SCOD14 Scientific Program (UCSD, May 23, 2014)





Friday, May 23, 2014   

Session I (Chair: Philip Gill, UC San Diego)

Name Organization Talk Begin End
Registration (and emergency coffee for those in need) 8:15 9:00
Philip Gill UC San Diego Welcome and Announcements 9:00 9:15
Emre Mengi Koç University,Istanbul Numerical Optimization of Eigenvalues of Hermitian Matrix-Valued Functions 9:15 9:45
Daniel Robinson Johns Hopkins University A Trust-Funnel Algorithm for Nonlinear Optimization 9:45 10:15
Tove Odland KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm A general Krylov method for solving symmetric systems arising in optimization 10:15 10:45
Coffee/Snack Break in 2402A AP&M (30 minutes) 10:45 11:15


Session II (Chair: Daniel Robinson, Johns Hopkins University)

Name Organization Talk Begin End
Yu-hong Dai Chinese Academy of Sciences Models for Computing Several Extreme Eigenpairs of Real Symmetric Matrices 11:15 11:45
Henry Wolkowicz University of Waterloo Relaxations of Graph Partitioning and Vertex Separator Problems using Continuous Optimization 11:45 12:15
Lunch (1 hour 15 minutes) 12:15 1:30


Session III (Chair: Jiawang Nie, UC San Diego)

Name Organization Talk Begin End
Pooriya Beyhaghi UC San Diego New Efficient and Provably-Convergent Surrogate-Based Methods for Global Optimization via High-Performance Computing 1:30 2:00
Xin Liu Chinese Academy of Sciences A Gauss-Newton Method for Low Rank Matrix Approximation 2:00 2:30
Joshua Griffin SAS Institute, Inc. A Nonlinear Regression Perspective on a Primal-Dual Augmented Lagrangian 2:30 3:00
Daniele Cavaglieri UC San Diego Real-time Constrained Nonlinear Optimization for Maximum Power Take-off of a Wave Energy Converter 3:00 3:30
Coffee/Snack Break in 2402A AP&M (30 minutes) 3:30 4:00


Session IV (Chair: Philip Gill, UC San Diego)

Name Organization Talk Begin End
David Mateos-Nunez UC San Diego Distributed Online Convex Optimization Over Jointly-Connected Digraphs 4:00 4:30
Anders Forsgren KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm Optimization of Radiation Therapy 4:30 5:00