Dear Colleagues,
We would like to invite you to participate in a Workshop on:

Large Scale Nonlinear and Semidefinite Programming

Wednsday, May 12 to Saturday, May 15, 2004

Just before the CORS/INFORMS Joint International Meeting starting on the 16th in Banff, Canada.


As of March/04, registration is closed due to the large number of participants.

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L o c a t i o n :

" (The New) Centre for Environmental and
Information Technology"
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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Supported by the Faculty of Mathematics at The University of Waterloo, The Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, MITACS, Mathematics of Information Technology and Complex Systems


To be held at

The University of Waterloo,
Department of Combinatorics and Optimization,
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1



Please inform us as soon as possible whether you can attend.
As of Oct. 31, 2003, we have a full schedule of speakers. This schedule is being finalized and will be made public ASAP.
Please pass this information on to colleagues who may be interested.

Organizers:
  • Etienne de Klerk, University of Waterloo.
  • Franz Rendl, Universitaet Klagenfurt.
  • Tamas Terlaky, McMaster University.
  • Tony Vannelli, University of Waterloo.
  • Henry Wolkowicz, University of Waterloo.

    The breathtaking progress in algorithmic nonlinear optimization, but also in computer hardware has thrown new light on the solving large scale nonlinear programs

    The aim of the workshop is therefore to bring together researchers from several communities, such as:

  • algorithmic nonlinear optimization
  • combinatorial optimization, dealing with computational methods for NP-hard problems
  • computer scientists interested in scientific parallel computing,
    who share a common interest to do computations on (large-scale) hard combinatorial optimization problems.

    Topics to be covered include:

  • General Nonlinear Programming Problems
  • Semidefinite programming and reformulation schemes
  • Quadratic and multi-dimensional assignment problems
  • Boolean quadratic programming
  • Massive graph problems
  • Massively parallel distributed processing
  • VLSI design

    Please see the workshop web page for more updated information.
    A proceedings of refereed invited papers is planned.


    HOPE to see you in Waterloo in May 2004.

    Back to Workshop home page , by Henry Wolkowicz