optima2026_cfp_brief
OPTIMA 2026 — Conference Brief for Splitting Paper
Created: 2026-04-08 by Feanor worker
Key Facts
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Full name | XVII International Conference “Optimization and Applications” (OPTIMA-2026) |
| Dates | September 22–26, 2026 (hybrid: in-person + online session) |
| Location | Petrovac, Budva, Montenegro |
| Proceedings | LNCS (Springer) + CCIS (Springer supplementary) |
| Language | English, Russian, Montenegrin |
| URL | https://conf-optima.ru/ |
Submission Deadline (Estimated)
~May–June 2026 (not yet announced as of Apr 8, 2026). Based on:
- OPTIMA 2025 was Sep 22–26, 2025 → deadline was historically ~May–June
- WM note from Гасников: “CFP ~май”
Action: Check conf-optima.ru/object/show/23 in May 2026 for official dates.
Relevance for Splitting Paper
The Splitting paper (stochastic operator splitting ↔ SGD, LASSO, proximal methods) is directly in scope:
- ✅ Continuous Optimization — proximal gradient methods
- ✅ Mathematical Programming — LASSO/sparse recovery
- ✅ Optimization in Data Analysis — ML applications (MNIST experiments)
- ✅ Computational Optimization — convergence rate analysis
Conference Context
- Annual conference, runs since ~2010
- Organizers historically include Russian/Montenegrin math community (Гасников is in the orbit)
- Proceedings published as Springer LNCS → counted for ВАК/RSCI (potential PhD publication #4)
- Гасников mentioned OPTIMA explicitly as “CFP ~май” + “Splitting paper = кандидат” (Apr 3, 2026)
Candidate Paper: Splitting → OPTIMA 2026
Current status: JCAM submission (29pp) pending Oseledets OK on C_D constant.
OPTIMA variant: 8–12pp LNCS format (Springer template), English, subset of JCAM results.
- Could extract: SGD=LT splitting theorem + Kaczmarz limit + LASSO LT bias result
- Computational experiments: MNIST logreg (already have figures)
- This would be a conference proceedings version parallel to JCAM journal submission
Risk: JCAM and OPTIMA are both Springer — check dual-submission policy. OPTIMA proceedings = post-proceedings (submitted after conference), so timeline doesn’t conflict with JCAM.
Next Steps
- Monitor conf-optima.ru for official CFP (expected May 2026)
- After Oseledets meeting (April 2026): discuss OPTIMA submission alongside JCAM
- If green light: prepare 10pp LNCS version from existing JCAM draft
- Update Splitting project next_step to include OPTIMA track
Related: PhD Impact
OPTIMA LNCS = Springer Lecture Notes → qualifies as ВАК publication → potential PhD qualifying paper #4 (alongside Empirical 2019, Lyapunov ЖВММФ 2024, Труды МФТИ 2020).