SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMS AND ACTIVITIES

Overview

Optimization is an important area of applied mathematics that bridges mathematical theory with applications in diverse fields. This Thirteenth Annual Midwest Optimization Meeting provides opportunities for researchers in this region with different backgrounds to come together to share their research and teaching experiences, forge collaborations with colleagues from different institutions, and to expose students to applications of mathematical theory. This workshop will focus on bringing together several of the diverse communities working on large scale optimization models that arise from hard combinatorial problems.

Confirmed plenary speakers

Prof. Jonathan Borwein, University of Newcastle, Australia

Prof. Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA

Prof. Javier Peña, Carnegie Mellon University, USA

Prof. Alexander Shapiro, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

Topics

• Variational Analysis: variational principles and generalized differentiation, variational convergence, parametric optimization, and sensitivity under perturbations type algorithms.
• Engineering Applications: VLSI design; solutions of Lyapunov equations; general linear matrix inequalities in systems and control theory.
• Variational Analysis: stability and regularity, scaling, conditioning, numerical aspects, applications
• Nonsmooth Optimization: theoretical aspects and numerical algorithms, optimality conditions, bilevel and hierachical optimization, semi-infinite programming
• Multiobjective Optimization and Equilibria: Pareto and Nash equilibria, MPECs and EPECs, applications to economics
• Control theory: optimal and feedback control, ODE and PDE dynamics, optimality conditions, discrete approximations, algorithms

Tentative Schedule

Oct. 14, Friday Banting Institute, 100 College Street, Rm. 131 Banting
9:00-9:50 AM	Alexander Shapiro, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA Risk Averse Stochastic Programming
10:00-10:30 AM:	Coffee Break
10:30-10:55 A	Thomas Coleman, University of Waterloo, Canada Risk Management of Portfolios by CVaR Optimization
11:00-11:25 AM:	Nghia Tran, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA Subdifferentials of Supremum Lipschitzian Functions and its Applications to Nonsmooth Semi-Infinite and Infinite Programs
11:30-11:55 AM:	Ting Kei Pong, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada Efficient solutions for large-scale trust region subproblem
	LUNCH 12:00-2:00
2:00-2:50 PM:	Panos M. Pardalos, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA Network Analysis and Data Mining in Computational Neuro-Science
3:00-3:25 PM:	C.H. Jeffrey Pang, MIT, Boston, USA Characterizing Generalized Derivatives of Set-Valued Maps: Extending the Aubin and Mordukhovich Criterions
3:30-3:55 PM:	Hung Phan, University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada Generalized Damped Newton’s Method for Nonsmooth Equations
4:00-4:25 PM:	Jim Zhu An Optimal Trend Following Trading Strategy
4:30 PM	Cash Bar Reception at Fields
Oct. 15 Saturday Fields Institute, 222 College, Rm. 230
9:00-9:50 AM:	Jon Borwein, University of Newcastle, Australia The Douglas Rachford Algorithm in the Absence of Convexity
10:00-10:30 AM:	Coffee Break
10:30-10:55 AM:	Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA Identifiable Sets in Optimization
11:00-11:25 AM:	Nguyen Lam, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA Superlinear elliptic equations with subcritical and critical exponential growth without the Ambrosetti-Rabinowitz condition
11:30-11:55 AM:	Nicolas Gillis, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada Complexity of Low-Rank Matrix Approximations with Weights or Missing Data
	LUNCH 12:00-2:00
2:00-2:50 PM:	Javier Pena, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA First-order algorithms for large-scale convex optimization
3:00-3:25 PM:	Ozgu Turgut, Wayne State University, Detroit, USA An Approximation Algorithm for Generating Representative Pareto Sets for Multiobjective Integer Progragramming Problems
3:30-3:55 PM:	Yuen-Lam Cheung, University of Waterloo, Canada Preprocessing and Regularization for Degenerate Semidefinite Programs
4:00-4:25	Da Lu, University of Waterloo Facility Location with Economies of Scale and Congestion: Models and Column Generation Heuristics by
4:30-4:55	Minghua Lin, University of Waterloo The Legendre-Fenchel conjugate of a product of positive definite quadratic forms

Registered Attendees as of October 13, 2011:

Full Name	University/Affiliation
Borwein, Jonathan	University of Newcastle
Chen, Shengyuan	York University
Coleman, Thomas F.	University of Waterloo
Drusvyatskiy, Dmitriy	Cornell University
Geremew, Wondi	Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
Gillis, Nicolas	University of Waterloo
Kotsireas, Ilias	Wilfrid Laurier University
Lam, Nguyen	Wayne State University
Lin, Minghua	University of Waterloo
Lu, Da	University of Waterloo
Mordukhovich, Boris	Wayne State University
Pang, Chin How Jeffrey	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Pardalos, Panos M.	University of Florida
Peña, Javier	Carnegie Mellon University
Phan, Hung	University of British Columbia Okanagan
Pong, Ting Kei	University of Waterloo
Sendov, Hristo	University of Western Ontario
Shapiro, Alexander	Georgia Institute of Technology
Tran, Nghia	Wayne State University
Turgut, Ozgu	Wayne State University
Wolkowicz, Henry	University of Waterloo
Zhu, Qiji Jim	Western Michigan University





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