Italian FIRB Project on  Parallel Algorithms and Numerical Nonlinear Optimization  Meetings Bologna, December 6, 2002 - Results and work in progress Bologna, May 28, 2003 - Coordination, organization, logistics International INdAM Summer School on "Numerical Methods for Local  and Global Optimization: Sequential and Parallel Algorithms", Cortona (Italy) - July 17-24, 2003. See the web page at dm.unife.it/opt2003 Scientific meeting on "Interior Point Methods", Modena (Italy) - September 24, 2003. Scientific meeting on "Statistical Learning", Modena (Italy) - October 23, 2003. This meeting is a shared activity with the FIRB project "Statistical Learning: Theory, Algoritms, Applications" (http://slipguru.disi.unige.it/ASTA)