Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We are thrilled to announce the opening of the
15th AIMMS-MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition.
The competition is organized by the conference organizers of MOPTA and AIMMS. The first phase's submission deadline is
May 31, 2023, 23:59 Eastern Time. Finalists are expected to attend and present their results at the
2023 MOPTA Conference to be held on
August 16-18, 2023, at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA.
This year's challenge: The goal of the competition this year is to plan locations of electric vehicle charging stations under uncertainty. The problem description is posted on the competition website:
coral.ise.lehigh.edu/~mopta/competitionEligibility:
Information on eligibility, registration, submission, and competition format are posted on the
competition website. Teams of at most three students can participate and should list a faculty advisor. The team leader must be a graduate student, though the other team members can be advanced undergraduate students.
Each team member must be registered as a full-time student at a recognized educational institution during the Spring term of the 2022-2023 Academic Year. Students with any background are eligible.
Collaboration between students from different departments is strongly encouraged. Each finalist team will receive free registration for the conference for up to two team members. As the conference is international, so is the competition. Teams from all over the world can participate, as long as at least one team member can come to the conference, should the team make it to the final round. The official language of the competition is English.
Prize:First Prize: $1200 for the winning team (+ full scholarship, not including travel, for the AIMMS Campus 2023 event).
Second Prize: $600 for the second team (+ half-price tickets to the AIMMS Campus 2023 event).
Third Prize: $300 for the third team (+ half-price tickets to the AIMMS Campus 2023 event).
The scholarship and the half-price tickets to the AIMMS Campus 2023 event are only available to finalists that use AIMMS as the software platform for their submissions.
Also, the
10 best teams that use AIMMS as the software platform for their submissions will be awarded $100 in prize money.
Teams will be ranked by a panel of judges, including representatives from both the conference organizing committee and AIMMS.
See also:For more details about the AIMMS Campus 2023 event, visit
https://www.aimms.com/about/events/aimms-campus/For more details about the competition, visit
coral.ise.lehigh.edu/~mopta/competitionWe look forward to welcoming you at MOPTA 2023.
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Xiu Yang
Assistant Professor
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Lehigh University