The annual East Coast Optimization Meeting (ECOM) is an initiative to introduce students and early-career researchers to the current trends in optimization as well as to create a strong networking environment among academia, industry, and the national laboratories.

The focus of the second ECOM will be on Optimization for Machine Learning. Researchers from all optimization areas are encouraged to participate. The meeting comprises of mini-courses by two distinguished speakers targeted toward students and early career researchers, and public lectures. There will be some invited and contributed talks.

Keynote Lecturers

• Frank E. Curtis (Lehigh University)
• Wotao Yin (University of California, Los Angeles)

Guest Speakers

• Stefanie Guenther (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
• Patrick O'Neil (BlackSky)
• Chris Teixeira (MITRE)
• Madeleine Udell (Cornell University)

Organizing Committee

• Harbir Antil (George Mason University)
• Drew P. Kouri (Sandia National Laboratories)
• Denis Ridzal (Sandia National Laboratories)

Registration and Travel Support

• Registration is mandatory. Please register here.
• Travel support is available for students. Details can be found here.
• Questions and concerns should be addressed to Harbir Antil at hantil [at] gmu.edu

Support

• National Science Foundation
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) Washington-Baltimore Section
• Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
• College of Science, George Mason University
• Association for Women in Mathematics, GMU Chapter
• Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), GMU Chapter