Pioneer and Market Leader


The Optimization Firm produces BARON, the world's fastest and most powerful MINLP solver, and continues to reimagine robust algorithms with the ALAMO modeling tool. BARON was the first branch-and-bound solver for global optimization of nonlinear programming (NLP) and mixed-integer nonlinear programming (MINLP) problems, which are some of the hardest mathematical optimization problems in the world.

The Optimization Firm has over 1,000 customers, including world-leading universities, research institutions, and companies spanning the energy, finance, healthcare, materials, and technology sectors. The Optimization Firm's technology originated at top research universities and is now used in more than 60 countries.

BARON

The world's best complete solver for global optimization. Solves your LP, NLP, MIP, MINLP problems.

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ALAMO

Novel analytics tool for building accurate and interpretable models. Model, evaluate, and optimize your data.

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Featured Customers

Dow
LG Chem
NEC Corporation
Northwestern University
Air Liquide
Shell
Bank of America
Pfizer
IBM
Nike
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Eli Lilly

Our goal is to develop and implement novel algorithms that make it possible to solve large-scale problems quickly and efficiently.


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Dr. Nick Sahinidis, Founder & CEO

Recent and Upcoming Events

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30th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming

Conference: September 2-6, 2024 

The Optimization Firm is excited to be a sponsor of CP 2024. If you are attending, be sure to pick up a BARON T-shirt.

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25th International Symposium on Mathematical Programming

Conference: July 21-26, 2024

The Optimization Firm is excited to be a Bronze sponsor of ISMP 2024.

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Featured Sponsorships

The Optimization Firm is a proud sponsor of the following conferences:

  CP 2024 September 2-6, 2024

  ISMP 2024 July 21-26, 2024

  OPTIMA-CON 2024 July 10-12, 2024

  IPCO 2024 July 3-5, 2024

  EURO 2024 July 1-3, 2024

  EUROPT 2024 June 26-28, 2024

  MIP 2024 June 2-6, 2024

  CPAIOR 2024 May 28-31, 2024

  INFORMS Optimization Society Conference 2024 March 22-24, 2024