Optimization Tutorials - IPAM

Optimization Tutorials

Part of the Long Program Modern Trends in Optimization and Its Application
September 14 - 17, 2010

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Morning Session

08:00-09:30
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:30-10:45
Christine Bachoc (Université de Bordeaux I)
Invariant semidefinite programs
10:45-11:15
Break
11:15-12:30
Michael Friedlander (University of British Columbia)
Algorithms for Sparse Optimization

Afternoon Session

12:30-13:00
OP2010 Core Orientation
12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:45
Matthias Koeppe (University of California, Davis (UC Davis))
Generating function methods in discrete optimization
15:45-16:15
Break
16:15-17:30
Giuseppe Calafiore (Politecnico di Torino)
Introduction to Robust Optimization

Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Morning Session

08:00-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:45
Christine Bachoc (Université de Bordeaux I)
Invariant semidefinite programs
10:45-11:15
Break
11:15-12:30
Michael Friedlander (University of British Columbia)
Algorithms for Sparse Optimization

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:45
Matthias Koeppe (University of California, Davis (UC Davis))
Generating function methods in discrete optimization
15:45-16:15
Break
16:15-17:30
Giuseppe Calafiore (Politecnico di Torino)
Introduction to Robust Optimization

Thursday, September 16, 2010

Morning Session

08:00-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:45
Jiawang Nie (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))
Semidefinite Programming Methods for Multivariate Polynomial Optimization
10:45-11:15
Break
11:15-12:30
Marc Teboulle (Tel Aviv University)
First Order Algorithms for Convex Minimization

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:45
Frank Vallentin (Technische Universiteit te Delft)
Grothendieck-type inequalities, semidefinite programs, and unique games
15:45-16:15
Break
16:15-17:30
Marc Teboulle (Tel Aviv University)
First Order Algorithms for Convex Minimization

Friday, September 17, 2010

Morning Session

08:00-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:45
Jiawang Nie (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))
Semidefinite Programming Methods for Multivariate Polynomial Optimization
10:45-11:15
Break
11:15-12:30
Laurent El Ghaoui (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Robust optimization in machine learning.

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:45
Frank Vallentin (Technische Universiteit te Delft)
Grothendieck-type inequalities, semidefinite programs, and unique games
15:45-16:15
Break
16:15-17:30
Laurent El Ghaoui (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Safe feature elimination in l1-penalized optimization problems
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