Samir Adly, Université de Limoges (France)
Samir Adly earned a Master’s degree in Mathematics in 1992 and completed a PhD in Applied Mathematics in 1995, both at the University of Limoges, France. He served as an associate professor from 1997 to 2006 and has held the position of full professor in mathematics at the University of Limoges since 2006.
His research interests revolve around theoretical and algorithmic aspects related to variational inequalities, complementarity problems, optimization, nonsmooth dynamical systems, variational analysis, and their practical applications. Currently, he serves as the Director of the Mathematics and Security Information Department (Mathis) at the Institute of Research XLIM (UMR-CNRS 7252). He also leads the MOD team (Modeling, Optimization, Dynamics) within the Mathis department.
Notably, Professor Adly was recently elected as the President of the French SIAM (Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles). He has also played key roles as a general chair in numerous conferences and has been invited as a keynote speaker at several international conferences. Professor Adly’s academic contributions include the publication of more than 114 refereed journal articles and book chapters.
Didier Aussel, Université de Perpignan (France)
Didier Aussel is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perpignan, France. He is an expert on the theoretical aspects of quasi-convex optimization and variational inequalities. In addition, his research also involves applications of optimization in engineering processes and mathematical economics, in particular for the modeling of electricity markets, a topic where Nash equilibrium and multi-leader-follower games play a central role. He has published around 70 research works (62 papers, 4 proceedings and 4 chapters in books) in several prominent mathematics journals such as Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, as well as physics journals including Energy Conversion and Management. He is an associate editor of the journal Optimization and has served nearly a decade as the Co-Director and subsequently as Director of the French CNRS Research Group on Mathematics of Optimization and Applications. He has supervised several Ph.D. students, mainly on topics concerning nonsmooth variational analysis and electricity markets. Deeply interested in conveying research knowledge to young generations, he has been actively involved in the organization of research schools and research courses all over the world, including countries such as Vietnam, India, Chile, Peru, Cuba, Taiwan and Saudi Arabia.
Francisco Facchinei, Sapienza Università di Roma (Italy)
Francisco Facchinei received the Ph.D. degree in system engineering from the University of Rome, “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy, in 1990. He is a Full Professor of operations research, Engineering Faculty, University of Rome, “La Sapienza.” His research interests include theoretical and algorithmic issues related to nonlinear optimization, variational inequalities, complementarity problems, equilibrium programming, and computational game theory. He is the author of over 100 scientific articles and of the two-volumes monograph Finite-dimensional Variational Inequalities and Complementarity Problems.
Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts Amherst (USA)
Anna Nagurney is the Eugene M. Isenberg Chair in Integrative Studies and was appointed to this endowed chaired professorship in the Department of Operations and Information Management in the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst on April 14, 2021. Prior to that, she was the John F. Smith Memorial Professor of Operations Management, since 1998. She is also the Founding Director of the Virtual Center for Supernetworks and the Supernetworks Laboratory for Computation and Visualization at UMass Amherst. She is also a Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Kyiv School of Economics in Ukraine. Anna received her AB, ScB, ScM, and PhD degrees from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She devotes her career to education and research that combines operations research / management science, engineering, and economics. Her focus is the applied and theoretical aspects of network systems, particularly in the areas of transportation and logistics, critical infrastructure, and in economics and finance. She has authored or co-authored 16 books, more than 225 refereed journal articles and over 50 book chapters.
Abstract: Agricultural Supply Chain Networks: From International Trade to Resilience
Christiane Tammer, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany)
Christiane Tammer is Professor at Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg in Halle (Saale), Germany. She is working in the field of variational analysis and optimization. She has co-authored six monograph: Set-Valued Optimization – An introduction with Applications (Springer 2015), Variational Methods in Partially Ordered Spaces (Springer 2003), Angewandte Funktionalanalysis (Vieweg+Teubner 2009), Approximation und Nichtlineare Optimierung in Praxisaufgaben (Springer 2017), Scalarization and Separation by Translation Invariant Functions (Springer 2020), Variational Methods in Partially Ordered Spaces, Second Edition (Springer 2023). She is Editor in Chief of the journal Optimization, Co-Editor in Chief of the journal Applied Set-Valued Analysis and Optimization and a member of the Editorial Board of several journals, the Scientific Committee of the Working Group on Generalized Convexity and EUROPT Managing Board.
Abstract: Optimality conditions in optimization under uncertainty
Michel Thera, Université de Limoges (France)
Michel Théra is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Université de Limoges, Adjunct Professor at Federation University in Australia and Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Quy Nhon. His main area of mathematical expertise is nonlinear functional analysis and optimization, with a special focus on convex analysis, monotone operator theory and the interaction among these fields and their interactions. His publication record is truly high, with many of his papers appearing in the world’s leading journals in the field of optimization and nonlinear analysis. He has been involved in many administrative tasks at the institutional, national, and international levels. At the institutional level, he has been the head of the Department of Mathematics and Vice President of his university. At the national level, he has been a member of the Conseil National des Universités (CNU), a board that handles all the promotions and careers of mathematicians in French universities. Another important landmark in his administrative activities that exemplifies his leadership in the mathematical community, has been to chair the French Applied Mathematics Society (SMAI). At the international level, he has chaired the international advisory board of the Centre for Informatics and Applied Optimisation at Federation University, Ballarat. He has been responsible or included in several national and international research programs PGMO, ECOS with Chile, FASIC and ARC with Australia. He is presently co-Director of the Stampacchia School at the Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture in Erice and Associate editor in most of the well recognized journals in Variational Analysis and Optimization. He was recently appointed co-editor-in-chief of Pacific Journal of Optimization.
Abstract: Fixed points of regular set-valued mappings in quasi-metric spaces