Organized by: Andrew Conn, IBM T.J.Watson Research Centre, USA.

Description:
From optimal well placement to geophysical imaging problems and assimilation of seismic data there are many complex, challenging and important problems in petroleum exploration and production. Meanwhile, in the last decades there have been significant advances in general in nonlinear optimization. The purpose of this mini-symposium is to bring together researchers who have contributed to some of these advances or are very familiar with them but also appreciate the complexity and demands of real world optimization in petroleum problems. Moreover the talks will be as much oriented to describing the issues and approaches to tackle them as they will be to present the latest results.