We are pleased to announce the 8th German-Polish Conference on Optimization – Methods and Applications, organized by the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and held at "Hotel am Schloss" in Apolda, Germany on September 20–24, 2021. The present conference is a continuation of the German-Polish Conference on Optimization series held in Żagań (1999), Cottbus (2002), Będlewo (2005), Moritzburg (2009), Kraków (2011), Wittenberg (2014) and Będlewo (2017).
Topics: theory of smooth and non-smooth optimization, variational problems and variational inequalities, optimal control, inverse and ill-posed problems, combinatorial optimization, vector optimization, solution methods and applications of optimization