Join the INFORMS Optimization Society for our biennial conference in March 15-17, 2020 in Greenville, SC. The 2020 theme of the conference is Bridging Data and Decision Making. The Greenville, SC area is widely regarded as one of the top downtown areas in the country, and promises a wealth of entertainment options in a comfortable, safe, and beautiful locale. 

Please follow this link for conference registration information. 

Submission Guidelines

An abstract of no more than 200 words should be submitted through the submission page. Names and affiliations of all authors should be provided, with the presenting author listed first. For the first time in the history of INFORMS Optimization Society Conference, we plan to have a refereed abstracts track, plus a best paper award to be given to the submission in this category. Authors who choose to compete for the best paper award at INFORMS Optimization Society Conference should submit an extended abstract up to four pages, in addition to the abstract of the talk. In this extended abstract, the authors must include a publicly accessible link to the full manuscript, e.g., Optimization Online, ArXiv, etc. 

List of Topics

• Computational Optimization
• Discrete Optimization
• Global Optimization
• Linear & Conic Optimization
• Network Optimization
• Nonlinear Optimization
• Optimization under Uncertainty
• Optimization in Data Science
• Emerging Applications of Optimization

Committees

Organizing committee

• Akshay Gupte (Clemson University)
• Jeff Kharoufeh (Clemson University)
• Lance Ouyang (Clemson University)
• J. Cole Smith (Clemson University)
• Yongjia Song (Clemson University)

Track Chairs

• Damek Davis (Cornell University)
• Georgina Hall (INSEAD)
• Robert Hildebrand (Virginia Tech)
• Ruiwei Jiang (University of Michigan – Ann Arbor)
• Aida Khajavirad (Rutgers University & New York University)
• Fatma Kilinc-Karzan (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Shiqian Ma (University of California – Davis)
• Rahul Mazumder (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• Somayeh Moazeni (Stevens Institute of Technology)
• Dimitri Papageorgiou (Exxon Mobil Research & Engineering)
• Jorge Sefair (Arizona State University)
• Thiago Serra (Bucknell University)
• Siqian Shen (University of Michigan – Ann Arbor)
• Phebe Vayanos (University of Southern California)

Plenary Speakers

• Cynthia Rudin (Duke)
• Pascal Van Hentenryck (Georgia Tech)
• Juan Pablo Vielma (MIT)
• Andreas Waechter (Northwestern)

Venue

The conference will be held in Westin Poinsett, a historical hotel located at the heart of downtown Greenville, SC.