Xiamen, Fujian Province, China, November 7-11, 2011

     The International Conference on Numerical Optimization and Numerical Linear Algebra will be held in the city of Xiamen, Fujian Province, China, November 7-11, 2011. This is the 8th of the binnial conference series, with previous ones being held in Qingdao(1997), Nanjing(1999), Dunhuang(2001), Guilin(2003), Lhasa(2005), Urumuqi(2007), and Lijiang(2009). The Conference will be organized by the State Key Laboratory of Scientific and Engineering Computing, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Scientific/Engineering Computing, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, jointly with School of Mathematical Sciences Xiamen University. The sponsors of the conference include the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the Chinese Mathematical Society. Invited lectures on recent advances of numerical optimization, numerical linear algebra, and their applications will be given.