Sponsors

Dates

Submission

Deadline extension until February 10th, 2023

Registration

until February 27th, 2023

Conference

March 14-16, 2023

Venue

Cottbus

Cottbus is a university city and modern center of the Lusatia region of around 100,000 inhabitants. It is situated around 125 km southeast of Berlin on the southern edge of the famous Spreewald Forest and north of the developing man-made Lusatian Lake District. Spreewald Forest is a biosphere reserve of UNESCO where the river Spree branches out into hundreds of smaller streams making up a unique and mystical water maze in Central Europe. Cottbus is also one of the cultural centers of the Wends and Sorbs, a Slavic ethnic minority in Germany.

BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg

The conference is held at the Zentralcampus of BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg. The BTU was founded in 1991 as technical university of the federal state of Brandenburg with campuses in Cottbus and Senftenberg.

Travel Information

Getting to Cottbus

Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) is the best option to reach Cottbus by plane. From that airport you can reach Cottbus train station in at most 1.5 hours by train.
Other airports in the nearby area are Airport Leipzig/Halle (LEJ) and Airport Dresden (DRS). From these airports the train connections take longer and are more expensive than from Berlin.

Getting from Cottbus train station to BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg

The university campus and the Hotel Lindner can be reached easily via public transport in less than 15 minutes.

Addresses

Venue

BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg
Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude
Konrad-Wachsmann-Allee 3
03046 Cottbus

Hotel

Lindner Congress Hotel
Berliner Platz / Karl-Marx-Straße 68
03046 Cottbus

Call for papers

SIGOPT 2023 International Conference on Optimization

March 14-16, 2023, Cottbus, Germany

The Special Interest Group in Optimization (SIGOPT) was created in 1993 with the purpose of encouraging cooperation and communication between its members to enrich the scientific network of mathematical optimization. In this regard, a series of conferences has been established in order to conglomerate all the different aspects of mathematical optimization within one event of familiar atmosphere, and it is our pleasure to announce the 5th SIGOPT conference to be held during March 14 - 16, 2023, in Cottbus, Germany. The conference is scheduled to take place at the Zentralcampus of the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU). Participants are invited to arrive in Cottbus on Monday, March 13, to join the welcome reception between 18:00 and 20:00 on the first floor of the Lindner Congress Hotel.

Important Dates

Submission of abstracts and session proposals: until February 10th, 2023
Acceptance notification: in a continuous way until February 12th, 2023
Registration Deadline: February 27th, 2023
Conference: March 14-16, 2023

Aims and Scope

The SIGOPT conference covers theory and practice in all branches of mathematical optimization, e.g.,:

  • Linear Optimization,
  • Discrete and Combinatorial Optimization,
  • Mixed-Integer Optimization,
  • Nonlinear Optimization,
  • Nonsmooth Optimization and Variational Analysis,
  • Multiobjective and Set-Valued Optimization,
  • Optimal Control and Infinite-Dimensional Optimization,
  • Machine Learning,
  • Application of Optimization in Real-World Problems.

The SIGOPT promotes the collaboration of all the different branches of mathematical optimization, so talks combining theory or methods from different topics are especially welcome. Young researchers are particularly encouraged to submit abstract proposals.

Invited Speakers

  • Gabriele Eichfelder (TU Ilmenau)
  • Ulf Lorenz (University of Siegen)
  • Nicole Megow (University of Bremen)
  • Ira Neitzel (University of Bonn)
  • Anita Schöbel (TU Kaiserslautern)
  • Ola Svensson (EPFL Lausanne)

Submission of Abstracts and Session Proposals

Abstracts have to be submitted in LaTeX and should not exceed 1500 characters while being free of references. We offer the possibility to organize invited sessions. Therefore, a suitable session title, a chairperson, and three to four abstracts have to be provided.

Submission of abstracts and session proposals are possible until February 10th, 2023, via email to sigopt2023@b-tu.de

Invited Speakers

  • Gabriele Eichfelder (TU Ilmenau)
  • Ulf Lorenz (University of Siegen)
  • Nicole Megow (University of Bremen)
  • Ira Neitzel (University of Bonn)
  • Anita Schöbel (TU Kaiserslautern)
  • Ola Svensson (EPFL Lausanne)

Committees

Program Committee

  • Gennadiy Averkov (BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg)
  • Anja Fischer (TU Dortmund)
  • Armin Fügenschuh (BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg)
  • Ekkehard Köhler (BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg)
  • Sabine Pickenhain (BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg)
  • Gerd Wachsmuth (BTU Cottbus - Senftenberg)

Local Organizing Committee

  • Jesse Beisegel
  • Annette Fischer
  • Armin Fügenschuh
  • Patrick Mehlitz

Submissions (Deadline Extension)

Submission of abstracts and session proposals are possible until February 10th, 2023, via email to sigopt2023@b-tu.de

Abstracts have to be submitted in LaTeX and should not exceed 1500 characters while being free of references. We offer the possibility to organize invited sessions. In this case, a suitable session title, a chairperson, and three to four abstracts have to be provided.

Schedule

Registration

The registration prices below include the conference registration fee, the conference dinner and the excursion. There is also an option to purchase one additional ticket for the dinner including the excursion. The registration fee does not include accommodation. Special rates for conference participants have been arranged at Hotel Lindner until February 14, 2023 (for further information see below).
Please make the payment via bank transfer; the details will be given to you after your registration.


Regular
Additional Ticket
(dinner, excursion)
140€ 80€

The registration is now closed.

Accommodation

There is a contingent of rooms reserved for the participants of SIGOPT at Hotel Lindner under the keyword "SIGOPT 2023", which will be available until February 14th, 2023. The price for a single room is 85€ and double rooms are available for 97€. In order to book a reserved room, you will need to contact the hotel directly either by phone (+49 355 366 900), or via email (reservierung.cottbus (at) lindner.de). Note that it is not possible to book the reserved rooms using the hotel's web interface. The Hotel Lindner is situated in the city center of Cottbus, a 10 min. walk to the conference venue and a 5 min. walk to the historical market square.

COVID-19 Precautions

In accordance with current regulations of the state of Brandenburg and the University, we can enjoy the conference without wearing masks or social distancing. In case these rules change, further updates will be posted here and via email to registered participants.

Contact

If you have any further questions about the conference or the website, please contact the organizers via sigopt2023 (at) b-tu.de