Optimization and Applications Seminar, Spring 2009

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 23 (Mon)

Christophe Weibel, McGill University

The flow/cut gap for multicommodity flows in series-parallel graphs (abstract)

March 2 (Mon, HG G 19.2)

Peter Richtarik, CORE

Approximate level method (abstract)

March 9 (Mon)

Moritz Diehl, K.U. Leuven

Algorithms for nonlinear dynamic optimization in real-time and applications in control of mechatronic systems (abstract)

March 16 (Mon)

Robert Weismantel, Magdeburg University

Mathematical proofs for questions arising in the synthesis and reconstruction of complex processes (abstract)

March 23 (Mon)

Boris Mordukhovich, Wayne State University

New trends and developments in variational analysis (abstract in pdf,slides in pdf)

March 30 (Mon)

Michel Baes, ETHZ

Estimate sequence methods: extensions and approximations (abstract)

April 6 (Mon)

Francisco Facchinei, University of Rome "La Sapienza"

Penalty methods for the solution of generalized Nash equilibrium problems (abstract, slides in pdf)

April 13 (Mon)

No seminar (Easter)

April 20 (Mon)

No seminar (Sechseläuten)

April 27 (Mon)

Anita Schöbel, University of Göttingen

To wait or not to wait? Delay management in public transportation (abstract)

May 4 (Mon)

This talk has been CANCELED: Onesimo Hernandez-Lerma, Cinvestav

Stochastic control systems with long-run average criteria (abstract in pdf, bio in pdf)

May 11 (Mon)

Christoph Helmberg, Chemnitz University of Technology

A Comparative Study of Linear and Semidefinite Branch-and-Cut Methods for Solving the Minimum Graph Bisection Problem (abstract)

May 18 (Mon)

Claude Lemaréchal, INRIA Grenoble-Rhône-Alpes

Reflections on generating (disjunctive) cuts (abstract)

May 25 (Mon)

Raffaello D'Andrea, ETHZ

Some challenges in the control of autonomous systems (abstract)


Past Events: F08 S08 F07 S07 W06 S06 W05 S05

Event: current (S09)



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

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Last updated: May 20, 2009