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SUNDAY, MARCH 19 |
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| 6:30 pm | Dinner, John Davenport's at the Top of the Omni | |
MONDAY, MARCH 20 |
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| 9:15 am | Santosh Vempala, MIT, "Integration and Otimization of High-dimensional Logconcave Functions" | |
| 10:00 am | Michael Todd, Cornell, "On Minimum Volume Containing Ellipsoids: From Kiefer and Wolfowitz to Khachiyan and Beyond" | |
| 11:15 am | Lisa Fleischer, IBM Watson, "Discrete, Local Tatonnement Algorithms with Polynomial Convergence Properties for Market Equilibrium Problems" | |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch, at SOM, Donaldson Commons, 140 Prospect Street | |
| 1:30 pm | Sanjeev Arora, Princeton, "Multiplicative Weight Method: A General Algorithmic Tool (with Applications to Linear and Semidefinite Programming)" | |
| 2:15 pm | Mihalis Yannakakis, Columbia, "Succinct Approximation of Trade-off Curves" | |
| 3:45 pm | David Phillips, Columbia, "Strategies for Budget-constrained Auctions" | |
| 4:00 pm | Dimitris Bertsimas, MIT, "Robust Optimization: A Tractable Approach to Optimization under Uncertainty" | |
| 6:30 pm | Dinner, The Union League Cafe, 1032 Chapel Street | |
TUESDAY, MARCH 21 |
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| 9:15 am | Michael Overton, NYU, "Nonsmooth, Nonconvex Optimization: Theory, Algorithms and Applications" | |
| 10:00 am | Robert Freund, MIT, " Projective Pre-Conditioners for Improving the Behavior of a Linear or Conic Inequality System" | |
| 11:15 am | Farid Alizadeh, Rutgers, "Bilinear Complementary Conditions for the Cone of Positive Polynomials" | |
| 12:00 pm | Lunch, at SOM. Donaldson Commons, 140 Prospect Street. | |
| 1:30 pm | Elad Hazan, Princeton, "New Techniques in Online Convex Optimization" | |
| 2:15 pm | David Williamson, Cornell, "A general approach for incremental approximation and hierarchical clustering" | |
| 3:45 pm | Maxim Sviridenko, IBM Watson, "Round and Approx: A New General Method for Multidimensional Packing" | |
| 4:15 pm | Baruch Schieber, IBM Watson, " Minimizing Setup and Beam-On Times in Radiation Therapy" | |
