Berkeley Optimization Day
Saturday, March 6, 2010
Department of Mathematics at UC Berkeley
The first Berkeley Optimization Day will take place in
Evans Hall on Saturday, March 6,
2010. The talks will be from 10:00am to 6:00pm in 60 Evans Hall. This event is part of the Mathematics Department's
Optimization Initiative which is sponsored by
Jeffrey Bohn.
There is no registration fee,
but all participants are kindly requested to register by sending a
message to
ryanhynd@math.berkeley.edu.
Schedule
- 9:00-10:00 Refreshments in 1015 Evans Hall
- 10:00-11:00
Stephen Boyd (Stanford, EE)
Cone Representations, Languages, and Compilers for Convex Optimization
- 11:15-12:15
Dorit Hochbaum (UC Berkeley, IEOR and Haas)
Ranking Sports Teams, Web Pages, Academic Papers, NSF Proposals and More
with Optimization and Flow Techniques
- 12:30-2:00 Lunch in 1015 Evans Hall
- 2:00-3:00
George Papanicolaou (Stanford, Math)
The Mathematics of Uncertainty Quantification
- 3:10-4:10
Mathias Koeppe
(UC Davis, Math)
Exact Algorithms for Mixed Integer Optimization
- 4:10-4:30 Coffee Break
- 4:30-5:30
Christos Papadimitriou (UC Berkeley, CS)
The Algorithmic Lens: How Computational Thinking Is Transforming The
Sciences