Optimization and Applications Seminar, Spring 2012

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!!!

February 20 (Mon)
Caroline Uhler, Seminar of Statics of ETH Zurich
Ellipsoid Packing with Applications to Chromosome Organization (abstract)
February 27 (Mon)
Robert Baier, University of Bayreuth, Germany
Approximation of Reachable Sets with Distance Fields on Grids (abstract)
March 5 (Mon)
Stavros Gerakaris, University of Edinburgh, UK
Advances in High-Dimensional Nearest Neighbor Searching (abstract)
March 12 (Mon)
Volker Kaibel, Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
Extended Formulations in Combinatorial Optimization (abstract)
March 19 (Mon)
Paul Goulart, Automatic Control Laboratory of ETH Zurich
Performance bounds and robust control for constrained systems (abstract)
March 26 (Mon)
Stephen P. Boyd, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
Performance Bounds and Suboptimal Policies for Multi-Period Investment (abstract)
April 2 (Mon)
Angelia Nedich, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, USA
Distributed Optimization over a Network (abstract)
April 9 (Mon)
No Event (Easter)
April 16 (Mon)
No Event (Sechseläuten)
April 23 (Mon)
Michele Conforti, Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy
Disjunctions and Mir Inequalities (abstract)
April 30 (Mon)
Sebastian Sager, Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany
Mixed-Integer Optimal Control - a biased overview (abstract)
May 7 (Mon)
Andrea Lodi, DEIS, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
On Bilevel Programming and its Impact in Branching, Cutting and Complexity (abstract)
May 14 (Mon)
Carla Michini, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy
Vertex Adjacency and the Hirsch Conjecture for the Fractional Stable Set Polytope (abstract)
May 21 (Mon)
No Seminar in favor of the Farewell Lecture of Hans-Jakob Lüthi
May 28 (Mon)
No Event (Pfingsten)

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, J. Lygeros, M. Morari, K. Schmedders, *R. Weismantel

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