Special sessions are being organized in fields as nonlinear programming, natural resources, etc. We encourage participants to send proposals at their earliest convenience.

Some of the sessions being organized:

1) G.I.Schueller (G.I.Schueller@uibk.ac.at) and H.Jensen (hector.jensen@usm.cl)  ,
Structural Optimization and Robust Design under Uncertainties 
http://mechanik.uibk.ac.at/events/conferences/pdf/24th_IFIP_MS_HAJ_GIS.pdf

2) S.Leyffer (leyffer@mcs.anl.gov) , 
Nonlinear and integer programming

3) P.Toint (philippe.toint@fundp.ac.be) 
Large Scale Nonlinear Programming

4) A. V. Balakrishnan (bal@ee.ucla.edu)
Aerospace

5) E.Birgin (egbirgin@gmail.com)
Recent advances in numerical methods for nonlinear programming

6) Lidija Zadnik (lidija.zadnik@bf.uni-lj.si)                 
Theory and applications of multicriteria decision models

7) Stability, Sensitivity and Error Analysis for Optimal Control Problems
Roland Griesse (Chemnitz), Arnd Roesch (Duisburg) Fredi Troeltzsch, Berlin
Please contact troeltzsch@math.tu-berlin.de