Now Available: CDGO Program (PDF - 80K)

A primary goal of this CDGO-2005 conference is to bring together engineers, scientists, and mathematicians from a variety of related disciplines, who are at the forefront of their research fields, to exchange ideas and present original high level unpublished research in the areas of complementarity, duality, and nonconvex or global optimization, with particular interests in the following topics:

• Complementarity in modern mechanics and optimization
• Duality in mathematical economics and game theory
• Nonconvex optimization theory, algorithms, and applications
• Primal-dual methods and theory in global optimization and control
• Numerical methods and algorithms in computational sciences
• Min-max theory in mathematical analysis and discrete optimization
• Natural duality and unity in philosophy, system science, cybernetics, and informatics

The conference will be composed of featured symposia, plenary lectures, invited sessions, and contributed sessions.

Conference Co-Chairs: David Y. Gao and Hanif D. Sherali

Sponsored by
the National Science Foundation (NSF) and
Virginia Tech's College of Engineering and College of Science.

Special Events:
    Featured Symposia in Honor of Gil Strang (MIT) and Ivar Ekeland (UBC)

Plenary Lectures:
    Duality: Gil Strang (MIT) and Ivar Ekeland (UBC)
    Complementarity: Jong-Shi Pang (RPI)
    Global Optimization: Panos M. Pardalos (University of Florida)

More information will be available on this Web site shortly.