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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 |
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 |
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 |
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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