This workshop, dedicated to honoring Professor Shapiro's 75th birthday, will take place on March 17-18, 2025, at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The event will feature distinguished speakers, research talks on modern stochastic optimization, engaging discussions, and reflections on Professor Shapiro's transformative influence on stochastic programming and optimization. 

Professor Shapiro's pioneering work in stochastic programming has made significant contributions to the theoretical and methodological foundations of the field. His innovations include risk-averse optimization, distributionally robust Markov decision processes, duality theory, perturbation analysis, sample average approximation, and robust stochastic approximation. These advancements have expanded the scope and capabilities of stochastic programming, making it a critical tool in emerging fields such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. 

As the A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, Professor Shapiro has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Khachiyan Prize, the Dantzig Prize, and the John von Neumann Theory Prize. His work has had a profound impact on the field, and ShapiroFest is a testament to his remarkable contributions. 

We warmly invite researchers, practitioners, and students across all fields of science and engineering to join us in celebrating this milestone in Professor Shapiro's illustrious career. 

For details about the program, speakers, and registration, please visit the workshop website. Registration for the workshop is free but required due to limited capacity.