List of Plenary Talks

• Xiaojun Chen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University), Expected Residual Minimization for Stochastic Variational Inequalities

• Yuhong Dai (Chinese Academy of Sciences), Joint Power and Admission Control for a SISO Interference Channel: Complexity Analysis, Algorithm Design, and Distributed Implementation

• Satoru Iwata (Kyoto University), Submodular Optimization and Approximation Algorithms

• Mikio Kubo (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology), Trend in Supply Chain Optimization and Humanitarian Logistics

• Ye Lu (City University of Hong Kong), Optimal Policy for an Inventory System with Convex Variable Cost and a Fixed Cost

• Jiawang Nie (University of California, San Diego), Jacobian SDP Relaxation for Polynomial Optimization

• Xiaoling Sun (Fudan University), Modeling and Algorithmic Challenges from Financial Optimization

• Marc Teboulle (Tel-Aviv Univiersity), First Order Algorithms for Well Structured Optimization Problems

• Tamas Terlaky (Lehigh University), Cone Linear Optimization (CLO): from LO, SOCO and SDO towards mixed integer CLO

• Luis Nunes Vicente (University of Coimbra), Sparse and Smoothing Methods for Nonlinear Optimization Without Derivatives

• Zaiwen Wen (Shanghai Jiaotong University), Optimization with Orthogonality Constraints and Its Applications

• Soon-Yi Wu (National Cheng Kung University, Tainan), On Finite Convergence of an Explicit Exchange Method for Convex Semi-definite Programming Problems with Second-order Cone Constraints

• Hiroshi Yamashita (Mathematical Systems, Inc., Japan), Primal-dual Interior Point Methods for Nonlinear SDP - Local and Global Analysis

• Yin Zhang (Rice University), Some Recent Advances in Alternating Direction Methods: Practice and Theory