The Discipline of Business Analytics at the University of Sydney is pleased to host WOMBAT (Workshop on Optimisation, Metric Bounds, Approximation and Transversality).

• Dates: Wednesday 4^th – Friday 6^th December 2024
• Venue: The University of Sydney Business School

The event will be entirely in-person.

For the first time, WOMBAT will run a summer school taught by Prof. Fred Roosta (University of Queensland). In addition, a keynote talk will be given by Prof. Melvyn Sim (National University of Singapore).

Registration is free to all participants and open until 25^th October. We welcome abstract submissions for talks on all aspects of optimisation (broadly defined). Some travel support for students is available.

For more details (including the registration form), see the event website:

Organising committee:

Li Chen

Nam Ho-Nguyen

Dmytro Matsypura

Call for Abstracts in the Special Session “Optimisation”

Dear friends and colleagues,

The Joint Meeting of the New Zealand, Australian and American Mathematical Societies will take place from the 9th to the 13th of December 2024 at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. A website for the conference is available at:

It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the special session “Optimisation” and hope that you will agree to present a 25-minute talk.

This special session will focus on new mathematical and computational developments and their applications in all areas of continuous and discrete optimisation. Submissions related to applications of optimisation in data science, as well as data science applications in optimisation, are also welcome. We are delighted to have Defeng Sun (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) and Christiane Tammer (Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg) as our keynote speakers.

As the session will have a maximum of 25 speakers, please let us know your interest to present by October 18, 2024.

We welcome participation of Early Career Researchers and doctoral students in our special session. Speakers can submit abstracts for each session, and also register for the conference, through the registration link:

Please be advised that the cheaper Early Bird fees close on October 25, 2024.

We look forward to meeting you at the conference.

Best wishes,

Minh Dao, RMIT University

James Foster, CSIRO

Andrea Raith, University of Auckland

Matthew Tam, University of Melbourne

Golbon Zakeri, University of Massachusetts Amherst

(Session Organisers)

Lectures on Convex Geometry

A/Prof Vera Roshchina, UNSW.

Monday, July, 15-Wednesday, July, 17, 11AM each day (AEST)

We go over the basics of facial structure of convex sets, starting with the finite dimensional setting. We review the tools that help study geometric properties of convex sets and to construct convex sets with desirable properties. We then focus on structured convex problems, predominantly those defined algebraically (through matrix and polynomial inequalities and representations). Finally, we review some properties and behaviours of convex sets that are specific to the infinite-dimensional setting. The fundamental mathematical ideas and phenomena will be contextualised in optimisation applications, including conic programming and projection methods.

Zoom:

https://unsw.zoom.us/j/89239495027?pwd=zMmvAkAmFZVQ4SzBhQkz6CuH4nuxwu.1

Registration for urgent updates: https://forms.gle/CGhNt3bssmqLMXcj6

We are pleased to announce the 2024 MoCaO Lectures in Computation and Optimisation. For 2024 we
are focusing on Geometry and Convexity in Computation. These one-hour lectures will be held each day, and all lectures will be broadcast via Zoom.

July 15-19, 2024, 11am-12 pm AEST (GMT+10) each day

Speakers:

A/Prof Vera Roshchina (University of New South Wales): July 15-17;

Dr Isabelle Shankar (Portland State University): July, 18;

A/Prof Bruno F. Lourenço (Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan): July, 19.

The zoom link will be published on our website.

Registration: https://forms.gle/CGhNt3bssmqLMXcj6