Optimization Days 2026

HEC Montréal, Québec, Canada, 11 — 13 May 2026

Welcome to the 2026 Optimization Days

Optimization Days is an annual conference organized alternately by the Group for Research in Decision Analysis (GERAD) and the Interuniversity Research Centre on Enterprise Networks, Logistics and Transportation (CIRRELT).

The conference aims to survey theory, numerical methods, and applications of optimization. It provides researchers from around the world the opportunity to exchange and to collaborate.

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

  • Conic and polynomial optimization
  • Constraint programming
  • Data-driven mathematical optimization and machine learning
  • Derivative-free optimization
  • Dynamic programming and optimal control
  • Game theory
  • Global optimization
  • Heuristics and metaheuristics
  • Linear and integer optimization
  • Multicriteria decision aid
  • Networks and graphs
  • Nonlinear optimization
  • Simulation
  • Smart grids
  • Statistical methods and data mining
  • Stochastic and robust optimization
  • Applications in all areas, and particularly in:
    • Biology
    • Energy, environment and natural resources
    • Financial engineering and mathematical finance
    • Health
    • Marketing
    • Operations management
    • Robotics
    • Scheduling
    • Telecommunications
    • Transportation

We especially encourage presentations on new methods of optimization and their applications. The conference languages will be French and English. In 2026, Optimization Days will be held at HEC Montréal, 3000 chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montreal, near the Campus of the Université de Montréal.

 

Plenary speakers:

  • To come

 Tutorials:

  • To come

 

 The preliminary program will be available on our website in April 2026.

 Important Dates:

  • April 3rd, 2026 - Deadline for submission of abstracts for the Optimization Days
  • The notification of acceptance will be sent as abstracts will be submitted.
  • April 6th, 2026 - Deadline for the registration fee discount

2026 Optimization Days

    
 
 
                     

 

 

ORGANIZERS

Okan Arslan, Olivier Bahn, Gilles Caporossi, Franklin Djeumou Fomeni, Janosch Ortmann and Frédéric Quesnel
GERAD, HEC Montréal
3000, chemin de la Côte-Sainte-Catherine, Montréal (Québec) Canada H3T 2A7
Fax: 514 340-5665
E-mail: congres@gerad.ca
Web page: https://symposia.gerad.ca/jopt2026/