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Dear Colleagues, We are writing to invite you to the 17th British-French-German (BFG) Conference on Optimization to be held at Imperial College, 15-17 June 2015. In addition to presenting your work to the conference we would like to to let you know that participants can also submit a paper to a special issue of the journal of Optimization Methods and Software. The paper submission opens 01 July 2015 and the deadline is 01 December 2015. Papers should not exceed 25 journal pages. Submissions should follow the journal's style and guidelines. Manuscript submission must be made online via the journal's ScholarOne Manuscripts site. To specify the special issue, choose "BFG2015". 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]>. We look forward to seeing you at the conference. Best regards, Ruth Misener, Panos Parpas, Stratos Pistikopoulos, Berc Rustem, Nilay Shah, Wolfram Wiesemann Deadlines 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 01 Jul '15: Full paper submission opens 01 Dec '15: Full paper submission 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 ------ 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/