This brief note presents a personal recollection of the early history of EUROpt, the Continuous Optimization Working Group of EURO. This historical note details the events that happened before the formation of EUROpt Working Group and the first five years of its existence. During the early years...

This short discussion paper comments on Francisco Santos’ excellent review paper Recent Progress on the Combinatorial Diameter of Polytopes and Simplicial Complexes. We provide some notes on a few closely related topics that were not covered in the survey paper, such as: some relaxed version...