Workshop V: Applications of Optimization in Science and Engineering - IPAM

Workshop V: Applications of Optimization in Science and Engineering

Part of the Long Program Modern Trends in Optimization and Its Application
November 30 - December 3, 2010

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

Morning Session

08:30-09:15
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:15-09:30
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:30-10:20
Asuman Ozdaglar (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Distributed Multi-Agent Optimization with State-Dependent Communication
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:50
Mung Chiang (Princeton University)
Optimizer on WiFi Driver

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:50
Daniel Segre (Boston University)
Applications and challenges in mathematical modeling of metabolic networks
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-16:05
Wei Yu (University of Toronto)
Joint Scheduling, Beamforming and Power Spectrum Optimization for Wireless Multicell Networks
16:15-16:30
Break
16:30-17:20
Laurent El Ghaoui (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Sparse PCA, variants, algorithms and applications
17:30-19:30
Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:20
Michal Kocvara (University of Birmingham)
Topology and material optimization problems with stress constraints
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:50
Moritz Diehl (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)
Embedded Optimization - Convex and Beyond

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:50
Yonina Eldar (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
Optimization Techniques in Modern Sampling Theory
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-16:05
Daniel Palomar (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Design of Cognitive Radio Systems Under Temperature-Interference Constraints: A Variational Inequality Approach
16:15-16:30
Break
16:30-17:20
Mikhael Johansson (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH))
The need for speed: convergence rates and accelerated algorithms for networked optimization.

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:20
Amir Beck (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
On the Solution of the GPS Localization and Circle Fitting Problems
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:50
Luminita Vese (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Optimization based image restoration using one-dimensional Sobolev norm profiles of noise and texture

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:50
Kristin Bennett (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Nonsmooth Nonconvex Optimization in Machine Learning and Data Mining
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-16:05
Martin Wainwright (University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley))
Fast global convergence of gradient methods for high-dimensional statistical recovery
16:15-16:30
Break
16:30-17:20
Suvrit Sra (Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics)
Multiframe blind deblurring

Friday, December 3, 2010

Morning Session

08:30-09:30
Continental Breakfast
09:30-10:20
Daniel Cremers (Technische Universtitat München)
Convex Relaxation Techniques for Computer Vision
10:30-11:00
Break
11:00-11:50
Richard Hartley (Australian National University)
Provably optimal algorithms in computer vision

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:50
Juan Meza (University of California, Merced (UC Merced))
A Direct Constrained Optimization Method for Electronic Structure Calculations
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-16:05
Stanley Osher (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
New Algorithms in Information Science
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