Important Dates

• PAOW June 13-15, 2025
• Abstract Submission Deadline March 1, 2025
• Registration Deadline April 1, 2025
• Tour Registration Deadline April 12, 2025
• Late Registration Deadline May 1, 2025

PAOW Announcement

The Portuguese American Optimization Workshop (PAOW) will take place in Horta, Azores, Portugal from June 13-15, 2025. PAOW will take place in the historic center of Horta, on the beautiful Azorean island of Faial.

PAOW is primarily focused on continuous optimization and its applications to machine learning.

PAOW is a satellite event of the Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA) 2025 Conference, which will take place in Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal from June 17-20, 2025. MOPTA 2025 will take place in the historic center of Ponta Delgada, on the beautiful Azorean island of São Miguel.

See flyer with photos and additional information.

PAOW Main Speakers

Jason Altschuler, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Miguel F. Anjos, University of Edinburgh, UK

Frank E. Curtis, Lehigh University, USA

Mateo Diaz, Johns Hopkins University, USA

Maryam Fazel, University of Washington, USA

Mario A. T. Figueiredo, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Tommaso Giovannelli, University of Cincinnati, USA

João Gouveia, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Benjamin Grimmer, John Hopkins University, USA

Mert Gurbuzbalaban, Rutgers University, USA

Joaquim R. R. A. Martins, University of Michigan, USA

Jorge Nocedal, Northwestern University, USA

Michael J. O’Neill, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA

Clément W. Royer, Université Paris-Dauphine-PSL, France

Katya Scheinberg, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Sara Shashaani, North Carolina State University, USA

Bartolomeo Stellato, Princeton University, USA

Luis Nunes Vicente, Lehigh University, USA

Stefan Wild, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA

Stephen J. Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

CONTACT INFORMATION

Dept. of Industrial and Systems Engineering
Lehigh University
200 W. Packer Ave.
Bethlehem PA 18015

• Phone: +1 610.758.4050
• Fax: +1 610.758.4886

Questions about the  program and/or abstracts, please contact:

Dr. Tommaso Giovannelli

tog220(at)lehigh(dot)edu