September 21 (Mon)

Arkadi Nemirovski, Georgia Tech

Lectures on Robust Convex Optimization (course description, lecture notes)

September 28 (Mon)

Arkadi Nemirovski, Georgia Tech

Lectures on Robust Convex Optimization (course description, lecture notes)

October 5 (Mon)

Arkadi Nemirovski, Georgia Tech

Lectures on Robust Convex Optimization (course description, lecture notes)

October 12 (Mon)

Arkadi Nemirovski, Georgia Tech

Lectures on Robust Convex Optimization (course description, lecture notes)

October 19 (Mon)

Arkadi Nemirovski, Georgia Tech

Lectures on Robust Convex Optimization (course description, lecture notes)

October 26 (Mon)

Laura Galli, University of Bologna

Combinatorial and Robust Optimisation Techniques
for the Train Routing Problem (abstract)

November 2 (Mon)

No Seminar in favor of the Inaugural Lecture by

Karl Schmedders, University of Zurich

(Über)Regulierung von Märkten durch Preisobergrenzen

Time: 17:00-17:45 (Apero after the Lecture)

Place: Aula (KOL G201), Rämistrasse 71 (University of Zurich)

November 9 (Mon)

Marco Campi, University of Brescia

The Scenario Technology: A Viable Approach to Robust Optimization (abstract)

November 16 (Mon)

Robert Freund, MIT

Primal-Dual Geometry of Level Sets in Linear and Conic Optimization,
and their Explanatory Value in the Practical Efficiency of
Interior-Point Algorithms (abstract, slides)

November 23 (Mon)

Jie Sun, National University of Singapore

On Methods for Solving Nonlinear Semidefinite Optimization Problems (abstract)

November 30 (Mon)

Detlof von Winterfeldt, IIASA

Research for a World in Transition (abstract, slides)

December 7 (Mon)

John Lygeros, ETHZ

Stochastic Model Predictive Control: Tractability and constraint satisfaction (abstract)

December 14 (Mon)

Monaldo Mastrolilli, IDSIA

Precedence Constrained Scheduling: the solution of some open problems with connections to dimension theory of partial orders (abstract)