Date : 29 May - 1 June, 2006
Venue : Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Shanghai is known as the "Oriental Paris" and "Pearl of China". As the largest and most prosperous city in the nation, Shanghai is the economic, financial and cultural center. What make Shanghai particularly attractive are the many different styles of architecture and design throughout the city. Shanghai has a rich history and culture with more than 70 popular historic and cultural sites. In Shanghai, there is a rapidly growing new Pudong district, China’s largest Economic Zone. It is characterized by its famous landmark, the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, and a cluster of newly built skyscrapers. Shanghai is within 1-2 hours driving distance of the famous garden cities Suzhou and Hangzhou.
Aims :
The conference aims to provide a forum for eminent researchers and practitioners working in nonlinear programming and its applications to gather together to report and exchange their latest works.
Sponsors :
Fudan University (FU)
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)
The Institute of Systems Science (ISS) at Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science (AMSS)
Topics :
Engineering Applications
Financial Optimization
Generalized Convexity
Global Optimization
Nonlinear Programming
Variational Analysis
Optimal Control
Vector Optimization
Variational Inequalities
Set-valued Optimization
Organizing Committees
Conference Co-Chairs :
Shouyang Wang (ISS), Xiaoqi Yang (PolyU) and Daoli Zhu (FU)
Program Committee :
Xuexiang Huang (Co-Chair, FU) and Heung Wong (Co-Chair, PolyU) and Hanqin Zhang (AMSS)
Local Organizing Committee :
QingXu (Chair, FU), Xi Dai (FU) and Qinmin Wu (FU), Xiaoguang Yang (AMSS) and Shushang Zhu (FU)
Secretary : Eva Yiu (PolyU)
Keynote Speakers
Alfred Auslender, Universit Claude-Bernard (Lyon I)
Alexander D. Ioffe, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
R.Tyrrell Rockafellar, University of Washington
Invited Speakers :
Jim Burke, University of Washington
Guangya Chen, The Institute of Systems Science
Shucherng Fang, North Carolina State University
David Yang Gao, Virginia Tech University
Vaithilingam Jeyakumar, The University of New South Wales
Masao Fukushima, Kyoto University
Nicolas Hadjisavvas, University of the Agean
Adrian Lewis, Cornell University
Dinh The Luc, Universit d'Avignon
Boris Mordukhovich, Wayne State University
Liqun Qi, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Alex M. Rubinov, University of Ballarat
Jie Sun, National University of Singapore
Marc Teboulle, Tel-Aviv University
Michel Thera, Universit de Limoges
Jen-Chih Yao, National Sun Yat-Sen University
Jane Ye, University of Victoria
Shouyang Wang, The Institute of Systems Science
Yin Zhang, Rice University
Daoli Zhu, Fudan University
Qiji Zhu, Western Michigan University
Scientific Committee :
Guangya Chen (Co-Chair), The Institute of System Sciences, CAS, China
Shucherng Fang, North Carolina State University, USA
David Yang Gao, Virginia Tech University, USA
Masao Fukushima, Kyoto University, Japan
Carl T. Kelley, North Carolina State University, USA
Duan Li, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Panos M. Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
Liqun Qi (Co-Chair), The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Alex M. Rubinov, University of Ballarat, Australia
Siegfried Schaible, University of California, Riverside, USA
Jie Sun, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Michel Thera, Universite de Limoges, France
Wenyu Sun, Nanjing Normal University
Kok Lay Teo, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Jen-Chih Yao, National Sun Yat-Sen University
Yaxiang Yuan, Institute of Computing Mathematics and Engineering Computations
WuyiYue, Konan University, Japan
Xiangsun Zhang, Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences
Yin Zhang, Rice University, USA
Special Journal Issues :
Optimization – Guest editors :
Shouyang Wang, Xiaoqi Yang and Daoli Zhu
Mathematical Methods of Operations Research – Guest editors :
Guangya Chen, Xuexing Huang and Xinmin Yang
How to participate :
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