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Invited Speakers of ICIAM 2015 Bob Bixby Nancy Reid Gurobi Optimization, Inc., USA University of Toronto, Canada Analisa Buffa Mark Sagar Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie The Laboratory for Animate Technologies, Informatiche, Italy The University of Auckland, New Zealand Gunnar Carlsson Claudia Sagastizábal Stanford University, USA Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada, Brazil Jean Michel Coron Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France Laure Saint-Raymond École Normale Supérieure, France Lisa Fauci Tulane University, USA Jesús Sanz Serna Universidad de Valladolid, Spain Martin Hairer Warwick University, UK Ludger D. Sax Grid Optimization Europe-System Planning Ravi Kannan Gas & Water, Germany Microsoft Research, India Jin-Keun Seo Karl Kempf Yonsei University, Korea INTEL Corporation, USA Zuowei Shen Shunlong Luo National University of Singapore Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, CAS, China Ian Sloan The University of New South Wales, Australia Volker Mehrmann Technische Universität, Berlin, Germany Simon Tavaré Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute, UK Gabriel Nguetseng University of Yaounde I, Cameroon Eric Vanden-Eijnden Courant Institute, NYU, USA Yasumasa Nishiura Tohoku University, Japan Barbara Wohlmuth Technische Universität, München, Germany Ricardo Nochetto University of Maryland, USA Yinyu Ye Stanford University, USA Shige Peng Shandong University, China 2 ICIAM Newsletter October 2014 Invited Speakers of ICIAM2015: Profiles Part I Call for parallel sessions: Science conference “Our Common Future Under Climate Change” in Paris 2015 by Anne-Sophie Stevance A major international conference entitled “Our Common 1. State of Knowledge on Climate Change Future Under Climate Change” will take place on 7-10 2. Scenarios Exploring Our Common Future July 2015 in Paris, ahead of the UNFCCC 21st Confer- 3. Responding to Climate Change Challenges ence of the Parties that is expected to adopt a new climate 4. Collective Action and Transformative Solutions agreement. The science conference will discuss the IPCC findings and new research since the publication of AR5 The conference chaired by Professor Chris Field is or- with a strong focus on solutions, as well as considering ganised by a broad partnership of French institutions climate adaptation and mitigation in the broader context (CIRED, CNRS, IDDRI, INRA, IPSL, IRD) and interna- of global environmental change. tional institutions (ICSU, UNESCO, Future Earth). It is A call for parallel sessions is now open with a dead- expected to bring together over 1,000 scientists and other line to submit proposals on 30 November 2014. stakeholders. We would be grateful for you to disseminate Please see guidelines and template to submit a parallel this information in your networks. session here. All submissions should be made on the con- For more information, please visit the conference website: ference website. www.commonfuture-paris2015.org The conference will be structured around four broad Contact person: Anne-Sophie Stevance, International themes: Council for Science Invited Speakers of ICIAM2015: Profiles Part I Claudia Sagastizábal is After graduating, Claudia became a permanent re- an applied mathemati- searcher at INRIA, the French Institute for Automatic cian specialized in opti- Control and Computer Science. In Brazil, she had a re- mization with interests in search position at Eletrobras’ Electric Energy Research both its theory and its nu- Center for five years. She has taught optimization at var- merical aspects. ious universities and “Grandes Écoles” and advised many After finishing her un- PhD students and post-doctoral fellows in France and dergraduate math stud- Brazil. In parallel with her academic activities, Claudia ies in Argentina, Claudia holds or has held consulting R&D appointments for com- moved to Paris where she panies such as EdF, Gaz de France-Suez and Renault obtained PhD and habili- in France; Robert Bosch in Germany; and Petrobras, tation degrees at Paris I Bovespa and Eletrobras in Brazil. Panthéon-Sorbonne Uni- Claudia participates in numerous synergistic activi- versity. Personal reasons ties. She was elected Council Member-at-large for the caused Claudia to reverse Mathematical Optimization Society for the period 2009- direction over the At- 2013. She also served on program committees and/or or- lantic Ocean about 15 Claudia Sagastizábal. ganized thematic clusters on Convex, Nonsmooth and En- years ago; she now lives in Rio de Janeiro. ergy Optimization at the most important conferences in Claudia has participated in industrial collaborations the optimization area. She is an Associate Editor of the since the time of her PhD studies in the 1990s. Her first journal Energy Systems, has recently ended a five year experience in this area, with Electricité de France (EdF), term as an Editor of Mathematical Methods of Oper- was so beneficial that it greatly influenced her career: ations Research and will become Editor-in-Chief of the Claudia’s theoretical research has been continuously en- journal Set-Valued and Variational Analysis in 2015. riched with insight provided by applications. Claudia is co-author of the book “Numerical Opti- ICIAM Newsletter October 2014 3 Invited Speakers of ICIAM2015: Profiles Part I mization: Theoretical and Practical Aspects,” published all future outcomes. This makes the optimization prob- by Springer. Her research interests lie in the areas of non- lem extremely large, and special solution methods need smooth optimization, stochastic programming and varia- to be employed. tional analysis and are driven by real-life applications. By combining Lagrangian relaxation and dualization, Claudia Sagastizábal’s research is devoted to Mathe- our power plant model can be reformulated as a nons- matical Optimization, in a broad sense that ranges from mooth optimization problem. In this context, so-called theoretical Variational Analysis to algorithms and numer- bundle methods are well-known for their robustness and ical methods. A vast majority of her works, even the most precision. These nonsmooth optimization algorithms can theoretical ones, hinge upon applications.