Lettre MODE
février 2014

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Table des matières

-- Thèses et Postes

1- Call for positions at CMM: starting in 2014
2- Three positions postdoc à l'IMCA
3- Concours chercheurs INRIA 2014
4- Postes de Temporary assistant professor, Hawai

-- Conférences et évènements

5- Annonces de séminaires
6— 2014 Research activities at the Centro di Ricerca Matematica “Ennio De Giorgi”-Pisa
7- Day in Celebration of Michel Balinski’s 2013 von Neumann Prize
8- Mini-cours sur l’optimisation polynomiale et le contrôle
9- Appel à communications pour l'atelier NCMIP2014
10- NetCo 2014 "New trends in optimal control"
11- Summer School in applied mathematics on Centralized and Distributed Multi-agent Optimization
12— Congrès en l'honneur de Haïm Brezis
13- Conférence/atelier "EUROPT2014”, Perpignan
14- 2014 Mixed Integer Programming workshop, Ohio State University
15- Optimization 2014, Guimaraes, Portugal
16- Recent Advances in Linear Optimization
17- Seventh Workshop on Computational Optimization (WCO'14)
18- Colloque Optimisation et processus dynamiques en apprentissage et
dans les problèmes inverses

— Autres :

19- Deces de J.-C. Culioli
20- Looking for benchmarking instances of quadratic programming problems

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1- Call for positions at CMM: starting in 2014
(source : A. Joffre, A. Hantoute)

Applications are called for 5 four-year positions at the Center for Mathematical
Modeling – www.cmm.uchile.cl –, Universidad de Chile.

A Ph.D. in mathematics or related fields is required.
These positions are research oriented and it is expected that candidates exhibit
a good record of publications as well as interest for applied/industrial projects.
CMM has currently the following fundamental research areas: discrete mathematics,
mathematical mechanics and inverse problems, optimization and game theory, partial
differential equation and nonlinear analysis and stochastic modeling as well as
application areas articulated in the following labs: Astroinformatics, Combinatorial
Modeling, Inverse Problems, Bioinformatics and Mathematics of the Genome, Logistics
and Production, Geomechanics and Metallurgy in Mining, Imaging and Visualization,
Natural Resources and Bioprocesses, Networks Economics and Risk Analysis, and
Stochastic and Statistics Simulation.

We expect that candidates will participate and/or lead industrial projects carried
out by the CMM. The teaching load is low: a one-semester course at the undergraduate
or graduate level per year. In addition, academic activities such as student
mentoring, organization of thematic seminars are expected.

The salary will depend on qualifications of the candidate, starting for an assistant
professor at $ 2.500.000 (US$ 5000 approx.) per month before taxes, for 12 months a
year. One or two-year research-leading project experience after PhD will be well
evaluated. Over this salary, CMM’s researcher can apply to extra incentives and
funding for research and applied activities coming from the National Research Council
(CONICYT) and/or from the industry.

Candidates should submit a CV, research statement and 2 recommendation letters before
March 30, 2014 to mrivera@dim.uchile.cl. Candidates will be evaluated as their applications
are received and offers could be made in advance.

see the webpage : http://www.cmm.uchile.cl/?p=20123

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2- Three positions postdoc à l'IMCA
(source : T. Bayen, M. Théra)

A l'IMCA nous sommes à la recherche de 3 candidats pour faire un postdoc à l'IMCA.
Le sujet est autour de gestion de ressource renouvelable (math, stat, info, prob,
modélisation ...)

La durée est 1 ans et pour commencer en mars, juillet et décembre 2014, la bourse
st 6 000 soles (1600 euros aprox) par mois.

Le candidats devront avoir soutenu leur thèse max 4 ans avant est ce que vous connaissez
au moins un candidat?

Eladio OCAÑA ANAYA
E-mail: eocana@imca.edu.pe
http://www.imca.edu.pe/

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3- Concours chercheurs INRIA 2014
(source : J.-B. Caillau)

Concours CR2 :
http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000028465178&dateTexte=&categorieLien=id

Concours CR1
http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000028465174&dateTexte=&categorieLien=id

Concours DR2
http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichTexte.do?cidTexte=JORFTEXT000028465170&dateTexte=&categorieLien=id

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4- Postes de Temporary assistant professor, Hawai
(source : J.-B. Caillau)

L'Univ. Hawai ouvre deux postes temporaires de prof. assistant (1 an renouvelable).

Contacter Monique Chyba, mailto:
chyba@hawaii.edu

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

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,

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

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

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

Lundi 10 février
15h00 : L. Dumas (Versailles-Saint Quentin en Yvelines)
16h00 : B. Cornet (Paris 1)

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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 3 mars :
10h00 : F. Allouges
11h : V. Peron

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

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

Lundi 17 mars :
14h : Y. Privat
15h : A. Blanchet

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Séminaire Parisien de Théorie des Jeux (IHP, salle 05, 201 ou 314)

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

Lundi 10 février : s. Moretti

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6— 2014 Research activities at the Centro di Ricerca Matematica “Ennio De Giorgi”-Pisa
(source : S. Marmi)

The announcement with the general programme for 2014 esearch activities at the Centro di Ricerca
Matematica “Ennio De Giorgi” in Pisa are available at those links :

http://www.crm.sns.it/media/news/102/locandina_2014_research-activities_%20Schools-intensive%20periods_web.pdf

http://www.crm.sns.it/media/news/102/locandina_2014_research-activities_WORKSHOP_web.pdf

I would be grateful if you could have it circulated in your Department.
Full information about the programme can be found on our website at www.crm.sns.it .

With best regards,

The Director of the Centre
Prof. Stefano Marmi

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7- Day in Celebration of Michel Balinski’s 2013 von Neumann Prize
(source : R. Laraki)

Friends and colleagues,

You are cordially invited to attend a one-day conference to be held at the
Ecole Polytechnique in Palaiseau on Tuesday, February 11, 2014:

Fair Divisions: In Celebration of Michel Balinski’s 2013 von Neumann Prize

Michel Balinski, Directeur de recherché de classe exceptionnelle of the CNRS,
has been a member of the Laboratoire d’économétrie since 1982 and was its
Director from 1989 to 1999. He was awarded INFORMS’s prestigious John von
Neumann Theory Prize in 2013 for his “fundamental, sustained contributions to
theory in operations research and the management sciences.” The citation lists
contributions to optimization (linear, nonlinear and combinatorial) and polyhedra,
emphasizing the work on stable matching; it goes on to state that “Balinski’s most
important contributions are in the domain of electoral decisions, namely,
representation and apportionment on the one hand, and voting on the other. They
are significant, innovative, deep, and of the highest scientific excellence.”

For the complete citation and a history of the prize see:

https://www.informs.org/About-INFORMS/News-Room/Press-Releases/Balinski-Wins-von-Neumann-Theory-Prize

I hope that you will be able to attend.

The program is :
9h30-10h : Petit déjeuner
10h-10h15 : Claude Henry (Science-Po Paris and Columbia)
To Michel
10h15-11h : Peyton Young (Oxford)
Legislative Apportionment: History, Mathematics, Politics
11h-11h15 : Coffee break
11h15-12h : Friedrich Pukelsheim (Augsburg)
Fair Representation, and the Double Michel
12h-14h : Lunch (Buffet at Salon d’honneur)
14h-14h45 : Mourad Baiou (CNRS, Clermont-Ferrand)
Stable Matchings and Allocations
14h45-15h15 : Coffee break
15h15-16h : Rida Laraki (CNRS, LAMSADE, Polytechnique)
Majority Judgment : Measuring, Ranking and Electing

Best wishes for the new year,

Rida Laraki
https://sites.google.com/site/ridalaraki/

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

Je souhaite vous rappelez que le GdR MOA organise, fin mars, le Mini-cours
Optimisation polynomiale" à l'INSA de Rennes. Merci de ne pas tarder
à vous inscrire ou à inscrire vos doctorants. Je rappelle aussi que les quinzes
doctorant(e)s ou jeunes chercheurs(chercheuses) inscrit(e)s verront leur
hébergement pris en charge par le GdR MOA :

Mini-cours sur l’optimisation polynomiale et le contrôle
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 est un événement couplé avec les Journées MODE 2014.

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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9- Appel à communications pour l'atelier NCMIP2014
(source : D. Aussel)

Vous trouverez ci-dessous un "appel à communications" pour l'atelier NCMIP2014.
Cet événement est l'une des manifestations scientifiques parrainées par le GdR MOA.
Je vous invite d'ailleurs à visiter régulièrement la rubrique "Activités"
de la page web du GdR.

D. Aussel

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to inform you that the 4th International Workshop on New Computational
Methods for Inverse Problems :

http://www.farman.ens-cachan.fr/NCMIP_2014.html

organized by Institut Farman, will be held on May 23, 2014, at Ecole Normale Supérieure
de Cachan.
You are kindly invited to submit a contribution to the workshop and to advertise this
call for paper.

Best regards,

Eric Vourc’h and Thomas Rodet
co-chair of NCMIP 2014

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10- NetCo 2014 "New trends in optimal control"
(source : J.-B. Caillau)

La conference NetCo 2014 "New trends in optimal control" aura lieu du 23 au 27 juin 2014 a Tours
http://netco2014.sciencesconf.org

En lien avec la conference, un numero special de DCDS-A est prévu :
http://netco2014.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/15

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11- Summer School in applied mathematics on Centralized and Distributed Multi-agent Optimization
(source : M. Théra)

CIME-EMS Summer School in applied mathematics on

Centralized and Distributed Multi-agent Optimization: Models and Algorithms

June 23-June 28, 2014
Directors of the School
Francisco Facchinei, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Jong-Shi Pang, University of Southern California, U.S.A

Multi-agent optimization is at the forefront of modern optimization theory and has recently
undergone a dramatic development, stimulated by new applications in a host of diverse disciplines.
Multi-agent optimization, including new modelling paradigms and both centralized and distributed
solution algorithms, lies at the intersection of classical optimization, game theory, and
variational inequality theory. Since the area has undergone such an explosive growth in recent
years, this summer school aims at providing an overview that describes in detail ongoing research
and important trends, with emphasis on the mathematical problems arising in telecommunications.

The school is organized around 4 series of lectures that will be delivered by well-known world
experts:

Differential Variational Inequalities:
Jong-Shi Pang, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

Optimization Methods for Resource Management: Complexity, Duality and Approximation:
Zhi-Quan Luo, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

Distributed Optimization over Networks:
Angelia Nedich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, USA

Advanced Decomposition Algorithms for Multi-agent Systems:
Gesualdo Scutari, University of Buffalo, New York, USA.

Practical Information. This is a residential school, taking place in Grand Hotel S. Michele in
Cetraro (Calabria, Italy). Grand Hotel S. Michele is a very beautiful and secluded place which
favors interaction among students and professors. There will be around 18 hours of formal lectures
plus ample opportunity for interaction and discussion.

The school is free.
Participants only have to pay for their accommodation (and travel to the site). The hotel provides
a vary convenient full-board fee that can be found, along with additional information, at
http://php.math.unifi.it/users/cime/Cetraro/Cetraro.html

A very limited number of grants covering local expenses, mainly intended for participants coming
from financially-weak countries, is available. Registration is open until May 15, 2014, but early
application is strongly advised. You may register online from the official web-page of the course

http://php.math.unifi.it/users/cime/Courses/2014/course.php?codice=20143

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12- Congrès en l'honneur de Haïm Brezis
(source : J.-B. Caillau)

Organisé à l'IHP du lundi 30 juin au vendredi 4 juillet 2014 :

http://www.ljll.math.upmc.fr/Brezis2014/

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13- Conférence/atelier "EUROPT2014”, Perpignan
(source : D. Aussel)

Vous trouverez ci-dessous une annonce pour la conférence/atelier "EUROPT2014".
Cet événement est l'une des manifestations scientifiques parrainées par le GdR MOA.

EUROPT2014
Joint event with IFORS14

Date: July 10-12, 2014
Venue: Perpignan, France

Preliminary Call for Papers

We invite all researchers from the optimization
community to take part in the EUROPT2014, to be held
in Perpignan, France, July 10-12, 2014.
EUROPT2014 is the annual event of the "EUROPT group",
the Continuous Optimization Working Group of EURO
(The Association of European Operational Research
Societies). EUROPT2014 is the 12th Workshop on advances
in continuous optimization. EUROPT2014 is a joint event of
the EURO/IFORS 2014 conference to be held in Barcelona,
July 13-18, 2014.

The academic program will consist in plenary talks and
parallel sessions covering several aspects of continuous
optimization.

Conference website:
http://europt2014.univ-perp.fr/index.html

Special Issue
A post-conference special issue of the journal Optimization
will be published.

Important Dates
March 15, 2014 Paper submission deadline.
April 15, 2014 Paper acceptance/rejection notification.
January 1, 2014 Early registration begins.
May 15, 2014 Late registration begins.

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14- 2014 Mixed Integer Programming workshop, Ohio State University
(source : M. Théra)

Date: July 21-24, 2014
Location: Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Web site and registration:
https://mip2014.engineering.osu.edu/
Poster submission deadline:
April 15, 2014
Registration deadline: May 15, 2014

You are cordially invited to participate in the upcoming workshop in Mixed Integer Programming
(MIP 2014) :

https://mip2014.engineering.osu.edu/

The registration page is now open until May 15, 2014:

https://mip2014.engineering.osu.edu/content/registration

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15- Optimization 2014, Guimaraes, Portugal
(source : M. Théra)

July 28-30, 2014
(second announcement)

School of Engineering,
University of Minho

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).

Confirmed plenary speakers:

Masao Fukushima | Nanzan Univ.
Serge Gratton | ENSEEIHT and CERFACS, Toulouse
C. Tim Kelley | NC State Univ.
Nenad Mladenovic | Brunel Univ.
Maarten H. Van der Vlerk | Univ. Groningen
François Vanderbeck | Univ. Bordeaux

Invited and contributed presentations will be scheduled during the three
days.

Important Dates:
Deadline for abstract submission - March 31, 2014
Notification of acceptance - May 1, 2014
Early Registration - Before May 15, 2014

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

http://optimization2014.dps.uminho.pt

For any questions regarding Optimization 2014, please contact:
optimization2014@dps.uminho.pt

We look forward to meeting you in Optimization 2014,

J. M. Valério de Carvalho (Co-chair of the Organizing Committee)
A. Ismael F. Vaz (Co-chair of the Organizing Committee)

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16- Recent Advances in Linear Optimization
(source : M. Théra)

July 30-August 1, 2014
Ecole des Ponts ParisTech, Paris, France.
Organizers: Antoine Deza and Frédéric Meunier

The conference will bring together a diverse group of researchers
interested by geometric, combinatorial, and computational aspects
of linear optimization. If you are willing to participate or to give a talk
please contact the organizers. Further information can be found at:

http://www.fondation-hadamard.fr/fr/pgmo/projects/meunier/workshop/

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17- Seventh Workshop on Computational Optimization (WCO'14)
(source : M. Théra)

Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014

WWW: http://fedcsis.org/wco
E-mail: wco2014@fedcsis.org

We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to WCO 2014
- held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information
Systems (FedCSIS 2014).

IMPORTANT DATES

- Paper submission: April 11, 2014
- Position paper submission: May 12, 2014
- Acceptance decision: May 19, 2014
- Final version of paper submission: June 17, 2014
- Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2014
- Conference dates: September 7-10, 2014

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18- Colloque Optimisation et processus dynamiques en apprentissage et
dans les problèmes inverses
(source : P.-L. Combettes)

Le but de ce colloque est de stimuler les discussions et de favoriser la création
de nouvelles collaborations entre chercheurs italiens et français sur les thèmes
suivants: algorithmes pour l'optimisation convexe et les inclusions monotones,
théorie des jeux, interactions dynamiques entre discret et continu, théorie de
l'apprentissage statistique, problèmes inverses, méthodes de point fixe.

Voir le site :
https://www.ljll.math.upmc.fr/~plc/sestri/Home.html

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19- Deces de J.-C. Culioli
(source : J.-B. Caillau)

Nous avons appris avec émotion le décès, vendredi 10 janvier 2014, de Jean-Christophe
Culioli. Né en 1959, après des études à l’École Polytechnique, il avait commencé sa
carrière comme ingénieur en R&D à EDF, puis est parti à Oak Ridge Laboratory avant de
rejoindre le Centre d’Automatique de l’Ecole nationale supérieure des Mines de Paris
[...]
http://smai.emath.fr/spip.php?article496

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20- Looking for benchmarking instances of quadratic programming problems
(source : M. Théra)

Quadratic programming problems have received an increasing amount of attention in recent
years, both from theoretical and practical points of view. However, a library specifically
conceived for this class of problems does not exist yet. For this reason we feel the need
to define a standard test set to compare the performance of different generic quadratic
optimization software and to evaluate the computational performance of newly developed
algorithms and solution techniques. We are looking for interesting and challenging problems
from all fields of Global Optimization, Operations Research and Combinatorial Optimization,
ideally those which have been built to model real life problems.

We are interested in benchmarking instances with the following characteristics:

* Generic Quadratic objective function.
* Binary, integer and continuous variables.
* Generic Quadratic and/or linear constraints.

Please submit by email to the following address: QPlib2014@gmail.com

The submitted instances must be in one of the following formats: GAMS/AMPL/LP.
The submission of instances should be accompanied by a few lines of description with the
following information:

* authors/institution/company providing the instance
* references (optional)
* optimum value or upper and lower bounds (optional)
* any additional relevant information (optional)

Please find the QPlib2014 web page here:
http://www.lamsade.dauphine.fr/QPlib2014/

The submission deadline is: 1st March 2014.

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