Aims and Scope

The conference aims at discussing the latest research in optimization and its applications in the natural sciences. The main objective of the meeting is to encourage the exchange of knowledge and recent achievements, and to establish collaborations among researchers and practitioners working in the areas of:

Computer Science / Optimization / Statistics, and
Physics / Chemistry / Biology / Medical Sciences.

Conference Topics

  • Analysis of microarray data or next generation sequencing
  • Applications of modeling and optimization in physics, biology, chemistry, and medicine
  • Billiard theory and applications
  • Biomedical engineering
  • Design optimization
  • Data visualization for optimal decisions
  • Image processing
  • Infinite and semi-infinite optimization with applications
  • Inverse problems
  • Linear and nonlinear optimization and applications
  • Multi-criteria optimization with applications
  • Multi-scale optimization with applications
  • Optimal control applied to biological models
  • Optimal mass transfer
  • Optimization in bioinformatics and computational biology
  • Shape optimization
  • Solution of optimization problems using statistical methods
  • Statistics in high-dimensional data
  • Statistical methods and visualization
  • Statistical and probabilistic modeling
  • Wave scattering