MOPTA 08 Program

Mon.	ROZH 103	ROZH 102	ROHZ 105
	Registration from 8-12 (ROZH Concourse)
08:00 -08:20	Breakfast (ROZH Concourse)
08:20 -08:30	Opening of the conference
Chair	Monica Cojocaru
08:30 -09:30	Georgia Perakis, Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Loss of Efficiency Due to Oligopolistic Competition in a Market for Differentiated Products
09:30 -09:45	Break (ROZH Concourse)
Chair	Matt Davison (Organizer)	Juan Vera	Wieslawa Obuchowska
Title	Optimization & Finance I	Duality & Complementarity	Algorithms I
09:45 -10:15	Tyson Whitehead, SHARCnet Correcting the Monte Carlo Optimal-Stopping Bias	Jiaping Zhu, McMaster University Ky Fan convexity: Strong Duality and Application	Rodrigo Garc�s, Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco, Chile Local convergence for sequential semidefinite programming
10:15 -10:45	Long Jiang, Dept of Mathematics, China University of Mining and Technology Convex risk measures via g-expectations	Juan Vera, University of Waterloo Cone Programming Relaxations for Complementarity Constraints	Wieslawa Obuchowska, East Carolina University Minimal infeasible constraint sets in convex integer programs
10:45 -11:15	Yuying Li, Univeristy of Waterloo Robust Portfolios for the Mean-Variance Portfolio Selection
11:15 -11:30	Break (ROZH Concourse)
Chair	Yuying Li (Organizer)	Antoine Deza
Title	Optimization and Finance II	Graph Problems
11:30 -12:00	Henry Wolkowicz, Dept. of Comb. & Opt., University of Waterloo Large Scale Portfolio Optimization with Piecewise Linear Transaction Costs	Bissan Ghaddar, University of Waterloo An Exact Algorithm for the Minimum k-Partition Problem Using Semidefinite Programming
12:00 -12:30	Roman Naryshkin, University of Western Ontario Portfolio Optimization in the presence of Habit Formation	Abdo Alfakih, University of Windsor On Bar framework rigidity
12:30 -01:00	Somayeh Moazeni, University of Waterloo Portfolio Execution Cost Problem in the Presence of Market Impact
01:00 -02:00	Lunch (ROZH Concourse)
Chair	Miguel Anjos
02:00 -03:00	Chris Paige, School of Computer Science, McGill University Orthonormal Completion of an Array of Unit Length Vectors
03:00 -03:15	Break (ROZH Concourse)
Chair	Serge Kruk	Robin Gras (Organizer)	Jiming Peng
Title	Algorithms & Applications I	Bioinformatics	Integer Optimization
03:15 -03:45	Renata Sotirov, Tilburg University A new library of structured semidefinite programming instances	David Chiu, University of Guelph Multi-value Association Patterns and Their Applications to Bioinformatics	Pawoumodom Takouda, Universit� du Qu�bec � Montr�al Procurement order consolidation via bin packing
03:45 -04:15	Paul Tseng, University of Washington On Accelerated Proximal Gradient Methods for Convex-Concave Optimization	Hagit Shatkay, School of Computing, Queen's University On Text, DNA and Proteins: Data-Intensive Applications in Computational Biology, and Associated Optimization Problems/Solutions	James Ostrowski, Lehigh University Constraint Orbital Branching
04:15 -04:45	Serge Kruk, Oakland University Algorithm Correctness via Semidefinite Ralaxation	Robin Gras, University of Windsor A new information content scoring function for the ungapped local multiple alignment problem	Jiming Peng, UIUC New convex relaxations for quadratic assignment problems
04:45 -05:00	Break (ROZH Concourse)
Chair	Anna Lawniczak
05:00 -06:00	Joaquim Judice, University of Coimbra and Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal The Eigenvalue Complementarity Problem
06:00 -06:30	Free time
06:30 -08:30	Reception & Poster Session (ROZH Concourse)

Tues.	ROZH 103	ROZH 102	ROHZ 105
	Registration from 8-12 (ROZH Concourse)
08:00 -08:20	Breakfast (ROZH Concourse)
08:20 -08:30	Announcement of the Best Poster Award Winner
Chair	Etienne de Klerk
08:30 -09:30	Jean Lasserre, LAAS-CNRS Moments, Sums of Squares and Semidefinite Programming
09:30 -09:45	Break (ROZH Concourse)
Chair	Lieven Vandenberghe	Guoqing Zhang
Title	Algorithms II	Algorithms & Applications II
09:45 -10:15	Franz Rendl, Alpen-Adria University Klagenfurt A solution approach for linear optimization with completely positive matrices	Tahereh Zaefarian, Khatam University of Higher Education, Tehran, Iran Simulation of a stochastic capacity allocation problem in make-to-order manufacturing systems of Revenue management
10:15 -10:45	Tamas Terlaky, McMaster University High Performance Optimization: The limits of Interior Point Methods	Anjulika Gupta, IIT Kanpur, India Minimizing Makespan of Deteriorating Jobs on a Single Machine
10:45 -11:15	Lieven Vandenberghe, University of California, Los Angeles Convex optimization with chordal sparse matrix cone constraints	Guoqing Zhang, University of Windsor A Lagrangian heuristic for a single period inventory problem with quantity discounts
11:15 -11:30	Break (ROZH Concourse)
Chair	Christoph Helmberg	Antoine Deza (Organizer)	Anna Lawniczak (Organizer)
Title	Eigenvalue Optimization	Combinatorics	Networks I
11:30 -12:00	Etienne de Klerk, Tilburg University On semidefinite programming relaxations of the traveling salesman problem	William Hua, McMaster University Extended results on the Oberwolfach problem	Deborah Ann Stacey, Department of Computing & Information Science, University of Guelph The Effects of Connection Structure on Disease Spread in Livestock
12:00 -12:30	Charles Johnson, College of William and Mary Gangster Operators and Invincibly PSD Matrices	Andrew Baker, University of Guelph Vertex-Magic Total Labelings on Wheel Graphs	Edward Thommes, Department of Physics, University of Guelph A time-dependent ABM model of an eco-housing market with social interactions
12:30 -01:00	Christoph Helmberg, Technische Universit�t Chemnitz Graph Realizations Corresponding to Optimized Extremal Eigenvalues of the Laplacian	Antoine Deza, McMaster University Hyperplane Arrangements with Large Average Diameter	Anna Lawniczak, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph Detection Of Anomalous Traffic In Packet Switching Networks
01:00 -02:00	Lunch
Chair	Franz Rendl
02:00 -03:00	Florian Jarre, Mathematical Institute, University of Dusseldorf Old and New Approaches for Linear Conic Minimization Problems
03:00 -03:15	Break (ROZH Concourse)
Chair	George Styan	Antoine Deza (Organizer)	Anna Lawniczak (Organizer)
Title	Theory and Algorithms	Combinatorial and Geometric Aspects of Linear Optimization	Networks II
03:15 -03:45	Adi Ben-Israel, RUTCOR and School of Business, Rutgers University Stochastic directional Newton method	Yuriy Zinchenko, AdvOL, McMaster University The continuous d-step conjecture for polytopes	Monica Cojocaru, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Guelph Tracking the dynamics of network equilibrium problems and markets of environmental products
03:45 -04:15	Miguel Anjos, Management Sciences, University of Waterloo Recent Results on the Application of Semidefinite Programming to Characterize Satisfiability	David Bremner, University of New Brunswick Computational approaches to extremal questions about polytope diameters	Patrick McGraw, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto Understanding Synchronization Through Network Spectra
04:15 -04:45	George Styan, McGill University Some comments on Graeco-Latin squares and on magic squares, illustrated with playing cards and postage stamps	Tamon Stephen, Simon Fraser University Computing Knock out Strategies in Metabolic Networks	Takashi Nishikawa, Mathematics and Computer Science, Clarkson University Networks of optimal synchronizability
04:45 -05:00	Break (ROZH Concourse)
Chair	Matt Davison
05:00 -06:00	Panos Pardalos, Center for Applied Optimization ISE, MBE Departments, McKnight Brain Institute and University of Florida Genetics Institute, University of Florida Global Optimization Applications in Biomedicine
06:00 -06:30	Free time
06:30 -08:30	Banquet (Delta Hotel)

Wed.	ROZH 103	ROZH 102	ROHZ 105
	Registration from 8-10 (ROZH Concourse)
08:00 -08:30	Breakfast (ROZH Concourse)
Chair	Rick Caron
08:30 -09:30	Don Jones, General Motors Large-Scale Multidisciplinary Mass Optimization in the Auto Industry
09:30 -09:45	Break (ROZH Concourse)
Chair	Peter Richtarik	Arzu Sardarli	Pawoumodom Takouda
Title	Algorithms & Applications III	Applications I	Applications II
09:45 -10:15	Allan Willms, University of Guelph Parameter range reduction for ODE models using monotonic discretizations	Laetitia Andrieu, EDF R&D Taking risk into account in electricity portfolios management	Zhenghua Nie, School of Computational Engineering & Science, McMaster University Optimal Pulse Design of Single Spin Systems
10:15 -10:45	Stephen Vavasis, University of Waterloo A barrier-function method for mesh improvement	Masoumeh Ghaffari-Hadigheh, Tabriz University Numerical Optimization in Solid State Laser Pump Cavity Design	Jiri Vondrich, Department of Mechanics and Materials Science, Czech Technical University in Prague Modeling, Simulation and Optimization of Suppresion Vibration Machines
10:45 -11:15	Peter Richtarik, CORE/INMA, Catholic University of Louvain Solving five optimization problems simultaneously in relative scale	Arzu Sardarli, First Nations University of Canada Mathematical Modeling of Job Vacancies � Employment Rate Correlation
11:15 -11:30	Break (ROZH Concourse)
Chair	Alexander Engau	Samir Elhedhli	Mahdi Bashiri
Title	Interior-Point Methods	Algorithms & Applications IV	Engineering Applications
11:30 -12:00	Maryam Zangiabadi, TUDelft Full-Newton Step Interior-Point Algorithms for Second-Order Cone Optimization	Ting Kei Pong, University of Washington Relaxation of Sensor Network Localization: Analysis and Extension	Kevin Browne, McMaster University New Optimization Problems Raised by Novel Multi-Core, Network-on-a-Chip Computation
12:00 -12:30	Yang Li, AdVOL, McMaster University On a new class of Interior Point Methods for Semidefinite Optimization	Nathan Krislock, University of Waterloo Sensor Network Localization, Euclidean Distance Matrix Completions, and Graph Realization	Honggang An, University of Windsor Multiobjective Optimization of Numerical Simulation on Formability of Tube Hydroforming with Square Die
12:30 -01:00	Alexander Engau, University of Waterloo A Primal-Dual Slack Approach to Warmstarting Interior-Point Methods for Linear Programming	Samir Elhedhli, Dept of Management Sciences, University of Waterloo A New Lagrangean Approach to the Pooling Problem	Mahdi Bashiri, Shahed University An extension of Multiresponse optimization in MADM view
01:00 -02:00	Lunch (ROZH Concourse)
Chair	Tamas Terlaky
02:00 -03:00	Yves Smeers, Department of Mathematical Engineering, Catholic University of Louvain Optimization and Equilibrium Models for Capacity Expansion in the Reformed Electricity Industry
03:00 -03:15	Closing remarks

Note: Breakfast and lunch will be served at the conference site and are included in the registration.

MOPTA 08 Program

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