Uryasev70

August 22–23
Stony Brook University

Operations Research and Applications

Uryasev70 is a two-day conference celebrating the 70th birthday of Prof. Stan Uryasev, bringing together academics and practitioners to honor his contributions to Operations Research and its applications.

• Date: August 22–23, 2026
• Venue: Stony Brook University, Math Tower Building, Room S-240
• Participation: In-person

Program

About the Conference

This conference brings together leading researchers in operations research, stochastic optimization, variational analysis, risk-averse optimization, machine learning, finance, and engineering applications. The workshop is organized in honor of Stan Uryasev’s 70th birthday and is intended as a high-level academic event for faculty, students, and researchers interested in modern developments in operations research and its applications. The program focuses on topics including:

• • Convex and Nonconvex Optimization
• • Applications of Stochastic Optimization in Statistics and Machine Learning
• • PDE-Constrained Optimization
• • Mixed-Integer Optimization
• • Stochastic Dynamic Programming

Speakers

See the Program page for the full schedule.

• • Pavlo Krokhmal University of Arizona
• • Terry Rockafellar University of Washington
• • Eugene Feinberg Stony Brook University
• • Johannes Royset University of Southern California
• • Harbir Antil George Mason University
• • Sergiy Butenko Texas A&M University
• • Andrzej Ruszczynski Rutgers University
• • Darinka Dentcheva Stevens Institute of Technology
• • Jun-ya Gotoh Chuo University
• • Alex Semenov University of South Florida
• • Boris Mordukhovich Wayne State University
• • Boyan Lazarov Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• • Sasha Mafusalov Meta
• • Vlad Bugera Big Data Realty
• • Vladimir Boginski University of Central Florida
• • Kevin Maritato SUNY Old Westbury
• • Robert Frey Stony Brook University
• • Stan Uryasev Stony Brook University
• • Anton Malandii Brown University

Hotel Information

Some nearby hotels for conference participants:

• • Hilton Garden Inn Stony Brook (on campus)
• • Holiday Inn Express Stony Brook – Long Island
• • Danfords Hotel & Marina (Port Jefferson)

Organizers

Anton Malandii (Brown University)
Matvei Lukianov (Stony Brook University)
Contact information is available on the Directions page.

Sponsors

Applied Mathematics and Statistics Department at Stony Brook University.