Fall 2002 speakers:
date | speaker | affiliation | title |
October 2nd | Doug Kinney | Navitaire | (No title) |
October 23rd | Balaji Gopalakrishnan | IMA | Navitaire Roundtable |
October 30th | Balaji Gopalakrishnan | IMA | An active set Non-Negative Least-Squares algorithm |
November 6th | Farshid Rafiee Rad | University of Minnesota | Minimizing distance from a set to a hyperplane boundary |
November 27th | Scot Adams | IMA and University of Minnesota | Groebner bases and integer programming Talk Slides |
December 11th | Maurice Queyranne | University of British Columbia and IMA visitor | An Introduction to the Competitive Analysis of Online Algorithms |
December 18th | Jing Wang | IMA | Approximation Ratio of the Greedy Algorithm to the Set Cover Problem |
Winter 2003 speakers:
date | speaker | affiliation | title |
January 22nd | Collette Coullard | Northwestern University and IMA visitor | Continued discussion of submodular function minimization |
January 29th | Moritz Diehl | University of Heidelberg and IMA visitor | An Algorithm for Real-Time Optimization in Nonlinear Model Predictive Control |
February 5th | Dan Kern | IMA | Well-Placed Wells: Control, Optimization and Groundwater |
February 12th | Montaz Ali | Witwatersrand University and IMA visitor | Burning Issues of the Simulated Annealing Algorithm |
February 19th | Lisa Evans | IMA | Master Cyclic Group Problems with Applications to Cutting Planes for Integer Programming |
February 26th | John Dennis | Rice University and IMA visitor | Early Career Issues for Mathematicians |
March 5th | Luís N. Vicente | University of Coimbra, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center and IMA visitor | On a primal-dual interior-point filter method for nonlinear programming |
March 26th | Etienne de Klerk | Delft University of Technology | Global Optimization of Rational Functions using Semidefinite Programming Talk slides in .pdf |
Spring 2003 speakers:
date | speaker | affiliation | title |
April 2nd | Montaz Ali | Witwatersrand University and IMA visitor | Features of the Direct Search Method for Global Optimization |
April 16th | Scot Adams | IMA and University of Minnesota | Semidefinite Slices Talk Slides |
April 23th | Dacian Daescu | IMA | Adjoint Modeling for Sensitivity Analysis: Discrete Versus Continuous |
April 30th | Gianpaolo Oriolo | Roma 'Tor Vergata' - Italy | Vertex Packing on a Superclass of Interval Graphs |
May 14th | Ofer Zeitouni | University of Minnesota and IMA visitor | Optimal Tracking in the Presence of Small Noise |
May 21th | Outgoing IMA Postdocs | IMA | Job Search Forum |
May 28th | Gregory Duane | IMA | Applications of Synchronized Chaos, Part I |
June 4th | Gregory Duane | IMA | Applications of Synchronized Chaos, Part II |
June 11th | Fadil Santosa | IMA and University of Minnesota | What I did at Summer Camp |
June 18th | Luis Goddyn | Simon Fraser University and IMA visitor | A Trilogy of Missing Algorithms |