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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 fifth ECOM will be on Optimization and Digital Twins. 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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Distinguished Lecturers

• Matthias Heinkenschloss (Rice University)
• Rainald Loehner (George Mason University)

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Keynote Speakers

• Raghu Bollapragada (The University of Texas, Austin)
• Amit Chakraborty (Siemens Corporation)
• Sean Hardesty (Sandia National Labs)
• Dongbin Xiu (The Ohio State University)
• Yunan Yang (Cornell University)

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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)
  
  The workshop will take place jointly with SIAM DC-Maryland-Virginia annual (2025) sectional meeting organized together with Ratna Khatri (U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC).

Local Support Team: Facundo Airaudo (GMU), Daniel Blauvelt (GMU), Keegan Kirk (GMU), Rohit Khandelwal (GMU), Aseem Pradhan (GMU), Umarkhon Rakhimov (GMU), Yaw Owusu-Agyemang (GMU)

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Registration

• Registration is mandatory and deadline to register is March 31, 2025. Please register here
• Deadline to submit contributed talks February 12, 2025.
• Deadline to request funding February 7, 2025.
• Questions and concerns should be addressed to Harbir Antil at hantil [at] gmu.edu

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Sponsors