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1st Workshop on Optimization

March 19-21, 2006

SUNDAY
6:30 Dinner, John Davenport's at the Top of the Omni
MONDAY
9:15 Santosh Vempala (MIT), "Integration and Otimization of High-dimensional Logconcave Functions"
10:00 Michael Todd (Cornell), "On Minimum Volume Containing Ellipsoids: From Kiefer and Wolfowitz to Khachiyan and Beyond"
11:15 Lisa Fleischer (IBM Watson), "Discrete, Local Tatonnement Algorithms with Polynomial Convergence Properties for Market Equilibrium Problems"
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Sanjeev Arora (Princeton), "Multiplicative Weight Method: A General Algorithmic Tool (with Applications to Linear and Semidefinite Programming)"
2:15 Mihalis Yannakakis (Columbia), "Succinct Approximation of Trade-off Curves"
3:45 David Phillips (Columbia), "Strategies for Budget-constrained Auctions"
4:00 Dimitris Bertsimas (MIT), "Robust Optimization: A Tractable Approach to Optimization under Uncertainty"
6:30 Dinner, The Union League Cafe
TUESDAY
9:15 Michael Overton (NYU), "Nonsmooth, Nonconvex Optimization: Theory, Algorithms and Applications"
10:00 Robert Freund (MIT), " Projective Pre-Conditioners for Improving the Behavior of a Linear or Conic Inequality System"
11:15 Farid Alizadeh (Rutgers), "Bilinear Complementary Conditions for the Cone of Positive Polynomials"
12:00 Lunch
1:30 Elad Hazan (Princeton), "New Techniques in Online Convex Optimization"
2:15 David Williamson (Cornell), "A General Approach for Incremental Approximation and Hierarchical Clustering"
3:45 Maxim Sviridenko (IBM Watson), "Round and Approx: A New General Method for Multidimensional Packing"
4:15 Baruch Schieber (IBM Watson), " Minimizing Setup and Beam-On Times in Radiation Therapy"