VOCAL-2008

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:

The Veszprém Optimization Conference: Advanced Algorithms
                       (VOCAL-2008)
   December 15-17,  Veszprém, Hungary
Faculty of  Information Technology, Pannon University
          http://www.dcs.vein.hu/vocal/

The Veszprém Optimization Conference: Advanced Algorithms will be held
at the Regional Centre of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Veszprém
(VEAB <http://www.veab.mta.hu/vrchas.html>),  Hungary, December 15-17,
2007. The conference will be hosted by the Faculty of Information Technology, Pannon University.

SCOPE: The VOCAL conference focuses on recent advances on optimization
algorithms: continues and discrete; complexity and convergence
properties, high performance optimization software and novel
applications are reviewed as well. We aim to bring together researchers
from both the theoretical and applied communities in the framework of a
medium-scale event.

INVITED TALKS
Distinguished researchers will give featured invited talks on topics
of wide interest. Confirmed invited speakers include:

Rainer E. Burkard, Technical University Graz
Christodoulos A. Floudas, Princeton University
Monique Laurent, CWI Amsterdam
Katya Scheinberg, T.J. Watson, Research Center, IBM
Fabio Schoen, University, of Florence
Philippe Toint, University of Namur
Ya-xian Yuan, Cjinese Academy of Sciences

CONTRIBUTED TALKS
Each accepted paper will be allotted a 25 minutes talk. Authors wishing
to speak should submit an abstract via the conference WEB page by September
30, 2008.

Deadline for abstract submission: September 30, 2008.
Notification of acceptance / Program available October 30 2008.
Deadline for early registration: October 30, 2008.
Conference begins on December 15 at 7:30 a.m. and ends December 17 at
6:00 p.m., 2008.

On behalf of the Organizing Committee
Tamas Terlaky, terlaky@mcmaster.ca (Chair, McMaster University)
Please send enquiries to: Botond Bertok <bertok@dcs.vein.hu>