[Iefac.list] Announcing the 14th AIMMS-MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition at ICCOPT/MOPTA

[Karmel S. Shehadeh]

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

We are thrilled to announce the opening of the *14th annual AIMMS-MOPTA
Optimization Modeling Competition, *which is organized by the organizers of
the joint International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT) and
Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications (MOPTA) conference to be
held at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, USA on July 23-28, 2022.
 *The first phase's submission deadline is May 15, 2022, 23:59 Eastern Time*
. Finalists are expected to attend and present their results at
the ICCOPT/MOPTA Conference.

*The challenge:*
The 14th annual AIMMS-MOPTA competition focuses on an elective surgery
planning problem in flexible operating rooms under random arrival of
emergency surgeries and random elective and emergency surgery durations.

The full problem description is posted on the competition webpage
<https://iccopt2022.lehigh.edu/competition-and-prizes/aimms-mopta-competition/>


*Eligibility*

Information on eligibility, registration, submission and competition format
are posted on the competition webpage
<https://iccopt2022.lehigh.edu/competition-and-prizes/aimms-mopta-competition/>
. Teams of at most three students can participate and should list a faculty
advisor. The team leader must be a graduate student, though the other team
members can be advanced undergraduate students. Each team member must be
registered as a full-time student at a recognized educational institution
during the Spring term of the 2021-2022 Academic Year. Students with any
background are eligible. Collaboration between students from different
departments is strongly encouraged. We ask teams to register as soon as
they start working on the problem.

*Prizes*


   - Winning team: $1200 to the team, and a certificate for each team
   member.
   - Second place team: $600 to the team, and a certificate for each team
   member.
   - Third place team: $300 to the team, and a certificate for each team
   member.


Also, the highest-ranked finalist that used AIMMS as the software platform
to solve the case will be awarded an additional $1000 in prize money.


Please feel free to pass along this information to potentially interested
colleagues, students, and collaborators.

Thank you for your interest, and we look forward to your submissions!

Dr. Karmel S. Shehadeh and Dr. Luis F. Zuluaga
Co-chairs of the 14th AIMMS-MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition
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