Second International Conference on Complementarity, Duality, and Global Optimization in Science and Engineering; Gainesville, Florida; February 28, 2007 through March 2, 2007

第二届科学与工程中的互补性、对重性和全局优化国际会议（CDGO-07）将于2007年2月28日至3月2日在佛罗里达州盖恩斯维尔的佛罗里达大学举行。今年的会议是自2005年8月在弗吉尼亚州布莱克斯堡的弗吉尼亚理工学院和州立大学举行的第一届科学与工程中的互补性、对偶性和全局优化国际会议（http://www.conted.vt.edu/cdgo/）开始的系列会议中的第二次会议。来自不同国家的140多名与会者参加了第一次会议，他们的贡献将出现在《全球优化杂志》的特刊上，以及b施普林格《力学与数学进展》系列丛书的一卷。预计今年的参与率也会很高。互补性和对偶性是在全局优化、大规模计算和工程科学多学科研究中发挥重要作用的基本概念。这个引人入胜的会议将为这个高度肥沃和不断扩大的领域提供一个令人兴奋的思想交流论坛。本次会议的主要目标是汇集最活跃的数学家、工程师和科学家，他们来自不同的科学学科，致力于非线性系统、工程力学和计算方法的互补性、对偶性和全局优化，重点是在科学和工程中的应用。他们将跨越应用数学、计算机科学、工程学、计算化学和生物学的学科界限，交流新的思想，并提出新的计算方法和全局优化的应用。会议记录将在施普林格优化及其应用系列的精装本以及全球优化与计算管理科学杂志的几个特刊上发表。预计这次会议将开辟优化和工程科学的新趋势。此外，它将激励年轻的教师和学生冒险进入这个丰富的研究领域。

The Second International Conference on Complementarity, Duality, and Global Optimization in Science and Engineering (CDGO-07) will be held at the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, from February 28 to March 2, 2007. This year's conference is the second event in the series of conferences started with The First International Conference on Complementarity, Duality, and Global Optimization in Science and Engineering (http://www.conted.vt.edu/cdgo/) held at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia, in August 2005. More than 140 participants from different countries have attended the first meeting, and their contributions will appear in special issues of the Journal of Global Optimization, and a volume of the Springer book series on Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics. A high rate of participation is expected this year as well. Complementarity and Duality are fundamental concepts that play an important role in global optimization, large-scale computation, and multi- disciplinary research in engineering and science. This fascinating conference will provide an exciting forum for the exchange of ideas in this highly fertile and ever-expanding area.A primary goal of this conference is to bring together the most active mathematicians, engineers, and scientists from a variety of scientific disciplines who are working on complementarity, duality, and global optimization in nonlinear systems, engineering mechanics, and computational methods, with an emphasis on applications in science and engineering. They will exchange new ideas across discipline boundaries of applied mathematics, computer science, engineering, computational chemistry and biology and present new computational methods and applications of global optimization. The conference proceedings will be published in a hardbound volume by the Springer Series on Optimization and its Applications as well as in several special issues of the Journal of Global Optimization and Computational Management Science. It is expected that this conference will open new trends in optimization and engineering science. Furthermore, it will stimulate young faculty and students to venture into this rich domain of research.