EngOpt 2008

Organization

Engopt 2008 is Organized by:

• COPPE/UFRJ
  Alberto Luis Coimbra Institute
  Graduate School in Engineering
  Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

General Chairman:

• José Herskovits
  Mecanical Engineering Program - COPPE
  Federal University of Rio de Janeiro

International Organizing Committee

• David H. Bassir
  Franche-Comté University, Besançon, France
• Kyung K. Choi
  President of ISSMO
  The University of Iowa, USA
• Byung Man Kwak
  KAIST, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Seoul
• Carlos A. Mota Soares
  Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
• Helcio R. B. Orlande
  Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Claudia Sagastizabal
  Designated Mathematical Programming Society representative
  Electric Energy Research Center, Brazil
• Argimiro R. Secchi
  Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
• Francisco Soeiro
  Designated ABCM Representative
  State University of Rio de Janeiro
• Gerhard Wilhelm Weber
  EUROPT Chair
  Middle East Technical University, Turkey
• Zhang Weihong
  Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi' An, China

Advisory Board

• Martin P. Bendsoe
  Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
• Oleg Burdakov
  Editor: Optimization Methods and Software
  Linköping University, Sweden
• Sergio B. Choze
  EMBRAER, Brazil
• George S. Dulikravich
  Editor: Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering
  Florida International University, USA
• Christodoulos A. Floudas
  Princeton University, USA
• Stéphane Grihon
  AIRBUS, France
• Ignacio E. Grossmann
  Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• Patrick Le Tallec
  École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
• Nelson Maculan Filho
  COPPE/Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Wolfgang Marquardt
  RWTH - Aachen University, Germany
• Cristovão M. Mota Soares
  Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
• Niels Olhoff
  Aalborg University, Denmark
• Pauli Pedersen
  Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
• Olivier Pironneau
  University Paris VI, France
• George Rozvany
  Editor: Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization
  Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
• Klaus Schittkowski
  University of Bayreuth, Germany
• Joyce S. de Souza Aires
  PETROBRAS, Brazil
• Andrew B. Templeman
  Editor: Engineering Optimization, UK
• Tamás Terlaky
  Editor: Engineering and Optimization
  McMaster University, Canada

International Scientific Committee

• S. Adali, Durban, South Africa
• H. Adeli, Ohio, USA
• N.M. Alexandrov, Langley, USA
• N. Andrei, Bucharest, Romenia
• J. Bandler, Ontario, Canada
• S. Bastos, Recife, Brazil
• D. Boussa, Marseille, France
• A. Conn, New York, USA
• A. De Faria, S. J. dos Campos, Brazil
• J. Dias, Lisbon, Portugal
• P. Eberhard, Stuttgart, Germany
• L. Eloy, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• C. Fleury, Liege, Belgium
• O. Ghattas, Pittsburgh, USA
• P.D. Gosling, NewCastle, UK
• J. M. Guedes, Lisbon, Portugal
• A. Habbal, Nice, France
• P. Hajela, Troy, USA
• B. Horowits, Recife, Brazil
• K. Jarmai, Miskolc, Hungary
• H. Jensen, Santiago, Chile
• J. Judice, Coimbra, Portugal
• F. Van Keulen, Delft, Neaderlands
• M. Kocvara, Prague, Czech Rep.
• J. Lellep, Tartu, Estonia
• T. Lewinski, Warsaw, Poland
• J. Logo, Budapest, Hungary
• M. Masmoudi, Toulouse, France
• Y. Nesterov, Louvain, Belgium
• A. Novotny, Petropolis, Brazil
• P. Papalambros, Michigan, USA
• P.M. Pardalos, Florida, USA
• G.T. Parks, Cambridge, UK
• L.C. Parmee, Bristol, UK
• M. Rahim, New Brunswick, Canada
• S. Rao, Miami, USA
• J.R. Roche, Nancy, France
• H.C. Rodrigues, Lisbon, Portugal
• C. Roos, Delft, Neaderland
• B. Rousselet, Nice, France
• N. Sahinidis, Urbana, USA
• B. Sensale, Montevideo, Uruguay
• S. Selyugin, Moscow, Russia
• C. Shoemaker, Cornell, USA
• J. Sienz, Swansea, UK
• O. Sigmund, Lyngby, Denmark
• E.C.N. Silva, São Paulo, Brazil
• L.C. Simoes, Coimbra, Portugal
• R. Sinatra, Catania, Italy
• S. Sloan, NewCastle, Australia
• V. Sonzogni, Santa Fé, Argentine
• M. Stolpe, Lyngby, Denmark
• K.L. Teo, Perth, Australia
• C. Toklu, Istambul, Turkey
• A. Tovar, Bogotá, Colombia
• P. Venini, Pavia, Italy
• K. Yamazaki, Kanazawa, Japan
• Y. Yuan, Beijing, China
• M. Zhou, Irvine, USA

EngOpt Team

• Arminda Lobo, Secretary
• Carlos Alberto Gomes da Silva, Webmaster
• Miguel Aroztegui
• Alfredo Canelas
• Henry Cortes
• Pavel Lurie
• Elena Lykosova
• Sandro Mazorche
• Mario Tanaka