Dear Colleagues, We would like to draw your attention to the 17th British-French-German Conference on Optimization held at Imperial College London, UK, on June 15th-17th, 2015. The conference will address all aspects of optimization and its applications, including optimization theory and algorithm design, robust and stochastic optimization, variational inequalities and convex analysis as well as applications in control theory, energy, finance, operations management and engineering. More information about the conference series, which started in Oberwolfach in 1980, can be found at http://optimisation.doc.ic.ac.uk/bfg2015. Further enquiries can also be sent to [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Deadlines 05 Jan '15: Extended abstract submission opening 27 Feb '15: Proposals deadline for invited sessions 06 Mar '15: Submission deadline for extended abstracts 13 Mar '15: Notification of abstract acceptance 08 May '15: Early registration deadline Plenary Speakers Dimitris Bertsimas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Regina Burachik, University of South Australia, Australia Michael Ferris, University of Wisconsin Madison, USA William Hager, University of Florida, USA Stefan Ulbrich, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Michel Pierre, ENS Cachan, Antenne de Bretagne, France Semi-Plenary Speakers Paul Armand, Universite de Limoges, France Amir Beck, The Technion, Israel Erick Delage, HEC Montréal, Canada Serge Gratton, CERFACS, France Karthik Natarajan, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Martin Skutella, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany Organising Committee Ruth Misener, Imperial College London, UK Panos Parpas, Imperial College London, UK Stratos Pistikopoulos, Imperial College London, UK & Texas A&M University, USA Berc Rustem, Imperial College London, UK Nilay Shah, Imperial College London, UK Wolfram Wiesemann, Imperial College London, UK Scientific Committee Danny Ralph, University of Cambridge, UK (chair) Henri Bonnel, Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, New Caledonia Jean-Baptiste Caillau, Université de Bourgogne & CNRS, France Mounir Haddou, INSA Rennes, France Daniel Kuhn, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Helmut Maurer, Universität Münster, Germany Edouard Oudet, Université Joseph Fourier, France Teemu Pennanen, King's College London, UK Sabine Pickenhain, TU Cottbus, Germany Andrea Walther, Universität Paderborn, Germany Michael Ulbrich, TU München Huifu Xu, City University London, UK Kind regards, Ruth ------ Ruth Misener, PhD Lecturer and RAEng Research Fellow Department of Computing Imperial College London South Kensington Campus London SW7 2AZ Tel: +44 (0) 20759 48315 Email: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> http://wp.doc.ic.ac.uk/rmisener/