2nd Workshop on Optimization
March 18-20, 2007
| SUNDAY | |
| 6:30 | Dinner, John Davenport’s at the Top of the Omni (by invitation only) |
| MONDAY | |
| 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:15 | Alexander Barvinok (University of Michigan Ann Arbor), “Counting Magic Squares, Contingency Table, Integer Flows, and More” (with A. Samorodnitsky and A. Yong) [Abstract] |
| 10:00 | Rehka Thomas (University of Washington), “The Small Chvatal Rank of an Integer Matrix” (with T. Bogart) [Abstract] |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 11:15 | Niels Lauritzen (University of Aarhus), “Test Sets and the Scarf-Shallcross Algorithm” (with A. Jensen and B. Roune) [Abstract] |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Pablo Parrilo (MIT), “Computational Methods for Continuous Games” [Abstract] |
| 2:15 | Moses Charikar (Princeton University), “An Algorithmic Perspective on the Unique Games Conjecture” [Abstract] |
| 3:00 | Break |
| 3:15 | Michel Goemans (MIT), “Minimum Bounded Degree Spanning Trees” [Abstract] |
| 4:00 | Vijay Vazirani (Georgia Tech), “Markets and the Primal-Dual Schema” [Abstract] |
| 6:30 | Dinner, The Union League Cafe (by invitation only) |
| TUESDAY | |
| 8:30 | Breakfast |
| 9:15 | Margaret Wright (NYU), “Selected Recent Developments in Non-Derivative Optimization” [Abstract] |
| 10:00 | Robert J. Vanderbei (Princeton University), “Frontiers of Stochastically Nondominated Portfolios” (with A. Ruszczynski) |
| 10:45 | Break |
| 11:15 | David Shmoys (Cornell University), “Approximation Algorithms for 2-Stage Stochastic Scheduling Problems” (with M. Sozio) [Abstract] |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| 1:30 | Asuman Ozdaglar (MIT), “Approximate Primal Solutions and Rate Analysis for Subgradient Methods” (with A. Nedich) [Abstract] |
| 2:15 | Nick Harvey (MIT), “Randomized Algebraic Algorithms for Matching and Matroid Problems” [Abstract] |
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PRESENTERS GRADUATE STUDENTS |
PARTICIPANTS PARTICIPATING UNIVERSITIES |