4th COLUMBIA OPTIMIZATION DAY
November 15th, 2004 (Monday) 9:00 am
C. P. Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center
PROGRAM
| 9:00 - 9:10 |
Opening Remarks - Donald Goldfarb |
| IEOR Department, Columbia University |
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| 9:10 - 10:00 |
Michael Overton, NYU
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| A robust gradient sampling
algorithm for nonsmooth, nonconvex
optimization
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| 10:10 - 11:00 |
Michel Goemans, MIT |
| The
benefit of adaptivity in stochastic combinatorial
optimization problems
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| 11:10 - 12:00 |
Laurent El-Ghaoui, U.C. Berkeley |
| The
curse of uncertainty in dynamic programming and how to fix
it
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| Lunch |
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| 2:00 - 2:50 |
Michael Todd, Cornell |
| Conic linear
optimization
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| 3:00 - 3:50 |
Jong-Shi Pang, RPI |
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Topics in complementarity systems
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| Coffee Break |
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| 4:20 - 5:10 |
Paul Seymour, Princeton |
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The Structure of Claw-Free Graphs
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