INFORMS Open Forum

Dear Friends and Colleagues,


The Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISE) at Lehigh University invites you to contribute to the Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA) 2023 Conference, which will take place at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA on August 16-18, 2023.


MOPTA conferences bring together a diverse group of researchers from both discrete and continuous optimization, working on both theoretical and applied aspects. There will be invited plenary talks from distinguished speakers as well as contributed talks, organized sessions, and poster sessions, spread over three days. Our goal is to present a diverse set of exciting new developments from different optimization areas while at the same time providing a setting that will allow increased interaction among the participants.


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)


REGISTRATION:
Registration for the conference will open in January 2023.


CONTRIBUTED TALKS, INVITED TALKS, POSTER PRESENTATIONS, AND ORGANIZED SESSIONS:
Abstracts for contributed talks, invited talks, and poster presentations are now being accepted. 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 ask each speaker to submit their abstracts as invited talks and inform Tommaso Giovannelli (tog220(at)lehigh(dot)edu) of the session title, the names of the speakers, and the titles of the talks in their sessions.
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 will be posted in January 2023.
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 used 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/
For more details about the competition, visit https://coral.ise.lehigh.edu/~mopta/competition


IMPORTANT DATES:
- MOPTA Conference: August 16-18, 2023
- Abstract Deadline: Monday, May 29, 2023
- Early Registration Deadline: Monday, June 12, 2023 (All speakers must register by this date)
- Registration Deadline: Friday, August 11, 2023 (Only on-site registration is allowed after this date)


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






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Tommaso Giovannelli
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Lehigh University
Bethlehem PA 
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