A vibrant, Internet-powered network of 560+ optimization researchers across 40+ countries, uniting the Pacific community through the Pacific Journal of Optimization, e-newsletter, and flagship conferences to accelerate breakthroughs and collaboration.
About POP
The mission and vision
› Who we are
Working Committee
The enablers of the group
› Meet the committee team
POP Journals
The latest papers published
› read journals
POP Conferences
Exchange the ideas and views
›the coming events
Board
Shared spaces for growing together.
›meet the boardmemebers
OBR Newsletter
The research news, member Opinions, member interviews
Founded in October, 2000, during the First Sino-Japanese Optimization Meeting in Hong Kong, initiated by a call of Masao Fukushima, Masakazu Kojima, Liqun Qi, Jie Sun, Kok Lay Teo, and Alex Rubinov , this group has now about 560 members from more than 40 countries and regions, ranging from Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, and South America.
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POP HQ
12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Kent Street, Bentley, WA, Australia
Singapore Branch
12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Kent Ridge Road, Singapore
Japan Branch
10:00 AM -12:00 PM
Sakyo Ward, Kyoto, Japan
The 2026 International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications (ICOTA 2026) was successfully held in Shanghai from 10 to 12 April 2026. The conference was hosted by Shanghai University of Engineering Science and co-organised by the Operations Research Society of Shanghai, Curtin University (Australia), Shanghai University, Dalian University of Technology, Yunnan Normal University, and the…
The 2026 International Conference on Optimization: Techniques and Applications (ICOTA 2026) was successfully held in Shanghai from 10 to 12…
30-Sept-2025 Today we completed end-to-end testing of the POP website and held our first acceptance meeting: a big step toward…
The POP Group thrives because of the incredible dedication of our volunteers — professors, students, and industry professionals — who…
