MPDP - 20

Twentieth Symposium on
Mathematical Programming
with Data Perturbations
May 21-22, 1998
Washington, DC, USA

Symposium materials:

Highlights of last year's symposium:

Invitation

The Twentieth Symposium on Mathematical Programming with Data Perturbations will be held at The George Washington University on 21-22 May 1998. You are cordially invited to attend.

The time - Thursday and Friday before Memorial Day - is ideal for visiting Washington, D.C.

Interest in sensitivity and stability issues in optimization has remained strong. Our symposium last year was outstanding. New areas and important applications continue to emerge, e.g. recent connections between polynomial complexity and perturbation theory, and stability results for non-unique solutions, control and nonsmooth problems.

A call for papers is enclosed. Tutorial expositions as well as current research results are most appropriate. We also encourage the presentation of applications and case studies where perturbation results are known or, where the methodology is thought to be relevant, of unsolved problems and areas of potentially fruitful research. Our forum is suitable for researchers looking for current applications and for practitioners looking for the latest technique.

Should you wish to attend, submit a title for a talk or make a comment, please do so on the enclosed registration form, or mail/e-mail to any of the organizers. We would also appreciate your circulating this invitation.

At this time there are no plans for other symposia on Mathematical Programming with Data Perturbations, so MPDP-20 is likely to be the last of a very good series.

The 70th Birthday of Tony Fiacco

was on April 4, 1998. We'll celebrate Tony's birthday, and reflect on his profound contributions and many good deeds. We'll also celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Fiacco and McCormick classic Sequential Unconstrained Minimization Techniques (Wiley, 1968).

Call for papers

The TWENTIETH Symposium on Mathematical Programming with Data Perturbations will be held at George Washington University's Marvin Center on 21-22 May 1998. This Symposium is designed to bring together practitioners who use mathematical programming optimization models and deal with questions of sensitivity analysis, with researchers who are developing techniques applicable to these problems.

CONTRIBUTED papers in mathematical programming are solicited in the following ares:

  1. Sensitivity and stability analysis and their applications
  2. Solution methods for problems involving implicitly defined functions
  3. Solution methods for problems involving deterministic or stochastic parameter changes.
  4. Solution approximation techniques and error analysis.

"CLINICAL" presentations that describe problems in sensitivity analysis encountered in applications are also invited.

ABSTRACTS of papers intended for presentation at the Symposium can be sent using the registration form below, or sent by mail or e-mail to any of the members of the Organizing Committee. Abstracts should provide a good technical summary of key results, avoid the use of mathematical symbols and references, not exceed 500 words, and include a title and the name and full address of each author. The deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 March 1998.

APPROXIMATELY 30 minutes aill be allocated for the presentation of each paper. A blackboard and overhead projector will be available.

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Registration Form

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Please give your suggestions concerning suitable tutorial lectures and indicate whether you might like to give one.

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Deadlines

Sponsored by the Department of Operations Research
School of Engineering and Applied Science
The George Washington University
Washington, DC 20052, USA

Telephone: +1-202-994-7511, Fax: +1-202-994-0245