The Mathematical Optimization Society (MOS) is an international organization dedicated to the promotion and the maintenance of high professional standards in the subject of mathematical optimization.

The MOS is incorporated as a non-profit tax-exempt scientific organization in the United States. It publishes the journals Mathematical Programming A and B, consisting of technical articles on all aspects of the subject; the journal Mathematical Programming Computation, for articles with a computational focus; the MOS/SIAM Series on Optimization, comprising monographs and texts on particular optimization topics; and the newsletter Optima. Every three years the Society sponsors the International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP). In other years, it supports the Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization (IPCO) and the International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT).

Some background documents on MOS and its activities that the Society has produced from time to time are:

• An account of the history and procedures of the Society by Philip Wolfe, written in the mid-1980s. First appeared in Optima.
• The MPS brochure, written in 2000, is no longer available. A new one is in progress and will come up soon. For a hard copy of the old brochure, including pictures, please send a request to service@mathopt.org.

Bylaws and Constitution

More detailed information is available in the following:

• MOS Bylaws, including Prize Rules (PDF - Jan 29, 2011)
• Current Constitution (PDF - June 17, 2010)

Current MOS Officers

Chair		Katya Scheinberg 2024-2025 Georgia Institute of Technology	Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering 755 Ferst Drive, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
Vice-Chair		Miguel Anjos 2023-2025 University of Edinburgh	University of Edinburgh, School of Mathematics Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh, EH9 3FD United Kingdom
Treasurer		Fatma Kılınç-Karzan 2024-2027 Carnegie Mellon University	Tepper School of Business Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
Council Member-at-large		Merve Bodur 2024-2027 University of Edinburgh	University of Edinburgh, School of Mathematics Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh, EH9 3FD United Kingdom
Council Member-at-large		Fabian Bastin 2024-2027 Université de Montréal	Université de Montréal, Faculté des arts et des sciences 3150 Jean Brillant St Montréal, Quebec H3T 1N8 Canada
Council Member-at-large		Jorge Vera 2024-2027 Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Av. Vicuña Mackenna 4860 7820436 Macul, Región Metropolitana Chile
Council Member-at-large		Xiaojun Chen 2024-2027 The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	Department of Applied Mathematics The Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong China
Editor: Mathematical Programming		Daniel Kuhn 2022- EPFL CDM MTE-GE	ODY 3 18 (Odyssea), Station 5, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Editor: MPC		Nick Sahidinis 2019- Rutgers University	Department of Management Science and Information Systems Rutgers University 100 Rockafeller Road, Room 5145 Piscataway, NJ 08540 USA
Editor: MOS-SIAM Series		Jesús A. De Loera 2019- UC Davis	Department of Mathematics University of California One Shields Ave. Davis, CA 95616 USA
Editor: Optima		Sebastian Pokutta 2020- Zuse Institute Berlin & Technische Universität Berlin	Zuse Institute Berlin Takustraße 7 14195 Berlin Germany
Web Editor		Timo Berthold 2020- FICO, TU Berlin	Zuse Institute Berlin Takustraße 7 14195 Berlin Germany

Past MOS Officers

List of past MOS Officers

Standing Committees