Mathematical Programming Society

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The Mathematical Programming Society (MPS) is the most important international scientific community in the field of optimization, aiming at the development of new mathematical theory and optimization algorithms as well as their application in practical planning problems. Founded in 1973, the MPS publishes several important journals, is involved in the organization of various conferences and awards a number of prestigious prizes.

1 History
2 Journals and Prizes
3 Conferences
4 External links

[edit] History

In the 1960s, mathematical programming methods were gaining increasing importance both in mathematical theory and in industrial application. To provide a discussion forum for researchers in the field arose, the journal Mathematical Programming was founded in 1970. Based on activities by George Dantzig, Albert Tucker, Phil Wolfe and others, the MPS was founded in 1973, with George Dantzig as its first president. Today, the MPS is the most important mathematical society in optimization.

[edit] Journals and Prizes

The Mathematical Programming Society publishes several journals:

Mathematical Programming (series A/B) is one of the most renowned journals in this research area. While series A publishes articles from all fields of optimization, each issue of series B is devoted to a particular subject.
Optima, a kind of newsletter of the MPS, contains articles on optimization, conference information and book reviews.
MPS/SIAM Series on Optimization is a common journal published by the MPS and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). It focuses on monographs, textbooks, books on applications of optimization and tutorials.

The MPS awards a number of important prizes in the field of optimization. In particular, this includes the Fulkerson Prize, the Dantzig Prize and the Tucker Prize.

[edit] Conferences

Several conferences are organized or co-organized by the MPS, for instance:

The International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP), organized every three years, is open to all fields of mathematical programming.
The Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO) conference is the most important conference in Integer programming and is always held in those years where there is no ISMP.
The International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT), the continuous analogon of the IPCO conference, was first held in 2004.
The International Conference on Stochastic Programming (ICSP) takes place every three years and is devoted to optimization using uncertain input data.
The Nordic MPS conference is a biannual meeting of researchers from Scandinavia working in all fields of optimization.
At the University of Montreal, annual seminars on changing topics are organized by the MPS.