SCHEDULE, ABSTRACTS, POSTERS, TALKS

Large Scale Nonlinear and Semidefinite Programming

Workshop in memory of Jos Sturm


Wednesday-Saturday May 12-15, 2004 at the University of Waterloo.

Workshop to be held in Arts Lecture Hall
talks/courses in ALH 113; poster session and meals in ALH 208/211.
Accomodation at Conference Centre, Ron Eydt Village, REV University of Waterloo
Wed. reception , all meals in ALH 208/211 (badge is your ticket)
Banquet: Friday evening from 7:30PM, Faculty Club, (badge is your ticket)
A Photo Album.


Poster Session to be held in rooms 208/211 in Arts Lecture Hall ALH (throughout the workshop)
(Winners of the Poster Competition and Prize to be announced at the meeting.)
Days:
  1. Wednesday, SHORT COURSE sessions: W1, W2, W3, W4, followed by registration and reception
    PLEASE REGISTER SEPARATELY FOR THE SHORT COURSES.
  2. Thursday, sessions: R1, R2, R3, R4,
  3. Friday, sessions: F1, F2, F3,
  4. Saturday, sessions: S1, S2, S3, S4, Poster Prize Session S5
  5. pre-post workshop events

Wednesday, May 12, 2004

Please Register and indicate if you are attending!

Short Course Session W.1 Chairman: Henry Wolkowicz

10:20-10:40 Coffee Break and Poster Session

Short Course Session W.2 Chairman: Etienne de Klerk

12:00-2:00 Lunch (provided) Break and Poster Session

Short Course Session W.3 Chairman: Levent Tuncel

3:20-3:40 Coffee Break and Poster Session

Short Course Session W.4 Chairman: Franz Rendl
  • 3:40--5:00 Franz Rendl
  • 
    7:00--10:00PM      Workshop Registration, and Reception 
                       in ALH 208/211
    

    Thursday, May 13, 2004

    PLENARY Session R.1 Chairman: Henry Wolkowicz

    10:20-10:45 Coffee Break and Poster Session

    Session R.2 Chairman: Etienne de Klerk
    12:10-2:00 Lunch Break and Poster Session

    PLENARY Session R.3 Chairman: Tamas Terlaky
    • 2:00--2:50 Yinyu Ye --- **TITLE**: Solving very large scale SDPs that arise from ad hoc wireless sensor network localization and other Euclidean geometry problems
        Department of Management Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, Stanford University
        **ABSTRACT**

    • 3:00--3:50 Jorge Nocedal ---**TITLE** Nonlinear Programming Methods: Iterative solution, Preconditioning and Regularization

    3:50-4:45 Coffee Break and Poster Session

    Session R.4 Chairman: Franz Rendl


    Friday, May 14, 2004

    7:30--8:30        Breakfast
    
    PLENARY Session F.1 Chairman: Tony Vannelli

    10:20-10:45 Coffee Break and Poster Session

    Session F.2 Chairman: Jon Borwein
    12:10-2:00 Lunch Break and Poster Session

    PLENARY Session F.3 Chairman: Henry Wolkowicz
    Session F.3 cont... Chairman: Henry Wolkowicz

    4:25-4:45 Coffee Break and Poster Session

    Special Session in Memory of Jos Sturm
    (We are requesting donations to help defray the family travel costs.)

    Session F.4 Chairman: Dick den Hertog

    7:00PM -- on Friday:
    Banquet at Faculty Club


    Saturday, May 15, 2004

    7:30--8:30        Breakfast
    
    PLENARY Session S.1 Chairman: Etienne de Klerk
    • 8:30--9:20 Pablo Parrilo **TITLE** From coefficients to samples: a new approach to SOS optimization
        Automatic Control Laboratory, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Physikstrasse 3, ETL I 26, CH-8092 Z|rich
        **ABSTRACT**

    • 9:30--10:20 Yurii Nesterov ---**TITLE**: Recent progress in efficient approximation of joint spectral radius
        Université catholique de Louvain (Faculté des sciences appliquées, Département d'ingénierie mathématique). Belgique
        **ABSTRACT**

    10:20-11:05 Coffee Break and Poster Session

    Session S.2 Chairman: Kartik Krishnan
    12:00-1:00 Lunch Break and Poster Session

    Session S.3 Chairman: Jean-Louis Goffin

    2:30-3:00 Coffee Break and Poster Session

    Session S.4 Chairman: Henry Wolkowicz

    3:55-4:30 Coffee Break and Final Poster Session

    Poster Prize Session S.5 Chairman: Henry Wolkowicz
      4:30--5:00 Awarding of Prizes


    Pre-Post-Workshop Events


    Photo Album
    Back to Workshop Home Page
    , by Henry Wolkowicz