2026 11 Optimization Ai Forum

M. is co-organizing the new Optimization x AI Forum, an online seminar series on how AI can advance optimization research, covering AI for optimization modeling, for algorithm design, and for optimization theory. The forum is organized jointly with Niao He (ETH Zurich), Asu Ozdaglar (MIT), Zaiwen Wen (Peking University) and Stephen Wright (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Sessions are held every two weeks on Fridays at 15:00 UTC over Zoom, each with one or two talks followed by a 20-minute discussion. The opening talk, AI and Optimization in 2026: Reflections on a Revolution, was given by Stephen Wright. Upcoming talks, recordings and the speaker proposal form can be found here.