Program > Invited Talks
Monday, July 2, 2018
Plenary Speakers:
- Francis Bach (INRIA, France) : On the relationship between machine learning and optimization (Chair: Michel Goemans, MIT)
Semi-Plenary Speakers:
- Michael Hintermuller (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany): Multiobjective Optimization with PDE Constraints (Chair: Stephen J. Wright, U Wisconsin-Madison)
Key-Note Speakers:
- Emmanuel Candes (Stanford, USA): What’s happening in nonconvex optimization? A couple of stories (Chair: Jean-Baptist Hiriart-Urruty, Paul Sabatier Univ.)
- Santanu Dey (Georgia Tech, USA): Theoretical Analysis of Cutting-Planes in IP Solvers (Chair: Gerard Cornuejols, Carnegie Mellon University)
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
Plenary Speakers:
- Marc Teboulle (Tel-Aviv University, Israel) : The Resurgence of Proximal Methods in Optimization (Chair: Claudia Sagastizabal, Unicamp)
Semi-Plenary Speakers:
- Melvyn Sim (National University of Singapore) : Adaptive Robust Optimization with Scenario-wise Ambiguity Sets (Chair: Daniel Kuhn, EPFL)
Key-Note Speakers:
- Regina Burachik (UniSA, Australia) : Asymptotic Lagrangian duality for nonsmooth optimization (Chair: Xiaojun Chen, Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ)
- Thomas Rothvoss (University of Washington, USA): Lower bounds on the size of linear programs (Chair: Volker Kaibel, OVGU Magdeburg)
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Plenary Speakers:
- Shabbir Ahmed (Georgia Tech, USA) : Relaxations and Approximations of Chance Constraints (Chair: Simge Kucukyavuz, University of Washington)
Semi-Plenary Speakers:
- Jon Lee (University of Michigan, USA) : Insights via volumetric comparison of polyhedral relaxations (Chair: Andrea Lodi, Polytechnique Montreal)
Key-Note Speakers:
- Patrick Louis Combettes (North Carolina State University, USA): Monotone Operator Theory in Convex Optimization (Chair: Samir Adly, XLIM)
- Maryam Fazel (University of Washington, USA): Online Competitive Algorithms for Resource Allocation (Chair: Frank E. Curtis, Lehigh University)
- Luis Nunes Vicente (Coimbra, Portugal): Model-Based Methods, Sampling Models, and A New Second-Order Model-Based Method (Chair: Stefan M Wild, Argonne National Laboratory)
Thursday, July 5, 2018
Plenary Speakers:
- Andy Philpott (Auckland, New Zealand) : Randomness, risk and electricity prices (Chair: Michael C Ferris, University of Wisconsin)
Semi-Plenary Speakers:
- Nikolaos Sahinidis (CMU, USA) : The BARON software for MINLP (Chair: Claudia D Ambrosio; LIX)
Key-Note Speakers:
- Oktay Gunluk (IBM Research, USA): Cutting Planes in the Extended Space (Chair: Adam N Letchford Lancaster University)
- Tito Homem-de-Mello (Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, Chili): Effective Scenarios and Scenario Reduction for Risk-Averse Stochastic Programs (Chair: Jim Luedtke, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Friday, July 6, 2018
Plenary Speakers:
- Monique Laurent (CWI, The Netherlands) : Bounds for quantum graph parameters by conic and polynomial optimization (Chair: Frank Vallentin, University of Cologne)
Semi-Plenary Speakers:
- Paul Y. Tseng Memorial Lectureship in Continuous Optimization (Chair: Yuan Yaxiang, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Key-Note Speakers:
- Alper Atamturk (Berkeley, USA) : Submodularity in mixed-integer quadratic and conic quadratic optimization (Chair: Daniel Bienstock, Columbia University)
- Michel Balinski (CNRS, France): Majority judgment (Chair: Martine Labbé, Université Libre de Bruxelles)
- Matteo Fischetti (Padova, Italy): Modern Branch-and-Cut Implementation (Chair: Marc Pfetsch, E TU Darmstadt)
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