2015 Summer Events on Research in Optimization (SERO)

The first event of the series will take place on Monday July 6, at 2:10pm, in the Mathematical Sciences Building, room 3240.

Confirmed speakers:

• Babak Moazzez, Pricing and decomposition update strategies in simplex algorithm
• Yuan Zhou, Extreme Functions for the Gomory-Johnson Infinite Group Problem
• Peijun Xiao, Improvements to the interactive simplex method in SageMath

The second event will take place on Thursday July 9, at 1:30pm, in the Mathematical Sciences Building, room 3240. It is possible to join for lunch before the event.

Confirmed speakers:

• Dan Gusfield, on integer programming approaches in computational biology,
• Matthias Köppe, on a completion-type problem arising in the Gomory-Johnson infinite group problem

The third and final event will take place on Friday September 25 from 3:10 to 6pm, in the Mathematical Sciences Building, room 2112. This is directly after Prof. Friedlander's MAT 258A class.

Speakers:

• Robert Bassett, on stochastic optimal control problems
• Jesus De Loera, on chance-constrained optimization
• Andrew Smith, on recovery processes in infrastructure networks, using mixed-integer linear optimization
• Huasen Wu, on algorithms for stochastic decision problems without prior knowledge and with budget constraints (constrained contextual bandits)
• Michael Friedlander, on level-set methods for convex optimization

After the talks, we will head to Sudwerk for dinner and beverages, where we have a 6:15 reservation. (Sorry, we can't cover you. This is a self-paid event.) RSVP if you would like to join for dinner by clicking here.

Interested in presenting? Let me know by email to mkoeppe@math.ucdavis.edu