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July - December
2011
Thematic Program on Discrete Geometry and Applications
September
26-29, 2011 (Monday- Thursday)
Workshop on Optimization
| Organizers: |
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K. Bezdek, University of Calgary
J. De Loera, UC Davis
A. Deza, McMaster University |
J. S. B. Mitchell, SUNY Stony Brook
Yinyu Ye, Stanford |
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Photos of the workshop
Tentative Workshop Schedule
| Monday September 26 |
| 9:20 - 9:30 |
Welcome and Introduction
Workshop Organizer Antoine Deza |
| 9:30 - 10:30 |
Kurt M. Anstreicher (University of Iowa)
An Approach to the Dodecahedral Theorem Based on Bounds for
Spherical Codes |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Robert M. Freund (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Design of Photonic Crystals with Multiple and Combined Band
Gaps, plus Fabrication-Robust Design |
| 12:00 - 2:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 2:00 - 3:00 |
Jon Lee (University of Michigan)
Submodular-function maximization |
| 3:00 - 3:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 3:30 - 4:30 |
Gabor Pataki (University of North Carolina)
Bad semidefinite programs: they all look the same |
| 4:30 - 5:30 |
Javier Peńa (Carnegie Mellon University)
A modified perceptron algorithm |
| 5:30 - 6:30 |
Reception - Fields Atrium
cash bar |
| Tuesday September 27 |
| 9:30 - 10:30 |
Antoine Deza (McMaster University)
A further generalization of the colourful Carathéodory
theorem |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Hayato Waki (The University of Electro-Communications,
Tokyo)
On a smaller SDP relaxation for polynomial optimization |
| 12:00 - 2:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 2:00 - 3:00 |
Miguel Anjos (École Polytechnique de Montréal)
Valid Polynomial Inequality Generation in Polynomial Optimization |
| 3:00 - 3:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 3:30 - 4:30 |
György Dósa (University of Pannonia)
Online reassignment models (in scheduling) |
| Wednesday September 28 |
| 9:30 - 10:30 |
Marcel De Carli Silva (University of Waterloo)
Geometric Representations of Graphs, Semidefinite Optimization
and Min-Max Theorems |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Kim-Chuan Toh (National University of Singapore)
A proximal point method for matrix least squares problem
with nuclear norm regularization |
| 12:00 - 2:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 2:00 - 3:00 |
Stephen A. Vavasis (University of Waterloo)
Finding Low-Rank Submatrices with Nuclear Norm and l1-Norm |
| 3:00 - 3:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 3:30 - 4:30 |
Michael J. Todd (Cornell University)
A Robust Robust Optimization Result and the Probability that
a Random Triangle is Acute |
| Thursday September 29 |
| 9:30 - 10:30 |
Adrian Lewis (Cornell University)
Nonsmooth optimization and semi-algebraic sets |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Yuriy Zinchenko (University of Calgary)
Shrink-Wrapping trajectories for Linear Programming |
| 12:00 - 1:30 |
Lunch Break |
| 1:30 - 2:30 |
Istvan Szalkai (University of Pannonia)
Counting Chemical Reactions and Simplexes in R^n |
| 3:00 - 3:30 |
Coffee Break |
Confirmed Participants as of September 22
| Fullname |
University/Affiliation |
| Anjos, Miguel |
École Polytechnique de Montréal |
| Anstreicher, Kurt M. |
University of Iowa |
| Avis, David |
Kyoto University and McGill University |
| Ben Hamza, Abdessamad |
Concordia University |
| Bezdek, Károly |
University of Calgary |
| Bisztriczky, Ted |
University of Calgary |
| Cheung, Yuen-Lam |
University of Waterloo |
| Choulakian, Vartan |
Université de Moncton |
| Connelly, Robert |
Cornell University |
| Deza, Antoine |
McMaster University |
| Deza, Michel |
École Normale Supérieure & JAIST |
| Dolbilin, Nikolai |
Steklov Mathematical Institute |
| Dósa, György |
University of Pannonia |
| Dotterrer, Dominic |
University of Toronto |
| Edmonds, Jack |
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| Erdahl, Robert |
Queen's University |
| Fejes Tóth, Gábor |
Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics |
| Fodor, Ferenc |
University of Szeged |
| Freund, Robert M. |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Gavrilyuk, Andrey |
Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences |
| Gillis, Nicolas |
University of Waterloo |
| Gorbovickis, Igors |
Cornell University |
| Herr, Katrin |
TU Darmstadt |
| Hubard, Isabel |
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México |
| Köppe, Matthias |
University of California, Davis |
| Kozachok, Marina |
Moscow State University |
| Lee, Jon |
University of Michigan |
| Lewis, Adrian |
Cornell University |
| Lin, Minghua |
University of Waterloo |
| Magazinov, Alexander |
Moscow State University |
| Mixer, Mark |
The Fields Institute |
| Monteiro, Renato |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Nixon, Anthony |
The Fields Institute |
| Owen, Megan |
The Fields Institute |
| Parrilo, Pablo A. |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Pataki, Gabor |
University of North Carolina |
| Peláez, Canek |
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico |
| Pellicer, Daniel |
The Fields Institute |
| Peńa, Javier |
Carnegie Mellon University |
| Pilaud, Vincent |
Fields Institute and Université Paris 7 |
| Pong, Ting Kei |
University of Waterloo |
| Pressman, Irwin |
Carleton University |
| Rehn, Thomas |
University of Rostock |
| Ross, Elissa |
The Fields Institute |
| Schulze, Bernd |
The Fields Institute |
| Schürmann, Achill |
University of Rostock |
| Sharifian, Alireza |
Carleton University |
| Shirvani Ghomi, Pooyan |
University of Calgary |
| Sljoka, Adnan |
York University |
| Sun, Defeng |
National University of Singapore |
| Sun, Ruoyu |
University of Minnesota |
| Szalkai, Istvan |
University of Pannonia |
| Todd, Michael J. |
Cornell University |
| Toh, Kim-Chuan |
National University of Singapore |
| Tóth, Csaba |
University of Calgary |
| Tsuchiya, Takashi |
National Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies |
| Tunçel, Levent |
University of Waterloo |
| Vavasis, Stephen A. |
University of Waterloo |
| Vigh, Viktor |
University of Calgary |
| Waki, Hayato |
The University of Electro-Communications |
| Weiss, Asia Ivic |
York University |
| Whiteley, Walter |
York University |
| Wolkowicz, Henry |
University of Waterloo |
| Ye, Yinyu |
Stanford University |
| Yildirim, Emre Alper |
Koc University |
| Zhang, Shuzhong |
The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| Zinchenko, Yuriy |
University of Calgary |
Postdoctoral Fellows and Program Visitors
Program Participants requesting support
or office space
All scientific events are open to the mathematical sciences community.
Visitors who are interested in office space or funding are
requested to apply by filling out the application
form. Additional support is available (pending NSF funding)
to support junior US visitors to this program.
Fields scientific programs are devoted to research in the mathematical
sciences, and enhanced graduate and post-doctoral training opportunities.
Part of the mandate of the Institute is to broaden and enlarge the
community, and to encourage the participation of women and members
of visible minority groups in our scientific programs.
For additional information contact thematic(PUT_AT_SIGN_HERE)fields.utoronto.ca
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