Dear Friends and Colleagues,
This is the 3rd call for participation for the Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA) 2023 Conference, which is organized by the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA. MOPTA 2023 will take place on August 16-18, 2023.
Registration
Registration for the conference is now open at https://coral.ise.lehigh.edu/~mopta/registrationfees.php
All the conference fees cover breakfast, lunch, and coffee breaks for each day of the conference, and also a cocktail reception and the conference banquet, which are scheduled for August 17, 2023. The conference fees for students/postdocs also cover the Student Social, which is scheduled for August 16, 2023.
Distinguished Plenary Speakers
Laura Albert (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Omar Ghattas (The University of Texas at Austin)
Julie Simmons Ivy (North Carolina State University)
Stefanie Jegelka (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Fatma Kılınç-Karzan (Carnegie Mellon University)
Xiaodi Wu (University of Maryland)
Wotao Yin (Alibaba Group US)
Contributed Talks, Invited Talks, Poster Presentations, and Organized Sessions
Authors are allowed to submit more than one abstract and give more than one talk. MOPTA conference sessions consist of three 30-minute presentations, including Q&A. Attendees who wish to organize one or more sessions should fill out the form "MOPTA 2023 Session Submission" available at https://coral.ise.lehigh.edu/~mopta/abstracts and ask each speaker to submit their abstracts as invited talks.
For more details, visit https://coral.ise.lehigh.edu/~mopta/abstracts
15th AIMMS-MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition
The case study for the 15th AIMMS/MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition has been posted (see https://coral.ise.lehigh.edu/~mopta/competition). The goal of this year's competition is to plan locations of electric vehicle charging stations under uncertainty.
First Prize: $1200 for the winning team (+ full scholarship, not including travel, for the AIMMS Campus 2024 event).
Second Prize: $600 for the second team.
Third Prize: $300 for the third team.
Half-price tickets to the AIMMS Campus 2023 event are available to all teams 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.
For more details about the AIMMS Campus 2023 event, visit https://www.aimms.com/about/events/aimms-campus/
Important Dates
- Abstract Deadline: Monday, May 29, 2023
- Early Registration Deadline: Monday, June 12, 2023 (All speakers must register by this date)
- Registration Deadline: Monday, August 7, 2023 (Only on-site registration is allowed after this date)
- 15th AIMMS-MOPTA Competition Deadline: May 31, 2023, 23:59 Eastern Daylight Time
For more information, please visit https://coral.ise.lehigh.edu/~mopta/
We look forward to welcoming you at MOPTA 2023!
Tommaso Giovannelli,
Chair of the MOPTA 2023 Committee
MOPTA 2023 Committee:
Tommaso Giovannelli (chair)
Xiu Yang (AIMMS-MOPTA competition chair)
Tamás Terlaky
Frank E. Curtis
Lawrence V. Snyder
Luis Nunes Vicente
Aida Khajavirad
Alberto Lamadrid
Akwum Onwunta
Ted K. Ralphs
Daniel P. Robinson
Karmel S. Shehadeh
Luis F. Zuluaga
Albert S. Berahas
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Tommaso Giovannelli
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Lehigh University
Bethlehem PA
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