*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION *** International Conference Stochastic Optimization and Optimal Stopping 24-28 September 2012, Moscow, Russia http://soandos.mi.ras.ru Steklov Mathematical Institute <http://www.mi.ras.ru/index.php?c=main&l=1>, PreMo Laboratory <http://www.premolab.ru> and STRADO organize conference /"Stochastic Optimization and Optimal Stopping"/. The conference is devoted to recent developments in stochastic control and related fields and will gather leading researches in this area. CONFIRMED PLENARY SPEAKERS: N. Bauerle (Karlsruhe University) E. Bayraktar (Michigan University) C. Bender (Saarland University) A. Bensoussan (University of Texas at Dallas) U. Cetin (London School of Economics) R. Dalang (Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne) E. Feinberg (Stony Brook University) I. Karatzas (Columbia University) R. Lerche (Freiburg University) G. Moustakides (University of Patras) B. Oksendal (Oslo University) H. Pham (Paris Diderot University) C. Rogers (Cambridge University) J. Schoenmakers (Weierstrass Institute) A. Shiryaev (Steklov Institute) P. Tankov (Paris Diderot University) A. Tartakovsky (University of Southern California) M. Urusov (Ulm University) X. Zhou (Chinese University of Hong Kong) MAIN TOPICS: * Changepoint detection problems * Numerical stochastic optimization * Optimal stopping problems * Sequential hypothesis testing * Stochastic control in finance * Stochastic differential equations * Stochastic games We invite everyone interested in the subject area of the conference to participate. There will be 20-minutes contributed talks and poster sessions. Participation is free of charge. For information about registration, please visit the page http://soandos.mi.ras.ru/participation.html The deadline for abstract submission is 15 June 2012. Conference poster: http://soandos.mi.ras.ru/materials/poster.pdf Website: http://soandos.mi.ras.ru Email: soandos(a)mi.ras.ru <mailto:soandos@mi.ras.ru>