Program

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Monday, June 19
9:00-9:45 Registration 
9:45-10:00 Opening Remarks 
10:00-10:45 Miguel Anjos The State-of-the Art of Mathematical Optimization Models for Facility Layout
 (interested parties can reach out to Miguel Anjos for the presentation file)
10:45-11:15 Break 
11:15-12:00 Christoph Buchheim Mixed-Integer Programming with PDE constraints
12:00-2:00 Lunch 
2:00-2:45 David Bergman Discrete Nonlinear Optimization by State-Space Decompositions
2:45-3:15 Poster Introductions I 
3:15-3:45 Break 
3:45-4:15 Poster Introductions II 
4:15-4:45 Bill Cook Guiding the Cutting-Plane Method
4:45-5:15 Maurice Queyranne Tight MIP Formulations for Unit Commitment and Production Planning Problems with Bounded Up / Down Times
5:30-8:30 Poster Session / Reception 

Tuesday, June 20
 9:30-10:15 Dorit Hochbaum Machine Learning Combinatorial Optimization Algorithms
 10:15-10:45 Break 
 10:45-11:30 Volker Kaibel Descriptions of Spanning Tree Polytopes
 11:30-12:00 Daniel Dadush Solving Linear Programs via Rescalable Geometry
 12:00-2:00 Lunch 
 2:00-2:45 Angelos Georghiou Robust Dual Dynamic Programming
 2:45-3:15 Hassan Hijazi Lazy Cut Generation for Semidefinite Programming
 3:15-3:45 Break 
 3:45-4:15 Sven Wiese New Applications for Wide Split Cuts
 4:15-4:45 Margarida Carvalho An Integer Programming Game in Health-care
 4:45-5:30 Philipp Christophel Shaping and Trimming Branch-and-Bound Trees
 5:30-6:00 Business Meeting 
 6:30-9:00 Conference Dinner

Wednesday, June 21
 9:30-10:15 Yoshua Bengio Deep Learning for AI
 10:15-10:45 Break 
 10:45-11:30 Santanu Dey Using Sparsity to Design Primal Heuristics for Integer Programs: Two Stories
 11:30-12:00 Austin Buchanan Parsimonious Integer Programming Formulations for Low-Diameter Clusters (k-Clubs)
 12:00-2:00 Lunch 
 2:00-2:45 Vahab Mirrokni Distributed Optimization via Composable Core-Sets: From Submodulity to Feature Selection
 2:45-3:15 Louis-Martin Rousseau A First Look at Picking Dual Values for Maximizing Reduced Cost Fixing
 3:15-3:45 Break 
 3:45-4:15 Thorsten Koch SCIP-Jack: A Solver for Steiner Tree Problems in Graphs and Their Relatives
 4:15-4:45 Pierre Bonami Using Machine Learning inside CPLEX
 4:45-5:15 Michael Perregaard How MIP Solvers Can Benefit from Interior Point Solutions

Thursday, June 22
 9:30-10:15 Pablo Parrilo Graph Structure in Polynomial Systems: Chordal Networks
 10:15-10:45 Break 
 10:45-11:15 Sercan Yildiz Polynomial Optimization with Sum-of-Squares Interpolants
 11:15-11:45 Burak Kocuk Extensions of Subadditive Duality For Conic Mixed-Integer Programs
 11:45-12:30 Matthias Koeppe Computer-Assisted Discovery and Automated Proofs of Cutting Plane Theorems
 12:30-1:00 Poster Prize / Closing Remarks