Semidefinite Programming and its Applications
(15 Dec 2005 - 31 Jan 2006)

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Confirmed Visitors

(Partial list; as at 29 Nov 2005)

NAME & AFFILIATION

PERIOD OF VISIT

TENTATIVE TITLE OF TALK

OVERSEAS VISITORS

   

Steven J. Benson
Argonne National Laboratory
benson@mcs.anl.gov

9 - 14 Jan 2006

 

Samuel Burer
University of Iowa
samuel-burer@uiowa.edu

9 - 14 Jan 2006

A finite branch-and-bound algorithm for nonconvex quadratic programming via semidefinite programming
   Presentation slides: PDF...

Leonid Faybusovich
University of Notre Dame
leonid.faybusovich.1@nd.edu

10 - 13 Jan 2006

Symmetric relaxations for nonconvex optimization problems

Katsuki Fujisawa
Tokyo Denki University
fujisawa@r.dendai.ac.jp

10 - 13 Jan 2006

 

Mituhiro Fukuda
Tokyo Institute of Technology
mituhiro@is.titech.ac.jp

8 - 14 Jan 2006

Electronic structure calculations and semidefinite programs
   Presentation slides: PDF...

Laurent El Ghaoui
University of California at Berkeley
elghaoui@eecs.berkeley.edu

8 - 14 Jan 2006

1) Robust optimization and applications in machine learning (Tutorial lectures)
   Presentation slides (PPT): 1..., 2..., 3..., 4...
2) Less is more: sparsity in principal component analysis and covariance matrix estimation
   Presentation slides: PDF...

Christoph Helmberg
Chemnitz University of Technology
helmberg@mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de

9 - 14 Jan 2006

 

Didier Henrion
LAAS-CNRS
henrion@laas.fr

10 - 13 Jan 2006

Solving polynomial matrix inequalities in systems control design
   Presentation slides: PDF...

Michal Kocvara
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
kocvara@am.uni-erlangen.de

8 - 14 Jan 2006

Linear and nonlinear semidefinite programs in structural optimization
   Presentation slides: PDF...

Masakazu Kojima
Tokyo Institute of Technology
kojima@is.titech.ac.jp

7 - 13 Jan 2006

1) Introduction to semidefinite programs (Tutorial lectures)
   Presentation slides: (PDF... | PPT...)
2) An extension of sums of squares relaxations to polynomial optimization problems over symmetric cones

Gert Lanckriet
University of California at San Diego
gert@ece.ucsd.edu

9 - 14 Jan 2006

Classification problems with heterogeneous information
   Presentation slides: PPT...

J.B. Lasserre
LAAS-CNRS
lasserre@laas.fr

9 - 20 Jan 2006

Moments, sums of squares and semidefinite programming
   Presentation slides: PDF...

Johan Löfberg
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
loefberg@control.ee.ethz.ch

8 - 15 Jan 2005

Automatic dualization
   Presentation slides: PPT...

Z.Q. Luo
University of Minnesota
luozq@ece.umn.edu

7 - 13 Jan 2006

1) Convex Optimization Techniques for Signal Processing and Communication (Tutorial lectures)
   Presentation slides: PDF...
2) SDP approximation bounds for quadratic optimization with applications to transmit beamforming
 

Renato D.C. Monteiro
Georgia Institute of Technology
monteiro@isye.gatech.edu

9 - 13 Jan 2006

Complexity results for path following algorithms for linear programming which take into account the geometry of the central path
   Presentation slides: PDF...

Kazuhide Nakata
Tokyo Institute of Technology
knakata@me.titech.ac.jp

7 - 14 Jan 2006

 

Yurii Nesterov
Université catholique de Louvain
nesterov@core.ucl.ac.be

8 - 15 Jan 2006

Barrier subgradient method

Michael Overton
New York University
overton@cs.nyu.edu

5 - 16 Jan 2006

HANSO and HIFOO: two new matlab codes
   Presentation slides: PPT...

Pablo A. Parrilo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
parrilo@mit.edu

9 - 13 Jan 2006

Ordered quantum search via semidefinite programming

Mohammad Reza Peyghami
Sharif University of Technology, Iran
peyghami@optlab.mcmaster.ca

10 - 15 Jan 2006

 

Stephen Prajna
California Institute of Technology
prajna@cds.caltech.edu

8 - 14 Jan 2006

 

Franz Rendl
University of Klagenfurt
franz.rendl@uni-klu.ac.at

8 - 14 Jan 2006

- Modelling with semidefinite and copositive matrices (Tutorial lecture 1)
   Presentation slides: PDF...
- Semidefinite and orthogonal relaxations (Tutorial lecture 2)
   Presentation slides: PDF...
- Solving large semidefinite programs (Tutorial lecture 3)
   Presentation slides: PDF...
- Solving large semidefinite programs (Tutorial lecture 4)
   Presentation slides: PDF...
- Semidefinite and copositive relaxations of some combinatorial optimization problems
   Presentation slides: PDF...

Carsten Scherer
Delft University of Technology
c.w.scherer@dcsc.tudelft.nl

7 - 13 Jan 2006

Linear matrix inequality relaxations in robust control

Tamás Terlaky
MacMaster University
terlaky@mcmaster.ca

10 - 14 Jan 2006 

 

Michael J. Todd
Cornell University
miketodd@orie.cornell.edu

6 - 16 Jan 2006

Inexact path-following algorithms for some convex quadratic SDP problems
   Presentation slides: PDF...   Paper: PDF...

Lieven Vandenberghe
University of California at Los Angeles
vandenbe@ee.ucla.edu

9 - 14 Jan 2006 

Problem structure in semidefinite programs arising in control and signal processing
   Presentation slides: PDF...

Yu Xia
The Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan
yuxia@ism.ac.jp

9 - 14 Jan 2006 

 

Lin Xiao
California Institute of Technology
lxiao@caltech.edu

8 - 14 Jan 2006

 

Makoto Yamashita
Kanagawa University
Makoto.Yamashita@ie.kanagawa-u.ac.jp

7 - 14 Jan 2006

 

Yinyu Ye
Stanford University
yinyu-ye@stanford.edu

10 - 15 Jan 2006

A semidefinite programming approach to tensegrity theory and realizability of graphs
   Presentation slides: PDF...

Shuzhong Zhang
Chinese University of Hong Kong
zhang@se.cuhk.edu.hk

10 - 14 Jan 2006

Separated continuous conic programming: model, theory and methods
   Presentation slides: PDF...

GRADUATE STUDENTS

   

Jeremy Weirong Chen
National University of Singapore
u0204905@nus.edu.sg

15 Dec 2005
- 31 Jan 2006

 

Wenqing Chen
National University of Singapore
g0201946@nus.edu.sg

15 Dec 2005
- 31 Jan 2006

 

Yidi Chen
National University of Singapore
g0500447@nus.edu.sg

15 Dec 2005
- 31 Jan 2006

 

Sun Jiali
National University of Singapore g0502279@nus.edu.sg

15 Dec 2005
- 31 Jan 2006

 

Siong-Chai Joo
National University of Singapore
smap0059@nus.edu.sg

15 Dec 2005
- 31 Jan 2006

 

Lu Li
National University of Singapore
g0403673@nus.edu.sg

15 Dec 2005
- 31 Jan 2006

 

Sandeep Sethuraman
National University of Singapore
g0502282@nus.edu.sg

15 Dec 2005
- 31 Jan 2006

 

Hu Sha
National University of Singapore
g0502278@nus.edu.sg

15 Dec 2005
- 31 Jan 2006

 

Marcus Meng-Ang Teck
National University of Singapore
g0300273@nus.edu.sg

15 Dec 2005
- 31 Jan 2006

 

Xiaojun Zhai
National University of Singapore
g0403676@nus.edu.sg

15 Dec 2005
- 31 Jan 2006

 

Su Zhang
National University of Singapore
g0500599@nus.edu.sg

15 Dec 2005
- 31 Jan 2006

 

Xinyuan Zhao
National University of Singapore
Department of Mathematics

15 Dec 2005
- 31 Jan 2006

 

LOCAL VISITORS

   

Karthik Natarajan
National University of Singapore
matkbn@nus.edu.sg

15 Dec 2005
- 31 Jan 2006

 

Melvyn Sim
National University of Singapore
dscsimm@nus.edu.sg

15 Dec 2005
- 31 Jan 2006

 

Defeng Sun
National University of Singapore
matsundf@nus.edu.sg

15 Dec 2005
- 31 Jan 2006

 

Jie Sun
National University of Singapore
jsun@nus.edu.sg

15 Dec 2005
- 31 Jan 2006

 

Kim-Chuan Toh
National University of Singapore
mattohkc@nus.edu.sg

15 Dec 2005
- 31 Jan 2006

An SDP based approach for anchor-free 3D graph realization
   Presentation slides: PDF...

Gongyun Zhao
National University of Singapore
matzgy@nus.edu.sg

15 Dec 2005
- 31 Jan 2006

 

 

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