1st ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE COMMON EVENTS: VI INT. CONFERENCE IN OPTIMIZATION THEORY AND ITS APPLICATIONS (ALEL) + IV WORKSHOP ON FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS June 6th – June 10th, Cartagena (Spain) The ALEL will take place from the June 6 to 8. In its sixth edition, it is co-organized by the universities of Alicante, Cartagena, Limoges, Miguel Hernández (Elche) and Murcia. The aim of the meeting is to promote the connection and exchange of knowledge among researchers from different countries on topics like convex and non-smooth analysis, numerical methods or semi-infinite optimization. There will be a number of (non-parallel) invited talks given by the following speakers: Paul Armand, Loïc Bourdin, Jean-Baptiste Caillau, Thai Doan Chuong, Robert Deville, Asen Dontchev, Jesús García Falset, Sorin-Mihai Grad, Abderrahim Hantoute, Jean-Baptiste Hiriart-Urruty, Nouredine Igbida, Abderrahim Jourani, Yalcin Kaya, Mathieu Kessler, Diethard Klatte, Guoyin Li, Boris Mordukhovic, Mikhail Ostrovskii, Daniele Puglisi, David Salas Videla, Francisco Silva, Mikhail Solodov, Jarno Talponen, Shawn Wang, Darius Zagrodny. A poster session will be held for (especially young) researchers to display their work. The ALEL will be followed from June 9 to 10 by the fourth edition of the Workshop on Functional Analysis organized by the research group of Functional Analysis of the UM. Gathering of experienced and novice researchers with interest in Banach space theory, the meeting will consist of a series of short talks as well as plenary talks given by the following speakers: Daniel Azagra, Jonathan Borwein, Gilles Godefroy, Petr Hajek, Natalia Jonard, Vladimir Kadets, Denka Kutzarova (to be confirmed), Tony Prochazka, Daniele Puglisi, Clemente Zanco. Both meetings will be held in the millenarian seaside city of Cartagena, more specifically, in the historic building of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena, former Instruction Center of Army, and currently occupied by the Naval Museum and the Faculty of Business. It is located opposite the port, closed to hotels and the pedestrian area of the city. For registration and details about travel and accommodation, we refer to the respective homepages of the meetings: http://www.um.es/beca/alel2016/ http://www.um.es/beca/workshop2016/ For more information, please contact Matías Raja <matias(at)um.es>. On behalf of the organizing committee: Carlos Angosto, Luis Oncina, Antonio Pallarés and Matías Raja.