West Coast Optimization Meeting, October 20-21

in Seattle

As always there will be a dinner on the Friday Night at Terry Rockafellar's home (4531 NE 93rd Street, 206--527--9637) followed by talks on Saturday. Details are below


The West Coast Optimization Meeting in Seattle will take place on Saturday, October 21, with talks in Guggenheim 317, starting at 9:00 (coffee from 8:30 in Guggenheim 408).


8:30-9:00:
Refreshments in Gugenheim 408

9:00-9:10:
Brett Berger "Numerical results for neo-classical economic growth models using path-following algorithms"

9:10-9:50:
Heinz Bauschke "On Legendre functions and Bregman distances"

8:50-10:15:
Refreshments

10:15-10:25:
Russell Luke "Nonlinear least-squares and non-convex projection algorithms"

10:25-11:05:
Zelda Zabinsky "Optimization applications to industrial problems"

11:05-11:30:
Refreshments

11:30-12:10:
Suvrajeet Sen "Convexification in stochastic integer programming"

12:10-14:00:
Lunch

14:00-14:40:
Tom McCormick "A production application for M-convexity"

14:40-15:20:
Terry Rockafellar "Ample parameterization of variational inequalities and generalized equations"