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Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences

Department of Electrical Engineering (UW)

Department of Mathematics (UW)

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

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Smith Hall room 304

See the abstracts of invited talks.

8:00 - 8:30 Light Breakfast

• Morning Session Talks (8:30 - 12:00)
  • 8:30 - 8:40: Welcome

  • 8:40 - 9:20: Marina Meila, Statistics, University of Washington
                       " Optimization for Ordered Data "

  • 9:20 - 10:00: Ting Kei Pong, Computer Science, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
                       " Gauge Optimization and Duality "

  • 10:00 - 10:20: Coffee Break

  • 10:20 - 11:00: Dominique Orban, GERAD and Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
                       " Fast Local Convergence of Interior-Point Methods in the Absence of Strict Complementarity "

  • 11:00 - 11:40: Thomas Rothvoss, Mathematics, University of Washington
                       " The matching polytope has exponential extension complexity "

• 11:40 - 1:30: Lunch Break

• Afternoon Session (1:30 - 4:30)
  • 1:30 - 2:10: Mehran Mesbahi, Aeronautics and Astronautics, University of Washington
                       " Dynamics and control over graphs: an eclectic set of problems and their applications "

  • 2:10 - 2:50: Johannes Royset, Operations Research, The Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA
                       " Foundations and Applications of Epi-Splines "

  • 2:50 - 3:10: Coffee Break

  • 3:10 - 3:50: Martin Skutella, Institute for Mathematics, Technical Institue of Berliin
                      " An improved additive approximation for the ring loading problem "
    

  • 3:50 - 5:30: Discussion