DIMACS Workshops:1998-2000 Special Year on Large Scale Discrete Optimization

1998-2000 Special Year on Large Scale Discrete Optimization

Calendar of Events

See 1998-1999 Special Year on Large Scale Discrete Optimization for additional information on the special year.

7th DIMACS Implementation Challenge: Semidefinite and Related Optimization Problems

Date: November 2 - 3, 2000
Location: CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers:

Farid Alizadeh, Rutgers University, RUTCOR
David Johnson, AT&T Labs - Research
Gabor Pataki, Columbia University, gabor@ieor.columbia.edu

Email: challenge@dimacs.rutgers.edu

Next Generation of Unit Commitment Models

Date: September 27 - 28, 1999
Location: CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers:

Mike Rothkopf, Rutgers University, RUTCOR
Benjamin F. Hobbs, Johns Hopkins University
Hung-Po Chao, Electric Power Research Institute

Email: rothkopf@rutcor.rutgers.edu

Diagonal Matrix Scaling and its Generalizations and their Applications in Convex
Programming Over Cones

Date: August 25 - 27, 1999
Location: CoRE Building Auditorium, Rutgers University
Organizers:

Bahman Kalantari, Rutgers University
Uriel Rothblum, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Alex Samorodnitsky, DIMACS, Rutgers University

Email: kalantari@cs.rutgers.edu

Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Integer Programming in honor of Ralph E. Gomory on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday

Date: August 2 - 4, 1999
Location: IBM Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
Organizers:

William Cook, Rice University
William Pulleyblank, IBM Watson Research Center

Email: bico@caam.rice.edu, pblk@us.ibm.com

DO'99, Workshop on Discrete Optimization

Date: July 25 - 30, 1999
Location: RUTCOR, Rutgers University
Organizers:

Endre Boros, Rutgers University
Peter Hammer, Rutgers University

Email: DO99@rutcor.rutgers.edu

Mini-Workshop on Mathematical and Computational Approaches to Elections

Date: June 18, 1999
Location: DIMACS, Rutgers University
Organizer:

Bruno Simeone, DIMACS, Rutgers University

Email: bruno@rutcor.rutgers.edu

DIMACS Tutorial Series - Selected Topics in Large Scale Discrete Optimization

Speaker: Ewald Speckenmeyer, University of Koln, Germany
Title: Branch and Bound Algorithms on Distributed Processors
Date: June 10, 1999
Time: 4:00 - 5:00pm, refreshments will be served
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Room 431, Rutgers University

DIMACS Tutorial Series - Selected Topics in Large Scale Discrete Optimization

Speaker: Toshihide Ibaraki, Kyoto University, Japan
Title: Local Search Algorithms in Discrete Optimization
Date: June 1, 1999
Time: 3:00 - 6:00pm, refreshments will be served at 2:30pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Room 431, Rutgers University

DIMACS Tutorial Series - Selected Topics in Large Scale Discrete Optimization

Speaker: Michel Minoux, Universite Paris
Title: Discrete Optimization in Telecommunications and VLSI Design
Date: May 7 and 13, 1999
Time: 3:00 - 6:00pm, refreshments will be served at 2:30pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Room 431, Rutgers University

DIMACS Tutorial Series - Selected Topics in Large Scale Discrete Optimization

Speaker: Bruno Simeone, "La Sapienza" University, Rome, Italy
Title: Optimal Connected Partitions of Graphs
Dates: April 9, 15, 21, 28 and May 5, 1999 (5 lectures) Time: 2:45pm refreshments will be served; tutorials begin at 3:00pm
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Room 431, Rutgers University

DIMACS Tutorial Series - Selected Topics in Large Scale Discrete Optimization

Speakers: Fred Glover, Jim Kelly and Manuel Laguna, University of Colorado, Boulder
Title: Metaheuristics
Date: April 29 - 30, 1999 (four lectures)
Times: 9:00am - 12:00pm and 1:30 - 4:30pm (times are the same for both April 29 and 30, 1999), refreshments will be served
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Room 431, Rutgers University

DIMACS Workshop on Large Scale Discrete Optimization in Robotics and Vision

Date: March 21 - 23, 1999
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers:

Jitendra Malik, University of California - Berkeley
Jean Ponce, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign

Email: malik@cs.berkeley.edu, ponce@uiuc.edu

DIMACS Workshop on Large Scale Discrete Optimization in Logistics

Date: February 8 - 10, 1999
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers:

George Nemhauser, Georgia Tech
Martin Savelsbergh, Georgia Tech

Email: george.nemhauser@isye.gatech.edu, mwps@isye.gatech.edu

DIMACS Workshop on Semidefinite Programming and its Applications to Large Scale Discrete Optimization

Date: January 7 - 9, 1999
Location: Princeton University Department of Computer Science
Organizers:

Yinyu Ye, University of Iowa
Robert J. Vanderbei, Princeton University

Email: yinyu-ye@uiowa.edu, rvdb@princeton.edu

DIMACS Tutorial Series - Selected Topics in Large Scale Discrete Optimization

Speaker: George Nemhauser, Georgia Tech
Title: Progress in Linear Programming Based Branch-and-Bound: Modeling and Methodology
Date: December 9 - 10, 1998 (2 lectures)
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Room 431, Rutgers University

DIMACS Special Year on Large Scale Discrete Optimization: Distinguished Lecturer Series

Speaker: Noga Alon, IAS and Tel Aviv University
Title: Efficient testing of large graphs
Date: December 8, 1998
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, First Floor Auditorium, Rutgers University

DIMACS Special Year on Large Scale Discrete Optimization: Distinguished Lecturer Series

Speaker: Eva Tardos, Cornell University
Title: An approximation algorithm for the k-median problem, and other clustering problems
Date: December 3, 1998
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, First Floor Auditorium, Rutgers University

DIMACS/IAS Workshop on Randomized and Derandomized Algorithms for Discrete Structures

Date: November 2 - 4, 1998
Location: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ
Organizers:

Bruce Reed, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie
Noga Alon, Tel Aviv University and IAS
Alan Frieze, Carnegie Mellon University

Email: reed@ecp6.jussoeu.fr, noga@math.tau.ac.il, frieze@random.math.cmu.edu

DIMACS Tutorial Series - Selected Topics in Large Scale Discrete Optimization

Speaker: Paolo Toth, University of Bologna
Title: Models and Algorithms for Railway Crew Management
Date: October 30, 1998
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Room 431, Rutgers University
Time: 1:00 - 3:00 pm

DIMACS Workshop on Constraint Programming and Large Scale Discrete Optimization

Date: September 14 - 17, 1998
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers:

Eugene C. Freuder, University of New Hampshire
Richard J. Wallace, University of New Hampshire

Email: rjw@cs.uhn.edu, ecf@cs.unh.edu

Joint DIMACS-CMU-Georgia Tech. Workshop on Large Scale Discrete Optimization

Date: May 27-29, 1998
Location: DIMACS Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University
Organizers:

R. Ravi, CMU
Vijay V. Vazirani, Georgia Tech

Email: ravi@cmu.edu, vazirani@cc.gatech.edu

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