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L'inscription et la désinscription automatiques se font en écrivant à lettre-mode-smai-request@emath.fr et en mettant dans le sujet suivant le cas subscribe ou unsubscribe. ------------------------------------------------------------- Table des matières -- Postes 1- Two faculty positions at the University of Chile 2- Faculty position in Operations Research at Catholic University of Chile 3- Faculty position opening at MIT in Operations Research and Statistics -- Conférences et évènements 4- Annonces de séminaires 5- XIIIth Midwest Optimization Meeting & Workshop on Large Scale Optimization and Applications 6- International Workshop “Metric Regularity Days” 7- Optimization, games and dynamics 8- OPT 2011, NIPS Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning 9- III Latin American Workshop on Optimization and Control 10- congrès PASI-CIPPDE: Inverse Problems and Control of PDE 11- Advances in Scientific Computing, Imaging Science and Optimization 12- Spring School on Analysis V, Paseky 13- III Conference on Optimization Methods and Software 14- XXVth European conference on Operational Research ------------------------------------------------------------- 1- Two faculty positions at the University of Chile (source: A. Joffre et M. Théra) Voir les détails sur les sites suivants : en espagnol : http://www.dim.uchile.cl/index.php?option=com_dim&tarea=noticiasver&Itemid=9&id=80 en anglais : http://eims.ams.org/jobs/4338832/faculty-position-at-university-of-chile ------------------------------------------------------------- 2- Faculty position in Operations Research at Catholic University of Chile (source: M. Théra) Position in Operation research Dept. of Industrial and System Engineering, Catholic University of Chile The School of Engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile invites applications for a faculty position in Operations Research at the Department of Industrial and System Engineering. Operations Research is one of the areas of the Department, together with Operations Management, Economics and Finance, and General Management. Hence, we seek candidates with strong background in the area but, at the same time, ability to interact with other researchers and be able to get involved in relevant applications of Operations Research. Applicants should have (or be currently pursuing studies toward) a PhD in Operations Research or a related area, have potential for teaching excellence at the undergraduate and graduate levels and a record of success in, or potential for, scholarly research and publication in leading academic journals. Candidates need not know Spanish at the moment of applying, but learning the language will be important afterwards. The value proposition includes: . Working at Chile's best university with the country's best students (top 3%). . Interaction with faculty members with PhDs from the world's top-rated universities. . Enjoying a high standard of living. The School of Engineering at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile ranks among the top Latin American engineering institutions. Both our undergraduate and graduate programs are accredited by the Chilean Accreditation Commission (CNA), and our undergraduate programs are also accredited by the Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology (ABET). The undergraduate program accepts a maximum of 500 students per year, chosen from among the top 3% of the country's students. Currently our full-time faculty includes 110 professors, 97% of whom have doctorates from prestigious universities worldwide. They are committed to introducing innovative teaching methods, conducting state-of-the art research and publishing in international journals. The School of Engineering has nine departments and seven research centers, and offers Master's and Ph.D. degrees. The Operations Research position comes under the School's Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering. A leader in innovation and dissemination in the theory and practice of management, the Department's activities make a fundamental contribution to the education of industrial engineers at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. Research and Outreach activities at the Department include Management Sciences, as well as Economics and Finance and Organizational Sciences, generating activities with high impact in industry and government. Application instructions: Complete application instructions can be found at http://www.ing.puc.cl/ORPosition The deadline is November 30th, 2011, but late applications may be considered until the position is filled. For further information, you can contact the Department Chairman, Prof. Sergio Maturana smaturan@ing.puc.cl or Prof. Jorge Vera, jvera@ing.puc.cl ------------------------------------------------------------- 3- Faculty position opening at MIT in Operations Research and Statistics (source: M. Théra) The MIT Sloan School invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in the area of Operations Research & Statistics beginning July 1, 2012 or as soon thereafter as possible. Strong applicants will demonstrate the potential for research; duties will include teaching undergraduate and graduate level courses in the area of Operations Research and Statistics. We are especially interested in candidates who can build a strong methodological research base, contribute to application areas of high impact, and b successful teachers for the undergraduate, MBA, and PhD programs. Applicants should possess or be close to the completion of a PhD in a relevant field by the date of appointment. We especially want to identify qualified female and minority candidates for consideration in this position. Applicants need to submit 1) an up-to-date curriculum vitae, 2) relevant information about teaching as well as research experience and performance, and 3) three letters of recommendation by November 1, 2011. If papers are available, please provide electronic copies. Please send applications to: or-search@mit.edu Operations Research & Statistics Faculty Search Committee c/o Mr. David V. Merrill MIT Sloan School of Management MIT is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a culturally diverse intellectual community and strongly encourages applications from women and minorities. ------------------------------------------------------------- 4- Annonces de séminaires (sources: P.L. Combettes) 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 201) http://www.ljll.math.upmc.fr/~plc/spo.html Lundi 17 octobre 2011 15h : F. Bonnqns (INRIA et Polytechnique) 16h : O. Guéqnt (Paris 7) ** ------------------------------------------------------------- 5- XIIIth Midwest Optimization Meeting & Workshop on Large Scale Optimization and Applications (source: D. Aussel) Hosted by the Fields Institute in Toronto, ON, Canada. Workshop website: http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/11-12/optimization_mtg/ Sincerely, Boris Mordukhovich Henry Wolkowicz Hristo Sendov Ilias Kotsireas ------------------------------------------------------------- 6- International Workshop “Metric Regularity Days” (source: H. Frankowska) We are organising on October 25-26th, 2011 an International Workshop “Metric Regularity Days”. http://www.math.jussieu.fr/~frankowska/MetricRegularitySite/index.html Talks will be given by leading specialists in the domain and we are also planning to organize a panel/discussion on applications of metric regularity to control problems. There is no registration fee, bur a registration is required. If you wish to attend, please contact Helene Frankowska: frankowska@math.jussieu.fr "The theory of metric regularity is a rapidly developing area motivated by various applications in optimization and control. It is useful both for theoretical studies and in numerical analysis. In particular, metric regularity is very instrumental as a tool for handling undamental problems such as controllability, normality of necessary optimality conditions, feasibility, as well as implicit mapping theorems, sensitivity and robustness. It plays a major role in proving convergence of numerical methods for solving problems of optimal control, optimization, equilibrium, and beyond. Specifically, the metric regularity property reflects the idea of a posteriori error bounds for constraint systems. For discrete approximations of extremals in optimal control it leads to a posteriori error estimates. There is a natural relationship between metric regularity and convergence of a broad range of algorithms, such as Newton-type methods, providing also the rate of convergence." Helene Frankowska Résponsable Scientifique du projet SADCO à l'UPMC ------------------------------------------------------------- 7- Optimization, games and dynamics (source: P.L. Combettes) November 28-29, 2011 Institut Henri Poincaré Amphithéâtre Hermite 11, rue Pierre et Marie Curie Paris 5ème http://www.ljll.math.upmc.fr/~plc/ihp2011.html Registration is free but mandatory, just send me an email indicating that you intend to participate. ------------------------------------------------------------- 8- OPT 2011, NIPS Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning (source: D. Aussel) Visit: http://opt.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de/index.html Submit: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opt2011 Date: 16th or 17th Dec., 2011, Place: Granada, Spain. We invite participation in the 4th International Workshop on "Optimization for Machine Learning", to be held as a part of the NIPS 2011 conference. Join us for an exciting program that includes plenary talks by: * Stephen Boyd (Stanford University) * Aharon Ben-Tal (Technion) * Ben Recht (UW Madison) Research contributions from the community are also welcomed; in particular, we invite the following two types of submissions: (i) contributed talks and posters (ii) open problems To encourage authors to submit cutting-edge work, the workshop will offer a best paper award as recognition. We request submitters of open problems to prepare a few slides that clearly present, motivate, and explain an important open problem or concern. For topics, submission procedure, please visit: http://opt.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de ------------------------------------------------------------- 9- III Latin American Workshop on Optimization and Control (source: D. Aussel) The Third Latin American Workshop on Optimization and Control (LAWOC) will take place in Valparaiso, Chile, on January 10-13, 2012. LAWOC gathers international researchers and practitioners interested in various areas of optimization and control. It aims at becoming a top-level scientific meeting while promoting and reinforcing the interaction between Latin American researchers and world leading experts. Further information, including the procedure for abstract submission (due by October 15) can be found on the webpage www.am2v.cl/lawoc2012. We would be thankful if you could share this information with colleagues, postdoctoral fellows and graduate students who might be interested. Best regards, Juan Peypouquet Chair ------------------------------------------------------------- 10- congrès PASI-CIPPDE: Inverse Problems and Control of PDE (source: M. Théra) En janvier 2012, nous organisons à Santiago du Chili le congrès "PASI-CIPPDE: Inverse Problems and Control of PDE". Cette activité se déroulera entre le 16 et 27 janvier 2012. Pendant la première semaine on aura des cours, tandis que la deuxième semaine sera consacré aux exposés des spécialistes dans les sujets. Les détails sont disponibles sur le lien suivant http://pasicippde.cmm.uchile.cl/ Nous vous demandons de divulguer cette activité au sein de vos laboratoires et notamment chez les étudiants qui pourront s'intéresser. Nous espérons vous voir cet été chilien a Santiago!! Au nom des comités organisateur et scientifique, Eduardo Cerpa et Jean-Michel Coron ------------------------------------------------------------- 11- Advances in Scientific Computing, Imaging Science and Optimization (source: D. Aussel) UCLA, Apr 2012 There will be a workshop entitled "Advances in Scientific Computing, Imaging Science and Optimization", in honor of Professor Stanley Osher on the occasion of his 70th birthday, which will be held from April 4-6, 2012 at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) situated on the UCLA campus. Further information about this workshop is available at http://www.ipam.ucla.edu/programs/sjo2012/ Invited speakers include: Andrea Bertozzi (UCLA); Martin Burger (Westflische Wilhelms Universitt Mnster); Russel Caflisch (IPAM, UCLA); Lawrence Carin (Duke University); Ronald DeVore (University of South Carolina); Bjorn Engquist (University of Texas at Austin); Ron Fedkew (Stanford University); Don Goldfarb (Columbia University); Mark Green (UCLA); Peter Jones (Yale University); Chiu-Yen Kao (Ohio State University); Barry Merriman (UCLA); Guillermo Sapiro (University of Minnesota); Zuowei Shen (National University of Singapore); Chi-Wang Shu (Brown University); Gilbert Strang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); Richard Tsai (University of Texas at Austin); Eli Yablonovitch (UC Berkeley); Wotao Yin (Rice University); and Hongkai Zhao (University of California, Irvine). There will be a special issue in Journal of Scientific Computing (http://www.springeronline.com/journal/10915) dedicated to the honor of Professor Stanley Osher on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The topics of the special issue will coincide with themes of this conference. The deadline for submission to this special issue will be December 31, 2011. Papers for this special issue will be reviewed following the same referee procedure as for regular Journal of Scientific Computing papers. ------------------------------------------------------------- 12- Spring School on Analysis V, Paseky (source: M. Théra) Apr 22 - Apr 28, 2012 Following a longstanding tradition, the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of Charles University in Prague and the Czech Academy of Sciences will organize a Spring School on Variational Analysis V. The School will be held at Paseky nad Jizerou, in a chalet in the Krkonose Mountains, Apr 22 - Apr 28, 2012. The program will consist of series of lectures on Variational Analysis and its Applications delivered by Rene Henrion, Weierstrass Institute, Berlin, Germany Structure and Stability of Optimization Problems with Probabilistic Constraints Alexander Ioffe, Technion, Haifa, Israel Variational analysis of semi-algebraic mappings Alejandro Jofre, Universidad de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile Variational Analysis and Economic Equilibrium Boris S. Mordukhovich, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA Various topics Further informations can be found on the website http://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/katedry/kma/ss/apr12 Best Regards, Marian Fabian, Jaroslav Lukes and Jiri Outrata ------------------------------------------------------------- 13- III Conference on Optimization Methods and Software (source: D. Ausel) May 13-17, 2012, Crete, Greece http://www.ise.ufl.edu/cao/OMS12/OMS_2012/Welcome.html The conference aims to review and discuss recent advances and promising research trends in continuous and discrete optimization theory, methods, applications and software development. Topics include, but are certainly not limited to the following subjects: Linear and Nonlinear Optimization; Integer and Combinatorial Optimization; Convex and Nonsmooth Optimization; Global Optimization; Semi-definite Programming; Semi-infinite Programming; Multi-objective Optimization; Stochastic Optimization; Complementarity and Variational Inequality Problems; Derivative-free Optimization; Network Optimization; Scheduling Problems; Optimal Control; Automatic Differentiation; Optimization Software. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS: Abstracts should not exceed 400 words. Details of the submission are available on the conference web site. Papers presented at the conference will be considered for peer-reviewed publication in a special issue of the journal Optimization Methods and Software. Proposals of organizing sessions are welcome and can be sent to Luis Nunes Vicente by email lnvmat.uc.pt Abstract submissions: January 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2012 Early registration: March 31, 2012 ------------------------------------------------------------- 14- XXVth European conference on Operational Research (source: B. Fortz) Vilnius, Lithuania, 8-11 July, 2012 www.euro-2012.lt The Organizers of the 25th EURO Conference have a great pleasure of inviting you to take part in this Conference to be held in Vilnius, Lithuania on 8-11 July, 2012. The Programme and Organizing Committees, chaired by Marielle Christiansen and Leonidas Sakalauskas, are preparing a high quality scientific programme and an exciting social programme for the Conference. We are convinced that the EURO XXV Conference will be an excellent opportunity for the OR community to get together again in a pleasant atmosphere, and, thus, we are looking forward to meeting you in Vilnius, the historical capital of Lithuania, in 2012! Please visit the EURO XXV Conference website (www.euro-2012.lt) for more information. ------------------------------------------------------------- Thierry Champion -- Laboratoire Imath -- Université du Sud Toulon-Var page personnelle: http://champion.univ-tln.fr -- Laboratoire Imath -- Universite du Sud Toulon-Var page personnelle: http://champion.univ-tln.fr