Optimization and Applications Seminar, Spring 2008

Organized Jointly by ETH Zurich and University of Zurich

Room: HG E41 unless otherwise stated (ETH Zentrum)

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

All Welcome!!!

February 18 (Mon)

Zvi Artstein, Weizmann Institute of Science

Analysis and Control of Coupled Slow and Fast Motions (abstract)

February 25 (Mon)

Hubertus Th. Jongen, RWTH Aachen

On the min-max graph in finite and semi-infinite optimization (abstract in html, word)

February 28 (Th, 14:00-15:00, HG G19.1)

Jie Sun, National University of Singapore

CVaR, Uncertainty Set, and the Joint Safeguarding Constraint (abstract)

March 3 (Mon)

Christian Liebchen, TU Berlin

Can timetabling integrate line planning and duty scheduling? (abstract)

March 10 (Mon)

Rico Zenklusen, ETH Zurich

Network flow interdiction on planar graphs (abstract)

March 17 (Mon)

Gerald Reiner, University of Neuchatel

Improvement of supply processes under consideration of variability (abstract)

March 24 (Mon)

No seminar (Easter)

April 7 (Mon)

Maarten van der Vlerk, University of Groningen

Integrated chance constraints: reduced forms and an algorithm (abstract)

April 21 (Mon)

Alexey F. Izmailov, Moscow State University

On critical Lagrange multipliers (abstract)

April 28 (Mon)

Thomas F. Rutherford, ETH Zurich

Computation of Equilibria in OLGModels with Many Heterogeneous Households (abstract)

May 12(Mon)

No Seminar (Pfingsten)

May 19(Mon, 17:00-18:00, Room: follow this link)

Stephen P. Boyd, Stanford University

Recent Advances in Convex Optimization (abstract)

May 20(Tues, 16:00-17:00, Room: follow this link)

Yurii Nesterov, Core

Structural Convex Optimization: snapshot of the development (abstract)

May 26 (Mon)

TBA

May 29(Thu, 17:15-, ETF E1)

Christos Papadimitriou, UC Berkeley

HURWITZ LECTURE(1): The Algorithmic Lens: How the Computational Perspective is Transforming the Sciences (abstract)

May 30(Fri, 14:15-, ETF E1)

Christos Papadimitriou, UC Berkeley

HURWITZ LECTURE(2): The Computation of Equilibria (abstract)


Past Events: F07 S07 W06 S06 W05 S05



Organizers (*Coordinator): *K. Fukuda, B. Gärtner, D. Klatte, H.-J Lüthi, M. Morari and J. Mayer

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Last updated: May 14, 2008