Mathematical
Optimization Symposium
November 1, 2002
Speakers:
Michael Overton, Courant
Institute, New York University
Andrzej Ruszczynski –Rutgers University
Michel Thera--Université
de Limoges, France, President of the Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et
Industrielles
Robert J. Vanderbei–Princeton
University
Roger J.-B. Wets--University of
Califonia at Davis, Doctor honoris causa of the University of Vienna, Austria,
Dantzig price recipient
Darinka Dentcheva – Stevens
Institute of Technology
Program
9:00—9:10 Opening
9:10–10:00 Roger Wets:
Distributional
and Variational Derivatives
10:00—10:10 break
10:10—11:00
Michel Thera: Well positioned convex sets
and well-positioned convex functions
11:00—11:10 break
11:10—12:00
Michael Overton: Nonsmooth Optimization of
the Abscissa Map for polynomials in Theory and Practice
12:00—2:00 lunch
break
2:00—2:50 Robert
Vanderbei: Engineering
applications of nonlinear optimization
2:50—3:00 break
3:00—3:50 Andrzej
Ruszczynski: Stochastic
Dominance and Mean—Risk Models
3:50—4:00 break
4:00—4:50 Darinka
Dentcheva: Probabilistic optimization with discrete distributions
5:00—6:00 Poster session and discussions
Refreshments will be available during the breaks.
Poster
session participants
New Graduate Program at Stevens Optimization
of Stochastic Systems
Pictures
Picture 1 Picture 2 Picture 3 Picture 4 Picture 5 Picture 6 Picture 7 Picture 8 Picture 9 Picture 10
