Past conferences

Conferences organized and co-organized by the iSoGO

  • Global Optimization Conference (GOC 2025), Shanghai, China, August 8th to 12th, 2025.
  • The conference on Optimization, Analytics, and Decisions in the Big Data Era, June 16-21, 2024 in Halkidiki, Greece, in honor of the 70th birthday of Panos Pardalos.
  • World Congress on Global Optimization (WCGO 2023), Greece, July 10-14, 2023
  • The 6th International Conference on Dynamics of Information Systems (DIS 2023), September 3–6, 2023, in Prague, Czech Republic.
  • The stream “Stochastic and Deterministic Global Optimization” at the 32nd EURO conference, Aalto University, Finland, July 3-6, 2022.
  • The stream “Continuous and Global Optimization” at the OR2022 conference, Karlsruhe, September 6-9, 2022.
  • The 16th Learning and Intelligent Optimization (LION2022) conference, Milos Island, Cyclades, Greece, June 5-10, 2022.
  • HUGO 2022 – XV. Workshop on Global Optimization, University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary, 5-8 September 2022, hybrid setting.
  • DOD 2022, 6TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DYNAMICS OF DISASTERS,  Milos, Greece, June 12-16, 2022
  • 7th International Conference on Optimization, Simulation and Control (COSC’2022) – June 20-22, 2022 in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
  • University of Portsmouth – MCDM2022,  26th June and 1st July, 2022
  • Mathematical Optimization Theory and Operations Research (MOTOR 2022), which will be held next summer, on Jul. 2-6, 2022, near Petrozavodsk, Russia
  • FRENCH GERMAN PORTUGUESE CONFERENCE ON OPTIMIZATION 2022, May 3rd-6th, 2022, Porto
  • ACDL 2022, Aug 22-26,  2022, Tuscany
  • ESCC 2022, 29/08/22-04/09/22 (Paphos)
  • 10th International Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Industrial Applications (ISCIIA 2022)  September 23-25, Beijing, China
  • LOD 2022 and ACAIN 2022,Tuscany
  • ELLIIT Hybrid AI Workshop, OCTOBER 31 – NOVEMBER 2, 2022
  • The 7th International Conference on Intelligent Systems, Metaheuristics & Swarm Intelligence (ISMSI 2023), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Apr 23-24, 2023.
  • World Congress on Global Optimization (WCGO 2021), Athens, Greece, July 7-10, 2021
  • Fourth International Conference on Modelling, Computation and Optimization in Information Systems and Management Sciences (MCO 2021) December 13-14, 2021, Hanoi, Vietnam
  • The 15th Global Optimization Workshop (HUGO), University of Szeged, Hungary, September 1-4, 2020 [postponed by one year]
  • International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Automation and Algorithms (AI2A) Singapore, July 23-25, 2021
  • The 15th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (LION15) June 20-25, 2021, Athens, Greece
  • International conference “Mathematical Optimization Theory and Operations Research” (MOTOR 2021), July 5-10, 2021, Lake Baikal.
  • International Conference on Optimization and Learning: Challenges and Applications (OLA’2021), 1 – 3 Mar 2021, Catania, Sicilia, Italy
  • The 14th Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN conference (LION14), Athens, Greece, May 24-28, 2020
  • The 6-th World Congress on Global Optimization (WCGO), Metz, France, July 8-10, 2019
  • Numerical Computations: Theory and Algorithms (NUMTA2019), Crotone, Italy, June 15-21, 2019
  • 14th Int. Workshop on Global Optimization (LeGO 2018), Leiden, The Netherlands, Sept. 18- Sept. 21, 2018
  • 23rd International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP 2018), Bordeaux, France, 1-6 Jul 2018
  • Advanced Course on Data Science and Machine Learning (ACDL 2018), Siena – Tuscany, Italy, July 19-23, 2018

Other conferences related to optimization

  • EURO2021, The 31st European Conference on Operational Research, Athens, 11-14 July 2021
  • EUROPT 2021, 18th EUROPT Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization, Toulouse, France, 7-9 July, 2021
  • IFORS 2021, August 22-27, 2021, Seoul, South Korea
  • ISMP 2021, The 24th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming, 15 – 20 Aug 2021, Beijing, China
  • ICDDPO 2021,  The International Conference on Deterministic Dynamic Programming and Optimization, January 07-08, 2021, Tokyo, Japan
  • The SIAM Conference on Optimization, July 20 – 23, 2021, Spokane, Washington, U.S.
  • IPCO XXII, The 22nd Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization
    19 – 21 May 2021, Atlanta, GA, United States
  • TAOC-2021, Theoretical & Applicable Optimization and Control-2021, 23-25 June 2021, Baku, Azerbaijan
  • IFORS 2020 Conference, Seoul, Korea, 21-26 June, 2020
  • The 8th INFORMS Optimization Society Conference, Greenville, SC, USA, 15-17 March, 2020
  • EUROPT 2020, 18th Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization, Toulouse, France, 1-3 July, 2020
  • SIGOPT 2020 International Conference on Optimization, Dortmund, Germany, 4-6 March, 2020
  • The 2nd Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning (ACDL 2019), Siena – Tuscany, Italy, July 15-19, 2019
  • The Sixth International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT), Berlin, Germany, August 3-8, 2019
  • The 25th International Conference on Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM2019) Istanbul, Turkey, June 16-21, 2019
  • The 30th European Conference on Operational Research (EURO2019), Dublin Ireland, June 23-26, 2019
  • The 17th Workshop on Advances in Continuous Optimization (EUROPT 2019), Strathclyde, UK, June 28-29, 2019
  • The International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (LOD2018) Voltera, Tuscany, Italy, September 13-16, 2018
  • 8th International Conference on Bioinspired Optimization Methods and their Applications (BIOMA 2018) Paris, France, 16-18/5/2018
  • 12-th Learning and Intelligent Optimization Conference (LION12) Kalamata, Greece, June 10-15, 2018
  • International Conference on Optimization (SIGOPT 2018) Kloster Irsee, Germany, 21-23/3/2018
  • International Workshop “Optimization Algorithms and Some Related Problems”, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 14-16, 2017
  • Winter School – Data, Uncertainty and Optimization (SESO 2017) Marseille, France, 28-30/11/2017
  • INFORMS Annual Meeting, Houston, USA, October 22-25, 2017
  • Recent Advances in Multi-Objective Optimization, Kaiserslautern, Germany, 19-20/10/2017
  • VIII International Conference Optimization and Applications (OPTIMA-2017) October 2-7, 2017

Conferences before 2017

GOC’17
Dates: March 30 – April 1, 2017
Global Optimization Conference, World Congress on Global Optimization
Location: Texas A&M University, USA
Web page: http://energy.tamu.edu/events/goc-2017/

GOW’16
 Dates: 4th-8th September, 2016
Series: XIII Global Optimization Workshop
Location: Braga, Portugal
Web page: http://apolo.dps.uminho.pt/gow16/

WCGO-IV, 2015
World Congress on Global Optimization
Dates: Feb 22-25, 2015
Location: Florida, USA.
Web page: http://www.caopt.com/WCGO/index.php

MAGO’14
Series: XII Global Optimization Workshop
Dates: 1st-4th September, 2014
Location: Málaga, Spain
Web page: http://www.hpca.ual.es/~MAGO14

WCGO-III, 2013
Dates: July 7-12, 2013
World Congress on Global Optimization
Location: Huangshang, China.

NAGO’12
Series: XI Global Optimization Workshop
Dates: 26th-29th June, 2012
Location: Natal, Brazil
Web page: http://gow12.dca.ufrn.br/

WCGO-II, 2011
World Congress on Global Optimization
Dates: July 3-7, 2011
Location: Chania, Greece.

TOGO’10 (Tolouse Global Optimization)
Series: X Global Optimization Workshop
Dates: 31st August – 3rd September, 2010
Location: Tolouse, France
Web page: http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/togo10/

WCGO-I, 2009
World Congress on Global Optimization
Dates: June 1-5, 2009
Location: Changsha, Hunan, China.

SAGO’08 (International Workshop on Stochastic and applied Global Optimization)
Series: IX Global Optimization Workshop
Dates: July 19th -22th, 2008
Location: Skukuza, South Africa

AGO’07 (Advances in Global Optimization Methods and Applications)
Series: VIII Global Optimization Workshop
Dates: June 13-17, 2007
Location: Myconos, Greece

O’05 (International Workshop on Global Optimization)
Series: VII Global Optimization Workshop
Dates: June 13-17, 2005
Location: San José, Almería, Spain

International Conference on Frontiers in Global Optimization
Series: VI Global Optimization Workshop
Dates: June 8-12, 2003
Location: Santorini, Greece

Let’s GO 2001
Series: V Global Optimization Workshop
Dates: June, 2001
Location: Hanmer Springs, New Zealand

GO’99
Series: IV Global Optimization Workshop
Dates: 28th September-02nd October, 1999
Location: Firenze, Italy

Third Workshop on Global Optimization
Series: III Global Optimization Workshop
Dates: December 10-14, 1995
Location: Szeged, Hungary

Second Workshop on Global Optimization
Series: II Global Optimization Workshop
Dates: December 9-14, 1990
Location: Sopron, Hungary

First Workshop on Global Optimization
Series: I Global Optimization Workshop
Dates: December, 1985
Location: Sopron, Hungary