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Below are the (informal only) updates from the stream organizers' information combined with the above official online webpage. (If your name/title appears below only, please enter it as well into the official online submission webpage, since we need it there for scheduling purposes.)

Sessions:

  1. Title: #361 Session T#2: Derivative-free approaches to global optimization (Session chair: Don Jones, General Motors)
    1. Christine Shoemaker (Civil Engr. & Oper. Research, Cornell University, Co-authors: Rommel Regis (Cornell Theory Center, Cornell University), Pradeep Mugunthan (Cornell University), Title: Parallel Global Optimization Using Radial Basis Functions , Proposal #474)
    2. Joshua Griffin (Sandia National Laboratories) Co-author: Tamara Kolda (Sandia National Laboratories) Title: Techniques for combining global search with generating set search (Proposal #336)
    3. Nils-Hassan Quttineh (Department of Mathematics and Physics, Mälardalens University) Co-authors: Kenneth Holmström (Department of Mathematics and Physics, Mälardalens University), Marcus Edvall (Tomlab Optimization Inc.) Title: Adaptive Radial Basis Algorithms (ARBF) for Expensive Black-Box Mixed-Integer Constrained Global Optimization (Proposal #344)
  2. Title: #362 Session T#1: Recent theoretical developments for derivative-free direct search methods (Session chair: Alessandra Papini, Università di Firenze)
    1. Virginia Torczon (Department of Computer Science, College of William & Mary, Co-authors: Robert Michael Lewis (Department of Mathematics, College of William & Mary), Title: Active Set Identification for a Class of Direct Search Algorithms, Proposal #467)
    2. Claudio Bogani (Dipartimento di Energetica 'S. Stecco', Universit` di Firenze, Title: Piecewise smooth optimization and generating set search methods (session #362), Proposal #407)
    3. Proposal #417 Sebastien Le Digabel, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal Title: Parallel Variable Distribution for Mesh Adaptive Direct Search
  3. Title: #364 Session R#1 Applications of derivative-free direct search methods (Session chair: Robert Michael Lewis, College of William & Mary)
    1. Genetha Gray (Sandia National Laboratories) Title: Optimization as a tool for the calibration of an electrical circuit simulator (Proposal #396)
    2. Mark Abramson (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Air Force Institute of Technology) Co-authors: Thomas Asaki (Los Alamos National Laboratory), J. E. Dennis (Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University), Kevin O'Reilly (US Air Force), Rachael Pingel (Department of Mathematics, Brigham Young University) Title: Quantitative Object Reconstruction via X-Ray Tomography, Abel Transforms, and Mixed Variable Optimization (Proposal #375)
    3. Marianne Jacobsen (Aeronautical and Vehicle Engineering, KTH) Title: Real time drag minimization using a generating set search method (Proposal #239)
  4. #365 Session M#4: Designing and testing algorithmic improvements for derivative-free direct search methods (Session chair: Virginia Torczon, College of William & Mary)
    1. Margaret Wright (Computer Science Department, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Title: Non-typical testing of non-derivative methods, Proposal #456)
    2. Trond Steihaug (Department of Informatics, University of Bergen) Co-author: Lennart Frimannslund (Department of Informatics, University of Bergen) Title: Derivative Information in Derivative Free Optimization or Average Curvature Information (Proposal #163)
    3. Ana Luisa Custodio (New University of Lisbon) Co-author: Luis N. Vicente (University of Coimbra), Title: Applications of simplex gradients in direct search methods (Proposal #378)
  5. Title:#366 Session, W#2: Derivative-free optimization methods that model the objective function without Taylor-series approximations (Session chair: Dick den Hertog, Tilburg University)
    1. #415 Invited session presentation without session: On the number of interpolation points when constructing quadratic models for minimization without derivatives Michael Powell, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
    2. Andrew Conn (Watson Research Center, Title: #366:Recent results on trust region methods for deriviative free optimization. Proposal #457)
    3. Stefan Wild (Cornell University, School of ORIE, Co-authors: Christine Shoemaker (Cornell University, School of CEE and School of ORIE), Rommel Regis, Proposal #418)
  6. Title Session #534 W#1 Derivative Free Optimization (organizer/chair Jose Luis Morales)
    1. #207 Contributed presentation: Multiobjective optimization through a series of single-objective formulations Walid ZGHAL, Polytechnique Montre'al/GERAD Co-authors: Charles AUDET (Polytechnique Montre'al/Gerad), Gilles SAVARD (Polytechnique Montre'al/Gerad)
    2. #453 Contributed presentation: Derivative-free Optimization in Revenue Management Mikhail Nediak, Queen's School of Business Co-authors: Tatsiana Levina (Queen's School of Business), Yuri Levin (Queen's School of Business), Jeff McGill (Queen's School of Business)
    3. #534 Contributed presentation: The role of geometry in practical DFO algorithms. Jose Luis Morales, Northwestern University Co-authors: Jorge Nocedal (Northwestern University)