In honor of Rob Freund's 40 years of research in continuous optimization.

You are invited to the one-day workshop on Modern Continuous Optimization, happening on August 19th, 2023, at MIT Sloan School of Management. The workshop aims to bring together researchers to discuss recent developments, new trends, and challenges in continuous optimization and its applications. It is in honor of Professor Robert M. Freund's 70th birthday and 40 years of research in continuous optimization at MIT.

https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/freund-optimization-workshop/home

The confirmed speakers include…

• Damek Davis, Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University

• Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington

• Benjamin Grimmer, Department of Applied Math and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University

• Adrian Lewis, Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University

• Javier F. Peña, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

• Michael J. Todd, Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University

• Levent Tunçel, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo

• Robert J. Vanderbei, Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University

• Stephen A. Vavasis, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo

• Zikai Xiong, Operations Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

More details with respect to registration and scheduling can be found here.

Any questions can be sent to Ahmed Abusharkh via email ahmedabu@mit.edu.