The detailed program will be available in July. The program will run daily from 8:30 a.m - 5:00 p.m., August 13 to 16, so please make your travel plans accordingly. Also, please note that a sight-seeing excursion to Niagara Falls is being planned for Friday, August 17.
The Poster Session
(with a reception) will be held
on Monday, 13 August, 18.30-21.00,
at the Marketplace of the McMaster University Student Center (MUSC).
Posters will stay up till the end of the conference. Lunch will be served
at the Marketplace as well; thus, participants can
view the posters every day.
Poster size is 3'x4'; set-up may start Monday at 8:00AM.
Pins and velcro will be supplied.
informal list of sessions/speakers/
schedule
and
alternate format
| Program Streams/ 90 Minute Sessions | Organizers |
Conic Programming and Interior Point Methods (informal list of sessions/speakers ) |
Sam
Burer (The University of Iowa) Clovis Gonzaga (Federal University of Santa Catarina) Raphael Hauser (Oxford University) |
| Convex and Nonsmooth Analysis (informal list of sessions/speakers ) | Heinz
Bauschke (UBC Okanagan) Shawn Wang (UBC Okanagan) |
| Convex Optmization Methods (informal list of sessions/speakers ) | Marc
Teboulle (Tel-Aviv University) |
| Data Mining and Machine Learning (informal list of sessions/speakers ) | W.
Art Chaovalitwongse (Rutgers) Jiming Peng (University of Illinois - Urbana) Romy Shioda (University of Waterloo), |
| Derivative Free Optimization (informal list of sessions/speakers ) | Virginia
Torczon (College of William & Mary) Robert Michael Lewis (College of William & Mary) |
| Engineering Optimization (informal list of sessions/speakers ) | Natalia Alexandrov (NASA Langley Research Center) |
| Financial Optimization (informal list of sessions/speakers ) | Luis Zuluaga (University of New Brunswick) |
| Global Optimization (informal list of sessions/speakers ) | Nick
Sahinidis (University of Illinois) Mohit Tawarmalani (Purdue University) |
| Implementations/Interior-Point Methods (informal list of sessions/speakers ) |
Erling
Andersen (MOSEK ApS) Jacek Gondzio (The University of Edinburgh) |
| Linear, Semidefinite and Convex Programming (informal list of sessions/speakers ) | Masakazu
Kojima (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Kim Toh (National University of Singapore) |
| Medical Applications in Optimization (informal list of sessions/speakers ) | Michael Ferris (University of Wisconsin - Madison) |
| Modelling Languages (informal list of sessions/speakers ) | Robert Fourer (Northwestern University) |
| MPECS/Complementarity Problems (informal list of sessions/speakers ) | Miguel
Anjos (University of Waterloo) Sven Leyffer (Argonne National Laboratory) |
| Nonlinear Programming Software (informal list of sessions/speakers ) | Tammy Kolda (Sandia National Laboratories), Hans Mittelmann (Arizona State University) |
| Nonsmooth Optimization (informal list of sessions/speakers ) | Claude
Lemarechal (INRIA) Kartik K. Sivaramakrishnan (North Carolina State University) |
| Optimization Formulations and Algorithms for Chemical Processes (informal list of sessions/speakers ) | Larry
Beigler (Carnegie Mellon) Chris Swartz (McMaster University) |
| PDE Constrained Optimization (informal list of sessions/speakers ) | Ekaterina Kostina (University of Heidelberg) |
| Robust Optimization (informal list of sessions/speakers ) | Melvyn Sim (National University of Singapore) |
| Signal Processing and ECE (informal list of sessions/speakers ) | Tom Luo (University of Minnesota) |
| Special Purpose Heuristics and General Metaheuristics (informal list of sessions/speakers ) | John Chinneck (Carleton University) |
