The Schedule

Coffee

Welcome & Opening Remarks

A brief history of personalized cancer treatment planning using radiation particles: an optimization perspective 

Gino Lim

Revisiting real options modelling 

Daniel Ralph

Evaluating the Economy-Wide Implications of Net Zero Policy: On the Usefulness of Complementarity Methods and the PATH Solver 

Thomas Rutherford

Coffee Break

TBD

Stephen Wright

Heaviside Composite Optimization—Applications and a Progressive Integer Programming Algorithm 

Jong-Shi Pang

Feature Selection for Linear Mixed Effects Models 

James Burke

Lunch

Adventures with $\perp$:  Stability Analysis of Discrete-Time Linear Complementarity Systems & Relaxations and Cutting Planes for Linear Programs with Complementarity Constraints 

Jeffrey Linderoth

“Fast” Provable Cycle Detection for Lemke’s Method 

Todd Munson

Solving two difficult problems in economics: CGE Models and entropy-based Bayesian estimation 

Sherman Robinson

Break

Accelerating Benders decomposition for solving a sequence of identically structured problems 

James Luedtke

Convexification and optimization of problems involving the Euclidean norm

Nick Sahinidis

A tour of the GAMS ecosystem in 2024: Recent developments and enduring values 

Steven Dirkse

Reception

Dinner

Coffee

Investment and operational planning for electricity systems with large penetration of renewables 

Golbon Zakeri

Renewable electricity capacity planning with demand uncertainty 

Eddie Anderson

Does mathematical programming make you a better sailor? 

Andy Philpott

Coffee

An Operator Splitting Method For Affine Variational Inequalities and Control Problems 

Jonathan Eckstein  

Michael C. Ferris 

Lunch