2002-2003 Program: Optimization

IMA Events, September 1, 2002 through August 31, 2003

• 9/9-13/02 Optimization Tutorial: Supply Chain and Logistics Optimization
  
  
• 9/23-27/02 Optimization Workshop 1: The Role of Optimization in Supply Chain Management
  
  
• 9/27/02 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Anton Leykin, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota, "2-dim guillotine cutting problem: 3 different approaches"
  
  
• 9/28/02 Hot Topics: Operational Modeling and Biodefense: Problems, Techniques, and Opportunities
  
  
• 10/1/02 Postdoc Seminar: Mike Siddoway, Colorado College (Visiting scholar in School of Math., UMN), R-Modules with the Krull-Schmidt Property
  
  
• 10/4/02 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Ron Mahler, Lockheed Martin Tactical Defense Systems, Tracking in High Target Densities Using a First-Order Multitarget Moment Density
  
  
• 10/8/02 Postdoc Seminar: Miao-jung Yvonne Ou, IMA, Object Inverse Scattering in an Ocean with Sloping Seabed
  
  
• 10/11/02 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Fred Hulting, General Mills, Statistics in New Product Development
  
  
• 10/14-19/02 Optimization Workshop 2: Computational Methods for Large Scale Integer Programs
  
  
• 10/16/02 Public Lecture by William Cook: The Traveling Salesman Problem
  
  
• 10/17/02 Postdoc Seminar: Igor Vasilév, Universite di Salerno, Italy/ Institute of System Dynamics and Control Theory, Russia, Computational Experience with Large-Scale p-Median Problems
  
  
• 10/22/02 Postdoc Seminar: Lisa Evans, IMA Postdoctoral Associate, An Overview of Gomory's Group Approach to Solving Integer Programs
  
  
• 10/29/02 Postdoc Seminar: Daniel Kern, IMA Postdoctoral Associate, Multispecies Competition and Traveling Waves
  
  
• 11/1/02 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Oleg Aleksandrov, University of Minnesota, Wave Propagation in an Optical Fiber
  
  
• 11/4/02 IMA Optimization Seminar: Maurice Queyranne, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, An introduction to submodular set functions and optimization
  
  
• 11/5/02 Postdoc Seminar: Michael Ball, R H Smith School of Business and Institute for Systems Research, University of Maryland, Mathematical Models for Supporting Available-to-Promise (ATP)
  
  
• 11/11-15/02 Optimization Workshop 3: Travel and Transportation
  
  
• 11/19/02 Postdoc Seminar: Marshall Hampton, NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Mathematics, U of M, Celestial Mechanics: Recent Progress and Open Problems
  
  
• 11/22/02 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Mihail M. Sigalas, Agilent Technologies, Photonic Crystals in Optical Communications
  
  
• 11/25/02 IMA Optimization Seminar: Collette Coullard, Industrial Eng. & Mgmt. Sciences, Northwestern University, Submodular Function Minimization
  
  
• 11/26/02 Postdoc Seminar: Lili Ju, IMA Industrial Postdoc,
  Some Topics on Centroidal Voronoi Tessellations
  
  
• 12/2-6/02 IMA/CRM Workshop in Montreal: Distribution Systems: Location and Vehicle Routing
  
  
• 12/3/02 Postdoc Seminar: Maurice Queyranne, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, On Optimum Size-Constrained Set Partitions with Submodular Costs
  
  
• 12/4-6/02 Hot Topics: Data-driven Control and Optimization
  
  
• 12/5/02 Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis Seminar, Bagisa Mukherjee, Penn State, Scranton, Some Mathematical Issues in Liquid Crystal Flows
  
  
• 12/9/02 IMA Optimization Seminar: Montaz Ali, IMA Visitor 2002-2003 from Centre for Control Theory and Optimization, School of Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand,
  A review of the stochastic global optimization methods
  
  
• 12/11/02 Brown Bag Seminar: Maurice Queyranne, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, An Introduction to the Competitive Analysis of Online Algorithms
  
  
• 12/12/02 Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis Seminar joint with Computational Optimization Seminar, Lind Hall 409 at 11:30-12:15. Speaker: William Cooper, U of Minnesota, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Revenue Management and Markov Decision Processes (see http://www.math.umn.edu/~lowengrb/seminar.html)
  
  
• 12/13/02 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Ann E. DeWitt, 3M Research and Development, Mathematics Applied to Biological Systems in Drug Discovery
  
  
• 12/18/02 Brown Bag Seminar: Jing Wang, IMA, Approximation Ratio of the Greedy Algorithm to the Set Cover Problem, Lind Hall 409, 12:00 noon
  
  
• 1/6-7/03 Optimization Short Course: Industrial Strength Optimization
  
  
• 1/8/03 Optimization Tutorial: Optimization in Simulation-Based Models
  
  
• 1/9-16/03 Optimization Workshop 4: Optimization in Simulation-Based Models
  
  
• 1/21/03 Postdoc Seminar: Dacian N. Daescu, IMA Postdoctoral Associate, Adjoint-based Techniques for the Analysis of Large-scale Uncertain Systems
  
  
• 1/22/03 Brown Bag Seminar, Lind Hall 409: Collette Coullard, IMA and Northwestern, Continued Discussion of Submodular function Minimization, Lind Hall 409, 12:00 noon
  
  
• 1/27/03 IMA Optimization Seminar: Luis N. Vicente, Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, Portugal/IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, Error Estimates and Poisedness in Multivariate Polynomial Optimization and Derivative-free Optimization
  
  
• 1/28/03 Postdoc Seminar: John Dennis, Jr., Rice University and the IMA, Working With Industry or My Life as an Evangelist
  
  
• 1/29/03 Brown Bag Seminar, Lind Hall 409: Moritz Diehl, Heidelberg University and IMA visitor, An Algorithm for Real-Time Optimization in Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
  
  
• 1/31/03 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Stephen Mildenhall, Kemper Insurance, The Evolution of Property-Casualty Insurance Liabilities
  
  
• 2/4/03 Postdoc Seminar: Michael J.D. Powell, University of Cambridge, Radial Basis Function Methods for Global Optimization
  
  
• 2/5/03 Brown Bag Seminar, Lind Hall 409: Daniel Kern, IMA, Well-Placed Wells: Control, Optimization and Groundwater
  
  
• 2/6/03 Applied Mathematiecs and Numerical Analysis Seminar, Vincent Hall 570, 11:15-12:15, Jayadeep Gopalakrishnan, University of Florida, Some Studies in Computational Electromagnetics
  
  
• 2/7/03 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Lawrence C. Cowsar, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Raman Amplified Optical Transport Systems
  
  
• 2/10/03 IMA Optimization Seminar: John Dennis, Jr., Rice University and IMA, Optimization Tech Transfer is a Two-Way Street
  
  
• 2/11/03 Postdoc Seminar: Peh Ng, Dept of Mathematics, University of Minnesota - Morris & IMA Visitor 2002-2003, A Commodity Family Extended Formulation Approach to Solving Uncapacitated Fixed Charge Network Flow Problems
  
  
• 2/11/2003 Junior Colloquium, Vincent Hall 570, 3:35 pm, John Dennis, Jr., Rice University, Two lectures on nonlinear optimization, II
  
  
• 2/12/03 Brown Bag Seminar, Lind Hall 409: Montaz Ali, Witerwatersrand University and IMA visitor, Burning Issues of the Simulated Annealing Algorithm
  
  
• 2/13/03 Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis Seminar, Vincent Hall 570, 11:15-12:15, Dominik Schoetzau, University of Basel, TBA
  
  
• 2/18/03 Postdoc Seminar: Moritz Diehl, University of Heidelberg, Germany & IMA visitor January-March 2003, Nominal Stability for Nonlinear Model Predictive Control
  
  
• 2/19/03 Brown Bag Seminar, Lind Hall 409: Lisa Evans, IMA Postdoctoral Associate, Master Cyclic Group Problems with Applications to Cutting Planes for Integer Programming
  
  
• 2/21/03 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Lili Ju, IMA Industrial Postdoc,
  Cortical Surface Flattening Using Discrete Conformal Mapping with Minimal Metric Distortion
  
  
• 2/25/03 Postdoc Seminar: Luis N. Vicente, Department of Mathematics, University of Coimbra, Portugal IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York and IMA, University of Minnesota, Space Mapping: Models, Algorithms and Applications
  
  
• 2/26/03 Brown Bag Seminar, Lind Hall 409: John Dennis, Jr., Rice University and the IMA, Early Career Issues for Mathematicians
  
  
• 2/27/03 Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis Seminar, John Dennis, Jr., Rice University and the IMA, Pattern search for mixed variable optimization problems, Slides:  pdf
  
  
• 3/3/03 IMA Optimization Seminar: M.J.D. Powell, University of Cambridge, On Least Frobenius Norm Updating of Quadratic Models
  
  
• 3/4/03 Postdoc Seminar: Toshio Yoshikawa, IMA, Toda Lattice Type Model for Nonlinear Viscoelastic Material
  
  
• 3/5/03 Brown Bag Seminar, Lind Hall 409: Luis Nunes Vicente, On a Primal-Dual Interior-Point Filter Method for Nonlinear Programming
  
  
• 3/7/03 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Wade Martinson, Cargill, Inc., The Differentiation Index and Industrial Dynamic Simulation
  
  
• 3/6/03 School of Mathematics Department Colloquium, John Dennis, Jr. , Rice University,Constrained optimization of expensive functions using surrogates   Slides:   pdf
  
  
• 3/10/03 IMA Optimization Seminar: Mituhiro Fukuda, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University & IMA Visitor, The Conversion Method for Sparse Semidefinite Programs
  
  
• 3/11/03 Optimization Tutorial: Semidefinite Programming and Robust Optimization
  
  
• 3/12-19/03 Optimization Workshop 5: Semidefinite Programming and Robust Optimization
  
  
• 3/24/03 IMA Optimization Seminar: Vera Kovacevic-Vujcic, University of Belgrade, Stabilization of Interior-Point Methods for Linear and Semidefinite Programming
  
  
• 3/25/03 Postdoc Seminar: C. Roos, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands and IMA visitor, March 2003, What is special with the logarithmic barrier function in optimization?
  
  
• 3/26/03 Brown Bag Seminar: Etienne de Klerk, Delft University of Technology, Global Optimization of Rational Functions Using Semidefinite Programming
  
  
• 4/1/03 Postdoc Seminar: Tamon Stephen, IMA Postdoctoral Associate, The Lift-and-Project Approach to Integer Programs
  
  
• 4/2/03 Brown Bag Seminar: Montaz Ali, Witwatersrand and IMA, Features of the Direct Search Method for Global Optimization
  
  
• 4/6/03 Optimization Tutorial: Network Management and Design
  
  
• 4/7-11/03 Optimization Workshop 6: Network Management and Design
  
  
• 4/15/03 Postdoc Seminar: Douglas N. Arnold, IMA, Talking Math to People Who Don't Know Any
  
  
• 4/16/03 Brown Bag Seminar: Scot Adams, University of Minnesota and IMA, Semidefinite Slices
  
  
• 4/18/03 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Richard Y. Chiao, GE Medical Systems, Diagnostic Ultrasound: Technology and Applications
  
  
• 4/21/03 IMA Optimization Seminar: Saif Benjaafar, Graduate Program in Industrial Engineering, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, Demand Allocation in Multiple-Product, Multiple-Facility Make-To-Stock Systems
  
  
• 4/22/03 Postdoc Seminar: Luis Goddyn, Mathematics, Simon Fraser University, The Worst-Case Euclidian Traveling Salesman Problem
  
  
• 4/23/03 Brown Bag Seminar: Dacian Daescu (IMA), Adjoint Modeling for Sensitivity Analysis: Discrete Versus Continuous
  
  
• 4/25/03 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Nicholas Bennett, Schlumberger Doll Research, Posterior Uncertainty in Decimated Wavelet Model Parameterizations
  
  
• 4/25-27/03 The Sixth Riviére-Fabes Symposium on Analysis and PDE
  
  
• 4/28/03 Joint IMA and DTC Talk: Herve Kerivin, IMA postdoctoral associate, Partition inequalities and the network design problem with connectivity requirements
  
  
• 4/30/03 Brown Bag Seminar: Gianpaolo Oriolo, Roma 'Tor Vergata', Italy, Vertex Packing on a Superclass of Interval Graphs
  
  
• 5/2/03 IMA/MCIM Industrial Problems Seminar: Daniel R. Baker, General Motors R&D Center, Impedance as a Diagnostic Tool for Studying Fuel Cells
  
  
• 5/5/03 Optimization Tutorial: Data Analysis and Optimization
  
  
• 5/6/03 Public Lecture by Eugene Myers, Advances in Whole Genome Sequencing
  
  
• 5/6-9/03 Optimization Workshop 7: Data Analysis and Optimization
  
  
• 5/12/03 IMA Optimization Seminar: Luis Goddyn, IMA VIV Simon Fraser University, Modernizing the Million Dollar Permutation
  
  
• 5/13/03 Postdoc Seminar: Beth Allen, Economics, University of Minnesota, Some Theoretical Approaches to Product Development
  
  
• 5/14/03 Brown Bag Seminar: Ofer Zeitouni, University of Minnesota, Optimal Tracking in the Presences Of Small Noise
  
  
• 5/17-30/03 grad math modeling/industrial problems with PIMS at BIRS/Calgary
  
  
• 5/20/03 Postdoc Seminar: Don Aronson, Director of Postdoctoral Program in the IMA, Transmission in Inhomogeneous Excitable Media
  
  
• 5/14/03 Brown Bag Seminar: Outgoing IMA Postdocs Job Search Forum
  
  
• 5/28/03 Joint Brown Bag Lunch/IMA Postdoc Seminar, Lind Hall 409: 12:00 noon, Gregory Duane, IMA Postdoctoral Associate, Applications of Synchronized Chaos, Part I
  
  
• 6/4/03 Joint Brown Bag Lunch/IMA Postdoc Seminar, Lind Hall 409: 12:00 noon, Gregory Duane, IMA Postdoctoral Associate, Applications of Synchronized Chaos, Part II
  
  
• 6/5/03 Public Lecture by Charles Peskin: Secrets of the Heart Revealed-by Mathematics and Computer Simulation
  
  
• 6/5-7/03 IMA 20th Anniversary programs (public lecture, conference, reception, ...)
  
  
• 6/8/03 PI Council meeting
  
  
• 6/9/03 Industrial Advisory Board meeting
  
  
• 6/11/03 Brown Bag Seminar: Fadil Santosa, IMA/MCIM, What I did at Summer Camp
  
  
• 6/16-27/03 New Directions short course
  
  
• 6/18/03 Brown Bag Seminar: Luis Goddyn, Simon Fraser University, A Trilogy of Missing Algorithms
  
  
• 7/14/03-8/1/03 PI summer program at Georgia Tech: Combinatorics and its Applications
  
  
• 7/21/03-8/1/03 IMA summer program: Probability and Partial Differential Equations in Modern Applied Mathematics

 

2002-2003 Program: Optimization

Calendar of IMA Events