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• two 4 hour slots - total 8 hours
• days: Sat Dec 6 - Sun Dec 7 and a preliminary schedule
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• Our session: Recent Advances in Variational Analysis and Linear Optimization
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1. Abdo alfakih, University of Windsor
   Title: On semidefinite Farkas Lemma and dimensional rigidity of bar frameworks (abstract)
2. Heinz Bauschke, University of British Columbia
   Title: The Douglas-Rachford Algorithm: Recent Progress (abstract)
3. Yuen-Lam (Vris) Cheung, University of Waterloo
   Title: Efficient and Accurate Solutions for Linear Programs with Bound Constraints (abstract)
4. Antoine Deza, McMaster University
   Title: On the polynomial Hirsch conjecture and its continuous analogue (abstract)
5. Yichuan (Daniel) Ding, University of British Columbia
   Title: An Overloaded Bipartite Queueing System with Scoring-Based Priority Rules (abstract)
6. Warren Hare, University of British Columbia
   TITLE: Numerical Variational Analysis (abstract)
7. Michael Metel, McMaster University
   Title: Chance Constrained Optimization for Parimutel Horse Race Betting (abstract)
8. Walaa Moursi, University of British Columbia
   Title: Generalized solutions for the sum of two maximally monotone operators. (abstract)
9. Ahad Dehghani, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal
   TITLE: A Primal-Dual Regularized Interior-Point Method for Semidefinite Programming (abstract)
10. Bartosz Protas, McMaster University
    TITLE: Probing Fundamental Bounds in Hydrodynamics Using Variational Optimization Methods (abstract)
11. Hristo Sendov, University of Western Ontario
    TITLE: Loci of complex polynomials (abstract)
12. Shawn Xianfu Wang, University of British Columbia
    TITLE: The subdifferentials of a lower semicontinuous function bounded below by an affine function are rL-dense (abstract)
13. Henry Wolkowicz, University of Waterloo
    TITLE: Coordinate Shadows of Semi-definite and Euclidean Distance Matrix Completions (abstract)
14. Yuriy Zinchenko, University of Calgary
    TITLE: Curvature of a polytope (abstract)