2nd Alpen-Adria Workshop on Optimization 2011
University of Klagenfurt (Austria) 
May 12 -14, 2011
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Department of Mathematics



Thursday May 12  (chair:  H. Wolkowicz, HS 10)
  • 13:30 - 14:00  Opening
  • 14:00 - 14:45  Lee, Jon (tba)
  • 14:45 - 15:15  Dobre, Cristian: Properties of regular *-representation of matrix *-algebras
  • Break
  • 15:45 - 16:15  de Klerk, Etienne: On semidefinite programming relaxations of the graph bandwidth problem
  • 16:15 - 16:45  Waki, Hayato: Strange Behaviors of Interior-Point Methods for Solving Semidefinite Programming Problems in Polynomial Optimization
  • 16:45 - 17:15  Krislock, Nathan: Efficient New Semidefinite Bounds for Max-Cut
 
Friday May 13  (chair:  J. Lee HS 10)
  • 09:00 - 09:45  Anjos, Miguel: Valid Polynomial Inequality Generation in Polynomial Optimization
  • 09:45 - 10:15  Hungerländer, Philipp:  Exact Approaches to Mulit-level Vertical Orderings
  • Break
  • 10:45 - 11:15  Kim, Edward: Abstractions of polyhedral graphs and the Linear Hirsch Conjecture
  • 11:15 - 11:45  Klep, Igor: Algebraic Certificates for Linear Matrix Inequalities (LMIs)
 
Friday May 13  (chair:  P.
Parrilo HS 10)
  • 14:00 - 14:45  Toh, Kim Chuan (tba)
  • 14:45 - 15:15  Schmutzer, Andreas: An Exact Algorithm for Graph Equicuts
  • Break
  • 15:45 - 16:15  Lisser, Abdel: Stochastic Maximum Weight Forest
  • 16:15 - 16:45  Varvitsiotis, Antonios: Computing the Grothedieck constant for some graph classes
  • 16:45 - 17:15  Vieira, Manuel: Direct representation of the Resolution rule via SDP relaxations

    Conference dinner at Landhaushof at 19:00  
 
Saturday May 14  (chair:  A.Wiegele  HS 10)
  • 09:00 - 09:45  Parrilo, Pablo (tba)
  • 09:45 - 10:15  Dickinson, Peter J.C.: Geometry of the Copositive and Completely Positive Cones
  • Break
  • 10:45 - 11:15  Povh, Janez: On the Set-Semidefinite Representation of Non-convex Quadratic Programs with Cone Constraints
  • 11:15 - 11:45  Rendl, Andrea: Optimizing Multimodal Home Care using a Hybrid CP-VND-DP Approach
  • 11:45 - 12:30  Wolkowicz, Henry: Strong Duality and Facial Reduction in Semidefinite Programming with Applications to Sensor Network Localization and Molecular Conformation

    Hike to mount Palnock with dinner afterwards in the Alpengasthof Walder.

    Here you find some photos submitted by Peter Dickinson of Klagenfurt and our hike!