The XV Brazilian Workshop on Continuous Optimization (BRAZOPT 2026) will take place at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Blumenau Campus, in Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil, from February 23 to 27, 2026.

BRAZOPT is a traditional event that brings together researchers, professionals, and students working in Continuous Optimization from Brazil and abroad. Since its first edition in 1997, BRAZOPT has served as an important forum for scientific exchange, collaboration, and dissemination of research in the field.

🚀 Abstract Submission !
Submit your work for Contributed Talks or Poster Presentations.
🗓 Deadline EXTENDED: December 15th, 2025 November 15th, 2025
🔗 Submit your abstract here

📰 A special issue of Computational Optimization and Applications (COAP) will be dedicated to BRAZOPT 2026. Click here for details.

Plenary Speakers

• Maicon Marques Alves (UFSC, Brazil)
• Ernesto Birgin (USP, Brazil)
• Orizon Ferreira (UFG, Brazil)
• Andreas Fischer (TU Dresden, Germany)
• Ellen Fukuda (Kyoto University, Japan)​
• George Lan (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• Boris Mordukhovich (Wayne State University, USA)​
• Claudia Sagastizábal (Unicamp, Brazil)
• Katya Scheinberg (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
• Mikhail Solodov (IMPA, Brazil)

Confirmed speakers

Organizing and Scientific Committees