Welcome! This site is dedicated to the Laboratory of Mathematical Methods of Optimization at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (at the FPMI) and related events News All news The summer school "Management, Information and optimization" named after B. T. Polyak has ended in St. Petersburg The school was held from July 20 to July 26... 06.08.2026 Alexander Gasnikov Receives the “Scientific Breakthrough 2026” Award in the “Digitalization in Science” Category The award was presented in the “Digitalization in Science” category... 15.02.2026 Applications Open for the B. T. Polyak Scholarship for Contributions to Numerical Optimization Applications are accepted until February 3... 19.01.2026 Three laboratory staff members successfully defended their dissertations A. Agafonov, A. Lobanov and N. Pletnev defended their PhD... 25.12.2025 Alexander Gasnikov spoke at three sessions of AI Journey 2025 They were held within the framework of the topic "AI in science"... 09.12.2025 Roland Hildebrand Spoke at the BRICS+ Open Science Week His lecture was delivered at Moscow’s Zaryadye Park... 08.12.2025