<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">****************************************************************</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">OLA'2021</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">International Conference on Optimization and Learning</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">21-23 June 2021</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Catania (Sicilia), Italy</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><a href="http://ola2021.sciencesconf.org/" class="gmail-" style="font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">http://ola2021.sciencesconf.org/</a><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">****************************************************************</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">OLA is a conference focusing on the future challenges of optimization and learning methods and their applications. The conference OLA'2021 will provide an opportunity to the international research community in optimization and learning to discuss recent research results and to develop new ideas and collaborations in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere.</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">OLA'2021 welcomes presentations that cover any aspects of optimization and learning research such as big optimization and learning, optimization for learning, learning for optimization, optimization and learning under uncertainty, deep learning, new high-impact applications, parameter tuning, 4th industrial revolution, computer vision, hybridization issues, optimization-simulation, meta-modeling, high-performance computing, parallel and distributed optimization and learning, surrogate modeling, multi-objective optimization ...</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">* Submission papers: We will accept two different types of submissions:</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">-       S1: Extended abstracts of work-in-progress and position papers of a maximum of 3 pages</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">-       S2: Original research contributions of a maximum of 10 pages</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">* Important dates:</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">===============</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Invited session organization  Dec 18, 2020</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Paper submission deadline     Dec 18, 2020</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Notification of acceptance    March 24, 2021</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">* Proceedings:</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Accepted papers in categories S1 and S2 will be published in the proceedings. A SCOPUS and DBLP indexed Springer book will be published for best accepted long papers. All proceedings will be available at the conference.</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">* Conference Steering Committee Chair</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">El-Ghazali Talbi (Univ. Lille & INRIA, France)</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">* Conference Chairs</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Mario Pavone (Univ. Catania, Italy)</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Lionel Amodeo (UTT, France)</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">* Conference Program Chairs</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Bernabé Dorronsoro (Univ. Cadiz, Spain)</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Vincenzo Cutello (Univ. Catania, Italy)</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">* Organization Committee</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Rocco A. Scollo (Univ. Catania, Italy)</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Antonio M. Spampinato (Univ. Catania, Italy)</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Georgia Fargetta (Univ. Catania, Italy)</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Carolina Crespi (Univ.  Catania, Italy)</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Jeremy Sadet (Univ. Lille, France)</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Rachid Ellaia (EMI, Morocco)</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">* Publicity Chairs</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Juan J. Durillo (Leibniz Supercomputing Center, Germany)</span><br class="gmail-" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Times;font-size:medium;font-variant-ligatures:normal">Grégoire Danoy (Univ. Luxembourg, Luxembourg)z</span><br></div></div>