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).   -------------------------------------------------------------