Optimization and Applications Seminar, Autumn 2010

Organized Jointly by ETH Zurich and University of Zurich

Room: HG G 19.1 unless otherwise stated (ETH Zentrum)

Time: 16:30-18:00 (Coffee: 16:00-16:30)

All Welcome!!!

September 20 (Mon)
Ulrike Leopold-Wildburger, Universität Graz, Austria
Harvesting Behavior in a Simulated Lotka-Volterra Model - An Availability Fallacy (abstract, Abstract pdf)
September 27 (Mon)
Vladimir Shikhman, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Bilevel Optimization: on the Structure of the Feasible Set (abstract)
October 4 (Mon)
Oliver Friedmann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München
A subexponential lower bound for the Random Facet algorithm for Parity Games (abstract)
October 11 (Mon)
No event
October 18 (Mon)
Jan Foniok, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Combinatorial tools for linear complementarity problems (abstract)
October 25 (Mon)
Daniel Kuhn, Imperial College London, UK
Scenario free approximations to stochastic programming via decision rules (abstract)
November 1 (Mon)
Bart De Schutter, TU Delft, The Netherlands
Hierarchical MPC for intelligent vehicle-highway system (abstract)
Place: HG G 19.2! (ETH Zentrum)
November 8 (Mon)
Friedrich Eisenbrand, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
Set Covering: Additive integrality gaps and discrepancy
November 15 (Mon)
Michel Bierlaire, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
A Heuristic for Nonlinear Global Optimization (abstract)
November 22 (Mon)
Karl Frauendorfer, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland
Riskadjusted Portfolio Optimization in the Energy Industry (abstract)
November 29 (Mon)
François Margot, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University
Natural Gas Storage: Valuation and Hedging (abstract)
December 6 (Mon)
Benjamin Hiller, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik, Berlin
Online Optimization: Probabilistic Analysis and Algorithm Engineering (abstract)
Time: 17:30-18:15
December 13 (Mon)
Utz-Uwe Haus, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Boolean models for cellular signaling: Construction, Falsification, Analysis, and Selecting Dynamic Alternatives (abstract)
December 20 (Mon)
Christian Wagner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Maximal lattice-free rational polyhedra: a proof of finiteness (abstract)

Past Events: S13 A12 S12 A11 S11 A10 S10 A09 S09 A08 S08 A07 S07 W06 S06 W05 S05



Organizers (*Coordinator): *K. Fukuda, B. Gärtner, D. Klatte, H. Lüthi, J. Lygeros, J. Mayer, M. Morari, K. Schmedders, R. Weismantel

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