Welcome to the first University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign conference organized by the Department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering. The conference is focused on applications of optimization in engineering, economics and the applied sciences with the goal of promoting the interest in traditional and emerging non-traditional applications of optimization including economics, markets, and bio- and socio-inspired application. This year the research topics include:

• Engineering and applied sciences including Biology, Chemical/Chemistry, Computer Science, Mechanical Sciences, and Electrical/Electronics.
• Economics and finance including game-theoretic and auction-theoretic models.
• Operations research including supply-chain, pricing and revenue management, health diagnosis and health management.
• Computation optimization including optimization software, COINOR, etc.

A special session is devoted for promoting the research of outstanding junior researchers in any of these areas.