Combinatorial Optimization Research Center

5th COLUMBIA OPTIMIZATION DAY

December 5, 2005, 9:00 am

C. P. Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Center





PROGRAM

9:00 - 9:10
Opening Remarks - Donald Goldfarb

IEOR Department, Columbia University


9:10 - 10:00
Pablo Parrilo, MIT

SOS/SDP methods: from optimization to games


10:10 - 11:00
Catherine McGeoch, Amherst College

What matters most to performance? Case studies in algorithm engineering


11:10 - 12:00
Sven Leyffer, Argonne

The Return of the Filter



Lunch


2:00 - 2:50
Edward Rothberg, ILOG

It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood --- Local Search in Mixed Integer Programming


3:00 - 3:50
Jeff Linderoth, Lehigh

Using a Computational Grid for Optimization


     




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