Contributed by: Michael H. Breitner

     Second Announcement & Call for Registration

    INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON OPTIMIZATION AND
                  OPTIMAL CONTROL

                   organized by

                      SIGOPT
     Special Interest Group in Optimization of the
       German Society of Mathematicians (DMV).

     Pfalzakademie, Lambrecht , February 24-28,1997

SIGOPT

The special interest group for optimization (in German ''Fachgruppe
Optimierung'') was created in 1993 under the auspices of the Deutsche
Mathematiker Vereinigung (DMV) with the purpose of encouraging
cooperation among its members, and of facilitating communication between
them.It is primarily intended to meet the needs of those interested in
mathematical optimization, both theory and pratice.

SIGOPT provides a forum for discussing actual and future developments
in a broad variety of disciplines associated with optimization,
and actively supports interdisciplinary research and applications
to industry. In particular, SIGOPT encourages students and younger
scientists to become involved in research in optimization.


SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
The topics of this conference are:

   <>  Linear and Nonlinear Programming
   <>  Combinatorial Programming
   <>  Stochastic Programming
   <>  Control Theory
   <>  Applications


IMPORTANT DATES

   <>  Final registration:       Please register until
                                 October 14, 1996

   <>  Deadline for abstracts:   Please send your abstract until
                                 November 30, 1996

   <>       For preparing the abstract, please use "\LaTeX"

   <>       Registration and reception of abstracts via
            e-mail  are highly appreciated.


FEES and ACCOMODATION

   <>  There will be no conference fees.

   <>  The cost of accomodation at the
       Pfalzakademie is DM 410,00
       (per person in a double room with full
       board, including the conference dinner).

REGISTRATION FORM

       Please register via e-mail.

    Diethard Pallaschke
    Institut f"ur Statistik
    und Mathem. Wirtschaftstheorie
    Universit"at Karlsruhe
    Geb. 11.40
    Kaiserstr. 12
    D-76128 Karlsruhe   , Germany
 e-mail: lh09@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de
 phone:  (+49 721) 608-3951
 fax:    (+49 721) 35 81 50