ICCOPT (International Conference on Continuous Optimization) is a forum for researchers and professionals interested in continuous optimization, which takes place every three years. The first version was made in 2004 at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York, USA) and the second version was in 2007 at McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada).
This year our country was the place for the international event that and was organized by the Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM) of the Faculty of the Physical Sciences and Mathematics (FCFM) of the Universidad de Chile from 24 to 29 July.
The International Conference (ICCOPT 2010), took place in the building Tecnoaulas of the Faculty of Economics and Business (FEN) of the Universidad de Chile, addressed in Diagonal Paraguay 257, Santiago, it began on July 24 with the Winter School (School Continuous Optimization and Mathematical Modeling), approached to PhD students and young researchers.
During the Winter School, two courses were provided. The first, “Optimising natural resources management”, given on Saturday July 24 by the professors Felipe Álvarez and Héctor Ramírez from the Universidad de Chile (CMM), Pedro Gajardo and Adriana Piazza from of UTFSM, and from the Université Paris-Est, Michel De Lara.
On Sunday July 25 was given the second course, “Optimization under uncertainty,” by the teachers Andrzej Ruszczyski, Rutgers University, USA; Darinka Dentcheva, Stevens Institute of Technology USA; Alexander Shapiro, Georgia Tech, USA and Roger Wets, University of California, Davis, USA.
The conference, attended by over 200 specialists and advanced students, was structured in a series of talks and debates on specific topics, as well as poster-sessions.
At the same time, 12 international leading researchers gave Plenary and Semi Plenary Conferences, where the state of the art presented in several areas of the field of optimization, both theoretical aspects and their industrial applications.
The Plenary Conferences were given by a speaker in the morning and two semi plenary speakers in the afternoon related topics each day.
The Plenary Conferences were given by Ignacio Grossmann, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, Luis N. Vicente, University of Coimbra, Portugal; Roberto Cominetti, Universidad de Chile, and Philippe Toint, FUNDP, Belgium.
Meanwhile, the Semi Plenary Conferences were given by Zhi Quan Luo, University of Minnesota, USA; Darinka Dentcheva, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA; René Henrion, Weierstrass Institute Berlin, Germany, Mikhail Solodov, IMPA, Brazil, Marco Locatelli, Universita ' di Parma, Italy; Xiaojun Chen, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Jorge Nocedal, Northwestern University, USA and Stefan Ulbrich, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany.
The National Organizing Committee was settled by Alejandro Jofré (President, Universidad de Chile), Roberto Cominetti (Vice President, Universidad de Chile), Rafael Correa (Second Vice-President, Universidad de Chile), Felipe Álvarez (Universidad de Chile) Jorge Amaya (Universidad de Chile), Óscar Cornejo (Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción), Fabián Flores-Bazán (Universidad de Concepción), Pedro Gajardo (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María), Fernando Ordóñez (University Southern California and Universidad de Chile), Héctor Ramírez (Universidad de Chile) and Jorge Rivera (Universidad de Chile).
The meeting was scientifically monitored by an International Program Committee, whose members also come from 10 different countries and their involvement not only confirms the mark has acquired prestige in the international Chilean Applied Mathematics concert, most notably the theoretical and industrial developments carried put at the Center for Mathematical Modeling of the Universidad de Chile.
The event was sponsored by the Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences (FCFM) and the Faculty of Economy and Business (FEN) of the Universidad de Chile, The National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the Comisión de Ciencia y Tecnología de Chile (CONICYT), the Iniciativa Científica Milenio (MSI), the Instituto de Sistemas Complejos de Ingeniería (ISCI) and SAS software solutions.
Cocktail
On Monday July 26 at 18:30 hrs. The Local Organizing Committee gave a reception cocktail for all attendees in the lobby of the building Tecnoaulas of the Faculty of Economics and Business, at which participants could share with their colleagues, enjoy a pleasant moment and change points of view about the presentations offered in the event.
Attended the Local Organizing Committee members and the Director of CMM, Jaime San Martín.
Dinner
On Thursday July 29 at 21 hrs, a closing ceremony dinner was held on the Castillo Hidalgo, located at the top of the Cerro Santa Lucia.
At the end of the dinner, the Chair, Alejandro Jofré, present to the guests a sample of different national folk dance by the group “Antumapu” of the Universidad de Chile.
Attended to the closing ceremony dinner the Dean, Francisco Brieva, the vice-dean and member of the Local Organizing Committee Mr. Felipe Álvarez and his wife, the Director of the CMM Jaime San Martín and the rest of the Local Organizing Committee members and their wives and companions.
