Welcome

We are pleased to invite you to the workshop on Mathematical Programming in Data Mining and Machine Learning.  The four-day workshop will be held on the campus of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, June 1-4, 2005.  The workshop will be hosted by the Advanced Optimization Lab at the Department of Computing and Software and is co-sponsored by IBM, the Fields Institute and MITACS.

The workshop aims to bring together a diverse group of experts from data mining, machine learning and mathematical programming, working on both theoretical and applied aspects, to ignite new collaborations and expose new possibilities.  The framework of this medium-scale event will provide these interdisciplinary communities with a rare opportunity to expose each other to the possibilities available in each field, and further identify solution methodologies for problems arising from these areas.