The Conference

Contacts

Department of Mathematics
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Universidade Nova de Lisboa

Address:
Caparica Campus 
Quinta da Torre 
2829-516 Caparica 
Portugal

Phone: +351 21 294 83 88

Fax: +351 21 294 83 91

Email: optimization2011@fct.unl.pt

Social Program

Monday 25, from 18:30 to 20:00: Welcome Reception

The welcome reception will take place at “Casa da Cerca”, a Contemporary Art Centre dedicated to drawing, with a beautiful view over the Tagus river and the city of Lisboa.

Tuesday 26, from 20:00 to 23:00: Conference Dinner

Conference dinner will be served in the estate “Quinta de Catralvos”, followed by a musical show performed by the Fado singer Piedade Fernandes.

Wednesday 27, from 14:30 to 18:00: Tour

Program

Transportation between the Campus and the hotels “Meliá Capuchos”, “Costa da Caparica” and “Almada Business” will be provided in every morning and evening of the conference days. Participants lodged at "Residencial Mar e Sol" can take the bus at hotel "Costa da Caparica". Please consult schedules in the Conference Book of Abstracts.

Conference Book of Abstracts

Session Celebrating the 60th Anniversary of Joaquim João Júdice

Optimization 2011 will accommodate a special session celebrating the 60th anniversary of our dear colleague Joaquim João Júdice (Univ. Coimbra), the founder of the Optimization conference series and a well-known researcher in Optimization who had a profound impact on the development of the field in Portugal.

Plenary Speakers

Gilbert Laporte | HEC Montréal
New Trends in Vehicle Routing

Jean Bernard Lasserre | LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse
The “Joint+Marginal” Approach in Optimization

José Mario Martínez | State University of Campinas
Generalized Order-Value Optimization

Program Committee

Luis Nunes Vicente | Univ. Coimbra | Chair

Organizing Committee

Paula Amaral | Univ. Nova Lisboa | Co-Chair
Ana Luísa Custódio | Univ. Nova Lisboa | Co-Chair

Conference Venue

The conference will take place at the
Department of Mathematics
Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia
Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Caparica Campus
Quinta da Torre
2829-516 Caparica
Portugal

Aims and Scope

Optimization 2011 aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from different areas and with distinct backgrounds, but with common interests in optimization.