[May 15 Abstract Deadline] 2024 INFORMS Annual Meeting
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📍Seattle 📆 October 20-23, 2024
Smarter decisions for a better world.

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📌The deadline for applications to the Esi Summer Institute in Ischia May 15 2024. Submit your application. euro-online.org

The last SPS seminar of the season, a tutorial by Marco Campi, starts at 10am EST today! Hoping to see many of you soon!

Spoilers from Opt Online [Apr2024]:
(SP) Random coord. descent; Faster stoch. accelerated gradient desc.
(RO) Clustering-based uncertainty set; Max-min-max algo; Factored MDP; DRO with dec-dep info discovery; Γ-robust bilevel problems; Selective adaptability; Drone delivery

Don’t miss our very first Junior Session at the SPS seminar series, today at 10-11am EST, where Renata Pedrini and Aras Selvi will present their recent works.

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Next up in the SPS seminars: Tomorrow (Apr 12) at 10-11am EST, Prof. Céline Gicquel will talk about combining polyhedral approaches and SDDiP for solving the uncapacitated lot-sizing problem under uncertainty.

For more information, please visit:
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If you missed any of our SPS virtual seminars, the most recent one by Beste Basciftci or the earlier ones by Tito Homem-de-Mello, Yongjia Song , Yiling Zhang , Anton Kleywegt, or David Woodruff, you can catch up via the recording posted on our Youtube channel:
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Spoilers from Opt Online [Mar2024]:
(SP) Max cont. DR-submodular functions; UB framework for dist. ambiguity; SAA & model predictive control; Uncertainty quantification for multiobj stoch QP
(RO) Nonlinear network design; Frequency regulation+storage

Next up in the SPS seminars: This Friday (Mar 29) at 10-11am EST, Prof. Beste Basciftci will talk about Partially Adaptive (Multistage) Stochastic Programming Approaches.

For more information, please visit our seminar website:
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Don't miss tomorrow's seminar to hear about various aspects of employing stochastic programming in practice.

Curious to hear about transition to clean energy in Chile using stochastic programming? Prof. Tito Homem-de-Mello will tell us all the challenges and how to overcome them next Friday (Mar 15) at 10-11am (EST).

More info @ our website: sites.google.com/d/1foTh9urdgUm…

Spoilers from Opt Online [Feb2024]:
(SP) Dist. fair SO; 1st-order algos for nonconv min-max opt; MICP represent. of dist. favor. opt; Problem-param-free decentralized nonconv SO; Variance red. and low sample complex. in SO
(RO) ARO for fleet sizing; 4th-order marg. moment model

This Friday (Mar 1) at 10-11am, in the SPS seminars, Prof. Yongjia Song Yongjia Song will talk about Multi-stage Stochastic Programming for Hurricane Relief Logistics Planning.

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This Friday at 10-11am, in the SPS seminars, Prof. Yiling Zhang Yiling Zhang will talk about Bilevel Programs under Uncertainty.

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ECSO-CMS 2024 Conference:
The next EURO-CMS conference will take place in Stockholm, in the period July 4-5, 2024, just after the EURO conference. Please note it in your agendas already!

EURO Summer Institute on 'Decision-Making Under Uncertainty for Commodities and Financial Markets', Ischia (Naples) Italy, Sep 15 – 25, 2024, organized by EURO Working Group on Stochastic Optimization in cooperation with EWGCFM. For more information, please check out esi2024.unibg.it.

Spoilers from Opt Online [Jan 2024]:
(SP) Active set-based inexact prox bundle algo for SQP; Alternate training for multi-task NNs; Noise-tolerant opt for a robust design; Policy with guaranteed risk-adjusted perf. for MSLP
(RO) Info basis in dynamic RO; Quadratic opt via ARO

In tomorrow's SPS seminar, Prof. Anton Kleywegt will talk about Optimizing Pricing, Repositioning, Pickup Time, and Idle Time in Ride-Hailing Systems.

For more information, please visit our seminar website: sites.google.com/view/sps-semin…

The deadline for the Refereed Papers venue for the 2024 IOS Conference has been extended to January 31, 2024. More details ⬇️
ios2024.rice.edu/submission/

The recording and the slides of our first talk, by Prof. David Woodruff, are now available on the SPS seminars website: sites.google.com/view/sps-semin…