Introduction

Dear Friends of KoMSO,

It is our pleasure to present the sixth KoMSO newsletter of the year. This edition includes several calls and miscellaneous information from the MSO community.

Please feel free to share your feedback with us or to contribute ideas for upcoming editions of this newsletter. Previous editions of this newsletter can be found at <https://www.komso.org/index.php?id=71>.

Best wishes from the KoMSO Coordination Office!

News & miscellaneous

Call for proposals for DFG priority programme "Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning"

The DFG recently published a call for proposals for its priority programme "Theoretical Foundations of Deep Learning" addressing the mathematical foundations of deep learning. More information can be found at <https://www.dfg.de/foerderung/info_wissenschaft/2020/info_wissenschaft_20_36/>.

BMBF call for proposals "Generating synthetic data for AI"

The BMBF recently published a call for proposals on methods for generating synthetic data suitable to create and validate AI algorithms. More information (in German) can be found at <https://www.bmbf.de/foerderungen/bekanntmachung-3068.html>.

Overview of BMBF "Big Data" projects available on math4innovation.de

A short summary of most projects from the latest call "Development of methods for handling large amounts of data" within the BMBF funding priority "Mathematics for Innovations" can now be found at <https://math4innovation.de/index.php?id=76> (in German).

BMBF stocks up "Mathematics for Innovations" projects to help tackling COVID-19 pandemic

The BMBF stocks up several projects from its funding priority "Mathematics for Innovations" in order to help tackling the COVID-19 pandemic. These projects work on topics where potential synergies for current social tasks could arise. More information (in German) can be found at <https://www.bmbf.de/de/corona-forschung-mit-mathematischen-methoden-11844.html>.

Call for site proposals for ICCOPT2022 and ISMP2024

The "Mathematical Optimization Society" published their calls for site proposals for its upcoming conferences -- the "7th International Conference on Continuous Optimization (ICCOPT2022)" and the "International Symposium on Mathematical Programming (ISMP2024)". More information can be found at <http://www.mathopt.org/?nav=iccopt21_call> and <http://www.mathopt.org/?nav=ismp2024_call>.