1st International Conference on Network Analysis
The 1st International Conference on Network Analysis will take place on December 14 - 16, 2011 in Gainesville, Florida U.S.A. The conference is sponsored by the Center for Applied Optimization of the University of Florida. The purpose of this conference is to bring together scientists and engineers from industry, government, and universities to exchange knowledge and results in a broad range of topics relevant to the theory and practice of network analysis. Contributions are also sought that address the reliability of complex networks, software, theory, methodology and applications. The conference will result in a published refereed book (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics) containing material presented in the conference as well as other invited contributions.
The conference is to be hosted by the Center for Applied Optimization and the Industrial and Systems Engineering Department of the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida on 14 - 16 December 2011, and will take place at the J. Wayne Reitz Union.
Nature Optimizes Things the Best Way. Interview with Panos Pardalos.
On October 5th, high level HSE management and leading faculty members had a meeting with Panos Pardalos, Distinguished Professor of the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida, USA, to discuss plans and future opportunities for a new Laboratory at the HSE branch in Nizhny Novgorod. The Laboratory of Algorithms and Technologies for Networks Analysis will be established through a grant from the Russian Ministry of Education and Science. What does Professor Pardalos think of the Lab projects?