), François Oustry (Raise Partner) 
Conférence grand public: Jean-Baptiste Hiriart-Urruty (Toulouse) 

Sessions thématiques: 
* Contrôle optimal 
(Organisateurs: A. Briani et P. Bettiol) 
* Jeux et économie 
(Organisateur: J. Renault) 
* Optimisation de formes 
(Organisateurs: V. Bonnaillie-Noël et M. Pierre) 
* Optimisation stochastique 
(Organisateur: A. Lisser) 
* Mathématiques pour l'image 
(Organisateur: R. Gribonval) 
* Session industrielle 
(Organisateurs: M. Haddou et M. Camar-Eddine) 

La conférence sera précédée de 2 jours de mini-cours organisés par le GdR MOA: 
24-25 mars: optimisation polynomiale par J.-B. Lasserre et D. Henrion (Toulouse) 

* Inscriptions à partir du 1er novembre 2013 
(merci de vous inscrire au plus vite pour faciliter l'organisation) 
* Appel à communications étendu du 1er octobre au 10 décembre 2013 
* Les meilleurs exposés de jeunes chercheurs seront récompensés par le prix Dodu,
patronné par EDF R&D. 
* Des supports financiers pour les jeunes sont  possibles 
-------------------------------------------- 
Contacts: 
Mounir.Haddou@insa-rennes.fr 
Olivier.Ley@insa-rennes.fr 
-------------------------------------------- 
http://hjnet.math.cnrs.fr/MODE-Rennes.html 

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11- Mini-cours sur l’optimisation polynomiale et le contrôle
(source : D. Aussel)

INSA Rennes, 24-25 mars 2014
   http://gdrmoa.math.cnrs.fr/activites/mini-cours-mars-2014/
   Intervenants : 
        * Jean-Bernard Lasserre (LAAS et Institut de Mathématiques de 
                                                l’Université de Toulouse)
        * Didier Henrion (LAAS à Toulouse)

Ce mini-cours se concentre sur l’optimisation polynomiale et le contrôle. 
Une attention particulière sera portée sur les techniques de relaxation 
semi-définie exploitant la dualité entre les problèmes de moments et la 
représentation de polynômes positifs sur des ensembles semi-algébriques. 
  L’objectif est d’introduire les idées principales d’une façon unifiée mais 
accessible, dans l’espoir de stimuler de nouvelles activités de recherche 
dans ce domaine.

If required, the course can be given in English.

Les inscriptions : 
     - Elles sont ouvertes sur la page dédiée du GdR MOA
               http://gdrmoa.math.cnrs.fr/activites/mini-cours-mars-2014/
     - Aucun droit d’inscription n’est demandé mais, pour des raisons 
       d’organisation, il est obligatoire de s'inscrire.
     - Afin d’encourager la participation des doctorants et jeunes chercheurs, 
       l’hébergement sera pris en charge par le GdR MOA, dans la limite de 
       notre budget (15 personnes). Merci de faire votre demande en 
       contactant  Didier Aussel.  

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12- Calculus of Variations and Optimization
(source : M. Thera)

A conference on the occasion of the 60th birthday of Giuseppe Buttazzo

Date: Wednesday, May 21, 2014 -- Friday, May 23, 2014

Place: Pisa, Department of Mathematics 

The plenary lectures will be delivered by: 

Luigi Ambrosio, Giovanni Alberti, Hedy Attouch,  Guy Bouchitté, Dorin Bucur, Guillaume Carlier,
Gianni Dal Maso, Bernard Dacorogna, Ivar Ekeland, Irene Fonseca, Nicola Fusco, Wilfrid Gangbo,
Antoine Henrot, Bernd Kawohl, Edouard Oudet, Michel Pierre, Eugene Stepanov, Franco Tomarelli, 
Enrique Zuazua. 

We also plan to organize a one-afternoon session of short talks. 

The registration is free but mandatory for organizing purposes. The deadline is March 31 2014.

Please circulate among your colleagues and students. 

Best regards (and apologies for cross-posting)

The organizers
L. Brasco, A. Briani, L. De Pascale, I. Fragalà, F. Santambrogio, P. Trebeschi

Web page of the conference: http://www.dm.unipi.it/buttazzo2014

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13- School on Centralized and Distributed Multi-agent Optimization: Models and Algorithms 
(source : M. Thera)

It is with great pleasure that I announce that registration is open for the CIME-EMS school on
Centralized and Distributed Multi-agent Optimization: Models and Algorithms 
The school will take place in the magnificent location of Cetraro (CS - Italy)
from June 23 to June 28, 2014 
As it is tradition of CIME schools, there is no fee for participation. Students will need to pay only
for their travel and living expenses. Full board accomodation is available at very good prices
(considering the location and the period) at the Hotel San Michele, where the school is hosted.

Further information and on line registration at http://web.math.unifi.it/users/cime/

School directors are prof. Francisco Facchinei (Sapienza, ROme - Italy) and Jong-Shi Pang
(Univ. Southern California, USA).
The following lectures are scheduled:

Zhi-Quan Luo Univ. Minnesota, U.S.A.
Optimization Methods for Resource Management: Complexity, Duality and Approximation

Angelia Nedic Univ. Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Distributed Optimization over Networks

Jong-Shi Pang Univ. of Southern California, USA
Differential Variational Inequalities

Gesualdo Scutari Univ. New York, U.S.A.
Advanced Decomposition Algorithms for Multi-agent Systems

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14- Gene Golub SIAM Summer School Simulation, Optimization, and Identification in Solid Mechanics
(source : M. Thera)

It will take place August 4-15, 2014 in the Johann Radon Institute for Computational and Applied
Mathematics (RICAM), located at the Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Austria. It is intended for up
to 40 qualified graduate students in mathematics and related areas.

Focus of the Summer School will be the topics
- Identification of material parameters
- Material- and topology optimization
- Optimization subject to variational inequalities
- Adaptive discretization

Further information is available on the website
 http://www.math.uni-hamburg.de/g2s3

Deadline for the Application: February 1, 2014

Applicants selected to participate pay no registration.
Funding for local accommodations and meal expenses will be available for all participants.
Limited travel funds are also available.

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15- Appel à communications pour CLAIO/CSMIO 2014
(source : D. Aussel)

We invite members of the Latin-Iberian-American Association of Operations Research (ALIO)
and the worldwide Operational Research (OR) community to take part in the XVII
Latin-Iberian-American Conference on Operations Research held jointly with the III Conference
of the Mexican Society of Operations Research (CLAIO/CSMIO 2014) in Monterrey, Mexico,
October 6-10, 2014.

The academic program will consist of parallel, technical and special sessions, plenary talks and
tutorials covering several aspects of OR. 

Important dates :
01/Jan/2014 Paper/abstract submission begins.
01/Mar/2014 Paper submission deadline.
01/May/2014 Abstract submission deadline.
15/May/2014 Paper acceptance/rejection notification.
01/Jun/2014 Abstract acceptance/rejection notification.
15/Jun/2014 Camera-ready paper deadline.
Confirmed plenary speakers :
Carlos Coello Coello, Elena Fernandez, Hector Cancela, Jonathan F. Bard, 

María Angélica Salazar Aguilar,
maria.salazaragl@uanl.edu.mx
angysalag@gmail.com

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16- Recherche de contacts mathématiques - sociologie des réseaux
(source : J. Renault)

J’ai rencontré récemment Emmanuel Lazega, professeur à Sciences Po, Paris, (elazega.fr) qui est
spécialiste de la sociologie des réseaux et qui travaille avec des outils tels que que la théorie
des jeux, théorie des réseaux et l’analyse des systèmes complexes.
Il est fortement intéressé par un échange avec des mathématiciens, une discussion, qui permettrait
d’exposer les problèmes et besoins de chacun et de défricher d’éventuels terrains d’entente entre
les deux disciplines.

Emilie Neveu
Chargé de coordination scientifique
ARP MathsInTerre mathsinterre.fr
neveuem@univ-savoie.fr
http://lama.univ-savoie.fr/~neveu/

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17-  Book : "Calculus Without Derivatives"
(source : J.P. Penot)

My book "Calculus Without Derivatives" appeared in the Springer series "Graduate Texts in Mathematics"
about one year ago under the number 266.
Here is a link giving you a limited access to the book:
http://www.springer.com/mathematics/analysis/book/978-1-4614-4537-1

I shall be grateful if you give me some feedback about it. With my greetings and wishes, Jean-Paul Penot

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Lettre MODE
février 2013

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Table des matières

-- Thèses et Postes
1- Postdoc Position in Geometric Measure Theory and its Applications
2- Poste MC à Dijon - Profil controle, optimisation, transport
3- Poste MC à Bordeaux 1 - Profil optimisation mathématique et numérique

-- Conférences et évènements
4- Annonces de séminaires
5- cours de G. Buttazzo, PGMO
6- Course on LMI in Prague, April 2013
7- Nonlinear optimization : a bridge from theory to applications, Erice
8- Joint ICORD/EWG-ORD workshop June 27-28, Rome
9- Numerical linear algebra and optimization, Vancouver, August 2013

-- Autres
10- GDR MOA
11- Prix Fermat Junior de Mathématiques - édition 2013

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1- Postdoc Position in Geometric Measure Theory and its Applications
(source: H. Pajot)

The project GEOMETRYA (Geometric Measure Theory and its Applications) is funded
by the ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche), France. The research topics include
geometric measure theory in singular metric spaces, Plateau problems, the
Mumford-Shah functional, irrigation and branched transport, and the Willmore
energy.

A list of the participating members can be found following the link:

http://www.ljll.math.upmc.fr/~lemenant/GEOMETRY A/members.html

The successful applicant may choose to work for the whole duration of their
position with one member of the project, or alternatively to share their time
between two members of the project.

Please feel free to contact any project member for more information.

Duration : 12 months starting September 1th 2013 or another later.

Application deadline : April 1st 2013.

Application process : Please send in your vitae, publication list and short
research project (up to 3 pages) to Herve.Pajot@ujf-grenoble.fr

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2- Poste MC à Dijon - Profil controle, optimisation, transport
(source: J.-B. Caillau)

Poste MC 0436 (26) à Dijon

L'Universite de Bourgogne souhaite recruter pour septembre 2013 un maitre
de conferences en mathematiques appliquees. La personne recrutee sera
affectee au Departement de mathematiques et rattachee a l'Institut de
mathematiques (UMR CNRS 5584). Les competences du laboratoire recouvrent
des domaines varies tels que la geometrie et les systemes dynamiques, la
physique mathematique, le controle et l'optimisation, les probabilites et
les statistiques. Les axes de recherche prioritaires pour ce poste sont :
- le controle optimal,
- l'optimisation,
- le transport optimal.

Institut de mathematiques de Bourgogne : http://math.u-bourgogne.fr
(contact : Luis Paris, mailto:luis.paris@u-bourgogne.fr)

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3- Poste MC à Bordeaux 1 - Profil optimisation mathématique et numérique
(source: D. Aussel)

La campagne 2013 de recrutement à l'université Bordeaux-I comprend un poste
de maître de conférences en optimisation mathématique et numérique dont le
profil est consultable sur

https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/ListesPostesPublies/FIDIS/0331764N/FOPC_0331764N_4076.pdf

Les modalités de dépôt des candidatures sont indiquées :

- sur le site du Ministère portail GALAXIE
https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/cand_postes_GALAXIE.htm

- sur le site de l'université , rubrique recrutement
http://www.u-bordeaux1.fr/universite/travailler-a-luniversite/recrutement.html

Dates de candidature : du 5 février 2013 au 7 mars 2013

Les candidats sont invités à prendre contact avec François Vanderbeck
<fv@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>

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4- Annonces de séminaires
(sources: P.L. Combettes, J.B. Hiriart-Urruty, R. Laraki, N. Igbida, G. Mercier)

Une rubrique pour signaler succinctement les séminaires ayant
lieu ce mois-ci et organisés dans nos laboratoires.
N'hésitez pas à l'alimenter, préférentiellement via un lien vers
la page du séminaire et une liste de conférenciers,

**
Séminaire Parisien d'Optimisation (attention : Jussieu, salle 101, barre 15-16)

http://www.ljll.math.upmc.fr/~plc/spo.html

Lundi 11 février
15h00 : A. Cabot (U. Montpellier 2)
16h00 : A. Lemenant (Paris 7)
**
**
Séminaire Parisien de THéorie des Jeux

http://sites.google.com/site/theoriedesjeux/

Lundi 11 février : E. Solan (Tel Aviv)
Lundi 18 février : C. Durr (Paris 6)
Lundi 25 février : F. Pascual (Paris 6)
**
**
Séminaire de l'équipe MOD à Limoges (salle 203, batiment XLIM)

http://www.unilim.fr/pages_perso/noureddine.igbida/mod.html

Vendredi 22 février : E. Carlini (U. Rome La Sapienza)
**
**
Séance du Groupe de Travail Calcul des Variations (U. Orsay, bat. 425, salle 121-123)

lundi 18 février
14h : S. Masnou (U. Lyon I)
15h15 : G. Croce (LMAH, Le Havre)
**

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5- cours de G. Buttazzo, PGMO
(source: F. Santambrogio)

Giuseppe Buttazzo, professeur à l'Université de Pise (Italie) et professeur invité
du Programme Gaspard Monge pour l'Optimisation (FMJH & EDF) donnera un cours de 10h
autour de l'Optimisation de Forme dans le cadre de ce programme.

Le cours aura lieu à Orsay les 19, 20, 26 et 27 mars prochains.

Tous les intéressés (doctorants, chercheurs...) y sont conviés. Le cours aura lieu
soit en français soit en anglais en accord avec les présents, et une validation pour
les étudiants de M2 est possible.

Détails pratiques

19 mars : 15h-17h30, salle 117-119 (bât 425)
20 mars : 9h30-12h, salle 229 (bât 440)
26 mars : 15h-17h30, salle 117-119 (bât 425)
27 mars : 9h30-12h, salle 229 (bât 440)

Programme : "Topics in Shape Optimization"
- A general presentation of shape optimization problems, with some
classical issues: the isoperimetric problem with some variants
- Optimal interfaces between two media
- Optimal shape of a thin insulating layer
- Optimal domains for elliptic operators
- A nonexistence example and Relaxed Dirichlet problems
- Existence under geometrical constraints
- An existence result for spectral optimization problems
- Other existence results and open problems

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6- Course on LMI in Prague, April 2013
(source: D. Henrion)

Contributed by: Didier Henrion, henrion@laas.fr

Course on LMI optimization with applications in control
by Didier Henrion, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France
and Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic.
http://homepages.laas.fr/henrion

Venue and dates:
The course is given at the Czech Technical University in Prague,
Charles Square, down-town Prague (Karlovo Namesti 13, 12135 Praha 2)
during the first week of April 2013. It consists of seven two-hour
lectures, given on Tue 2 Apr, Wed 3 Apr, Thu 4 Apr from 10am to noon
and from 2pm to 4pm, and Fri 5 Apr from 10am to noon. There is no
admission fee, students and reseachers from external institutions
are particularly welcome, but please send an e-mail to
henrion@laas.fr to register.

Description:
This is a course for graduate students or researchers with some
background in linear algebra, convex optimization and linear control
systems. The focus in on systems control applications of semidefinite
programming (SDP), or optimization over linear matrix inequalities (LMIs),
an extension of linear programming to the cone of positive semidefinite
matrices.

Outline:
In the first part of the course, historical developments of LMIs and
SDP are surveyed. Convex sets that can be represented with LMIs are
classified and studied. LMI relaxations are introduced to solve
non-convex polynomial optimization problems, with a focus on the
primal theory of measures and moments and dual theory of polynomial
sum-of-squares. Interior-point methods and algorithms are described
to solve LMI problems and latest achievements in software and solvers
are reported. The second part of the course, more advanced and closer
to current research topics, focuses on the use of measures and moments
for static polynomial optimisation problems, as well as occupation
measures for polynomial differential equations and related
polynomial optimal control problems.

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7- Nonlinear optimization : a bridge from theory to applications, Erice
(source: M. Théra)

Erice, Italy
June 10-17, 2013

This is the 59th Workshop of the International School of
Mathematics "G. Stampacchia" at the Ettore Majorana Centre
and Fondation for Scientific Culture (EMCFSC). It is the
seventh Workshop on Nonlinear Optimization and related topics.
The preceding ones have been held every three years starting
from 1995.

The Workshop will be held in Erice, Sicily, Italy, at the EMCFSC.

The Workshop aims to review and discuss recent advances and
promising research trends in Nonlinear Optimization and to
provide a forum for fruitful interactions in strictly related
fields of research, with a particular focus on applications.

Topics include constrained and unconstrained nonlinear optimization,
global optimization, mixed integer nonlinear programming,
derivative-free methods, nonsmooth optimization, nonlinear
complementarity problems, variational inequalities, equilibrium problems,
game theory, bilevel optimization, optimization and machine learning,
applications of nonlinear optimization

The Workshop will include invited lectures (1 hour) and
contributed lectures (30 minutes). Members of the international
scientific community are invited to contribute a lecture
describing their current research and applications.

Further information can be found at the URL:

http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/~erice2013

or requested to the e-mail address:

erice2013@dis.uniroma1.it

The Scientific and Organizing Committe:
- Gianni DI PILLO, SAPIENZA, University of Rome, Italy
- Franco GIANNESSI, International School of Mathematics, EMCFSC, Erice, Italy
- Massimo ROMA, SAPIENZA, University of Rome, Italy

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8- Joint ICORD/EWG-ORD workshop June 27-28, Rome
(source: T. Champion)

Early career/PhD researchers who work in the area of OR for Development are
invited to participate in this joint workshop in Rome on June 27-28, prior
to the EURO-INFORMS conference in Rome, June 30- July 4, 2013. All papers
presented are eligible for submission to the IFORS Prize Competition.

Background: The International Conference on OR for Development (ICORD)
(http://ifors.org/web/icord-history) is joining with EURO Working Group on
Operational Research for Development (EWG-ORD);
http://web.ing.puc.cl/~fcrespo/eurofdv/) for this workshop entitled
"Operations Research: Addressing Issues of Development".

To qualify, participants are required to submit a full paper (of at least
1500 words) on their work which has used  OR to help the decision-making
process in the areas of education, health, water and other basic services,
technology, resource use (physical or financial), infrastructure,
agricultural/industrialization or environmental sustainability, that help
optimize development in view of constraints and limited resources. A stress
on developmental issues will be an important factor; papers of a purely
technical nature, or those that have no relevance in the developmental
context, will not be considered. All papers presented are eligible for
submission to the IFORS Prize Competition.

Workshop Registration Fee: USD 200
A limited number of places will be available for accommodation and
registration support, which will depend on the quality of material
submitted.

Please email your proposed paper to: icord_ewgsubmissions@ifors.org
For further details, see the website,
http://ifors.org/web/joint-icordewg-ord-workshop/

Important dates: Full Paper Submission: January 30, 2013 Notification of
Acceptance: February 15, 2013

If you have any queries, please email Honora Smith, honora.smith@soton.ac.uk

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9- Numerical linear algebra and optimization, Vancouver, August 2013
(source: M. Théra)

A workshop on numerical linear algebra and optimization will take place at
the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, on August 8-10, 2013.
The scope of the workshop is fairly broad, involving the interplay between
numerical linear algebra and optimization, with special attention to optimization
problems concerning eigenvalues and singular values. The workshop will honor
Michael Overton on the occasion of his 60th birthday.

Please see the conference website

 http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific-event/130808-wnlao

for further details, including the list of confirmed invited speakers.

The conference is hosted by PIMS (Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences),
whose support is gratefully acknowledged.  Other support is pending.

Everyone is warmly invited to attend the workshop.  Some travel support will be
available for early-career researchers and Ph.D. students who participate in the
poster session: see the web page for details.

We look forward to seeing many of our friends and colleagues in August in Vancouver!

The organizers: Ioana Dumitriu, Chen Greif, Emre Mengi

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10- GDR MOA
(source: D. Aussel)

J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer que le GdR MOA a été renouvelé
pour quatre ans. J'en assurerai la direction et les responsables
scientifiques seront :

   Samir Adly, Université de Limoges
   Didier Aussel, Université de Perpignan
   Patrick Louis Combettes, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris
   Jean-Bernard Lasserre, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse
   Jérome Malick, CNRS, Laboratoire J. Kunztmann, Grenoble

La page web du GdR a été totalement relookée. Elle se trouve
maintenant à l'adresse suivante :
     http://gdrmoa.math.cnrs.fr/

Attention, ne manquez pas les

     Journée annuelles 2013 du GdR MOA

Elle se tiendront à l'Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris 5e, du 17 au 19 juin 2013.
Ces journées annuelles du GdR MOA constituent un moment fort de l?activité
de notre groupe. Ce sera l?occasion, dans le cadre agréable de l?Institut Henri
Poincaré de faire le point sur les avancées récentes en optimisation et
leurs applications. Mais ce sera surtout une opportunité pour vos étudiants
en thèse de présenter leurs travaux à la communauté. Des aides financières
pourront être accordées aux doctorants qui proposeront un exposé.
Les inscriptions sont gratuites, mais obligatoires, et se font à l'adresse suivante :

http://gdrmoa.math.cnrs.fr/activites/activites-2013/journees-annuelles-du-gdr-moa/

Une dernière annonce : un événement parrainée par le GdR en 2013 :
3rd International Workshop on New Computational Methods for Inverse Problems (NCMIP13)
les 22 et 23 mai à l'ENS Cachan

Bien à vous,
Didier Aussel, au nom du bureau scientifique.

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11- Prix Fermat Junior de Mathématiques - édition 2013
(source: J.-B. Hiriart-Urruty)

Il est organisé à Toulouse un Prix Fermat Junior en Mathématiques, parrainé par
l?Université Paul Sabatier (Toulouse III) et la revue Quadrature.
Le montant du Prix Fermat Junior pour 2013 est fixé à 2 000 Euros.

Le Prix FERMAT JUNIOR récompensera la contribution d?un étudiant des lycées ou
établissements d?enseignement supérieur français dans des domaines qui figurent
aux programmes des enseignements du segment de formation BAC (baccalauréat) à
BAC + 3, c?est-à-dire essentiellement : classes préparatoires aux grandes écoles,
Licences des universités (L1, L2, L3) et premières années d?écoles d?ingénieurs.

L?étudiant devra être âgé de moins de 22 ans au moment de la candidature
(c?est-à-dire du dépôt de son dossier de candidature).

La contribution d?un lauréat pourra prendre la forme suivante :
- Nouvelle démonstration ou démonstration particulièrement courte et élégante d?un
résultat de mathématiques figurant aux programmes de mathématiques des formations
des niveaux visés ci-dessus ;
- Point de vue original ou synthétique sur un ensemble de résultats de mathématiques
acquis au cours de la scolarité ;
- Nouveau résultat pouvant avoir un intérêt ou une retombée directe dans
l?enseignement des mathématiques ;
- La mise sous forme algorithmique de résultats mathématiques, éventuellement
accompagnée d?une justification rigoureuse et de l?évaluation de son intérêt.

Il ne s?agit pas d?un travail de recherche au sens habituel de ce vocable, mais
plutôt d?une contribution dont la teneur et l?intérêt doivent être accessibles au
plus grand nombre d?étudiants engagés dans des études de mathématiques des cursus
des niveaux cités plus haut. La contribution peut être basée sur un mémoire ou
TIPE effectué par le candidat. Le texte mathématique peut être enrichi d?illustrations,
d?expéri-mentations ou de visualisations réalisées sur un support informatique.
Les propositions doivent tenir en dix pages au maximum. Une contribution originale
de deux ou trois pages est tout à fait recevable.

Le règlement du Prix, son organisation, le jury, les modalités de dépôts de
candidature, etc. sont disponibles auprès de :

http://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/Fermatjunior/

Date limite de dépôt des candidatures : 30 septembre 2013.
Les candidats potentiels sont priés de se conformer aux modalités de dépôt préconisées
dans le règlement.

Lettre MODE
janvier 2013

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Table des matières

-- Thèses et Postes
1- Postdoctoral fellowship in optimal control and space mechanics at CNES Toulouse
2- Postes de CR INRIA Bordeaux
3- Poste MCF (26/27) a Grenoble au LJK (Laboratoire Jean Kunztmann)
4- CDI pour Docteur en Mathématiques appliquées – Informatique – Génie des Procédés

-- Conférences et évènements
5- Annonces de séminaires
6- "Stochastic optimization for energy management problems", EDF R&D Clamart
7- CIRM School STOCORE, 8--12 April 2013
8- Ecole d'été de Peyresq en traitement du signal et des images
9- 2013 Center for Nonlinear Analysis Summer School, Pittsburgh

-- Autres
10- Livre “Calculus Without Derivatives”, J.-P. Penot

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1- Postdoctoral fellowship in optimal control and space mechanics at CNES Toulouse
(source: F. Bonnans, R. Epenoy)

A one year (renewable once) PostDoc position will be available from (earliest) september
2013 at the French space agency (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales) in Toulouse, France
The remuneration is 2258 euros per month before taxes. 

The candidate will contribute to the design of low-energy low-thrust Earth-Moon transfers
by using optimal control techniques and dynamical  systems theory. 

Requirements: The candidate should hold a PhD in applied mathematics or in space
mechanics and should have an good background in the dynamics of the n-body problem.
Knowledge on optimal control will also be appreciated. 

Working language: French. 

Application: The application, containing the candidate's cv and a description of his/her
research interests and achievements should be  sent by email to 

Dr. Richard Epenoy 
CNES 
DCT/SB/MO 
18 avenue Edouard Belin 
31401 Toulouse Cedex 9, France 
Richard.Epenoy@cnes.fr 

Further enquiries should also be directed to the email address above. 

The official application deadline is 31th of March 2013. The successful candidates might
be selected for an interview process in spring and have to be available for a start between
September and December 2013. 

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2- Postes de CR INRIA Bordeaux
(source: M. Mongeau, F. Dufour)

Every year INRIA (http://www.inria.fr/en/) recruits by means of a competitive exam junior
research scientists on permanent positions.
The INRIA team CQFD in Bordeaux, France is seeking qualified applicants for a permanent
(full-time) research position in areas such as stochastic optimization, optimal control,
stochastic modelling, simulation.
If you know any candidates that would be interested in such positions, please do not hesitate
to give my e-mail address (dufour@math.u-bordeaux1.fr) for further information. 

The deadline for submitting application files is 17 February 2013.

François Dufour
http://www.math.u-bordeaux1.fr/~dufour/dufour@math.u-bordeaux1.fr

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3- Poste MCF (26/27) a Grenoble au LJK (Laboratoire Jean Kunztmann)
(source: J. Malick)

Laboratoire Jean Kunztmann : http://www-ljk.imag.fr/
Contact : Zaid.Harchaoui@inria.fr 

Il existe une forte demande d’outils d’optimisation en grande dimension appliqués dans
les domaines de l’apprentissage statistique et du traitement de données non-homogènes.
Les jeux de données à traiter, mais aussi les modèles qui les régissent contiennent par
ailleurs des incertitudes dont il s’agit d’estimer et de maitriser l’impact. L’optimisation dans
le contexte de données massives, l’analyse d’incertitudes, et l’optimisation robuste pour
minimiser leur influence, sont des problématiques qui apparaissent dans plusieurs domaines
applicatifs dans lesquels le LJK est beaucoup investi. Le LJK souhaite recruter un maître de
conférence, qui cherche à développer des aspects méthodologiques ou applicatifs de ces
thématiques, transverses à plusieurs équipes et départements du laboratoire. 

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4- CDI pour Docteur en Mathématiques appliquées – Informatique – Génie des Procédés
(source: M. De Lara)

Employeur : ACTILITY
Spécialité : Mathématiques appliquées – Informatique – Génie des Procédés

Emploi sur Lyon, Caen ou Paris au sein de la R&D de la société (préférence sur Paris).

Mission : Au sein de l'équipe de R&D, vous concevez et développez les algorithmes relatifs
à la modélisation de processus industriels et à la prévision des prix sur les marchés de
l'énergie, vous accompagnez nos partenaires de R&D extérieurs dans la conception de
leurs propres algorithmes. Techniques et compétences clefs :
- MATlab et équivalents open source
- statistiques
- recherche opérationnelle, optimisation dynamique sous contraintes  (MIDO, Bellman,
Principe du maximum, Méthodes variationnelles), optimisation stochastique
- identification de paramètres, algorithmes de descente (e.g. Newton raphson)
- soft sensors (filtre de Kalman…)
- Java, Python, C

Exemple de travail théorique que vous devez savoir comprendre et mettre en pratique :
http://www-sop.inria.fr/comore/Personnel/Benoit.Chachuat/thesis.pdf

Profil des candidats : Bien que les autres candidatures soient également considérées,
nous recherchons en priorité, étant une jeune société créée en 2010, des docteurs à la
recherche de leur premier CDI.

Nous contacter : contact@actility.com, référence de cette annonce: MAIGP

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5- Annonces de séminaires
(sources: P.L. Combettes, J.B. Hiriart-Urruty, R. Laraki, N. Igbida, G. Mercier)

Une rubrique pour signaler succinctement les séminaires ayant
lieu ce mois-ci et organisés dans nos laboratoires.
N'hésitez pas à l'alimenter, préférentiellement via un lien vers
la page du séminaire et une liste de conférenciers,

**
Séminaire Parisien d'Optimisation (attention : Jussieu, salle 101, barre 15-16)

http://www.ljll.math.upmc.fr/~plc/spo.html

Lundi 11 février
15h00 : H. Attouch (U. Montpellier II)
**
**
Séminaire Pluridisciplinaire d'Optimisation de Toulouse (Amphithéâtre des Thèses de l'ENSEEIHT)

http://projects.laas.fr/spot

Lundi 4 février
14h00 : C. Lemaréchal (INRIA Rhône-Alpes, Grenoble)
15h00 : F. Malgouyres (UPS, Toulouse)
**
**
Séminaire Parisien de THéorie des Jeux

http://sites.google.com/site/theoriedesjeux/

Lundi 21 janvier : P. Coucheney (Versailles)
Lundi 21 janvier : M. Scarsini (SUTD)
**
**
Séminaire de l'équipe MOD à Limoges (salle 203, batiment XLIM)

http://www.unilim.fr/pages_perso/noureddine.igbida/mod.html

Vendredi 25 janvier : P. Boito (XLIM-DMI, Université de Limoges)
Vendredi 1 février : T. Haddad (U. Jijel, Algérie)
**
**
Séance du Groupe de Travail Calcul des Variations (U. Orsay, bat. 425, salle 121-123)

lundi 21 janvier
14h : J. Salomon (U. Paris-Dauphine)
15h15 : S. Masnou (U. Lyon I)
**
**
Séance du Groupe de Travail Calcul des Variations de Dauphine (salle A 707121-123)

lundi 21 janvier
14h00 : M. Goldman (Max Planck Inst, Leipzig)
**

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6- "Stochastic optimization for energy management problems", EDF R&D Clamart
(source: F. Bonnans)

Le département OSIRIS et le LASON (Latin America stochastic optimization network) organisent,
le 1er février 2013 à l'Amphi2 du site EDF R&D de Clamart, un séminaire autour du thème
"Stochastic optimization for energy management problems".

Le programme du séminaire est le suivant : 

9:30 - 10:00 :
"Introduction to energy management problems at EDF" by Sandrine Charousset (EDF R&D) 
10:00 - 11:00 :
"SDDP and scenario generation" by Tito Homem-de-Mello (Universidad Adolfo Ibanez) 
11:00 - 12:00 :
"Optimization of a Liquefied Natural Gas Portfolio by SDDP techniques" by Frédéric Bonnans
(CMAP, INRIA) 
13:30 - 14:30 :
"Power management problem for interconnected reservoirs : the Nord-pool problem" by Nicolas
Grebille (EDF R&D, INRIA) 
14:30 - 15:30 :
"European energy equilibrium and decomposition" by Anes Dallagi (EDF R&D) 

Merci de vous inscrire par email auprès de :

Anes DALLAGI <anes.dallagi@edf.fr>

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7- CIRM School STOCORE, 8--12 April 2013
(source: M. De Lara)

We have the pleasure to inform you of the CIRM School STOCORE :

Stochastic Control for the Management of Renewable Energies

that will take place between 8--12 April 2013 at the Centre International de Rencontres
Mathématiques (CIRM) at Marseille (South of France).
The CIRM School STOCORE is a contribution to the Mathematics of Planet Earth - MPE2013
initiative and follows the Institut Henri Poincaré trimester Mathematics of Bio-Economics.
The detailed program can be found at

http://cermics.enpc.fr/~delara/ENSEIGNEMENT/CIRM2013/Optim_ENR_CIRM2013/ 

The 450 euros registration fees cover accommodation and meals, which are provided at CIRM.

For registration, please send before 28 February 2013 an email to
pierre.carpentier@ensta.fr, delara@cermics.enpc.fr
with Subject ``Registration STOCORE''
with Body expressing your interest for the CIRM School and containing personal data (a one-page
CV or a link to a professional webpage is welcome).
We have limited funding for PhD and post-doctorate students, who should add a one-page
motivation letter to their one-page CV. 

The organizers Pierre Carpentier, Jean-Philippe Chancelier and Michel De Lara ENSTA ParisTech
and Ecole des Ponts ParisTech.

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8- Ecole d'été de Peyresq en traitement du signal et des images
(source: M. Théra)

23 -- 29 juin 2013

Le GRETSI et le GdR ISIS organisent depuis 2006 une École d'Été annuelle en traitement
du signal et des images. Ouverte à toute personne intéressée (académiques ou industriels),
elle a pour but de présenter une synthèse ainsi que les avancées les plus récentes dans
un thème de recherche d'actualité. Cette École d'Été a lieu tous les ans et a pour cadre
le magnifique village de Peyresq, perché à 1500 mètres d'altitude sur un éperon rocheux
des Alpes de Haute Provence.

La session 2013 aura pour thème :
"Les nouvelles techniques d'optimisation : Applications en signal, images et
télécommunications"
sous la direction scientifique de Walid Hachem (LTCI, Telecom ParisTech)

Le site de dépôt des demandes d'inscription est ouvert, et ceci jusqu'au 4 février 2013.
Rendez-vous sur :

http://www.gretsi.fr/peyresq13/

Patrick Flandrin (Laboratoire de Physique, ENS Lyon)
Cédric Richard (Laboratoire Lagrange, Obs. Côte d'Azur, Univ. Nice Sophia-Antipolis)

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9- 2013 Center for Nonlinear Analysis Summer School, Pittsburgh
(source: N. Watson)

http://math.cmu.edu/cna/Summer13/info.html 

Topics in Nonlinear PDEs and Calculus of Variations, and Applications in Materials Science 

Lecturers : 
John Ball, University of Oxford (UK) 
Bernard Dacorogna, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne 
Nicola Fusco, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II (Italy) 
Richard James, University of Minnesota (USA) 
Sylvia Serfaty, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (France) 

The mini-courses will be complemented by one-hour talks by leading 
researchers in related fields.

Advanced graduate students and postdocs are invited to submit a title 
and an abstract for a poster. A cv will also be required. Each poster 
will be individually introduced with a five minute oral presentation. 
The deadline for submission of posters is April 15, 2013. 

Advanced undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdoctoral 
fellows are encouraged to apply for financial support.The deadline for 
applications is April 15, 2013. 

Registration: 

http://math.cmu.edu/cna/Summer13/reg.php 

Organizers: Irene Fonseca, Giovanni Leoni and Ian Tice 

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10- Livre “Calculus Without Derivatives”, J.-P. Penot
(source: J.-P. Penot)

Graduate Texts in Mathematics #266, Springer, New York, published last November
(but dated 2013). You can have access to the table of contents, the preface and a large
sample by clicking on the link:
http://www.springer.com/mathematics/analysis/book/978-1-4614-4537-1. 
My aim was to present a lucid view at the present stage of nonsmooth analysis in terms of subdifferentials, coderivatives and geometrical notions. Unlike  some other books, I did not rule out some approaches because of personal preferences. I endeavoured to present the advantages and weaknesses of each of the theories, so that the reader can choose the concept that seems to be the most appropriate for the problem at hand. I think that if there were an approach with all the expected qualities, the field would be called smooth rather than nonsmooth. Still I consider that there is an undeniable unity among the existing approaches.
Also, I believe that it is useful to present the foundations of the field: differential calculus, convex analysis and methods relying on functional analysis and metric estimates. Each of these three topics forms a chapter of the book which can serve for a separate course.
These chapters also prepare for the introduction of important ideas such as fuzziness and penalization. The fact that the most general calculus rules in convex analysis are in terms of fuzziness or approximations clearly justifies the excruciating importance of this character of several subdifferentials.
Because these preliminaries form about a half of the book, in order to provide a book with a reasonable size, I had to sacrifice applications but the most direct ones. I also had to cut almost half of the references. That might be a disappointment to you just as it has been a painful task for me.
Please, do not hesitate to mention to me the omissions, deficiencies and mistakes you may detect. That will be much more useful to me (and the readers in case a second edition occurs) than compliments. I already observed some typos (for instance in the exponent in Krasnoselski’s inequality and in the numbering of the partial derivatives in the statement of the Euler-Lagrange condition). But possible omissions, lacks of credits are more important in my views. 
Lettre MODE
juillet 2013

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Table des matières

-- message du responsable du groupe MODE
0- Edito

-- Thèses et Postes
1- Proposition de thèse, Université Laval (Québec)
2- PhD position in Mathematical Optimization at CWI in Amsterdam

-- Conférences et évènements
3- SADCO summer school and workshop on optimal and model predictive control, U. Bayreuth
4- School on Geometric Functional Inequalities and Shape Optimization in Napoli
5- FGP'13 : last annoucement (Krakow, Poland)
6- Méthodes numériques et calcul effectif: conf. en hommage à J.-P. Dedieu
7- Int. Conf. on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (Angers/France)
8- Optimization 2014, University of Minho, Portugal

-- Autres
9- Nouveau livre : "Les équations différentielles pour les débutants"

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0- Edito
(source: J.-B. Caillau)

Chers collegues,

Le groupe MODE fete ses 22 annees d'existence au sein de la SMAI ; l'occasion de revoir les comites de liaison depuis la creation en 1991, l'occasion aussi de remercier pour leur action Frederic Bonnans, responsable du groupe de 2010 a 2013, et Jean-Noel Corvellec, responsable financier de 2003 a 2013.
http://smai.emath.fr/spip.php?article477&lang=fr
http://smai.emath.fr/spip.php?article347&lang=fr

La lettre (qui compte plus de 400 abonnés) animée par Thierry Champion, et le site du groupe (entierement refondu) géré par Terence Bayen, sont les deux fers de lance de la communication du groupe : merci à nos deux chargés de mission.
http://smai.emath.fr/spip.php?article343&lang=fr
http://smai.emath.fr/spip.php?article330&lang=fr

L'année 2013 a vu la première remise du prix PGMO (Programme Gaspard Monge pour l'Optimisation et la recherche operationnelle, fondé par la FMJH et EDF) qui récompense deux thèses en optimisation sous le patronnage du groupe MODE et de la ROADEF :
http://www.fondation-hadamard.fr/fr/prixthese

Les journées MODE auront lieu à l'INSA de Rennes du 26 au 28 mars 2014 ; le site est déjà en ligne, à vos agenda :
http://hjnet.math.cnrs.fr/MODE-Rennes.html

Souhaitons enfin la bienvenue aux nouveaux recrutés, enseignants-chercheurs et chercheurs dans les thématiques du groupe : une bonne dizaine de collègues cette année à Bordeaux, Dijon, Grenoble, Nancy, Paris, Rouen, Toulouse.

- Jean-Baptiste Caillau

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1- Proposition de thèse, Université Laval (Québec)
(source: K. Barty)

Dans le cadre d'un projet de recherche en partenariat avec Rio Tinto Alcan
(Saguenay, Québec), le département de génie civil et de génie des eaux de
l'université Laval recherche un(e) candidat(e) pour réaliser une thèse de
doctorat dans le domaine de la gestion des ressources en eau.
Le projet vise à quantifier les gains économiques associés à l'utilisation
de différentes informations hydrologiques dans la gestion de systèmes
hydroélectriques de grande taille. Le cas d?étude sera le système de production
de Rio Tinto Alcan situé dans la région du Saguenay au Québec.

Profil recherché :
. Msc (ou équivalent) en ingénierie ou recherche opérationnelle avec un
bon niveau en mathématique et en programmation
. Intérêt pour la recherche appliquée en partenariat avec l'industrie
. Disposition à travailler en équipe (à l'université et chez le partenaire
industriel RTA)
. Bonne connaissance de l'anglais

Date de démarrage : Immédiatement (ou au plus tard en janvier 2014)
Durée du contrat : 3 années

Contact : Les questions et le dossier de candidature (CV, lettre de
motivation) peuvent être envoyés au Professeur Amaury Tilmant
(amaury.tilmant@gci.ulaval.ca), au chercheur Pascal Côté
(pascal.cote@riotinto.com) ou à Kengy Barty (kengy.barty@edf.fr).

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2- PhD position in Mathematical Optimization at CWI in Amsterdam
(source: D. Aussel, J.F. Bonnans)

A PhD position is available in the area of mathematical optimization in Amsterdam
at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI).

The research project will focus on the design and analysis of efficient algorithms
for nonlinear optimization problems involving polynomial constraints. The goal is
to develop new methods and algorithms using algebraic techniques combined with
linear and semidefinite programming. Areas of application may include combinatorial
molecular and systems biology, and logistics.

The position is for three years. The latest possible date to start the position is
*October 1st, 2013*.

Application- Information and others, follow the links :
Job description at CWI:
http://www.cwi.nl/jobs/phd-student-in-research-project-mixed-integer-nonlinear-optimization-mino
MINO ITN:               http://www.mino-itn.unibo.it/

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3- SADCO summer school and workshop on optimal and model predictive control, U. Bayreuth
(source: J.-B. Caillau)

9-13 september 2013, Univ. Bayreuth

see the web-page of this conference :

http://num.math.uni-bayreuth.de/en/conferences/ompc_2013/index.php

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4- School on Geometric Functional Inequalities and Shape Optimization in Napoli
(source: M. Théra)

School on Geometric Functional Inequalities and Shape Optimization in Napoli, Italy,
in the period September 9-13, 2013. The school will take place at the Accademia
Pontaniana.

The speakers will be Dorin Bucur, Francesco Maggi, and Massimiliano Morini.

PhD students and young researchers are warmly welcomed to attend:
there is still available financial covering of accommodation for some
PhD students or young researchers.

Please, note that the deadlines for financial support and for
registering have been postponed to June 30th and July 31th.

For a more detailed program and some basic information, see
http://ercnapoli.altervista.org/

Please do not hesitate to contact us at erc.napoli@gmail.com if
further information is needed. We apologize for possible
cross-postings.

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5- FGP'13 : last annoucement (Krakow, Poland)
(source: J.-B. Hiriart-Urruty)

23-27 sept 2013

The conference is the 16th of the series of French-German meetings which started
in Oberwolfach in 1980. This time it is organized jointly with Poland, and takes
place in Poland's oldest university town, Kraków. The conference will consist of
invited plenary talks, parallel contributed sessions, mini-symposia, and a poster
session. Kraków, the ancient capital of Polish kings, is a historical town
situated in the South of Poland, not far from the picturesque Tatra Mountain.

registration online: from March 15th to July 15th
deadline for payment of early registration fee: June 30th July 31st
deadline for payment of late registration fee: July 31st August 31st

see website :  http://www.fgp13.agh.edu.pl/

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6- Méthodes numériques et calcul effectif: conf. en hommage à J.-P. Dedieu
(source: M. Théra)

CIRM, 28-31 octobre 2013

Voir les sites :

http://www.math.univ-toulouse.fr/la_conf_de_feu_dedieu/

http://www.cirm.univ-mrs.fr/index.html/spip.php?rubrique2&EX=info_rencontre&annee=2013&id_renc=1027&lang=fr

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7- Int. Conf. on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems (Angers/France)
(source: Icores)

http://www.icores.org/

March 6 - 8, 2014
Angers, Loire Valley, France

Co-organized by: ESEO
Sponsored by: INSTICC
INSTICC is Member of: WfMC
Technically Co-sponsored by: Apdio
Logistics Partner: SCITEVENTS

IMPORTANT DATES:
 Regular Paper Submission: September 26, 2013
 Authors Notification (regular papers): December 16, 2013
 Final Regular Paper Submission and Registration: December 30, 2013

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8- Optimization 2014, University of Minho, Portugal
(source: M. Théra)

Guimarães, Portugal, July 28-30, 2014

Optimization 2014 is the eighth edition of a series of Optimization
international conferences held every three or four years, in Portugal.
This meeting aims to bring together researchers and practitioners
from different areas and with distinct backgrounds, but with common
interests in optimization. This conference series has international
recognition as an important forum of discussion and exchange of
ideas, being organized under the auspices of APDIO (the Portuguese
Operations Research Society).

Additional information regarding registration, contributed talks,
deadlines, and accommodation will be available from the conference
web site:

        http://optimization2014.dps.uminho.pt

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9- Nouveau livre : "Les équations différentielles pour les débutants"
(source: J.-B. Hiriart-Urruty)

J.-B. Hiriart-Urruty, Les équations différentielles pour les débutants,
Editions H&K (juin 2013). Prix public : 19,90 euros.

Les équations différentielles sont des outils indispensables en physique,
chimie, biologie, économie et... en mathématiques.
Comme elles ne sont plus enseignées en lycée, ce livre reprend tout à zero.
Il procède par petits pas, qui permettent à tous les étudiants de comprendre
avant d'apprendre, en s'appuyant sur des exemples intégrés au fil du texte.

Lettre MODE
juin 2013

Table des matières

-- Thèses et Postes
1- Thèse en optimisation à l'ENSTA ParisTech
2- PhD and post-doctoral position available at Würzburg university
3- Postdoc in Big Data Optimization in Edinburgh (UK)
4- Postdoctoral Research Position in Optimization at Johns Hopkins University
5- Postdoctoral scholar in Applied Optimization Theory
6- Tenure track position in Applied Combinatorics and Optimization at CWI

-- Conférences et évènements
7- Annonces de séminaires
8- SIAM Imaging Science

-- Autres
9- Laureats du prix de these PGMO

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1- Thèse en optimisation à l'ENSTA ParisTech
(source: P. Carpentier, P. Maréchal)

Intitulé de la thèse :
Optimisation stochastique et grands systèmes

Laboratoire d'accueil :
Unité de Mathématiques Appliquées , ENSTA Paristech (http://uma.ensta-paristech.fr/)

Responsables scientifiques :
Pierre Carpentier (UMA, ENSTA ParisTech)
Michel de Lara (CERMICS, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech)
Jean-Philippe Chancelier (CERMICS, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech)

Contact
pierre.carpentier@ensta-paristech.fr

Financement
Financement assuré par le Programme Gaspard Monge pour l?Optimisation et
la recherche opérationnelle
(http://www.fondation-hadamard.fr/PGMO) sponsorisé par  Electricité de France.

Description
La thèse se situe dans la continuité de travaux portant sur l?utilisation des
méthodes de décomposition/coordination pour les problèmes de commande optimale
stochastique en temps discret. L?objectif est de décomposer "en espace" un problème
global comportant de nombreux variables dynamiques afin d?obtenir des sous-problèmes
de petite taille, et de calculer pour chaque sous-problème des stratégies de gestion
en feedback permettant de reconstituer l?optimum global. Les applications sont
nombreuses, en particulier dans le domaine de gestion de l'énergie et des
"smart grid".

Pour plus d'information :
http://cermics.enpc.fr/equipes/equipes/optimisation.html#Research

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2- PhD and post-doctoral position available at Würzburg university
(source: O. Serea)

at Würzburg university there are available

- a PhD position available in the area of hyperbolic partial
differential equations
- a postdoctoral position for numerics of hyperbolic conservation laws

for details and application procedure see here:

http://www.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~klingen/job_openings.html

Kindly pass this on to anyone who might be interested.

Christian Klingenberg

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3- Postdoc in Big Data Optimization in Edinburgh (UK)
(source: J. Malick)

Applications are invited for a 2-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow position
in Big Data Optimization in the School of Mathematics at the University of
Edinburgh, United Kingdom. The successful candidate will join the Edinburgh
Research Group in Optimization (http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/ERGO/) and will
be part of a team working on "Accelerated Coordinate Descent Methods for
Big Data Problems".

The fellow will work closely with Dr Peter Richtarik; visiting team members
include Prof Srebro (Chicago) and Prof Nesterov (Louvain-la-Neuve).

Position Start Date: September 1, 2013 (it might be possible to accommodate
a later starting date; up to January 1, 2014)

The ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic and creative individual with a
Ph.D. in Operations Research, Machine Learning, Applied Mathematics, Computer
Science, or a related field and will have strong track record. Individuals
with background in gradient methods for large-scale optimization and good
programming skills are particularly encouraged to apply.

More information and online application:

https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=013502

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4- Postdoctoral Research Position in Optimization at Johns Hopkins University
(source: M. Théra)

I am seeking a 2 year postdoc with interests in Optimization to join me in the
Applied Mathematics and Statistics Department (www.ams.jhu.edu) at Johns Hopkins
University.  The candidate will develop, analyze, and implement algorithms for
general large-scale Continuous Optimization as well as those arising in
Statistical/Machine Learning.  This work will be done in collaboration with
Jorge Nocedal from Northwestern University and Frank E. Curtis from Lehigh
University.

The successful candidate will have completed a Ph.D. in Optimization, Operations
Research, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, or a related field by August 1,
2013.  Additional desired attributes include:  (i) experience using numerical
optimization software and implementing optimization algorithms; (ii) excellent
communication skills; and (iii) previous research experience in Optimization for
Machine Learning and/or large-scale Nonlinear Optimization.

The review of applications starts immediately and the position will remain open
until a successful candidate has been found, but an offer is expected to be made
by July 1, 2013.  Applications will no longer be accepted after June 15, 2013.

Interested applicants should send the following to Daniel Robinson
(daniel.p.robinson@gmail.com):  (1) a CV that includes a list of publications;
(2) a cover letter describing their experience and research interests as they
relate to this position; and (3) the contact details (name, email, address) of
two people willing to supply letters of reference.

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5- Postdoctoral scholar in Applied Optimization Theory
(source: J.-F. Bonnans, J.-P. Penot)

Fixed-term contract, duration upto 5 years, 40h/week. Start date: as
soon as possible

Area: Variational analysis of generalised monotonicity arising in
biochemical networks

Role:
. Interdisciplinary collaboration to develop and apply optimization
theory and continuous optimization algorithms for the study of systems
of biochemical reactions.
. More specifically, the development of novel algorithms with proven
convergence properties, tailored to support deterministic
computational modeling of stationary dynamics on biochemical
hypergraphs · Example biochemical hypergraphs:
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0045635, doi:10.1038/nbt.2488.

Profile:
. A PhD in mathematics, applied mathematics, computational
engineering, mathematical engineering, or a related discipline.
. A comprehensive understanding of, and evidence of primary research
within, Variational Analysis and Generalised Monotonicity is
essential.
. Experience with formulation of asymmetric variational inequalities
as minimization problems, amenable to efficient solution, is desired.
. No knowledge of biology is expected, but a willingness to work as
part of an interdisciplinary team is essential.

Offer:
. A fully funded position with a very competitive salary.
. An opportunity to join the Systems Biochemistry Group within the
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine with an international and
interdisciplinary ethos.
. An opportunity to participate in an established international
collaboration led by
 Ronan M.T. Fleming, Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine
 Michael Patriksson, Chalmers University
 Michael Saunders, Stanford University

Informal enquiries can be made to:

Dr. Ronan M.T. Fleming,
Systems Biochemistry Group,
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine.
www.uni.lu/lcsb/research/systems_biochemistry[1]

The University is an equal opportunity employer.

Formal applications in English only via this link:
http://emea3.mrted.ly/63mg Applications should contain the following
documents:
. A detailed curriculum vitae
. Cover letter mentioning the reference number . List of
publications . Description of past research experience and how future
interests complement the proposed mission . Name and addresses of
three referees

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6- Tenure track position in Applied Combinatorics and Optimization at CWI
(source: D. Henrion)

A tenure track position has been recently opened at CWI in the area of Applied
Combinatorics and Optimization.

The position is for a researcher who has an excellent track record in discrete
mathematics and optimization, and has a real interest in carrying out applied
research in the area of logistics.
Details about the position are given in plain text below.

If you know of some young talented researcher who might be interested in this
open position,

Many thanks in advance.
Kind regards,
Monique Laurent
M.Laurent@cwi.nl

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) invites researchers to apply for a tenure
track position in Applied Combinatorics and Optimization within the Networks &
Optimization group.

We particularly invite qualified women to apply.

Job description
Discrete optimization and algorithmics play a central role at the interface of
mathematics and computer science, with a wide range of applications to other
scientific disciplines like physics and economics and to practice including
logistics, transportation, data clustering, and biological networks.

We are looking for a highly talented research scientist who is specialized in
discrete mathematics and optimization. You should not only be an excellent
mathematician, but also have a real interest in initiating, and contributing
to, applied research projects in the area of logistic processes, which is now
one of the five strategic themes at CWI and a top sector in Dutch science policy.
You should have the potential and ambition to become a world leader in the field.

You will become member of the Networks & Optimization group. The group is
well-renowned and has a strong international reputation, both on fundamental
mathematics and on applications of the results to practice. Examples of such
application areas in logistics are train timetabling, transportation systems
and navigation systems.  You are expected to acquire funding to build your
own research line and research group.

This vacancy is part of an incentive, in which twelve tenure track positions
in mathematics will become available at Dutch universities and research
institutes. This is made possible by the Ministry of Education, Culture and
Science via the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
For more information, please visit www.nwo.nl/math.

For more information, please contact:
Prof.dr. M. Laurent, monique.laurent@cwi.nl.

Requirements
We expect a strong track record of innovative research and publications in
leading international journals, and the ambition and potential to acquire
personal research grants in the Netherlands or from the EU, as well as
external funding for fundamental and applied research. Moreover, the
candidate should be an independently working researcher with at least two
years of postdoctoral experience and with excellent communication skills.

Terms and conditions
The position is for three or five years depending on knowledge and
experience. At the end of a successful tenure track term a permanent
scientific staff position will be offered. Criteria for evaluation comprise
a track record of publications that is well above average, and the ability
to acquire funding and to achieve an (inter)national network and reputation.

The terms of employment are in accordance with the Dutch Collective Labour
Agreement for Research Centres ("CAO-onderzoeksinstellingen").
Depending on relevant work experience, the gross monthly salary for an
employee on a full time basis ranges from ? 3,228 to ? 5,473. Employees are
also entitled to a holiday allowance of 8% of the gross annual salary and a
year-end bonus of 8,33%.  CWI offers attractive working conditions,
including flexible scheduling and help with housing for expat employees.

How to apply
Applicants with at least two years of postdoctoral experience, should send:
- a motivation letter;
- a curriculum vitae with a list of publications;
- a copy of their thesis and/or of their three most prominent publications;
- the names of at least three prominent scientists who can provide letters
of recommendation;
- a research statement and a research plan for the coming years, including
plans on how to acquire additional funding.

Please send your application before 1 July 2013 to:
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica
Personnel Department, ms. A. Schilder,
P.O. Box 94079
1090 GB Amsterdam
the Netherlands

or email your application to: apply@cwi.nl

For more information about CWI, please visit http://www.cwi.nl
or watch our video ?A Fundamental Difference? about working at CWI.
Information about the research group Networks & Optimization can be found at
http://www.cwi.nl/research-groups/Networks-and-Optimization

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7- Annonces de séminaires
(sources: P.L. Combettes, T. Tomala)

Une rubrique pour signaler succinctement les séminaires ayant
lieu ce mois-ci et organisés dans nos laboratoires.
N'hésitez pas à l'alimenter, préférentiellement via un lien vers
la page du séminaire et une liste de conférenciers,

**
Séminaire Parisien d'Optimisation (attention : Jussieu, salle 101, barre 15-16)

http://www.ljll.math.upmc.fr/~plc/spo.html

Lundi 10 juin
15h00 : L.M. Briceno-Arias
16h00 : N. Ghoussoub
**
**
Séminaire Parisien de Théorie des Jeux (IHP)

http://sites.google.com/site/theoriedesjeux/

Lundi 10 juin :
10h00 : E. Bajoori
11h15 : M. Wooder

Lundi 17 juin :
11h00 : D. Fudenberg
**

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8- SIAM Imaging Science
(source: M. Bergougnioux)

la prochaine conférence SIAM Imaging Science  aura lieu en mai 2014 à Hong-Kong.

Le site de la conférence vinent d'ouvrir

http://www.math.hkbu.edu.hk/SIAM-IS14/Submission.html
You can find the detailed information in
	Call for Minisymposia
	Call for Minitutorials
	Call for Presentations
	Call for Posters
at http://www.math.hkbu.edu.hk/SIAM-IS14/index.html

Je vous encourage vivement à proposer des communications et si possible des mini
symposia autour de thèmes particuliers.

Maitine Bergougnioux

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9- Laureats du prix de these PGMO
(source: J.-F- Bonnans)

Le jury du prix de thèse PGMO, présidé par Mme. Marie-Christine
Costa, a désigné les deux lauréats du prix de thèse PGMO 2013 d'un
montant de 1000 euros. Il seront remis officiellement le jeudi 3
octobre 2013 lors de la journée annuelle de bilan du PGMO à l'ENSTA.
Les lauréats auront la possibilité de faire un exposé de leurs
travaux (durée de 20 minutes environ à vérifier avec les
organisateurs). Ils sont donc:

Olivier Fercoq a fait sa thèse sous la direction de Stéphane Gaubert
et Marianne Akian (X, CMAP + INRIA) Le sujet était: "Optimisation de
vecteurs propres de Perron et applications: du référencement de pages
web à la chonothérapie." Cette thèse constitue une "contribution
majeure dans le domaine de l'optimisation de fonctions d'utilité sur
l'ensemble des matrices positives" (selon l'un des rapporteurs). Elle
présente à la fois un ensemble de résultats théoriques (propriétés,
analyse de complexité, ...) et des applications intéressantes.

Thibaut Vidal a fait sa thèse sous la direction de Michel Gendreau,
Theodor Crainic et Christian Prins, avec une co-tutelle entre les
universités de Montréal et Troyes (GERAD+LOSI). Le sujet était:
"General solution approaches for multi-attribute vehicle routing and
scheduling problems". Cette thèse peut être vue comme "un recueil des
résultats les plus intéressants et les plus marquants des dernières
décades dans le domaine des recherche de solutions heuristiques pour
les tournées de véhicules" (selon l'un des rapporteurs) et "un pas en
avant dans la quête d'une approche générale de résolution d'une large
palette de problèmes de tournées" (selon l'autre). Elle présente des
résultats génériques concernant les méta-heuristiques pour les
problèmes riches de tournées et pouvant être étendus à d'autres
problèmes, une analyse complète de ces problèmes et s'appuie sur de
lourdes réalisations informatiques.

Lettre MODE 
mai2013

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Table des matières 

-- Thèses et Postes
1- Thèse avec financement à Toulouse
2- Postdoctoral Research Position in Optimization at UW-Madison
3- Postdoc Position, Optimization, Univ of Edinburgh, UK 

-- Conférences et évènements 
4- Annonces de séminaires
5- Workshop "games, algorithms and optimization"
6- Nonlinear Analysis and Convex Analysis, Hirosaki, Japon
7- Workshop on Computational Optimization (WCO 2013), Krakow
8- Workshop on Shape Optimization, September 23-27, Erlangen

-- Autres 
9- Master Recherche RO (M2R RO) toulousain

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1- Thèse avec financement à Toulouse
(source: M. Mongeau)

Titre du sujet : Optimisation de structures aéronautiques : une nouvelle méthode
à fidélité adaptative
Responsables :
Christian Gogu  ( christian.gogu@univ-tlse3.fr )
Christian Bes ( christian.bes@univ-tlse3.fr ) 
 
Description du sujet : 

L’optimisation de structures est un des enjeux majeurs pour l’ensemble des industries
mécaniques à forte valeur ajoutée (aéronautique, spatial, automobile …) car elle permet
d’améliorer les performances et les fonctionnalités d’un produit dans un contexte de
compétition accrue. Un verrou scientifique majeur dans le développement de méthodes
d’optimisation des structures réside dans la gestion des temps de calcul afin de rendre
ces méthodes utilisables dans l’industrie. L’emploi de métamodèles a rendu possible
de nombreuses méthodes d’optimisation à coût réduit. Néanmoins il est important de
maitriser la qualité du métamodèle afin de contrôler la précision des analyses d’optimisation.
Ce constat a donné lieu à des méthodes séquentielles adaptatives qui utilisent la structure
d’incertitudes du krigeage (un type particulier de métamodèle) afin de raffiner la précision
des évaluations de l’optimisation en fonction des besoins du problème (méthodes types
EGO [1]). Ces méthodes séquentielles peuvent toutefois rester encore trop coûteuses en
temps de calculs. 

Une nouvelle méthode de construction de métamodèles a été récemment développée
dans l’équipe [2], permettant de construire le méta-modèle de manière adaptative en
utilisant un nombre notablement réduit de simulations. Le couplage de cette approche
avec l’optimisation séquentielle de type EGO dans une nouvelle méthode  d’optimisation
de structures à fidélité adaptative offre un potentiel de réduction des temps de calculs
de plusieurs ordres de grandeur. Le développement et l’implémentation de cette nouvelle
méthode feront l’objet de cette thèse. Une application à l’optimisation d’un caisson de
voilure sera implémentée afin de valider les développements méthodologiques. 

Ces travaux se dérouleront en double coopération : d’une part avec l’axe MS2M-ISS
(J.C. Passieux) de l’ICA pour l’aspect modélisation adaptative, d’autre part avec le Prof.
Raphael Haftka de l’Université de Floride, expert mondial en méthodes d’optimisation
de structures. Un séjour de l’étudiant à l’Université de Floride est envisageable.

[1] Xiong, Y., Chen, W., & Tsui, K. L. “A new variable-fidelity optimization framework based
on model fusion and objective-oriented sequential sampling”, Journal of Mechanical Design,
130(11), 111401, 2008
[2] Gogu C., Passieux, J.-C., “Efficient surrogate construction by combining response surface
methodology and reduced order modeling”, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization,
DOI 10.1007/s00158-012-0859-4, 2013

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2- Postdoctoral Research Position in Optimization at UW-Madison
(source: M. Théra)

We are seeking a postdoc with interests in Optimization to join our group in the
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
(www.discovery.wisc.edu). WID is the public half of an exciting public-private pair
of Institutes that will promote basic research and facilitate the translation of new
discoveries to practice.

The WID optimization theme aims to develop and apply optimization technology
to systems-level problems emerging in science and engineering applications in an
interdisciplinary, integrative, and collaborative fashion. Collaborations with
agricultural economics and energy systems researchers will be a focus. Our interests
encompass (but are not limited to): (i) Development of core optimization technology
and large scale computational methodology; (ii) Planning techniques for integrated
modeling that exploit understanding of the physical system; (iii) Application and
development of simulation and stochastic optimization techniques; (iv) Use of
optimization and statistical methods to understand and predict systems phenomena,
even when competition exists between entities; (v) Sparse optimization and image
reconstruction leveraging compressed sensing frameworks, optimization algorithms,
and powerful computational platforms.

Possible faculty members you may work with include:
Prof. C. DeMarco, (http://www.engr.wisc.edu/ece/faculty/demarco_christopher.html)
Prof. M. Ferris, (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ferris/)
Prof. B. Lesieutre, (http://www.engr.wisc.edu/ece/faculty/lesieutre_bernard.html)
Prof. J. Luedtke (http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~luedtkej/)
Prof. J. Linderoth (http://www.engr.wisc.edu/ie/faculty/linderoth_jeffrey.html)
Prof. B. Recht (http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~brecht)
Prof. T. Rutherford (http://www.aae.wisc.edu/faculty/tfrutherford)
Prof. S. Wright (http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~swright/)

The successful candidate will have completed a Ph.D. in Optimization, Operations
Research, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics or a related field. Experience in
working on interdisciplinary research projects is a plus, as is experience with numerical
optimization software. Review of applications starts immediately and the position will
remain open until successful candidates have been found.

To apply, interested applicants should send the following information to Herman Stampfli
(hstampfli@wisc.edu): (1) their CV including a list of publications, (2) contact details of
three reference writers, and (3) a one page description of their experience and research
interests related to this position.

For more information, please contact Herman Stampfli (hstampfli@wisc.edu). 

Michael C. Ferris, http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ferris

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3- Postdoc Position, Optimization, Univ of Edinburgh, UK 
(source: D. Aussel, M. Théra)

Postdoc Position, Optimization, Univ of Edinburgh, UK 

Applications are invited for a 2-year Postdoctoral Research Fellow 
position in Optimization in the School of Mathematics at the 
University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. The successful candidate will 
join the Edinburgh Research Group in Optimization 
(http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/ERGO/) and will be part of a team working 
on "Accelerated Coordinate Descent Methods for Big Data Problems". 

The fellow will work closely with Dr Peter Richtarik; visiting team 
members include Prof Srebro (Chicago) and Prof Nesterov 
(Louvain-la-Neuve). 

Position Start Date: September 1, 2013 (it might be possible to 
accommodate a later starting date; up to January 1, 2014) 

Application Deadline: May 24, 2013 @ 5pm GMT 

The ideal candidate will be an enthusiastic and creative individual 
with a Ph.D. in Operations Research, Machine Learning, Applied 
Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related field and will have strong 
track record. Individuals with background in gradient methods for 
large-scale optimization and good programming skills are particularly 
encouraged to apply. 

More information and online application: 
https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=013502 

For informal inquiries please contact Dr Peter Richtarik at 
peter.richtarik@ed.ac.uk 

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4- Annonces de séminaires 
(sources: P.L. Combettes, R. Laraki) 

Une rubrique pour signaler succinctement les séminaires ayant 
lieu ce mois-ci et organisés dans nos laboratoires. 
N'hésitez pas à l'alimenter, préférentiellement via un lien vers 
la page du séminaire et une liste de conférenciers, 

** 
Séminaire Parisien d'Optimisation (attention : Jussieu, salle 101, barre 15-16) 

http://www.ljll.math.upmc.fr/~plc/spo.html 

Lundi 13 mai
15h00 : M. Haddou
16h00 : Y. Privat
** 
** 
Séminaire Parisien de Théorie des Jeux (11h, IHP)

http://sites.google.com/site/theoriedesjeux/ 

Lundi 13 mai : A. Neyman
Lundi 27 mai : Y. Heller
** 

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5- Workshop "games, algorithms and optimization"
(source: R. Laraki)

Le vendredi 7 juin 2013 aura lieu à l'Université Paris 6 (Jussieu) un workshop
intitulé "games, algorithms and optimization", organisé dans le cadre du projet
ANR COCA. 

Voir le programme sur la page :

http://coca.lip6.fr/Main/FinalWorkshop 

Si vous êtes intéressé(e)s à participer à la journée, merci de nous envoyer un
message à l'adresse workshopgamesparis6@gmail.com en précisant vos nom,
prénom et organisme d'affiliation, car la capacité de la salle est limitée.

Une participation aux frais de déplacement pourra être envisagée pour un nombre
limité de doctorants n'habitant pas en région parisienne (envoyez une demande
par mail a l'adresse workshopgamesparis6@gmail.com  si vous souhaitez bénéficier
d'un tel financement).

Venez nombreux! Le comité d'organisation (B. Escoffier, D. Ferraioli, L. Gourves,
K.T. N'Guyen, J. Monnot, S. Moretti, F. Pascual, O. Spanjaard) Lieu: Universite Paris 6,
tour 25-26 - salle 105, 4 place Jussieu 75005 Paris

http://coca.lip6.fr/Main/FinalWorkshop 

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6- Nonlinear Analysis and Convex Analysis, Hirosaki, Japon
(source: M. Théra)

The eighth international conference on Nonlinear Analysis and Convex Analysis (NACA2013)
will take place at Hirosaki University, Hirosaki, Aomori, JAPAN on August 2 - August 6, 2013.

The purpose of this conference is to get together world-wide experts on nonlinear analysis
and convex analysis, to exchange scientific information on generic and applied areas of the
conference, and to discuss recent advances in theoretical and applicational aspects of such
topics.

see the webpage : http://mathweb.sc.niigata-u.ac.jp/NACA2013/

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7- Workshop on Computational Optimization (WCO 2013), Krakow
(source: D. Aussel)

Krakow, Poland, September 8 - 11, 2013 

organized in the framework of Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information 
FedCSIS - 2013 -http://www.fedcsis.org/ 

Important dates: 

12.05.2013 (May 12, 2013): Full paper submission 

17.06.2013 (June 17, 2013): Notification of acceptance 

08.07.2013 (July 8, 2013): Camera-ready version of the accepted paper and registration 

Submission and Publication 

* Authors should submit draft papers as PDF. 
* The total length of a paper should not exceed 8 pages (IEEE style).
IEEE style templates are available athttp://www.fedcsis.org/. 
* Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance
to the workshop. 
* Accepted and Presented papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings and
included in the IEEE Xplore database and indexed in the DBLP. 
* Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be published
as Special Issue(s) in Studies of Computational Intelligence of Springer. 

If you have any question do not hesitate to contact us atwco2013@fedcsis.org 

Workshop co-chairs: 

Stefka Fidanova, Bulgaria 
Antonio Mucherino, France 
Daniela Zaharie, Romania 

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8- Workshop on Shape Optimization, September 23-27, Erlangen
(source: A. Pratelli)

We are organizing a Workshop on "New Trends in Shape Optimization", to be held
in Erlangen on September 23-27, 2013: you can find all the relevant informations
at the webpabe 
www.math.fau.de/shapeopt. 

The workshop aims at putting together people which are mainly interested either
in the more "analytical", or in the more "numerical" point of view. In particular,
there will be 10 plenary conferences, and two parallel sessions with a number of
talks more specialized in one of the two main topics.
The plenary speakers are Buttazzo, Bucur, Delfour, Freitas, Henrot, Hintermüller,
Schulz, Sethian, Sokolowski, Van den Berg. 

There is a number of grants available for covering the hotel expenses of Ph.D. or
Postdocs students. Young stundents can also send a proposal for short talks. 

We hope that you are interested in this workshop, and we would be grateful if you
could spread the news among all your potentially interested students or colleagues. 

You can write us (also at the workshop email address, which is shapeopt@math.fau.de)
for any request of further information. Thank you very much for your interest, and
sorry for multiple posting. 

Aldo Pratelli, Günter Leugering 

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9- Master Recherche RO (M2R RO) toulousain
(source: M. Mongeau)

Le Master Recherche RO (M2R RO) toulousain a démarré en septembre
dernier, suite à une forte demande régionale des industriels pour des
ingénieurs compétents en Recherche Opérationnelle (RO). 

Le M2R RO est géré par l'ENAC et la majorité des cours proposés sont
mutualisés avec des cours de dernière année des écoles d'ingénieurs
toulousaines : ENAC, INSA, ISAE et ENSEEIHT. Formellement, cette
formation est un des parcours du M2R toulousain Informatique &
Télécommunications porté par l'Université Paul Sabatier.

Le M2R RO est adossé au groupe informel de recherche toulousain TORO
http://www.toro-toulouse.fr/ et bénéficie d'un partenariat privilégié
avec Montréal. En plus d'être un des principaux centres mondiaux de
recherche et de formation dans le domaine de la RO, Montréal est la 3e
capitale de l'aéronautique (siège de Bombardier, de l'OACI et de
l'AITA), en phase avec la couleur aéronautique du M2R RO toulousain.

De nombreux ingénieurs/chercheurs de l'industrie et des services (Airbus, 
Air France, Altran, Amadeus, Bouygues, Cap Gemini, EdF, Eurodecision, 
Google, IBM, Orange Labs, Renault, SNCF, Total) soutiennent le M2R RO 
toulousain -- lire leurs témoignages sous l'onglet « Débouchés » du site 
web du M2R RO : http://m2rit-ro.recherche.enac.fr/. 

Les inscriptions pour la rentrée 2013 sont ouvertes jusqu'au 12 juin 
(tous les détails sur ce même site web).

Marcel Mongeau
responsable du M2RIT-RO
http://m2rit-ro.recherche.enac.fr/ 

Lettre MODE 
mars 2013

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Table des matières 

Renouvellement comité de liaison MODE
0- Renouvellement du comité de liaison MODE - Appel à candidature

-- Thèses et Postes
1- PhD study at the Singapore University of Technology and Design
2- Post-doctoral positions in stochastic optimization at Princeton University
3- Post-doctoral position in optimization at University of Calgary
4- Post-doc position in optimization, U. Edinburgh
5- Poste MC 26/27 : Optimisation et analyse de sensibilité
6- Poste MC 0436 (26) à Dijon 
7- Poste PR 26 à Paris 1
8- Faculty positions at the Singapore University of Technology and Design

-- Conférences et évènements 
9- Annonces de séminaires
10- Optimization and Big Data (Workshop, Trek & Colloquium) 
11- Optimization: Theory, Applications, and Algorithms
12- Journées du GDR MOA
13- Recent Advances on Optimization, July 24-26, 2013, Toulouse, France
14- Nonconvex Programming: Local and Global approaches" at the EURO-INFORMS Conference
15- International workshop on advances in Regularization, Optimization, etc...
16- MOPTA Conference, Lehigh University, August 14-16, 2013
17- 16th French-German-Polish conference on Optimization, Krakow, Poland

-- Autres 
18- In Memoriam: Robert R. Phelps (1926-2013)
19- Appel à projets pour écoles de recherche CIMPA 2015

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0- Renouvellement du comité de liaison MODE - Appel à candidature
(source: budeau MODE)

Chers collègues,

Comme chaque année, le groupe SMAI-MODE va renouveler un tiers (5 membres
cette année) de son comité de liaison. Le résultat des élections sera proclamé lors
de la réunion du groupe prévue le mardi 28 mai lors de la conférence de la SMAI.

Voici la liste des sortants :
- Samir Adly
- Philippe Bich
- Frédéric Bonnans
- Marc-Olivier Czarnecki
- Michel de Lara

Seuls P. Bich et M. de Lara sont rééligibles. 
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Les membres sont invités à faire acte de candidature avec profession de foi de
5 à 10 lignes auprès de:

Frédéric.Bonnans@inria.fr, corvellec@univ-perp.fr
ou Aude.Rondepierre@math.univ-toulouse.fr

La date limite de candidature est le 25 mars prochain.

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1- PhD study at the Singapore University of Technology and Design
(source: J. Renault)

There exist excellent opportunities for bright and motivated students
who want to pursue PhD study at the newly established Singapore
University of Technology and Design (SUTD) within the Engineering
Systems and Design (ESD) Pillar.

SUTD has been established in collaboration with MIT with a mission to
advance knowledge and nurture technically grounded leaders and
innovators to serve societal needs. Professor Thomas Magnanti, former
Dean of Engineering at MIT (and former President of INFORMS), is the
Founding President of SUTD.

The faculty in ESD is growing rapidly with a steady-state target of
over 70 faculty members, making it one of the largest such
multidisciplinary programs in the world, blending the fields of
operations research, management science, applied probability and
statistics, applied mathematics, and decision sciences.

Based in one of the world’s biggest financial and technological hubs,
with an ever-growing academic community, and a culturally diverse and
vibrant population, the ESD PhD program at SUTD  aims to provide
students with a strong technical foundation that emphasizes
inter-disciplinary and collaborative research. The program is
mentoring-intensive with a unique flexible advising structure that
allows students to work with multiple faculty members and vice-versa.
Qualified PhD applicants are offered highly attractive financial
packages covering tuition, a monthly stipend and support for
conference and workshop travel.

Additional information about SUTD and the ESD Pillar may be found at
http://esd.sutd.edu.sg/

Specific information about the PhD program can be found at
http://esd.sutd.edu.sg/phd/

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2- Post-doctoral positions in stochastic optimization at Princeton University
(source: F. Bonnans)

We are looking to fill several post-doctoral or more senior research positions in the broad area of computational stochastic optimization (broadly defined) under the supervision of Professor Warren Powell in the Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering. 
Two positions will work in the area of energy systems focusing on the development of stochastic optimization models of problems arising in energy markets, control of energy generation and demand response, pricing, bidding and storage.  We have special interest in high performance computing, and we will be looking to parallelize algorithms to exploit this architecture.
A third position will work in the area of optimal learning in the context of materials science (see http://optimallearning.princeton.edu).  Some background in chemistry and laboratory science is useful but not required.
Applicants for all positions should have a strong background in probability and statistics/machine learning, demonstrated skills in writing journal quality papers, a high comfort level with computational research, and an ability to work as a member of a vibrant team in stochastic optimization (http://castlelab.princeton.edu) and energy systems (http://energysystems.princeton.edu).
A Ph.D. in operations research, computer science, applied math, electrical engineering or related field is required.  We are looking for people who can start the summer of 2013. Appointments are for one year with the possibility of renewal pending satisfactory performance and continued funding.
Applications will be considered from the date of this announcement until filled.  To apply, please visit our website at http://jobs.princeton.edu, create an online application, and submit a CV and cover letter with contact information for three references to Requisition Number 1300104.
Princeton University is an equal opportunity employer and complies with applicable EEO and affirmative action regulations.
Warren B. Powell
Professor, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering
http://www.castlelab.princeton.edu

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3- Post-doctoral position in optimization at University of Calgary
(source: M. Mongeau, M. Théra)

As a part of Collaborative Research Group on Optimization: Theory, Applications
and Algorithms

http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific/collaborative-research-groups/optimization-theory-algorithms-and-applications-2012-2015

partly funded by Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), applications
are invited for a post-doctoral position in optimization at University of Calgary,
Calgary AB Canada. The position is for 1-year, with possible extension to 2 years,
with a tentative starting date of September 1 2013.

A successful candidate should hold a PhD in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics,
Computer Science, Operations Research or related area.

Of primary interest are applicants interested in the following topics:
- computational methods for solving conic optimization problems over p-cones, and/or
- applications of optimization to optimal radiotherapy treatment planning, and/or
- curvature of the central path.
Alternative PDF research proposals will also be considered.

Applicants are required to submit a CV, a statement of research interests, and provide
two letters of reference. Application materials must be submitted by e-mail to Dr. Yuriy
Zinchenko (http://people.ucalgary.ca/~yzinchen/) at yzinchen@ucalgary.ca
with the subject line “CRG PDF application”.

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4- Post-doc position in optimization, U. Edinburgh
(source: P. Armand, J.-C. Gilbert)

I look for a talented young researcher who would like to work on very large scale optimization,
in particular, might take the matrix-free interior point method

http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~gondzio/reports/mtxFree.html

a step further. I would be grateful if you could pass this advert to any person who might be
interested in a one-year post-doc position:

https://www.vacancies.ed.ac.uk/pls/corehrrecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.jobspec?p_id=009782

Regards, Jacek Gondzio 

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5- Poste MC 26/27 : Optimisation et analyse de sensibilité
(source: D. Aussel, F. Bonnans)

Etablissement: LJK
Descriptif: Il existe une forte demande d’outils mathématiques et algorithmiques nouveaux
de l’optimisation en grande dimension appliquée dans les domaines de l’apprentissage
statistique et du traitement de données nonhomogènes. Les jeux de données à traiter, mais
aussi les modèles qui les régissent contiennent par ailleurs des incertitudes dont il s’agit
d’estimer et de maitriser l’impact.
L’optimisation dans le contexte de données massives, l’analyse d’incertitudes et l’optimisation
robuste pour minimiser leur influence, sont des problématiques qui apparaissent dans plusieurs
domaines applicatifs dans lesquel le LJK est beaucoup investi et a obtenu une reconnaissance
internationale : traitement et indexation d’images, climatologie et sciences de l’environnement,
développement durable, génomique, analyse de données multi-media, de données bancaires
et financières.
Le LJK souhaite recruter un maître de conférence, qui cherche à développer des aspects
méthodologiques ou applicatifs de ces thématiques, transverses à plusieurs équipes et
départements du laboratoire. La priorité sera donnée aux candidats possédant un excellent
dossier de recherche, souhaitant mener leur recherche dans un environnement multidisciplinaire,
notamment au travers des activités du labex Persyval-lab ou de la maison de la modélisation
Maimosine.

Contacts : Anatoli Iouditski Anatoli.Iouditski@imag.fr
Zaid Harchaoui Zaid.Harchaoui@inria.fr

Une description plus détaillée :

http://lear.inrialpes.fr/job/2013/mdc_2627_997.html

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6- Poste MC 0436 (26) à Dijon 
(source: D. Aussel)

Profil : controle, optimisation, transport 

L'Universite de Bourgogne souhaite recruter pour septembre 2013 un maitre 
de conferences en mathematiques appliquees. La personne recrutee sera 
affectee au Departement de mathematiques et rattachee a l'Institut de 
mathematiques (UMR CNRS 5584). Les competences du laboratoire recouvrent 
des domaines varies tels que la geometrie et les systemes dynamiques, la 
physique mathematique, le controle et l'optimisation, les probabilites et 
les statistiques. Les axes de recherche prioritaires pour ce poste sont : 
- le controle optimal, 
- l'optimisation, 
- le transport optimal. 

Institut de mathematiques de Bourgogne : http://math.u-bourgogne.fr 
(contact : Luis Paris, mailto:luis.paris@u-bourgogne.fr) 

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7- Poste PR 26 à Paris 1
(source: P. Gourdel)

Profil : Mathématiques de la décision : Assurance, Finance, Actuariat

Enseignement : Le besoin en enseignement résulte du départ en retraite du
responsable du master Pro IRFA (Ingénierie du Risque en Finance et Assurance)
en septembre 2013. Ce master est l’unique spécialité professionnelle de notre
master et joue un rôle central dans notre offre de formation. Elle accueille la
majorité des étudiants de M1 qui poursuivent en M2 dans notre UFR.
Le candidat recruté devra prendre des responsabilités au sein de ce master M2.

Recherche : le candidat rejoindra le Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne, équipe
Economie Mathématique et Jeux en renforçant le potentiel d’encadrement
doctoral et en animant la recherche sur la thématique de la théorie de la
décision qui s’inscrit à l’interface de l’économie mathématique, de la finance
et de l’assurance.

Contact : Pascal Gourdel : 01 44 07 89 40
e-mail : gourdel@univ-paris1.fr

https://www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/ListesPostesPublies/ANTEE/2013_1/0751717J/FOPC_0751717J_4133.pdf

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8- Faculty positions at the Singapore University of Technology and Design
(source: J. Renault)

The Engineering and System Design (ESD) Pillar of Singapore University
of Technology and Design (SUTD) has several openings at all levels in
different fields.

http://faculty.sutd.edu.sg/~marco_scarsini/?page_id=209

SUTD is a public university recently established in collaboration with
MIT. The faculty in ESD is growing rapidly with a steady-state target
of over 70 faculty members, making it one of the largest such
multidisciplinary programs in the world, blending the fields of
operations research, management science, applied probability and
statistics, applied mathematics, and decision sciences.

Additional information about SUTD and the ESD Pillar may be found at
http://esd.sutd.edu.sg/

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9- Annonces de séminaires 
(sources: P.L. Combettes, J.B. Hiriart-Urruty, R. Laraki, N. Igbida, G. Mercier) 

Une rubrique pour signaler succinctement les séminaires ayant 
lieu ce mois-ci et organisés dans nos laboratoires. 
N'hésitez pas à l'alimenter, préférentiellement via un lien vers 
la page du séminaire et une liste de conférenciers, 

** 
Séminaire Parisien d'Optimisation (attention : Jussieu, salle 101, barre 15-16) 

http://www.ljll.math.upmc.fr/~plc/spo.html 

Lundi 18 mars
15h00 : M. Schweighofer (U. Konstanz, Allemagne) 
16h00 : A. Lemenant (U. Pisa, Italie) 
** 
** 
Séminaire Parisien de THéorie des Jeux 

http://sites.google.com/site/theoriedesjeux/ 

Lundi 18 mars : B. Sandholm (Wisconsin) 
Lundi 25 février : M. Nunez (Cergy) 
** 
** 
Séminaire de l'équipe MOD à Limoges (salle 203, batiment XLIM) 

http://www.unilim.fr/pages_perso/noureddine.igbida/mod.html 

Vendredi 8 mars : C. Jean-Alexis (U. Antilles-Guyane)
Vendredi 15 mars : B. Maury (U. Paris Sud)
Vendredi 22 mars : P. Weiss (Institut de Math. Toulouse)
** 
** 
Séance du Groupe de Travail Calcul des Variations (U. Orsay, bat. 425, salle 121-123) 

lundi 18 février 
14h : S. Masnou (U. Lyon I) 
15h15 : G. Croce (LMAH, Le Havre) 
** 

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10- Optimization and Big Data (Workshop, Trek & Colloquium) 
(source: D. Aussel)

Edinburgh, Scotland, May 1-3, 2013 

Website + Registration: 
http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~prichtar/Optimization_and_Big_Data 

No registration fee thanks to EPSRC funding (Mathematics for Vast 
Digital Resources + The Centre for Numerical Algorithms and 
Intelligent Software) 

May 1-2: Workshop (Fourteen 40-minute talks, 7 on each day) 

Confirmed speakers: 
Olivier Fercoq      (Edinburgh) 
Jacek Gondzio       (Edinburgh) 
Zaid Harchaoui      (INRIA) 
Desmond Higham      (Strathclyde) 
Martin Jaggi        (Ecole Polytechnique) 
Anatoli Juditsky    (Joseph Fourier) 
Imre Polik          (SAS) 
Shai Shalev-Shwartz (Jerusalem) 
Martin Takac        (Edinburgh) 
Steve Wright        (Wisconsin-Madison) 

Poster Session (best poster wins an iPad mini - sponsored by SAS) 

May 3: Morning: Trek to Arthur's Seat (a 350m years old extinct 
volcano in the city centre), Afternoon: Colloquium Talk by Steve 
Wright, Best Poster Award Ceremony, Networking Reception 

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11- Optimization: Theory, Applications, and Algorithms
(source: M. Théra)

Sponsored by Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), www.pims.math.ca,
and one of the 2013 Thematic Activities of PIMS Collaborative Research Group
"Optimization: Theory, Applications, and Algorithms", the 2013 Summer School on
Optimization will be taking place at University of Calgary from June 14 till June 28.

The school will consist of three individual lecture blocks, compressed into an
equivalent of a one semester graduate level course. Block lectures will be led by
the corresponding mentors --distinguished optimizers external to U of Calgary--
with each block followed by a mid-term type evaluation. We are happy to announce
that Drs. Miguel Anjos (CRC, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal), Heinz Bauschke
(CRC, UBCO), Antoine Deza (CRC, McMaster),Warren Hare (UBCO), Yves Lucet (UBCO),
and Shawn Wang (UBCO) will be mentoring the summer school. Tentatively classes
will run daily 9am-12 noon, followed by students group work and free time.
For more detials of the course content please consult the attached PDF description.

It is the intent to offer the sumer school as a graduate course registered with U of
Calgary (approval pending). Therefore, participants from Western Deans' Agreement
affiliated sites, wcdgs.ca, will be eligible for a graduate course credit via the
agreement. Students from other universities wishing to obtain an equivalent credit
will have to work with their graduate school or equivalent on individual basis.

The summer school will provide partial to full financial support to selected students.
To apply for participation, submit a resume and a support level from the supervisor
by e-mail to yzinchen@ucalgary.ca with exact subject line:

Application 2013 Summer School 

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12- Journées du GDR MOA
(source: D. Aussel)

Chers membres du GdR, ne tardez pas à vous inscrire (inscription gratuite mais
obligatoire sur http://gdrmoa.math.cnrs.fr/activites/journees-annuelles-gdr-moa-2013/) 
pour les 
     Journées 2013 du GdR MOA
     Du 17 au 19 juin 2013
     Institut Henri Poincaré (IHP) Paris

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13- Recent Advances on Optimization, July 24-26, 2013, Toulouse, France
(source: A. Rondepierre)

An international conference on optimization will be organized under the umbrella
of a research programme supported by the RTRA STAE foundation in Toulouse from
the 24th to 26th of July 2013.
The conference will address topics in unconstrained and constrained optimization,
with and without derivatives. It will be also the occasion to celebrate the many
contributions made by Philippe L. Toint  to the field. A half-day session related to
the RTRA data assimilation project "ADTAO" will be part of this conference.

Contributed talks and posters related to the topics of the conference are welcome,
and will be added to the programme as far as schedule constraints permit.

Deadlines:

01.01.2013: Online registration open
15.03.2013: Due date for contributed presentations
30.03.2013: Due date for poster presentations
15.04.2013: Notification of acceptance
15.05.2013: Registration deadline

Registration:

Thanks to our sponsors, no registration fees are required. However registration
is mandatory.
Registration information (name, firstname, affiliation) should be sent directly to
Brigitte Yzel (yzel@cerfacs.fr).

Information on how to submit your contribution can be found on the webpage
of the conference:

http://www.fondation-stae.net/fr/optimization-july2013.html

Looking forward to welcoming you in Toulouse,
On behalf of the scientific and local organization committees,
Coralia Cartis, Nick Gould, Serge Gratton and Xavier Vasseur.

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14- Nonconvex Programming: Local and Global approaches" at the EURO-INFORMS Conference 
(source: P. D. Tao)

XXVI EURO-INFORMS Joint International Conference, July 1-4, 2013, Rome.

The XXVI EURO-INFORMS Joint International Conference "All roads lead to OR" will be held in
Rome on July 1 – 4, 2013. Please visit http://euro2013.org/ for all currently available key details.

We would like to invite you and your interested colleagues to contribute to the "Nonconvex
Programming: Local and Global approaches" stream organized by Le Thi Hoai An and Pham
Dinh Tao, in the "Continuous optimization" area.

All works on "Nonconvex Programming: Local and Global Approaches - Theory, Algorithms
and Applications"are welcome.

Our stream is partitioned into four sessions:

1) Recent developments from Nonconvex Programming (the session's code is b6d5d0b3)

Recent developments from different Nonconvex Optimization fields: Nonconvex Programming,
Global Optimization, Multicriteria Optimization, Mixed Integer Programming, Large-scale
Nonlinear Programming, Complementarity and Variational Inequality Problems, Mathematical
Programs with Equilibrium Constraints

2) Recent advances in DC (Difference of Convex functions) programming and DCA
(DC Algorithms): theory, algorithms and applications (the session's code is cf8a3aec)

3) Nonconvex Programming approaches for Machine Learning and Data Mining
(the session's code is 454bec3f)

In traditional areas such as Classification, Regression, Clustering, Probabilistic Modeling, and
Association Analysis, and in new paradigms such as stream data, uncertain data, massive
data, feature selction.

4) Novel opportunities of Nonconvex Programming for Industry and Finance
(the session's code is d7c5a43b)

Models and Optimization Methodes for various applications such as Communication
Network, Transport, Supply Chain Management, Auto Manufacturing, Aerospace Engineering,
Air Traffic Management, Genomics, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Biology, Financial
Optimization, Mechanical and Structural Engineering, Optimal Control, Robotics, Pattern
Recognition, Computer Vision, Image Processing, ...

Your are invited to submit an Abstract to a session in our stream at

http://www.euro-online.org/conf/display.php?page=welcome

section "Abstract in an invited session" by using the option 'submit invited abstract' and
introducing the code of session.

The extended deadline of submission is March 15th.
Please feel free also to circulate this announcement.
Le Thi Hoai An hoai-an.le-thi@univ-lorraine.fr, http://lita.sciences.univ-metz.fr/~leth and Pham Dinh Tao pham@insa-rouen.fr

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15- International workshop on advances in Regularization, Optimization, etc...
(source: M. Théra)

July 8-10, 2013, Leuven, Belgium

http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/sista/ROKS2013

Scope One area of high impact both in theory and applications is kernel methods
and support vector machines. Optimization problems, learning and representations
of models are key ingredients in these methods. On the other hand considerable
progress has also been made on regularization of parametric models, including
methods for compressed sensing and sparsity, where convex optimization plays
a prominent role. The aim of ROKS-2013 is to provide a multi-disciplinary forum
where researchers of different communities can meet, to find new synergies along
these areas, both at the level of theory and applications. 

Call for abstracts : The ROKS-2013 program will feature invited plenary talks, oral
sessions and poster sessions. Interested participants are cordially invited to submit
an extended abstract (max. 2 pages) for their contribution. After the workshop a
number of selected contributions will be invited for an edited book.

For further information see http://www.esat.kuleuven.be/sista/ROKS2013 .

Important dates :
- Deadline extended abstract submission: March 4, 2013
- Notification of acceptance: April 8, 2013
- Deadline for registration: June 3, 2013
- International Workshop ROKS-2013: July 8-10, 2013 

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16- MOPTA Conference, Lehigh University, August 14-16, 2013
(source: M. Théra)

The thirteenth annual Modeling and OPtimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA)
Conference will be held at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA, on August 14-16
(Wednesday to Friday), 2013.

This is an invitation for session organizers, contributed talks, and posters. 
If interested, then please contact: Frank E. Curtis <frank.e.curtis@lehigh.edu>

Current conference and program information is available at:

http://coral.ie.lehigh.edu/~mopta

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17- 16th French-German-Polish conference on Optimization, Krakow, Poland
(source: J.-B. Hiriart-Urruty)

Voici depuis peu le site web du prochain colloque FGP'13

http://www.fgp13.agh.edu.pl/

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18- In Memoriam: Robert R. Phelps (1926-2013)
(source: M. Théra)

By Jon Borwein, on February 17th, 2013
Robert Ralph Phelps born March 22, 1926 died on January 4, 2013 aged 86, and we invite you to read the following :
http://experimentalmath.info/blog/2013/02/in-memoriam-robert-r-phelps/

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19- Appel à projets pour écoles de recherche CIMPA 2015
(source: M. Théra)

Le CIMPA lance son appel à projets annuel pour des écoles de recherche en 2015. Nous vous prions de bien vouloir publier et diffuser le plus largement possible l'annonce ci-jointe.
D'avance merci pour votre collaboration.
Bien cordialement,
Claude Cibils
Directeur du CIMPA

CIMPA
4 avenue Joachim
Bât. A
06100 Nice
FRANCE
Tel : (33) 4 92 07 79 30 Fax : (33) 4 92 07 05 02
email : cimpa@unice.fr
http://www.cimpa-icpam.org

Lettre MODE
octobre 2013

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Table des matières

-- Thèses et Postes
1- Recherche d'un encadrement de thèse pour un doctorant irakien boursier
2- Post-Doctoral Scholarships, State University of Campinas
3- Post-doctoral position in optimization at University of Calgary
4- Poste de Chef de Projet Optimisation Dynamique Stochastique

-- Conférences et évènements
5- Annonces de séminaires
6- Two days on Hyperbolic PDEs, Geometric Measure Theory and Optimal Transport
7- Séminaire sur le problème de guidage pour le rendez-vous orbital
8- -> 7ème Semaine d’Études Maths et Entreprises (SEME)
9- Workshop on Greedy Algorithms, Frank-Wolfe and Friends
10- NetCO 2014 - Conference on "New Trends in Optimal Control"

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1- Recherche d'un encadrement de thèse pour un doctorant irakien boursier
(sources: J.M. Bonnisseau)

"En tant que vice-président de mon université pour les relations internationales,
je suis en contact avec l'ambassade d'Irak en France. L'attaché culturel vient
de m'envoyer le dossier (en document attaché) de M. Hyder Y. Kawi qui a une bourse
de trois ans pour faire une thèse en France et a un projet de thèse en optimisation.
Il recherche un directeur de thèse et une université où il pourrait s'inscrire.
Il est actuellement à Caen en apprentissage du français. Si vous êtes intéressé,
prenez contact directement avec lui.

Cordialement
Jean-Marc Bonnisseau
Jean-Marc.Bonnisseau@UNIV-PARIS1.FR"

Note (T. Champion) : afin de ne pas surcharger votre courriel, le document en attaché
correspondant à ce message de J.M. Bonnisseau n'est pas attaché à cette lettre, prière
de contacter directement ce dernier.

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2- Post-Doctoral Scholarships, State University of Campinas
(sources: M. Théra)

The Institute of Mathematics, Statistics, and Scientific Computation at the State
University of Campinas, seeks candidates for post-doctoral positions through the
National Programme for Post- Doctoral Scholarships (CAPES). Two scholarships are
allocated to Mathematics, two to Applied Mathematics, and one to Statistics.

We look for candidates with strong and proven research record and potential. Possible
interaction with the research groups of the Institute may be an advantage.
The scholarship consists of a monthly payment of 4100 brazilian reals per month
(tax-free money), plus some travel grant. The positions are initially for one year
and may be renewed depending on progress.

The scholars are expected to teach some undergraduate or graduate classes (at most
one course per semester), depending on the necessity of the corresponding Department.
The candidates are expected to send via e-mail, the following documents:

Curriculum Vitae with a list of publications.
Research project and statement.
Names, addresses, and e-mails of two to three professors who could send us reference
letters if asked.

These materials should be sent to:
1. Professor Laecio Carvalho de Barros, laeciocb@ime.unicamp.br (Applied Mathematics)
2. Professor Aluisio Pinheiro, pinheiro@ime.unicamp.br (Statistics)
3. Professor Plamen Koshlukov, plamen@ime.unicamp.br (Mathematics)

Closing date: October 18, 2013.

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3- Post-doctoral position in optimization at University of Calgary
(sources: M. Théra)

As a part of Collaborative Research Group on Optimization: Theory, Applications and
Algorithms (http://www.pims.math.ca/scientific/collaborative-research-groups/optimization
-theory-algorithms-and-applications-2012-2015), partly funded by Pacific Institute for
the Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), applications are invited for a post-doctoral position
in optimization at University of Calgary, Calgary AB Canada. The position is for 1-year,
with possible extension to 2 years, tentatively starting in Fall of 2013. The position
will be open until filled.

A successful candidate should hold a PhD in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Computer
Science, Operations Research or related area.

Of primary interest are applicants interested in the following topics:
- computational methods for solving conic optimization problems over p-cones,
and/or
- applications of optimization to optimal radiotherapy treatment planning,
and/or
- curvature of the central path.
Alternative PDF research proposals will also be considered.

Applicants are required to submit a CV, a statement of research interests, and provide
two letters of reference.
Application materials must be submitted by e-mail to Dr. Yuriy Zinchenko
(http://people.ucalgary.ca/~yzinchen/)
at yzinchen@ucalgary.ca with the subject line “CRG PDF application”.

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4- Poste de Chef de Projet Optimisation Dynamique Stochastique
(sources: D. Aussel)

Travaillant au sein d’un cabinet conseil en recrutement, nous avons actuellement
un poste de Chef de Projet Optimisation Dynamique Stochastique à pourvoir pour
l’un de nos clients, START UP dédiée à « l’énergie intelligente» et filiale d’un
producteur d’électricité :

Vous développerez des modèles de système de contrôle des actifs énergétiques en
temps réel visant à équilibrer l’offre et la demande en optimisant les futurs
possibles.
Recherche opérationnelle, mathématiques appliquées, optimisation dynamique, DAPP…
sont les mots clefs qui vous caractérisent.

Merci d’adresser votre candidature par mail, sous référence CPDP/RO,
à Caroline Devisch cyriaselection@wanadoo.fr

Sylvie Bridier

CYRIASELECTION
6 avenue Franklin Roosevelt
75008 Paris
Tel : 01 43 97 20 56 – 06 15 92 41 84

Mail : sbcyriaselection@orange.fr

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5- Annonces de séminaires
(sources: P.L. Combettes, G. Mercier, R. Laraki)

Une rubrique pour signaler succinctement les séminaires ayant
lieu ce mois-ci et organisés dans nos laboratoires.
N'hésitez pas à l'alimenter, préférentiellement via un lien vers
la page du séminaire et une liste de conférenciers,

**
Séminaire Parisien d'Optimisation (IHP, salle 421)

http://www.ljll.math.upmc.fr/~plc/spo.html

Lundi 21 octobre
15h00 : L. Brasco (Aix-Marseille Université)
16h00 : F. Meunier (Ponts et Chaussées)
**
**
CT CalVa -- Calcul des Variations (Ecole Polytechnique, salle de séminaire du CPHT)

https://www.ljll.math.upmc.fr/fr/seminaires/gt_calcul_des_variations.html

Lundi 14 octobre :
10h00 : M. Fradelizi
11h00 : M. Goldman

**
**
Séminaire parisien de Théorie des Jeux (11h, IHP)

https://sites.google.com/site/theoriedesjeux/

Lundi 7 octobre : S. Zamir (Hebrew U.)
Lundi 28 octobre : C. Wang (Oxford)

**

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6- Two days on Hyperbolic PDEs, Geometric Measure Theory and Optimal Transport
(sources: F. Ancona)

SISSA-ISAS, Trieste - Italy
October 28 -29, 2013

The aim of the meeting is to present some important recent results obtained by
promising young researchers in the field of Hyperbolic PDEs, Geometric Measure
Theory and Optimal Transport.

The meeting represents the closing event of the activities of the ERC project
ConsLaw (http://people.sissa.it/~bianchin/ResearchProjects/EU2009/ERC_ConsLaw.html)

The list of the speakers and further information can be found
on the webpage of the website:

http://people.sissa.it/~bianchin/Meetings/TS2013/

Giovanni Alberti (University of Pisa), Fabio Ancona (University of Padova), Stefano
Bianchini (SISSA, Trieste), Gianluca Crippa (University of Basel), Camillo De Lellis
(University of Zuerich), Andrea Marson (University of Padova), Corrado Mascia
("Sapienza" University of Roma)

Participants are recommended to register sending an email to:

bianchin@sissa.it

with name, family name and affiliation, within Thursday October 24th.

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7- Séminaire sur le problème de guidage pour le rendez-vous orbital
(sources: A. Rondepierre)

Dates: 30 et 31 octobre 2013
Lieu: LAAS-CNRS à Toulouse, salle Europe.

Ce séminaire aborde les problématiques du guidage en rendez-vous orbital en
prenant en compte des contraintes opérationnelles. Aussi, si les aspects
fondamentaux de la résolution du problème de commande optimale seront abordés
de différents points de vue, les orateurs s'attacheront également à proposer
des solutions pratiques à un panel de problèmes technologiques du rendez-vous.

La liste des orateurs et des exposés ainsi que les informations pratiques sont
disponibles sur le site :
http://homepages.laas.fr/clouembe/rdv_workshop.html

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8- -> 7ème Semaine d’Études Maths et Entreprises (SEME)
(sources: P. Armand)

4 - 8 novembre 2013
Université de Limoges - XLIM

Les SEME s'adressent aux doctorants et post-doctorants en Mathématiques et
Mathématiques appliquées.

Elles peuvent aussi accueillir de jeunes chercheurs d'autres disciplines, en
fonction des sujets.

Après les présentations de problématiques nécessitant une approche innovante
par les industriels le premier jour, les participants travaillent par petits
groupes durant le reste de la semaine sur les problèmes posés. Chaque groupe se
consacre à un problème. Toutes les contributions sont les bienvenues et il n'est
pas nécessaire d'être expert d'un sujet pour participer.

Le dernier jour, les groupes de travail présentent oralement leurs avancées aux
industriels, puis rendent un rapport écrit dans le mois qui suit.
Le rapport est diffusé sur les archives ouvertes du CNRS (HAL).

Pour cette 7ème SEME, les industriels ayant proposé des sujets sont:

* ERDF http://www.erdfdistribution.fr
* LEGRAND http://www.legrand.fr
* MISSLER http://www.topsolid.fr
* THALES http://www.thalesgroup.com

Pour les participants, les bénéfices sont multiples:

** Les SEME sont validées comme modules de formation par certaines écoles
doctorales.
A titre d'exemple, l'école doctorale S2IM (Limoges-Poitiers-La Rochelle)
attribue 6 crédits à ses doctorants pour leur participation à une SEME.

** Se confronter à une problématique industrielle concrète et mettre en oeuvres
ses connaissances et compétences, en toute liberté scientifique.

** S'enrichir scientifiquement, professionnellement et humainement, au contact
d'autres jeunes chercheurs d'origine et de spécialités variées.

Les frais de déplacement et d'hébergement peuvent être pris en charge par les
organisateurs, dans la limite des crédits disponibles.

==
Date limite pour l'inscription: 18 octobre 2013.

Informations, sujets et candidatures: http://seme2013.xlim.fr/

Contact: contact-seme2013@xlim.fr
==

Les SEME sont une initiative du GDR CNRS Mathématiques et Entreprises.

La 7ème SEME est organisée conjointement par:

* Le Département Mathématiques-Informatique du laboratoire XLIM de L'Université
de Limoges (UMR CNRS 7252) http://www.xlim.fr/dmi

* l'Agence pour les Mathématiques en Interaction avec l'Entreprise et la
Société (AMIES) http://www.agence-maths-entreprises.fr

* Le GDR Mathématiques et Entreprises: http://www.maths-entreprises.fr

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9- Workshop on Greedy Algorithms, Frank-Wolfe and Friends
(sources: M. Théra)

Voir le site :

http://sites.google.com/site/nips13greedyfrankwolfe/

at NIPS 2013, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, United States,
9th or 10th December, 2013

Submission Deadline: October 16th 2013

The main topics are, including, but not limited to: Convex Optimization.
Sparse Methods in Signal Processing, Statistics and Machine Learning,
Linear algebra and Matrix analysis, Harmonic Analysis, Applications.
Special focus will be given to papers tackling "big data" problems.

Organizers :
Zaid Harchaoui, INRIA Grenoble (France)
Martin Jaggi, Simons Institute, Berkeley (USA)
Federico Pierucci, LJK lab, Grenoble (France)

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10- NetCO 2014 - Conference on "New Trends in Optimal Control"
(sources: H. Zidani, M. Théra)

23-27 June 2014, Tours, France
http://netco2014.sciencesconf.org

Dear colleagues,
the organizers of the NetCo conference have the pleasure to invite you to take part in this
conference to be held in Tours (France) on 23-27 June, 2014.

The aim of this event is to gather researchers from the optimization and optimal control
community. Researchers will have the opportunity to interact and discuss the latest trends
and results in these fields as well as to review advances and challenges in industry,
with a view to presenting the state of the art and developing new research collaborations.

The list of the plenary speakers and further information can be found on the webpage of
the conference: http://netco2014.sciencesconf.org

Deadline for pre-registration: January 15, 2014
Grant applications. Please note that a limited number of young researchers (PhD students,
postdocs) will be offered a grant. To apply for a grant, see
http://netco2014.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/12

Enclosed to this email, you will find a poster of the conference. Please feel free to forward
the announcement to your group and to put the poster up on the notice board of your lab.

We hope to see you at the NetCo Conference in Tours !

Best regards,
Hasnaa Zidani (and on behalf of the organizing committee)

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Lettre MODE  septembre 2013   -------------------------------------------------------------  Table des matières   -- Thèses et Postes  1- Proposition de thèse et postdoc à l'INRIA Saclay-Ile-de-France  2- Post Doc position Sao Paulo (Brazil) 3- Poste ingénieur Recherche Opérationnelle, Institut de Maths Bordeaux 4- Chef de Projet Optimisation Dynamique Stochastique 5- Position at DIM (Santiago, Chile) 6- Faculty position in combinatorics and optimization, Univ. of Waterloo 7- Professeur des Universités en 26ème section, Univ. Dijon 8- Senior positions at UBC: Head, Provost, and President  -- Conférences et évènements  9- Annonces de séminaires 10- COST Workshop on MINLP 2013, IHP (Paris) 11- Journées annuelles du PGMO : 3 et 4 octobre, Ensta, Palaiseau 12- Autumn School in Image Processing 13- First Workshop on Optimization for Image and Signal Processing 14- CIMPA-UNESCO School on Generalized Nash equilibrium, Delhi (India) 15- SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP14) 16- Winter Scool on Calc Var. in Physics and Materials Science, Univ. Wurzburg 17- SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP14)
 -------------------------------------------------------------  -------------------------------------------------------------   1- Proposition de thèse et postdoc à l'INRIA Saclay-Ile-de-France  (sources: A. Auger, J.F. Bonnans)    Summary: We are looking for excellent and motivated candidates for a  PhD and a postdoc position in the domain of stochastic numerical  optimization. The topic is fairly open and ranges from theoretical  aspects, benchmarking to algorithm design. We encourage particularly  candidates with a strong background in mathematics who are however not  averse to numerical simulations. But we will also consider  applications with other profiles.   To apply send an email with title: ``Application for PhD thesis / Postdoc in  Stochastic Numerical Black-Box Optimization'' to Anne Auger  (anne.auger_at_inria.fr) and  Nikolaus Hansen (nikolaus.hansen_at_inria.fr) containing: (i) a detailed CV  (ii) a motivation letter (iii) name and email address of referee(s).   For more details:  https://www.lri.fr/~auger/PhdPostdocProposalINRIA-TAO.pdf     -------------------------------------------------------------   2- Post Doc position Sao Paulo (Brazil) (sources: M. Théra)    The new Center for Research in Mathematical Sciences Applied to Industry (CeMEAI, http://www.fapesp.br/cepid/pasta_cepid_2013.pdf?t=1), hosted by the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and sponsored by FAPESP, has an open post-doc position for the project:
 "Mathematical models for maximizing environment conditions in  Broiler Houses"  The conditions for the fellowship can be found in http://www.fapesp.br/en/5427  The project involves the development of mathematical models with direct application
in the industry.The company associated to the project ensures access to all necessary data and real perspectives for practical application of the results. The candidates should be knowledgeable in scientific computing, artificial intelligence, heuristics, linear, and nonlinear programming. More important, he/she should be willing to pursue a carrier associated with the industry fostering a high level of technological innovation.   Possible candidates should contact Prof. José Martínez <martinez@ime.unicamp.br>.
   -------------------------------------------------------------   3- Poste ingénieur Recherche Opérationnelle, Institut de Maths Bordeaux (sources: J.F. Bonnans)    Bordeaux's CPU Labex (http://cpu.labex-univ-bordeaux.fr) is offering an engineer position in the Operations Research group of the Mathematics Institute. The research team is structured around an INRIA project, named Realopt, with a focus on reformulation and decomposition approaches for applications in combinatorial optimization. The appointee shall contribute to develop a proof-of-concept code for such approaches.  For details see  http://www.labex-univ-bordeaux.fr/en/Jobs/Engineer-Expert-in-C-and-mathematical-programming,Job-84.html.  Candidates are invited to contact Francois Vanderbeck fv@math.u-bordeaux1.fr    -------------------------------------------------------------   4- Chef de Projet Optimisation Dynamique Stochastique (sources: J.B. Hiriart-Urruty)    Vous développerez des modèles de système de contrôle des actifs énergétiques en temps réel visant à équilibrer l’offre et la demande en optimisant les futurs possibles.  Recherche opérationnelle, mathématiques appliquées, optimisation dynamique, DAPP… sont les mots clefs qui vous caractérisent.  Passionné par le domaine des énergies renouvelable, vous avez un solide background scientifique et mathématique.   Vous souhaitez rejoindre une équipe de professionnels du secteur de l’énergie avec une vraie culture industrielle et qui pensent que de fortes valeurs humaines sont essentielles à l’épanouissement personnel de chacun.  Etre partie prenante du développement de votre entreprise et voir les résultats concrets des solutions que vous proposez sont la source de vos motivations actuelles.   Vos qualités relationnelles, votre fort engagement personnel, seront les garants de votre intégration dans notre équipe.  Prêt à vivre l’aventure ? Merci d’adresser votre candidature par mail, sous référence CPDP/ER, à Caroline Devisch cyriaselection@wanadoo.fr   CYRIASELECTION Sylvie Bridier sbcyriaselection@orange.fr 6 avenue Franklin Roosevelt 75008 Paris   
 -------------------------------------------------------------   5- Position at DIM (Santiago, Chile) (sources: J.F. Bonnans, M. Théra)    The Department of Mathematical Engineering (DIM) of the University of Chile is offering a tenure-track position in Mathematics, starting on March 1, 2014. Candidates should hold a Ph.D. degree at the date of appointment, and preferably not before January 2008.  Applications in all areas of Mathematics are encouraged, but priority will be given to those candidates whose research is related with the mathematical areas cultivated at DIM (see the web page www.dim.uchile.cl).  See the details on :  http://eims.ams.org/jobs/#/detail/5552686/1    -------------------------------------------------------------   6- Faculty position in combinatorics and optimization, Univ. of Waterloo (sources: M. Théra)    The Department of Combinatorics and Optimization (http://math.uwaterloo.ca/co) at the University of Waterloo invites applications for an open rank, tenure-track or tenured faculty position. The focus of the search is in the areas of continuous optimization and graph theory.  A Ph.D. degree and evidence of excellence in research and teaching are required. Successful applications are expected to maintain an active program of research, to attract and supervise graduate students, and to participate in undergraduate and graduate teaching. Salary will depend on the candidate's qualifications. The effective date of appointment is July 1, 2014.  Interested individuals should apply using the MathJobs site (http://www.mathjobs.org). Applications should include a curriculum vitae, research and teaching statements, and up to three reprints/preprints. In addition, at least three reference letters should be submitted.  Inquiries may be addressed to combopt@math.uwaterloo.ca or to Alfred Menezes, Chair, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1. Closing date for receipt of applications is December 1, 2013.  All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Waterloo encourages applications from all qualified individuals, including women, members of visible minorities, native people, and persons with disabilities.    -------------------------------------------------------------   7- Professeur des Universités en 26ème section, Univ. Dijon (sources: A. Jourani, J.F. Bonnans)   
Un poste de Professeur des Universités en 26ème section est susceptible d'être vacant à  la rentré 2014 à l'Université de Bourgogne (Dijon). Le professeur recruté sera affecté à l'UFR de Science Economique et de Gestion où il assurera ses enseignements. Sa recherche s'effectuera au sein de l'Institut de Mathématiques de Bourgogne.  Profil Enseignement : Le candidat aura la responsabilité des enseignements de mathématiques de la licence d'économie et de gestion. Il devra faire preuve d'une  bonne expérience dans l'enseignement des mathématiques de l'économie, notamment en optimisation.

Profil Recherche : Le candidat devra présenter de solides compétences en mathématiques appliquées avec une maîtrise plus particulière des mathématiques de l'optimisation et de la décision en adéquation avec le profil enseignement.     -------------------------------------------------------------   8- Senior positions at UBC: Head, Provost, and President (sources: M. Théra)    Senior SIAM fellows may be interested by the following 3 open positions from senior to very senior levels:  * UBC Okanagan, Arts & Sciences, Unit 5 is looking for a new head. The background of the candidate can be in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or Physics. This is a great opportunity for senior associate professor or junior full professor. We have a very strong group in Optimization on our campus with 9 members including a Canada Research Chair, so both continuous and discrete optimizers are encouraged to take a look at the adv at http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/hr/careers/faculty/tenuretrack.html#bsas   * UBC Okanagan is looking for a new provost. The search is conducted through a head hunter firm.  * UBC is looking for a new president. The search is also conducted through a head hunter firm    -------------------------------------------------------------   9- Annonces de séminaires  (sources: P.L. Combettes, J.F. Babadjian)    Une rubrique pour signaler succinctement les séminaires ayant  lieu ce mois-ci et organisés dans nos laboratoires.  N'hésitez pas à l'alimenter, préférentiellement via un lien vers  la page du séminaire et une liste de conférenciers,   **  Séminaire Parisien d'Optimisation (IHP, salle 421)   http://www.ljll.math.upmc.fr/~plc/spo.html   Lundi 21 octobre 15h00 : L. Brasco  **  **  CT CalVa -- Calcul des Variations (LJLL - Paris 6, barre 15-16 salle 309)   https://www.ljll.math.upmc.fr/fr/seminaires/gt_calcul_des_variations.html  Lundi 23 septembre :  10h00 : I. Ekeland 11h15 : M. Lewin   **   -------------------------------------------------------------   10- COST Workshop on MINLP 2013, IHP (Paris) (sources: M. Théra)    Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, 2013 Institut Henri Poincare, Paris, France  Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming (MINLP) is concerned with finding optimal solutions of optimization problems involving continuous and integer variables, as well as nonlinear terms in the objective function and constraints.  Call for posters: if you want to present a poster, please send: author names, title and a short abstract (max 1 page) to cwminlp@gmail.com, BEFORE SEPT. 18.  To register, just send your name and affiliation to cwminlp@gmail.com There is no registration fee. REGISTRATION DEADLINE: SEPT. 20.   For more information: https://sites.google.com/site/cwminlp13/ Email: cwminlp@gmail.com    -------------------------------------------------------------   11- Journées annuelles du PGMO : 3 et 4 octobre, Ensta, Palaiseau (sources: J.F. Bonnans)    Conférenciers invités:  - A. Nemirovski (Georgia Tech)  - A. Lodi (U. Bologne)  - Y. Smeers (CORE, Louvain la Neuve)  - M. Teboulle (U. Tel Aviv)   Le 2 octobre de 14h à 16h, au bâtiment Turing:    A. Nemirovski donnera un minicours sur          "Saddle points and statistical estimation"   Programme et inscription (sans frais)  http://www.fondation-hadamard.fr/pgmo/conferences/2013     -------------------------------------------------------------   12- Autumn School in Image Processing (sources: M. Théra)    http://cvgmt.sns.it/event/259/  Monday, Oct 21, 2013 -- Thursday, Oct 31, 2013  University of Verona, Department of Computer Science, Verona - Italy  Aim of this School is to present general methods and algorithms as well as numerical issues related to some variational models for a variety of relevant image processing tasks, such as edge-preserving regularisation, impainting, video-editing. Two independent although related courses of 12 hours each will be delivered by leading experts in the field.  The lectures are self-contained and cover several topics (from basics to state-of-the-art) of a multidisciplinary flourishing research field. This School is mainly addressed to an audience of graduate students of applied math, computer science, engineering as well as young post-doctoral researchers.   Registration is free but mandatory for organisational purposes.   The school is part of the Master Degree of Mathematics and of the PhD program of Computer Science of the University of Verona.  For more information see the web page of the school (still under construction) or send an e-mail to: master.math@sci.univr.it  Organizing Commitee: U. Castellani, G. Orlandi  Invited Speakers: A. Chambolle, S. Masnou  Web page of the School: http://profs.sci.univr.it/sip13/  Keywords: Total variation, Variational methods, Image processing

    -------------------------------------------------------------   13- First Workshop on Optimization for Image and Signal Processing (sources: M. Théra)    Le premier workshop sur l'optimisation pour l'imagerie et le traitement du signal aura lieu du 18 au 20 Novembre 2013 à Polytechnique. L'inscription est gratuite et comprend la restauration le midi, mais elle est obligatoire.  Toutes les informations sont disponibles sur le site de la conférence :  http://www.lss.supelec.fr/MaoriWorkshop/    -------------------------------------------------------------   14- CIMPA-UNESCO School on Generalized Nash equilibrium, Delhi (India) (sources: )    We are please to announce the organization of a CIMPA School on Generalized Nash equilibrium, bilivel programing and MPEC. It will be held at Univ. of Delhi, India, from November 25 to December 06, 2013.   The courses will focuse on the following topics: * Didier Aussel (Univ. of Perpignan, France) - Generalized Nash Equilibrium Problem: existence, uniqueness and reformulations * Jonathan Borwein (Univ. of Newcattle, Australia) - Introduction to variational analysis * Stephen Dempe (TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany) - Bilevel Programming: Existence of optimal solutions and optimality conditions * Joydeep Dutta (IIT Kanpur, India) - Introduction to Bilevel Programming and MPE  problems * Francisco Facchinei (Univ. Sapianza, Roma, Italy) - Numerical analysis of Generalized Nash equilibrium * René Henrion (Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, Berlin, Germany) Dual optimality conditions for MPECs * Alejandro Jofre (CMM, Santiago, Chile) - GNE/MPEC in Electricity Markets  In addition, the school will include a sessions where participants can present posters and demos of their own research.   For more information, please visit : http://www.cimpa-icpam.org/spip.php?article512    -------------------------------------------------------------   15- Première conférence franco-allemande sur le traitement mathématique des images (sources: D. Aussel)    La première conférence franco-allemande sur le traitement mathématique des images se tiendra
du 13 au 15 Janvier 2014 à l'IHP à Paris.   Voir https://fadili.users.greyc.fr/mia/events/fgmia-14/ pour tous les détails.   Je voudrais attirer votre attention sur le fait que l'inscription à la conférence est gratuite mais
obligatoire avant le 31 Octobre 2013.     -------------------------------------------------------------   16- Winter Scool on Calc Var. in Physics and Materials Science, Univ. Wurzburg (sources: M. Théra)    We would like to announce the Winter Scool on Calc Var. in Physics and Materials Science, which will be held in Würzburg, Germany, between February 10 and 14, 2014.  Speakers: G. Dal Maso, M. Peletier, M.G. Westdickenber  The school is open to scientists and students interested in the Calculus of Variations and its applications. In particular we encourage Master and PhD students to participate. Information about topics, location, fee, deadlines, financial support, and application can be found on our website http://www.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de/winterschool2014/  The organizers Anja Schlömerkemper and Giuliano Lazzaroni     -------------------------------------------------------------   17- SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP14) (sources: M. Théra)    Town and Country Resort & Convention Center, San Diego, California, USA  May 19-22, 2014  Organizing Miguel F. Anjos, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada Michael Jeremy Todd, Cornell University, USA  The Call for Presentations is available at: http://www.siam.org/meetings/op14/  deadlines October 21, 2013:  Minisymposium proposals November 18, 2013:  Abstracts for contributed and minisymposium speakers November 4, 2013: SIAM Student Travel Award and Post-doc/Early Career Travel Award Applications
For additional information, contact the SIAM Conference Department (meetings@siam.org).   -------------------------------------------------------------