Combinatorial Optimization Research Center

3rd COLUMBIA OPTIMIZATION DAY

Monday, November 3, 2003

9:00 AM, Schermerhorn 501





PROGRAM

9:00:
Opening Remarks - Donald Goldfarb

IEOR Department, Columbia University


9:15 - 10:00:
Egon Balas, Carnegie Mellon University

The Vertex Separator Problem.


10:10 - 10:55:
Ravi Kannan, Yale University

Sampling on the fly from massive data


11:05 - 11:50:
David Applegate, AT&T Research

Optimization of Demand Oblivious Routing



Lunch


2:00 - 2:35:
Baruch Schieber, IBM Research

Approximating the Throughput in Resource Allocation and Real Time Scheduling


2:55 - 3:40:
James Orlin, MIT

The Complexity of Inverse and Partial Inverse Optimization Problems



Coffee Break


4:00 - 4:45:
Arkadi Nemirovski, Israel Institute of Technology

A simple $O(1/t)$-converging method for extremely large-scale convex-concave games and eigenvalue optimization.
     




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