XVth Global Optimization Workshop

University of Szeged, Hungary1st-4th of September, 2020

Welcome to...

Budapest Liszt Ferenc Airport❖ located 170 km from Szeged ❖ Train and shuttle buses are available

to Szeged❖ Shuttles will be arranged by the

organizers (< 20 € normally)❖ Direct flights from: Paris, Frankfurt,

London, Barcelona, Madrid, Málaga, Istanbul, Rome, Amsterdam, Zürich, Munich, Brussels, etc.

◆ Number of sunny hours is 1978 in a year (2815 in Málaga)

◆ The third biggest city in Hungary, in 2017 population was 164 000.

◆ An important university town and a popular tourist attraction.

◆ It's home to many Festivals: Open Air Festival, Bridge Fair, International Tisza Fish Soup Festival, Wine Festivals, Beer Festivals, Pálinka Festivals, etc.

Szeged, the city of sunshine in Hungary

Many sights,

recreation,spa

Cousine

Hungaricums

Former Workshops of Global Optimization in Hungary

1985 and 1990 Sopron

Former Workshops of Global Optimization in Hungary

1995 Szeged

Former Workshops of Global Optimization in Hungary

1995 Szeged

25th anniversary in 2020

1995 Szeged, GOW III

1995 Szeged, GOW III

Marco Locatelli Pilar Ortigoza Martínez Yaroslav D. Sergeyev János Pintér

Organizers

Boglárka G.-Tóth Tamás Vinkó Abigél Mester Kristóf Kovács

Balázs Bánhelyi Tibor Csendes Viktor Homolya Dániel Zombori

◆ Fixed dates: 1st - 4th September 2020◆ No increase in the registration fee: ~300 euros◆ Organized transfer from and to Budapest

Airport < 20 EUR (if you arrive in normal time)

◆ conference proceedings of 4-page long extended abstracts

◆ collecting the presentations of the participants

◆ only one track of talks, so no parallel sessions

◆ Special issues devoted to the conference in Mathematical Programming Journal of Global Optimization

Main components of the proposed conference

◆ COProd 2020: Constraint Propagation Workshop, 6th of September, 2020.

◆ SCAN 2020: International Symposium on Scientific Computing, Computer Arithmetic, and Verified Numerical Computations, next week: 7-11th of September, 2020.

Joining events to GOW 2020

Conference Venue in the heart of Szeged:Building of Hungarian Academy of Sciences

◆ the building has all the facilities needed

◆ most of the sights are reachable on foot

◆ there are many hotels nearby

◆ We organize the following programs of choice: ○ Informatics Museum, ○ folk dance show,○ boat trip to a fish restaurant at the Tisza river, ○ music performance at the Synagogue, ○ dragon boat competition and football match for

the participants: eg. locals vs. globals

◆ Optional programs around Szeged:○ Anna Thermal Bath in Szeged,○ orgel concert in the Dome, ○ Skanzen in Ópusztaszer, ○ Hagymatikum Thermal Bath in Makó

Many cultural and social program

Informatics Museum

Synagogue

Dome

boat trip

dragon boat competition

Hungarian folk dance in 1995

XVth Global Optimization Workshop

University of Szeged, Hungary1st-4th of September, 2020