<div dir="ltr">The <font color="#990000" style="font-weight:bold">Portuguese American Optimization Workshop (PAOW)</font><font color="#000000">,</font><font color="#990000" style="font-weight:bold"> </font><font color="#000000">a</font> satellite event of MOPTA 2025, will take place in<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><b> </b></span><b><font color="#38761d">Horta, Azores, Portugal</font></b> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></span>during <b>June 13-15, 2025</b>. <p>PAOW is primarily focused on continuous optimization and its applications to machine learning.</p>



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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">The <font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">MOPTA 2025 Conference will take place in Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal during June 17-20, 2025.</span></font></span>



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<div><b>PAOW Invited Speakers:<span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"></span></b><br></div><div><u>Jason Altschuler</u> (University of Pennsylvania, USA), <u>Miguel F. Anjos</u> (University of Edinburgh, UK), <u>Coralia Cartis</u> (University of Oxford, UK), <u>Tianyi Chen</u> (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA), <u>Maryam Fazel</u> (University of Washington, USA), <u>Mario A. T. Figueiredo</u> (Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal), <u>Benjamin Grimmer</u> (Johns Hopkins University, USA), <u>Joaquim R. R. A. Martins</u> (University of Michigan, USA), <u>Jorge Nocedal</u> (Northwestern University, USA), <u>Courtney Paquette</u> (McGill University, Canada), <u>Clément W. Royer</u> (Université Paris-Dauphine-PSL, France), <u>Soroosh Shafiee</u> (Cornell University, USA), <u>Katya Scheinberg</u> (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA), <u>Luis Nunes Vicente</u> (Lehigh University, USA), <u>Stefan Wild</u> (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA), <u>Stephen J. Wright</u> (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA), <u>Wotao Yin</u> (Alibaba Group US, USA)</div><div><br></div><div>

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