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Plenary Talks  

  1. Sebastián Ceria - Applications to finance, banking, risk analysis, (see http://www.axiomainc.com/management.htm#mana2).
  2. Leo Liberti-Symmetry in mathematical programming
    (http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~liberti/)
  3. Sven Leyffer - Optimization and  software development for solving nonlinear problems ( being used in Economics, Engineering, Mechanical Design, Energy, etc., see http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/~leyffer/).
  4. Jean-Antoine Desideri - Fluid dynamics, models of the heart, Parallel Evolutionary Algorithms, see http://www-sop.inria.fr/opale/paper/proposition/node42.html).
  5. José Mario Martínez- Optimization (http://www.ime.unicamp.br/~martinez/) In particular he developed different software packages (http://www.ime.unicamp.br/~martinez/) being used in many fields like electronic design, molecular dynamics, optimization of solar cells, etc.
  6. Daniel Szyld - "Modern Krylov Subspace Methods for Parabolic Control Problems", (see  https://www.math.temple.edu/~szyld/).
  7. Andrés Weintraub - Applications of mathematical and computational technique for solving natural resources and transportation problems, (see http://www.dii.uchile.cl/~aweintra/).
  8. G.I. Schueller- Reliability analysis and optimization of mechanical structures. This covers most aspects of advanced engineering techniques.
  9. Clovis Gonzaga - Optimization and in particular nterior point methods that allow to solve large scale problems being used for instance by the oil industry., (see  http://www.mtm.ufsc.br/~clovis/). 
  10. Celso Ribeiro -  "Recent advances and applications of metaheuristics to optimization problems in telecommunications and computer communications"   (see http://www.ic.uff.br/~celso/).