Argonne National Laboratory, September 8-10, 2003

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Sunday, September 7:  Arrival at Argonne Guest House & dinner at Giordano's (7-9pm).

Monday, September 8:   MCS Division, Building 221, Room A-216.

8.45 Welcome Donald Joyce, Deputy Laboratory Director
9.00 Arnold Neumaier Global Optimization and Constraint Satisfaction
9.45 Laurent Michel Consistency Notions for Global Optimization
10:30 Morning Coffee  
11.00 Paul Barton Towards Global Solution of Semi-Infinite Programs
11.45 Claire Adjiman Deterministic Global Optimization & Nonlinear Dynamics
12.30 Lunch  
14.30 Chris Floudas A New Class of Improved Convex Underestimators for Twice-Continuously Differentiable NLPs: The Generalized aBB Global Optimization Approach
15.15 Nick Sahinidis Convexification and Global Optimization
16.00 Afternoon Tea  
16.30 Open Discussion Moderators: Sven Leyffer & Jorge More'
18.30 Dinner Rock Bottom Brewery

 

Tuesday, September 9:  MCS Division, Building 221, Room A-216.

9.00 Harold Scheraga Physics-Based Folding of Proteins
9.45 Richard Byrd Predicting Protein Structure with Global Optimization
10:30 Morning Coffee  
11.00 Stephen Berry Topographies, Dynamics and Kinetics on the Landscape of Multidimensional Potential Surfaces
11.45 Michael Ferris Global Optimization Problems in Radiosurgery
12.30 Lunch  
14.30 Jeff Linderoth Triangular-Based Branch and Bound for Nonconvex Quadratic Programming and the Computational Grid
15.15 Panos Pardalos Recent Advances and Trends in Deterministic Global Optimization
16.00 Afternoon Tea  
16.30 Open Discussion Moderators: Sven Leyffer & Jorge More'
18.00 Dinner BBQ at Argonne Park

 

Wednesday, September 10:  MCS Division, Building 221, Room A-216.

9.00 Baker Kearfott Integration and Focus in Validated Global Optimization Software
9.45 Steven Dirkse Challenges in Bringing Global Optimization to the Marketplace
10:30 Morning Coffee  
11.00 Linus Schrage Implementing a Global Solver in a General Purpose Callable Library
12.00 Lunch  

 

Special issue of Mathematical Programming (Series B) on Global Optimization

We are editing a special issue of Mathematical Programming (Series B) dedicated to global optimization. For details and deadlines, see the call for papers. This call is not restricted to participants of the theory institute.

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