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Event Announcement: Optimization and Big Data (Workshop, Trek & Colloquium) Edinburgh, Scotland, May 1-3, 2013 Website + Registration: http://www.maths.ed.ac.uk/~prichtar/Optimization_and_Big_Data No registration fee thanks to EPSRC funding (Mathematics for Vast Digital Resources + The Centre for Numerical Algorithms and Intelligent Software) May 1-2: Workshop Confirmed speakers: Olivier Fercoq (Edinburgh) Robert Freund (MIT) Jacek Gondzio (Edinburgh) Zaid Harchaoui (INRIA) Desmond Higham (Strathclyde) Martin Jaggi (Ecole Polytechnique) Anatoli Juditsky (Joseph Fourier) Imre Polik (SAS) Peter Richtarik (Edinburgh) Richard Samworth (Cambridge) Shai Shalev-Shwartz (Jerusalem) Martin Takac (Edinburgh) Steve Wright (Wisconsin-Madison) + Poster Session (best student/postdoc poster wins an iPad mini - sponsored by SAS) May 3: Morning: Trek to Arthur's Seat (a 350m years old extinct volcano in the city centre) Afternoon: Colloquium Talk by Steve Wright, Best Poster Award Ceremony, Networking Reception -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.