Program (updated 28 July, 2012)
Detailed abstracts (updated 12 July, 2012)

Confirmed Plenary Speakers

• Kurt M. Anstreicher (U. of Iowa)
• Edgar Blanco (MIT)
• Andrew V. Goldberg (Microsoft Research)
• Mark S. Roberts (U. of Pittsburgh)
• Michael Trick (Carnegie Mellon U.)
• Reha Tütüncü (Goldman Sachs)
• Santosh S. Vempala (Georgia Tech)
• Henry Wolkowicz (U. of Waterloo)
• Stephen J. Wright (U. of Wisconsin-Madison)

Confirmed Invited Sessions

• Miguel F. Anjos (Polytechnique Montréal): Optimization for the Smart Grid
• Turgay Ayer (Georgia Tech): Healthcare Management
• Michael R. Bartolacci (Penn State Berks): Hybrid Optimization
• Hande Benson (Drexel U.): Interior-Point Methods
• Samuel A. Burer (U. of Iowa): Conic Programming
• Frank E. Curtis (Lehigh U.): Nonlinear Optimization
• Peter I. Frazier (Cornell U.): Stochastic Optimization/Statistical Learning
• Willem-Jan van Hoeve (Carnegie Mellon U.): Constraint Programming
• Miguel Lejeune (George Washington U.): Financial Optimization/Engineering
• Yanjun Li (Purdue U.): Integer Programming/Combinatorial Optimization
• Fatma Kilinç-Karzan (Carnegie Mellon U.): Compressed Sensing/Robust Optimization
• Javier Peña (Carnegie Mellon U.): First Order Methods & Complexity
• Eugene Perevalov (Lehigh U.): Optimization, Information and Complexity
• Rommel Regis (Saint Joseph’s U.): Derivative-free and Surrogate-based Optimization
• Katya Scheinberg (Lehigh U.): First-Order Methods
• Larry Snyder (Lehigh U.): Optimization Models for Electricity Systems

Previous MOPTAs

• MOPTA 2001 (McMaster University)
• MOPTA 2002 (McMaster University)
• MOPTA 2003 (McMaster University)
• MOPTA 2004 (McMaster University)
• MOPTA 2005 (University of Windsor)
• MOPTA 2006 (University of Waterloo)
• ICCOPT/MOPTA 2007 (McMaster University)
• MOPTA 2008 (University of Guelph)
• MOPTA 2009 (Lehigh University)
• MOPTA 2010 (Lehigh University)
• MOPTA 2011 (Lehigh University)