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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 third ECOM will be on Optimization and Game Theory. 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.

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Keynote Lecturers

• Michael C. Ferris (University of Wisconsin Madison)
• Uday V. Shanbhag (Pennsylvania State University)

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Guest Speakers

• Afrooz Jalilzadeh (The University of Arizona)
• Rongjie Lai (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
• Mathias Staudigl (Maastricht University, Netherlands)

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Organizing Committee

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

Local Support Team: Ratna Khatri (U.S. Naval Research Labs), Randy Price (GMU), Madhu Gupta (GMU), Mahamadi Warma (GMU)

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Registration

• Registration is mandatory and deadline to register is April 7, 2023. Please register here
• Deadline to submit contributed talks March 31, 2023.
• Virtual meeting link will be emailed to the registered participants
• Questions and concerns should be addressed to Harbir Antil at hantil [at] gmu.edu

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