Program

Jan. 5, 2021 link

Chair: Deren Han (Beihang University, China)

• Title: Continuous Cubic Formulations for Cluster Detection Problems in Networks

• Speaker: Sergiy Butenko (Texas A&M University, USA)

• Time: 09:30-10:30

• Title: Data-driven Approaches for Improving Healthcare Services to Underserved Vulnerable Communities

• Speaker: Jiming Peng (University of Houston, USA)

• Time: 10:30-11:30

Jan. 12, 2021 link

Chair: Zhi-Quan Luo (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, China)

• Title: A Distributed Method for Fitting Laplacian Regularized Stratified Models

• Speaker: Stephen P. Boyd (Stanford University, USA)

• Time: 9:00-10:00

• Title: A Learning Approach to the Optimization of Massive MIMO Systems

• Speaker: Wei Yu (University of Toronto, Canada)

• Time: 10:00-11:00

Jan. 19, 2021 link

Chair: Xiaojun Chen (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK, China)

• Title: Methods for Finding Second-order Points in Nonconvex Optimization with Complexity Guarantees

• Speaker: Stephen Wright (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)

• Time: 9:00-10:00

• Title: Optimization Problems with Neural Network Constraints

• Speaker: Sven Leyffer (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)

• Time: 10:00-11:00

Jan. 26, 2021 link

Chair: Xiaojun Chen (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK, China)

• Title: Recent Topics in Complexity for Nonconvex Optimization Problems

• Speaker: Philippe Toint (University of Namur, Belgium)

• Time: 16:00-17:00

• Title: Optimization with Expensive and Uncertain Data(Challenges and Improvements)

• Speaker: Coralia Cartis (University of Oxford, UK)

• Time: 17:00-18:00

Feb. 2, 2021

Chair: Guochuan Zhang (Zhejiang University, China)

• Title: 2001-2020:Two Decades of Progress in (MI(N))LP Solving Towards ???

• Speaker: Thorsten Koch (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)

• Time: 16:00-17:00

• Title: Optimization with Inexact Gradient and Function

• Speaker: Serge Gratton (National Polytechnic of Toulouse, France)

• Time: 17:00-18:00

Feb. 5, 2021

Chair: Serge Gratton (National Polytechnic of Toulouse, France), Jiming Peng (University of Houston, USA), Sergiy Butenko (Texas A&M University, USA)

• Title: Stochastic and Risk Averse Graph-Theoretical Problems

• Speaker: Pavlo Krokhmal (University of Arizona, USA)

• Time: 09:00-10:00

• Title: Sequential Max-Min Programming with Incomplete Information and Learning

• Speaker: Oleg A. Prokopyev (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

• Time: 10:00-11:00

Feb. 9, 2021

Chair: Jiming Peng (University of Houston, USA)

• Title: Supply Chain Optimization: Two Real-world Cases

• Speaker: Guoqing Zhang (University of Windsor, Canada)

• Time: 09:00-10:00

• Title: Bayesian Risk Optimization (BRO): A New Approach to Data-driven Stochastic Optimization

• Speaker: Enlu Zhou (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

• Time: 10:00-11:00