Conference: ICCOPTII - Second International Conference on Continuous Optimization; McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; August 12-16, 2007

第二届持续优化国际会议将于2007年8月在加拿大安大略汉密尔顿的麦克马斯特大学举行。会议之前将举办为期两天的暑期学校，几位杰出学者将为高级研究生和博士后研究员提供持续优化选定主题的课程。会议有三个目标：（a）为美国和国际研究人员和从业人员提供一个重点论坛，以促进在持续优化中快速交流最新成果和有前途的想法，（B）为研究生和初级研究人员提供教育机会，以了解持续优化的最新发展，以及（c）鼓励女性和少数民族研究人员在运筹学和计算科学这一重要领域工作。 该项目得到了土木工程、机械制造创新部门和国际科学与工程办公室的运筹学项目的支持。优化在过去的四十年里已经发展成为一门蓬勃发展的学科，具有强大的理论基础，并在许多实际应用领域发挥着重要作用。 随着对许多物理和科学系统的改进操作的需求的增加，优化技术的作用正在迅速增长。 会议将为持续优化的持续研究提供动力，而暑期学校将特别强调高性能计算优化。 除了特定应用领域，更广泛的影响包括探索大规模持续优化将如何影响网络基础设施和多核网络计算。

The second International Conference on Continuous Optimization will be held at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada in August 2007. The Conference will be preceded by a two-day Summer School, where several distinguished scholars will offer classes on selected topics in continuous optimization for advanced graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The goal of the Conference is threefold: (a) to provide a focused forum for US and international researchers and practitioners to facilitate the rapid exchange of state-of-the-art results and promising ideas within continuous optimization, (b) to offer educational opportunities to graduate students and junior researchers to learn about the latest developments in continuous optimization, and (c) to encourage women and minority researchers to work in this important area of Operations Research and Computational Science. This project is supported by the Operations Research Program of the Civil, Mechanical & Manufacturing Innovation Division, and the Office of International Science and Engineering.Optimization has evolved over the past four decades into a thriving discipline that has strong theoretical underpinnings and plays a major role in many practical application areas. As the need for improved operation of many physical and scientific systems arises, the role of optimization techniques is growing quickly. The conference will provide a stimulus for sustained research in continuous optimization, while the summer school will have a particular emphasis on high-performance computational optimization. Beyond the application specific domains, broader impacts include the exploration of how large-scale continuous optimization will affect and be affected by cyber-infrastructure and multi-core networked computing.