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Jean Bernard Lasserre is Emeritus Directeur de Recherche at the LAAS-CNRS and the Institute of Mathematics at the Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées. He is Chair of 'Polynomial Optimization' at the Artificial & Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute. He has won numerous awards for his contributions to the fields of applied mathematics, control, operations research and probability, including the 2015 John von Neumann Theory prize and the 2015 Khachiyan Prize of the INFORMS Optimization Society, for lifetime achievements in the area of optimization. He is the author and co-author of eight books and about 200 articles in international journals. Edouard Pauwels is Associate Professor at the Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, Université Paul Sabatier, and a member of the Artificial & Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute. His research focuses on numerical optimization and applications in machine learning and data analysis. He received the Bronze Medal of the CNRS in 2021. Mihai Putinar is Professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of California at Santa Barbara and Professor of Pure Mathematics in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics at Newcastle University. Working in the fields of spectral theory, complex analytic geometry and moment problems, he is the author of three books and more than 200 scientific articles. Over the course of his career, he has been awarded prizes including the Simion Stoilow Prize of the Romanian Academy (1987) and the Romanian National Order of Merit with the rank of Knight (2011).