Workshop Announcement: ---------------------------------------------------------------- Optimization strategies for transportation ---------------------------------------------------------------- October 31 to November 4, 2016 American Institute of Mathematics Research Conference Center San Jose, California http://aimath.org/workshops/upcoming/transportation ------------ Description: ------------ This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will examine new and different methods for optimizing transit efficiencies and estimating new transit services in emerging or underserved markets using applied mathematical research for the area served by the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA). The major goal will be to define an efficient service based on optimizing a discreet set of constraints driven by systematic mathematical methodologies and analysis, developing a system responsive to meeting travel demands based on a transit route structure unfettered by past route structures, historical service patterns or institutional constraints. The workshop is organized by Chris Augenstein, George Naylor, and Bala Rajaratnam. For more details please see the workshop announcement page: http://aimath.org/workshops/upcoming/transportation Space and funding is available for a few more participants. If you would like to participate, please apply by filling out the on-line form (available at the link above) no later than June 30, 2016. Applications are open to all, and we especially encourage women, underrepresented minorities, junior mathematicians, and researchers from primarily undergraduate institutions to apply. -------------------------------- AIM Research Conference Center: -------------------------------- The American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) hosts focused workshops in all areas of the mathematical sciences. AIM focused workshops are distinguished by their emphasis on a specific mathematical goal, such as making progress on a significant unsolved problem, understanding the proof of an important new result, or investigating the convergence between two distinct areas of mathematics. For more information, please visit http://www.aimath.org/workshops/upcoming/