This issue of Journal of Applied Crystallography includes some highlights of the 11th Biennial Conference on High-Resolution X-ray Diffraction and Imaging (XTOP), held in St Petersburg in 2012.
Lecture notes for the tutorial at the workshop HPOPT 2008 — 10th International Workshop on High Performance Optimization Techniques (Algebraic Structure in Semidefinite Programming), June 11th to 13th, 2008, Tilburg University, The Netherlands.