EWG EUROPT, EURO Continuous Optimization

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Web site:	http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/
Coordinator:	Prof. Dr. Marco A. Lopez-Cerda
	Dep. of Statistics and Operations Research, Alicante University, Ctra. San Vicente de Raspeig s/n, 03071 Alicante Spain.
	Phone:   +34 965 903530 Fax: +34 965 903667 Email: marco.antonio@ua.es Web page:  http://www.eio.ua.es/busqueda/infoper.asp?cod=10
Coordinator:	Prof. Kaisa Miettinen
	Department of Mathematical Information Technology P.O. Box 35 (Agora) FI-40014 University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
	Phone:   + 358 14 2604908 Fax: + 358 14 2602771 Email: kaisa.miettinen@jyu.fi Web page:  http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine /engl.html
Board:	CHAIR: Prof. Dr. Marco A. Lopez-Cerda Dep. of Statistics and Operations Research, Alicante University, Ctra. San Vicente de Raspeig s/n, 03071 Alicante Spain. Phone: +34 965 903530 Fax: +34 965 903667 Email: marco.antonio@ua.es Web page: http://www.eio.ua.es/busqueda/infoper.asp?cod=10 GENERAL VICE CHAIR: Prof. Kaisa Miettinen Department of Mathematical Information Technology, P.O. Box 35 (Agora) FI-40014 University of Jyvaskyla, Finland Phone: + 358 14 2604908 Fax: + 358 14 2602771 Email: kaisa.miettinen (at) jyu.fi Web page: http://www.mit.jyu.fi/miettine/engl.html PAST CHAIR: Prof. Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber Middle East Technical University Institute of Applied Mathematics Department of Scientific Computing Department of Financial Mathematics ODTÜ Ankara 06531 Turkey Phone: +90 312 210 5652 Fax: +90 312 210 2985 Email: gweber@metu.edu.tr Web page: http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/body1.php?PageId=0305002&PeopleId=P00033 EVENTS COORDINATOR: Prof. Mirjam Dür Phone: +49 6151 162115 Email: duer@mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de Web page: http://www.opt.tu-darmstadt.de/ NEWSLETTER-WEBPAGE EDITOR: Prof. Domingos M. Cardoso University of Aveiro Department of Mathematics Campus Universitário de Santiago 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal Phone: +351 234370661 Fax: +351 234362014 Email: dcardoso@ua.pt Web page: http://www.mat.ua.pt/dcardoso SECRETARY : Prof. Leonidas Sakalauskas Phone: +3705 2109323 Fax:+3705 2729209 Email: litors@ktl.mii.lt , sakal@ktl.mii.lt
Newsletter:	The newsletter is published electronically.
	http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/h_letters.html
Members:	Almost 1100 International composition: EUROPT has members from almost all European countries including: Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Moldava, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, TRNC, Turkey, the United Kingdom and Ukraine Trans-continental members are from Algeria, Australia, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Gambia, India, Iran, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia,Mexico, Morocco, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Oman, Singapore, South Africa and the USA. Webmasters: Basak Akteke-Ozturk Koksal Yucesoy Aysun Tezel-Ozturan supported by G.-W. Weber

Purpose and history

• to disseminate state-of-the-art knowledge and to support research in continuous optimization,
  
  
• to contribute to the education of young optimization researchers and students (organizing EURO Summer and Winter Institutes, and by announcing Ph.D. Programs etc.),
  
  
• to assist in gathering the continuous optimization community in Europe organized under the umbrella of EURO,
  
  
• to build and maintain links with sister special interest groups inside and outside EURO. Inside EURO, the working groups and chapters on Combinatorial Optimization (ECCO), on Complex Societal Problems, on Experimental Economy (E-CUBE), on Financial Modelling, on Fuzzy Sets (EUROFUSE), on Metaheuristics (EU/ME) and on Multicriteria Decision Aiding (MCDA) are among our closest sisters. In 2006, two new EURO Working Groups were founded by the iniative of EUROPT: one on OR in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine (EURO WG CBBM), and the other one on OR for Development (EURO WG ORD). Outside EURO, we have good contacts and collaborations with optimization groups of SIAM, IFORS, INFORMS, of ALIO, APOR and POP. Furthermore, we are going on
  
  
• to support the foundation of new EURO working groups,
  
  
• to establish regular information channels and regular meetings,
  
  
• to build links to users of continuous optimization methodology,
  
  
• to involve industrial organizations and users of optimization in the activities listed above,
  
  
• to initiate interdisciplinary research with colleagues from science, engineering and economy, with continuous optimization being a key technology,
  
  
• to support preparation, refereeing and editing of publications,
  
  
• vivid exchange between scientific experience and enthusiasm of the youth,
  
  
• to encouragement of building up a common and developing Europe, and
  
  
• to deepen of peace and friendship in Europe and in the world.
  
  

Past activities

• The 1st and founding EUROPT workshop "2nd IPM Workshop" took place in Budapest, Hungary, July 13-14, 2000
  (http://www.cs.elte.hu/opres/IPM2000/workshop.html).
  
  
• The EUROPT homepage was in Budapest firstly, then it moved to Ankara and is hosted now by Institute of Applied Mathematics of METU.
  
  
• EUROPT organized a number of sessions and was represented also by two semi-plenary lectures at EURO-XVIII meeting in Rotterdam (http://www.euro2001.org/).
  
  
• The 2nd EUROPT workshop "Smooth and Nonsmooth Optimization, Theory and Application" took place after the EURO-XVIII meeting in Rotterdam organized in 1991 (http://wwwhome.math.utwente.nl/%7Estillgj/snopt/index.html).
  
  
• EUROPT celebrated its 3rd annual meeting "Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization" in Istanbul, Turkey, July 4-5, 2003
  (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/contopt03/conf/index.html).
  
  
• EUROPT organized a stream of sessions for the EURO/INFORMS, Joint International Meeting, in Istanbul, Turkey, July 6-10, 2003 (former link at
  http://www.istanbul2003.org/).
  
  
• 4th EUROPT Workshop "Challenges of Continuous Optimization in Theory and Applications" on Rhodes, Greece, July 2-3, 2004
  (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/contopt04/index.html).
  
  here, the former coordinator and vice-coordinator, Tamás Terlaky and Tibor Illés, became Honorary Coordinators of EUROPT.
  
  
• At EURO XX Conference 2004 in Rhodes, Greece, July 4-7, 2004: four valuable sessions and one semi-plenary lecture by a distinguished colleague organized by EUROPT (http://www.euro-rhodes2004.org/).
  
  
• The EUROPT homepage is: http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/.
  
  
• In average, once or twice in every week, EUROPT sends most recent information, announcements, invitations, also about study and job opportunities. This newsletter by e-mails goes out from the sender address (europt-l@metu.edu.tr) (since 2003).
  
  
• EUROPT was a supporter of XX EURO Summer Institute "Stochastic and Heuristic methods in Optimization" at the Baltics, Neringa, Lithuania, June 26 - August 6, 2003 (http://www.science.mii.lt/ESIXXI/). At this event, two EUROPT members were among the invited ESI teachers.
  
  
• EURO Summer Institute "Optimization and Data Mining", ESI XXII, July 9-25, 2004 in Ankara (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/esi04/index.html), organized by EUROPT together with ORST (Turkish OR Society) and Institute of Applied Mathematics of METU, Ankara. At this event, four nowaday’s EUROPT members were among the invited ESI teachers.
  
  
• In 2004, EUROPT actively participated at the EURO initiative "Branding OR"
  (please cf.http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/BrandingOR.doc).
  
  
• Furthermore, in 2004-2005, EUROPT served for initiating and founding of the group "Young People for Operations Research in Developing Countries" (YORC) in Ankara, July 2004
  (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/Branding-OR-EUROPT-.pdf).
  
  
• In 2004, EUROPT coorganized Workshop "Sustainable Living in Rural Areas of Turkey", in Ankara, Turkey, March 7-21, 2005
  (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/workshop-program.doc), with Balaban Valley Group and Institute of Applied Mathematics of METU, Ankara, and with International and EURO Working Group on Complex Societal Problems.
  
  
• At The 8th SIAM Conference on Optimization, in Stockholm, Sweden, May 15-18, 2005, two Mini Symposia organized by EUROPT, and one Mini Symposium associated (http://www.siam.org/meetings/op05/).
  
  
• 17th EURO Mini Conference "Continuous Optimization in the Industry", in Pécs, Hungary, June 29 - July 1, 2005
  (http://www.cs.elte.hu/opres/Pecs05EUROmini/h_about.html),
  organized by EUROPT, HORS (Hungarian OR Society), University of Pécs and co-sponsored by GOR (German OR Society). At this event, three nowaday’s EUROPT members were among the invited ESI teachers.
  
  
• At IFORS 2005 on Hawaii, July 11-15, 2005, EUROPT coorganized 1 session
  (http://www.informs.org/Conf/IFORS2005/).
  
  
• At “International Symposium on Health Informatics and Bioinformatics”, Turkey '05, in Antalya, Turkey, November 10-12, 2005, EUROPT serves in program and advisory committees
  (http://hibit05.ii.metu.edu.tr/index.html). Here, EUROPT’s contribution may also be seen in the context of our engagement for the new EURO Working Group “Operational Research in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics”.
  
  
• EUROPT was a coorganizer of “Workshop on Spatial / Spatio-Temporal Data Mining (SDM) and Learning” (with Special Emphasis on Using SDM Techniques in Remote Sensing and GIS), METU, Ankara, Turkey in November 24-25, 2005 (http://www.sdm2005.metu.edu.tr/). Several EUROPT members gave presentations, e.g., 2 Keynotes. This contribution by EUROPT can also be seen in the context of our various engagement for optimization in data mining.
  
  
• In the year 2005, EUROPT submitted to EURO a proposal for a new EURO Working Group “Operational Research for Development”. This proposal became approved by Executive Committee of EURO at its meeting during IFORS 2005 (Hawaii, USA, July 11-15, 2005, http://www.euro-rhodes2004.org/). Furthermore, we submitted to EURO a proposal for a new EURO Working Group “Operational Research in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine”, the proposal became accepted by EURO EC at the occasion of its meeting at the beginning of February 2006 in Bruxelles.
  
  Furthermore, in 2005, we finalized two special issues of European Journal of Operational Research:
  
  
• EJOR Special Issue "Challenges of Continuous Optimization in Theory and Applications",
  and our following two EJOR special issues appeared:
  
  
• EJOR Special Issue “Advances in Continuous Optimization” and
  
• EJOR Special Issue “Optimization in Data Mining”.
  
  In the year 2006, there was one big and one smaller highlight events which EUROPT coorganized:
  
  
• EURO XXI 2006, 21st European Conference on Operational Research, Reykjavik, Iceland, July 2-5, 2006 (http://www.euro2006.org/). Stronger than at any EURO conference before, EUROPT contributed this time and, herewith, helped for the wealth of the program and to the conference’s success. IFORS Distinguished Lecture – by a member of EUROPT: Prof. Dr. Saul Gass. EUROPT is contributing to the program by 20 Invited Streams, by a number of special lectures and many further contributed talks given by EUROPT members. From the 11 Semi-Plenaries, 3 were given by members of EUROPT. Moreover, from the 10 Tutorials, 6 ones are proposed by streams related with our EURO WG. Furthermore, there were 5 Keynotes, 2 of which were proposed by streams related also with EUROPT. Finally, there were several Panels – 1 of which was organized by a member of our WG.
  
  
• At that occasion, moreover, we the celebrated the foundation of the two new EURO Working Groups “Operational Research in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine” and Operational Research for Development”.
  
  There were two own important own events:
  
  
• “5th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization”, Reykjavik, Iceland, June 30 – July 1, 2006
  (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/): We had 7 excellent invited talks, and many contributed talks of participants from all over the world. Because of the strong interest, there were parallel sessions of contributed talks firstly our workshop series. At the occasion of the workshop, the organizational structure of EUROPT changed towards a Management Board with its members listed above. (Please find closer information about the workshop under http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/5thEUROPTWorkshop(short).pdf.)
  
  
• EURO Summer Institute “Optimization Challenges in Engineering:Methods, Software and Applications”, Wittenberg, Germany, August 18–September 2, 2006
  (http://wwwopt.mathematik.tu-darmstadt.de/
  events/esi2006/).Partner of this special event was, in particular, the German OR Society (GOR). We learned from 9 excellent experts and spent a precious time with many young people from Europe, but also the IFORS countries outside of Europe (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/ESI2006_finalreport.pdf).
  
  As a coorganizing and helping institution, we had a number of further engagements:
  
  
• Workshop on “Complex Societal Problems, Sustainable Living and Development”, Ankara, Turkey, April 15-21, 2006 ( http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/Workshop%20on%20Complex%20Societal%20Problems.doc);
  
  
• “Workshop on Geometric Morphometry”, Ankara, Turkey, June 12-16, 2006 (http://www.metu.edu.tr/~aykut/), where a lot of methods from statistical learning and optimization serve and are promising;
  
  
• “1st Summer School Achievements and Applications of Contemporary Informatics, Mathematics and Physics”, Kiev, Ukraine, August 4-20, 2006 (http://ssa.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua/ss/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1; please visit also the report http://www.ballarat.edu.au/ard/itms/CIAO/Workshops/Programme_final-1.html);
  
  
• “5th Ballarat Workshop on Global and Nonlinear Optimization, Theory, Methods and Applications”, Ballarat, Australia, November 28-30, 2006
  (http://www.ballarat.edu.au/ard/itms/CIAO/Workshops/OTMA3.shtml);
  
  
• there, we also honoured Prof. Alexander Rubinov in memoriam: Indeed, in that year, he became EURO Fellow 2006 - the first EUROPT Fellow in the history of EUROPT. In 2006, we introduced the tradition and honorary position of the EURO Fellow;
  
  
• “Workshop on Sustainable Living at Turkish Rural Countryside”, Ankara, Turkey, June 8, 2007 (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/Workshop%20on%20Complex%20Societal%20Problems.doc );
  
  we gave a devoted contribution to
  
  
• EURO XXII 2007, 22st European Conference on Operational Research, Prague, Czech Republic, July 8-11, 2007 (http://euro2007.vse.cz/): more than 30 streams are initialized and coorganized by EUROPT and its members, and various semi-plenaries, tutorials and panels as well;
  
  and to
  
  
• “PhD Workshop in OR for Development: EURO Working Group OR for Development”, Prague, Czech Republic, July 7, 2007
  (http://www2.ing.puc.cl/~fcrespo/eurofdv/conference/homepage.htm);
  
  and celebrated our
  
  
• Joint EUROPT-OMS Conference - 2nd Conference on Optimization Methods & Software - 6th EUROPT Workshop “Advances in Continuous Optimization”, Prague, Czech Republic, July 4–7, 2007 (http://cio.umh.es/europt-oms/– with 160 participants; cf. also the report
  http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/Joint%20EUROPT-OMS%20Conference%20_short_.pdf );
  
  
• there, we also honoured Prof. Georg Still : He became EUROPT Fellow 2007!
  
  for providing our friends well internationally, we also supported the big conference
  
  
• INFORMS International Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico, July 8–11, 2007
  (http://meetings.informs.org/Puertorico2007/ );
  
  
• International Symposium on Health-Informatics and Bioinformatics, Antalya, Turkey, April 30 – May 2, 2007 (http://hibit.ii.metu.edu.tr/07/index.html; cf. also the report http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/hibit2007.doc);
  
  
• “2nd Summer School “Achievements and Applications of Contemporary Informatics, Mathematics and Physics”, Kiev, Ukraine, August 8-20, 2007
  (http://summerschool.ssa.org.ua/);
  
  We published
  
  
• EJOR Special Issue “Challenges of Continuous Optimization in Theory and Applications”.
  
  Furthermore, some of our distinguished members gave and give our best to support some further special issues:
  
  
• EJOR Special Issue “OR for Better Management of Sustainable Development” at the Occasion of EURO XXI 2006,
  
  
• CEJOR Special Issue “OR for Better Management of Sustainable Development” at the Occasion of EURO XXI 2006.
  
  In 2008, we (co-) organized
  
  
• 20th Mini EURO Conference “Continuous Optimization and Knowledge-Based Technologies” (EUROPT- 2008), Neringa, Lithuania, May 20-23 2008
  (http://www.mii.lt/EUROPT-2008);
  
  
• there, we also honoured Prof. Kees Roos: He became EUROPT Fellow 2008! Furthermore,
  
  
• “Recent Developments in Financial Mathematics and Stochastic Calculus”, Workshop in Memory of Professor Hayri Körezlioglu, Ankara, Turkey, April 25-26, 2008 (https://kolmogorov.iam.metu.edu.tr/korezlioglu/);
  
  
• “Workshop “The Simulation Tool Box for the Financial Engineer”,Ankara, Turkey, April 23-24,
  (http://korezlioglu.iam.metu.edu.tr/korezlioglu/index.php/Pre-Workshop_Seminar_Series );
  
  
• "International Workshop on Hybrid Systems: Modelling, Simulation and Optimization",Istanbul, Turkey, May 14-17, 2008
  (http://portal.ku.edu.tr/~systemslab/hs/);
  
  
• "Workshop on “Complex Societal Problems, Sustainable Living and Development”,Ankara, Turkey, May 16, 2008 ,
  (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/ ;details will follow);
  
  
• International Conference on Engineering Optimization (EngOpt 2008), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 1-5, 2008 (http://www.engopt.org/);
  
  
• “International Conference on Power Control Optimization” ,(PCO’2008), Chiang Mai, Thailand, July 18-20, 2008 (http://www.engedu2.net/ ) and
  
  
• “3rd Open Summer School-Seminar "Achievements and Applications of Contemporary Informatics,Mathematics and Physics”, (AACIMP-2008), Kyiv, Ukraine, August 11-24, 2008
  (http://summerschool.ssa.org.ua/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 )
  
  
• “Mini EURO Conference on Computational Biology, Bioinformatics and Medicine”,Rome, Italy, September 15-17, 2008
  (http://www.iasi.cnr.it/iasi/RomeConference/index.php).
  
  
  Furthermore, we support the stream preparations of
  
  
• IFORS 2008, 18th Triennial Conference of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, Sandton, South Africa, July 13-18, 2007 (http://www.orssa.org.za) and
  
  
• IFIP TC8/WG8.3 Working Conference “International Conference on Collaborative Decision Making”, (CDM’08),Toulouse, France, July 1-4, 2008 (http://www.irit.fr/CDM08/) and
  
  
• The Kerkenes Dag Project, Yozgat, Turkey, October 12, 2008
  (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/08kerk18octprog.doc ).
  
  Furthermore, in 2008, we published
  
  
• EJOR Special issue Continuous Optimization in the Industry,
  
  
• CEJOR Special Issue “Advances in Continuous Optimization”, and
  
  
• proceedings Contributions of Workshop on Recent Developments in Financial Mathematics and Stochastic Calculus in Memory of Professor Hayri Körezlioglu (Ankara, Turkey, April, 25-26, 2008), on a CD,
  
  
• ISI Proceedings of International Conference EURO Mini Conference “Continuous Optimization and Knowledge-Based Technologies” (EurOPT-2008, Neringa, Lithuania 2008),
  
  Moreover, we finalized
  
  
• the Special Issue of MMOR Devoted to ESI 2006, dedicated to the EURO Summer Institute ESI XXIV: Optimization Challenges in Engineering: Methods, Software, and Applications (Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany, August 18 – September 2, 2008),
  
  In 2009, we finalized and published
  
  
• Special issue Continuous Optimization in Finance of the journal Optimization, it appeared as Optimization 58, 3 (2009),
  
  
• AIP Proceedings (American Institute of Physics) of PCO 2010, 3rd Global Conference on Power Control and Optimization, February 2-4, 2010, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia (ISBN: 978-983-44483-1-8) and
  
  
• Special issue OR for Better Management of Sustainable Development of European Journal of Operational Research (EJOR) at the occasion of EURO XXI, supported by us, appeared as EJOR 193, 3 (March 16, 2009),
  
  We participated in some publications together with sister EURO working groups:
  
  
• D. DeTombe and G.-W. Weber, State of the Art Workshop Societal Complexity 2009, EURO XXIII Conference Bonn, Germany, Europe, July 5, 2009, 23 European Conference on Operational Research , Volume 19, Greenhill & Waterfront (publisher), Europe: Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Guilford, UK, North-America: Montreal, Canada, ISBN/EAN 978-90-77171-29-5, Version 001 (small book), Nur 916, June 2009,
  
  
• KORSD-2009 ISI Proceedings at the occasion of 5th International Vilnius Conference and EURO Mini Conference Knowledge-Based Technologies and OR Methodologies for Strategic Decisions of Sustainable Development (KORSD-2009)
  
  We also finalized the 3 special issues (at the occasion of our 20th Mini EURO Conference 2008 in Lithuania) of
  
  
• TOP (selected contributions),
  
  
• Informatica , that issue appeared as Informatica 20, 2, and and
  
  
• Technological and Economic Development of Economy (Baltic Journal on Sustainability).
  
  The special issue of the journal Optimization Methods and Software at the occasion of EURO XXII appears in 2010.
  
  Various closer details about our publications and forthcoming publications are given at the end of this homepage side.
  
  In 2009, there have been great events to which EUROPT contributed, but EUROPT also actively supported smaller events and meetings prepared by its sister EURO working groups.
  
  In fact, in 2009, we gave a strong contribution to
  
  
• EURO XXIII 2009 – 23rd European Conference on Operational Research, Bonn, Germany, July 5-8, 2009 (http://www.euro-2009.de/), for this very important event, a sensational number of streams could be prepared and abstracts gathered, many ones of them by EUROPT, its friends and members, again. At this event, one of our EUROPT’s initiators and members from the beginning, Prof. Dr. Jakob Krarup, received the EURO Distinguished Service Award.
  
  As our core event of 2009 we celebrated
  
  
• 7th EUROPT Workshop “Advances in Continuous Optimization”, Remagen (near Bonn), Germany, July 3-4, 2009;
  (http://www.rheinahrcampus.de/Home.europt2009.0.html). There, we also appointed and honoured our EUROPT Fellow 2009: Prof. Dr. Adil Bagirov!
  
  Furthermore, we had
  
  
• Workshop on Game Theory, Ankara, Turkey, January 30, 2009
  (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/EUROPT/Workshop.pdf);
  
  
• A EURO ORD Workshop on OR for Developing Countries – Young Researchers and PhD Symposium, Remagen, Germany, July 4, 2009
  (http://www2.ing.puc.cl/~fcrespo/eurofdv/Bonnconference/homepage.htm);
  
  
  
• State of the Art Workshop: Mutual Session of Special Researchers of several EURO Working Groups, OR and Development, Ethics, Decision Making, Methodology of Societal Complexity and Others, Remagen, Germany, July 5, 2009 (http://www.euro-2009.de/workshops.php),
  
  The latter two events as satellites of EURO 2009, a status which also the following one had:
  
  
• 4th Summer School “Achievements and Applications of Contemporay Mathematics, Informatics and Physics” (AACIMP-2009), Kiev, Ukraine, August 5-16, 2009 (http://www.summerschool.ssa.org.ua/); moreover,
  
  
• 2nd Global Conference on Power Control and Optimization (PCO) 2009, Bali, Indonesia, June 1-3, 2009 (http://www.engedu2.net/),
  
  and we gave support for
  
  
• ICCAM 2009 – 14th International Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics, Antalya, Turkey, September 29 –October 2, 2009
  (http://www.iccam2009.net/),
  
  Moreover, it has been a great honour that EURO Executive Committee accepted two more Mini EURO Conferences with the involvement of EUROPT:
  
  
• 5th International Vilnius Conference and EURO-Mini Conference "Knowledge-Based Technologies and OR Methodologies for Strategic Decisions of Sustainable Development" (KORSD-2009), September 30 - October 3, 2009, Vilnius
  (http://www.mii.lt/korsd-2009).
  
  In 2010, our conference season started very early. Actually, we already celebrated
  
  
• 3rd Global Conference on Power and Optimization, PCO2010, Gold Coast, Australia, February 2-4, 2010 (http://www.engedu2.net).
  
  Finally, we spent care about
  
  
• EUROPT Homepage and
  
• EUROPT E-Mails and E-Newletter, sent by e-mails,
  
• our help for other EURO Working Groups and their activities, with
  
• integration of further research areas in EUROPT,
  
• supporting EURO in various activities, award and selection processes,
  
• supporting EJOR and further journals related to EURO’s member societies, and
  
• serving the collaboration and friendship between national OR Societies of EURO; so,
  
  we went on supporting the
  
  
• collaboration (official partnership) between ORST (Turkish OR Society) and GOR (German OR Society; GOR Representative in Turkey: Prof. Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber),
  
  and also the seminar series
  
  
• “Seminar on (Financial Mathematics and)Computational Biology, Medicine, Environment and Development”(weekly seminar), METU, Ankara
  (http://www.iam.metu.edu.tr/research/groups/compbio/seminars.html).
  
  EUROPT expresses its thanks to all of its members and, in particular, its honorary coordinators of EUROPT :
  
  
  Prof. Dr. Tamás Terlaky
  
  Lehigh University
  
  Chair, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
  
  Bethlehem Pennsylvania
  
  USA
  
  Email: terlaky@lehigh.edu
  
  
  
  and
  
  
  
  Prof. Dr. Tibor Illés
  
  University of Strathclyde
  
  Business School
  
  John Anderson Research Lecturer B
  
  UK
  
  
  
  Email: tibor.illes@strath.ac.uk , illes@math.elte.hu
  
  
  

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