Dear Colleagues,
Welcome to attend the 8th INFORMS Optimization Society Conference in March 15-17, 2020 in Greenville, SC. The 2020 theme of the conference is Bridging Data and Decision Making. The Greenville, SC area is widely regarded as one of the top downtown areas in the country, and promises a wealth of entertainment options in a comfortable, safe, and beautiful locale. The conference will be held in Westin Poinsett, a historical hotel located at the heart of downtown Greenville, SC.
Conference website: https://cecas.clemson.edu/informs-conference/
Abstract submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ios2020
Abstract submission deadline: January 1, 2020 (Note the new submission deadline!)
Plenary Speakers
- Cynthia Rudin (Duke)
- Pascal Van Hentenryck (Georgia Tech)
- Juan Pablo Vielma (MIT)
- Andreas Waechter (Northwestern)
Submission Guidelines
An abstract of no more than 200 words should be submitted through the submission page. Names and affiliations of all authors should be provided, with the presenting author listed first. For the first time in the history of INFORMS Optimization Society Conference, we plan to have a refereed abstracts track, plus a best paper award to be given to the submission in this category. Authors who choose to compete for the best paper award at INFORMS Optimization Society Conference should submit an extended abstract up to four pages, in addition to the abstract of the talk. In this extended abstract, the authors must include a publicly accessible link to the full manuscript, e.g., Optimization Online, ArXiv, etc.
Program Committees
Organizing committee chairs:
- Akshay Gupte (Clemson University)
- Yuyuan "Lance" Ouyang (Clemson University)
- J. Cole Smith (Syracuse University)
- Yongjia Song (Clemson University)
Fundraising Chair:
- Jeff Kharoufeh (Clemson University)
Track chairs:
- Computational Optimization
- Dimitri Papageorgiou (Exxon Mobil Research & Engineering)
- Discrete Optimization
- Robert Hildebrand (Virginia Tech)
- Global Optimization
- Georgina Hall (INSEAD)
- Aida Khajavirad (Rutgers University & New York University)
- Linear & Conic Optimization
- Fatma Kilinc-Karzan (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Somayeh Moazeni (Stevens Institute of Technology)
- Network Optimization
- Ilya Safro (Clemson University)
- Jorge Sefair (Arizona State University)
- Nonlinear Optimization
- Shiqian Ma (University of California – Davis)
- Optimization under Uncertainty
- Ruiwei Jiang (University of Michigan – Ann Arbor)
- Phebe Vayanos (University of Southern California)
- Optimization in Data Science
- Rahul Mazumder (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Damek Davis (Cornell University)
- Emerging Applications of Optimization
- Thiago Serra (Bucknell University)
- Siqian Shen (University of Michigan – Ann Arbor)
Please contact with the track chairs if you are interested in organizing a session or contributing a presentation in a specific track. If you are unsure about which track to submit to, please contact with the organizing committee.
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Yongjia Song
Assistant Professor
Clemson University
Clemson SC
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