U.S. - Mexico Workshop in Numerical Analysis; Oaxaca, Mexico, January 2007

这一美洲计划奖将支持15名美国研究人员参加2007年1月在墨西哥瓦哈卡举行的为期四天的优化和应用国际研讨会。这次研讨会由西北大学的Jorge Nocedal博士和IBM Watson研究中心的Katya Scheinberg博士以及墨西哥墨西哥城技术自主学院的Jose Luis Morales博士和Zeferino Parada博士共同组织，将包括初级和高级科学家和研究人员以及高级美国研究生。优化是一个影响许多不同领域的领域，如数值分析、算法、软件设计、金融工程、图像处理和无线通信。这次研讨会将侧重于非线性优化和应用，并应对不满足约束条件、涉及不确定性和规模非常大的问题提出新的见解。这次会议为来自美国和墨西哥的初级和高级科学家探索潜在的应用领域、未来的研究访问、学生交流和联合合作提供了一个极好的机会。

This Americas Program award will support the participation of a group of fifteen U.S. researchers in a four-day international workshop on optimization and applications that will be held in Oaxaca, Mexico, January 2007. The workshop, organized by Dr. Jorge Nocedal of Northwestern University and Dr. Katya Scheinberg from the IBM Watson Research Center, together with Drs. Jose Luis Morales and Zeferino Parada of the Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, in Mexico City, Mexico, will include junior and senior scientists and researchers, as well as advanced US graduate students.Optimization is a field with impact on many different areas, such as numerical analysis, algorithms, software design, financial engineering, image processing, and wireless communications. This workshop will focus on non-linear optimization and on applications, and should produce new insights on problems that do not satisfy constraint qualifications, that involve uncertainty, and that are of very large dimension. The meeting offers an excellent opportunity for junior and senior scientists from the US and Mexico to explore potential areas of application, future research visits, student exchanges, and joint collaborations.