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Global Optimization Conference (GOC-2017)
March 30, 2017 - April 1, 2017
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Global Optimization Conference (GOC-2017) will be held on March 30 – April 1, 2017, in the Annenberg Presidential Conference Center on the campus of Texas A&M University. The event will be dedicated in memory of Professor Christodoulos A. Floudas, a world leader in global optimization, who passed away in August 2016. GOC-2017 continues the tradition of The World Congress on Global Optimization (WCGO) that previously took place in Changsha, China (2009), Chania, Greece (2011), Huangshang, China (2013), and Gainesville, Florida (2015). One of the highlights of this biannual meeting is the announcement of Constantin Carathéodory Prize of the International Society of Global Optimization awarded in recognition of lifetime contributions to the field of global optimization.
Call for Participation
Proposals for special sessions, invited speakers and contributed papers and are welcome and may be submitted by email to Sergiy Butenko (butenko@tamu.edu) or Stratos Pistikopoulos (stratos@tamu.edu).
Researchers and practitioners working in areas related to theory and applications of global optimization are invited to submit abstracts for consideration. The abstracts should describe the contribution in general terms and should not exceed 1 page (i.e., it should be similar to a journal paper abstract).
Accepted abstracts will be printed in the conference program. The speakers will have approximately thirty minutes to present their talk. Please contact one of the organizers if you need more information.
Important Dates
| Submission of Abstracts | January 20, 2017 |
| Notification of Acceptance | January 30, 2017 |
| Early Registration Deadline | February 10, 2017 |
| Submission of Papers to Special Issue of Journal of Global Optimization |
July 1, 2017 |
Publication
A special issue of Journal of Global Optimization will be edited after the conference. Manuscripts should be prepared in LaTeX.
The final submission should include the original source (including all style files and figures) and a PDF version of the compiled output. The paper submission deadline is July 1, 2017. All papers will go through a regular peer review process.
Travel Information
The conference will be held in College Station, Texas, the home of Texas A&M University. The area is serviced by Easterwood Airport (CLL), with direct flights to/from Houston and Dallas. Nearby international airports include Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) and Austin–Bergstrom International Airport (AUS). Shuttle services are available between College Station and Houston airports (https://groundshuttle.com/).
Hotel Reservations
A special blocks of rooms has been reserved at Cavalry Court for the nights of March 29, 30, & 31.
The negotiated conference rate for the Global Optimization Conference is $139/night.
Cavalry Court
200 Century Court
College Station, Texas 77840
844.313.7337
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- Program:
- GOC-2017 Program
- Dates:
- March 30 – April 1, 2017
- Location:
- Annenberg Presidential Conference Center
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX - Conference Organizers:
- Sergiy Butenko (Texas A&M University)
Efstratios Pistikopoulos (Texas A&M University)
Registration
You can now register and pay registration fees using a credit card through the online secure system provided by Texas A&M.
Registration Fees
| Early Registration (Before February 10, 2017) |
$300 |
| Regular Registration (After February 10, 2017) |
$400 |
| Student Registration | $100 before February 10 $200 after February 10 |
The registration covers the conference materials, welcome reception, conference dinner, coffee breaks, and lunches on March 30-31, as well as participation in extracurricural activities (such as soccer games).
Program Committee
| Panos M. Pardalos | University of Florida | USA |
| Hoang Tuy | Institute of Mathematics | Vietnam |
| Claire S. Adjiman | Imperial College London | UK |
| Charles Audet | Polytechnique Montreal | Canada |
| Adil Bagirov | Federation University | Australia |
| Balabhaskar Balasundaram | Oklahoma State University | USA |
| Paul I. Barton | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | USA |
| Ernesto G. Birgin | University of São Paulo | Brazil |
| Immanuel Bomze | University of Vienna | Austria |
| Altannar Chinchuluun | Imperial College London | UK |
| Wanpracha Art Chaovalitwongse | Univeristy of Arkansas | USA |
| Yu-Hong Dai | Chinese Accademy of Sciences | China |
| Aris Daniilidis | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Spain |
| Ding-zhu Du | University of Texas at Dallas | USA |
| Mirjam Dür | Universität Trier | Germany |
| Matthias Ehrgott | University of Auckland | Australia |
| Shu-Cherng Fang | North Carolina State University | USA |
| Inmaculada García Fernández | University of Malaga | Spain |
| Dalila Fontes | University of Porto | Portugal |
| János Fülöp | Hungarian Academy of Sciences | Hungary |
| Boris Goldengorin | Ohio University | USA |
| Chrysanthos E. Gounaris | Carnegie Mellon University | USA |
| Ignacio E. Grossmann | Carnegie Mellon University | USA |
| Yongpei Guan | University of Florida | USA |
| Nicolas Hadjisavvas | University of the Aegean | Greece |
| Eligius M. T. Hendrix | Wageningen University and Universidad de Málaga | Spain |
| Jeya Jeyakumar | University of New South Wales | Australia |
| Donald R. Jones | General Motors Corporation | USA |
| Igor Konnov | Kazan Federal University | Russia |
| Pavlo Krokhmal | University of Arizona | USA |
| Simge Küçükyavuz | University of Washington | USA |
| Erhun Kundakcioglu | Özyeğin University | Turkey |
| Takahito Kuno | University of Tsukuba | Japan |
| Leo Liberti | Ecole Polytechnique | France |
| Marco Locatelli | University of Parma | Italy |
| Angelo Lucia | University of Rhode Island | USA |
| Jérôme Malick | Grenoble University | France |
| Lina Mallozzi | University of Naples Federico II | Italy |
| Antonino Maugeri | University of Catania | Italy |
| Juan Enrique Marínez-Legaz | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona | Spain |
| Frédéric Messine | Institut of Research in Informatic of Toulouse | France |
| Kaisa Miettinen | University of Jyväskylä | Finland |
| Athanasios Migdalas | Aristotle University of Thessalonica / Lulea Technical University | Greece / Sweden |
| Alexander Mitsos | RWTH Aachen University | Germany |
| Boris Mordukhovich | Wayne State University | USA |
| Lewis Ntaimo | Texas A&M University | USA |
| Jiming Peng | University of Houston | USA |
| Janos D. Pinter | Lehigh University | USA |
| Efstratios Pistikoloulos | Texas A&M University | USA |
| Leonidas Pitsoulis | Aristotle University of Thessaloniki | Greece |
| Oleg Prokopyev | University of Pittsburgh | USA |
| Themistocles M. Rassias | National Technical University of Athens | Greece |
| Steffen Rebennack | Colorado School of Mines | USA |
| Mauricio G. C. Resende | Amazon Research | USA |
| Jean-Philippe P. Richard | University of Florida | USA |
| Dolores Romero Morales | Copenhagen Business School | Denmark |
| Berc Rustem | Imperial College London | USA |
| Nikolaos V. Sahinidis | Carnegie Mellon University | USA |
| Fabio Schoen | University of Florence | Italy |
| Yaroslav D. Sergeyev | University of Calabria | Italy |
| Thomas C. Sharkey | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | USA |
| Ruey-Lin Sheu | National Cheng-Kung University | Taiwan |
| Anthony Man-Cho So | The Chinese University of Hong Kong | China |
| Mohit Tawarmalani | Purdue University | USA |
| Kok Lay Teo | Curtin University | Austrialia |
| Fengqi You | Cornell University | USA |
| Karl Tapio Westerlund | Åbo Akademi University | Finland |
| Henry Wolkowicz | University of Waterloo | Canada |
| Graham Wood | Macquarie University | Australia |
| Zelda Zabinsky | University of Washington | USA |
| Anatoly Zhigljavsky | Cardiff University | UK |
| Antanas Zilinskas | Vilnius University | Lithuania |
| Julius Zilinskas | Vilnius University | Lithuania |
