CORS-INFORMS meeting in Toronto, from 6/14/09 through 6/17/09.

1. Tutorial on

   Semidefinite Programming and Application to Hard Combinatorial Optimization Problems

   Prof. Henry Wolkowicz, Univiversity of Waterloo, Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, Waterloo, Ont. CANADA, URL http://orion.math.uwaterloo.ca/~hwolkowi

   The tutorials will constitute an invited, featured track through the conference, and each speaker will have a full session of 90 minutes for their presentation.

   tutorial on SDP and OR. In particular, emphasis on on how SDP plays an important role in solving/approximating combinatorial problems.

   The official abstract; pdf file with slides of tutorial

2. and a talk on:

   Explicit Sensor Network Localization using Semidefinite Programming and Clique Reductions

   by Nathan Krislock (speaker) and Henry Wolkowicz