Optbridge 2006
Aims
Building and strengthening links between Oxbridge continuous optimization communities.
Identify
common research interests and opportunities for future interactions
Format This is a small one-day workshop to exchange ideas. The duration of each presentation is flexible but
should not exceed 40 minutes. The room will be fitted with a whiteboard, a data projector and a networked PC in case
you would like to use one. File formats pdf, ps, ppt should be ok.
We will have lunch at the Living Room (to be paid individually) and coffee breaks at the business school.
History Optbridge is a yearly event and alternates between Oxford and Cambridge. Optbridge 2004 was the
first one of the series.
When and where? Wednesday 23rd of August of 2006
Lecture Theatre 4, Said Business School.
Directions Follow this link for directions to the business school. Once at the school, please report to the reception
and let them know that you are here for the workshop. If you need a
parking place please drop me an email.
Contacts If you have any query, please contact Nick Gould, Raphael Hauser, or Dolores Romero Morales
Schedule
This is a very tentative schedule for the day
9:30 --10:00 Coffee in Seminar Room 17
10:00 --12:30 Danny Ralph:
Intro to Large Deviations and why this describe convergence in stochastic
optimization
Mike Powell: An
extension of the NEWUOA software for minimization without derivatives that
allows
bounds on the variables
Coralia Cartis:
A new perspective on the complexity of interior point methods for linear
programming
Nick Gould:
Successive and simultaneous projection methods for convex feasibility problems
12:30 --14:00 Lunch and group discussion at the Living Room
14:00 --16:00 Richard
Steinberg: Congestion Pricing and Non-Cooperative Games in Communication
Networks
Gilbert Strang (Balliol College): Maximum Flow in a Domain and Large Quadratic Programs
Dolores Romero Morales:
Decentralized Two-Level Lot-Sizing Models
Raphael Hauser:
A New Proof of Yakubovich's s-Lemma
16:00 --16:30 Tea in Seminar Room 17
16:30 -- ?? Pint at the pub for those who have time
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