August 19, 2023

In honor of Rob Freund's 40 years of research in continuous optimization, we will host a one-day workshop that will bring together researchers to discuss recent developments, new trends, and challenges in continuous optimization and its applications.

Location:  MIT Sloan, Room E62-262 (map)

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Schedule

8:30 - 9:00 AM Registration and Breakfast

9:00 - 9:15 AM Opening Remarks

9:15 - 10:45 AM Session

1. Adrian Lewis, Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University

2. Damek Davis, Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University

3. Dmitriy Drusvyatskiy, Department of Mathematics, University of Washington

10:45 - 11:15 AM Coffee Break

11:15 - 12:15 PM Session

1. Javier F. Peña, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University

2. Michael J. Todd, Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University

12:15 - 12:25 PM Group Photo

12:25 - 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 - 3:30 PM Session

1. Zikai Xiong, Operations Research Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

2. Benjamin Grimmer, Department of Applied Math and Statistics, Johns Hopkins University

3. Robert J. Vanderbei, Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University

3:30 - 4:00 PM Coffee Break

4:00 - 5:00 PM Session

1. Stephen A. Vavasis, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo

2. Levent Tunçel, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo

5:00 - 5:15 PM Closing Remarks

5:15 - 6:00 PM Break

6:00 - 9:00 PM Dinner/Reception

Program and Abstracts

Organizers

Ahmed Abusharkh, Sloan School of Management (support staff), Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Alexandre Belloni, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University

Marina Epelman, Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan

Paul Grigas, Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, UC Berkeley

Haihao Lu, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

Rahul Mazumder, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Peng Sun, Fuqua School of Business, Duke University