Tue.2 13:15–14:30

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H 1012 | APP Applications in Energy (2/4)
Felipe Atenas
Gopika Geetha Jayadev
Kristina Janzen
13:15 Felipe Atenas

Planning Energy Investment under Uncertainty

13:40 Gopika Geetha Jayadev

U.S. Energy Infrastructure Of The Future: Electricity Capacity Planning Through 2050

14:05 Kristina Janzen

Cost-optimal design of decentralized energy networks with coupling of electricity, gas and heat networks including renewable energies

H 2013 | BIG Optimization for Data Science (2/2)
Kim-Chuan Toh
Zhengling Qi
Meisam Razaviyayn
13:15 Kim-Chuan Toh

An asymptotically superlinear convergent semismooth Newton augmented Lagrangian method for LP

13:40 Zhengling Qi

Learning Optimal Individualized Decision Rules with Risk Control

14:05 Meisam Razaviyayn

First and Second Order Nash Equilibria of Non-Convex Min-Max Games: Existence and Computation

H 3004 | BIG Recent Advances in Algorithms for Large-Scale Structured Nonsmooth Optimization (1/2)
Yangjing Zhang
Xin-Yee Lam
Lei Yang
13:15 Yangjing Zhang

An Efficient Linearly Convergent Regularized Proximal Point Algorithm for Fused Multiple Graphical Lasso Problems

13:40 Xin-Yee Lam

A semi-proximal augmented Lagrangian based decomposition method for primal block angular convex composite quadratic conic programming problems

14:05 Lei Yang

A Fast Globally Linearly Convergent Algorithm for the Computation of Wasserstein Barycenters

H 0110 | CON Hyperbolicity Cones and Spectrahedra (2/2)
Rainer Sinn
Markus Schweighofer
13:15 Rainer Sinn

Kippenhahn’s Theorem in higher dimensions

13:40 Markus Schweighofer

Spectrahedral relaxations of hyperbolicity cones

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H 2032 | CON Signomial Optimization and Log-Log Convexity
Berk Ozturk
Riley Murray
Akshay Agrawal
13:15 Berk Ozturk

Methods and applications for signomial programming in engineering design

13:40 Riley Murray

Solving Signomial Programs with SAGE Certificates and Partial Dualization

14:05 Akshay Agrawal

Log-Log Convexity

H 3006 | CON Solving Saddle-Point Problems via First-Order Methods
Renbo Zhao [cancelled]
Panayotis Mertikopoulos
Yangyang Xu
13:15 Renbo Zhao [cancelled]

Optimal Algorithms for Stochastic Three-Composite Convex-Concave Saddle Point Problems

13:40 Panayotis Mertikopoulos

Going the extra (gradient) mile in saddle-point problems

14:05 Yangyang Xu

Lower complexity bounds of first-order methods for bilinear saddle-point problems

H 1028 | CNV Disjunctive Structures in Mathematical Programming
Patrick Mehlitz
Matúš Benko
Michal Červinka
13:15 Patrick Mehlitz

Switching-constrained mathematical programs: Applications, optimality conditions, and a relaxation method

13:40 Matúš Benko

New verifiable sufficient conditions for metric subregularity of constraint systems with application to disjunctive programs and pseudo-normality

14:05 Michal Červinka

Ortho-disjunctive programs: constraint qualifications and stationarity conditions

H 1029 | CNV Recent Advances in First-Order Methods for Constrained Optimization and Related Problems (4/4)
Stephen Becker
Qihang Lin
Phan Tu Vuong
13:15 Stephen Becker

Stochastic Subspace Descent

13:40 Qihang Lin

Solving Weakly-Convex-Weakly-Concave Saddle-Point Problems as Successive Strongly Monotone Variational Inequalities

14:05 Phan Tu Vuong

The Boosted DC Algorithm for nonsmooth functions

H 2038 | DER Recent Advances in Derivative-Free Optimization (2/3)
Clément Royer
Francesco Rinaldi
Jan Feiling
13:15 Clément Royer

A decoupled first/second-order steps technique and its application to nonconvex derivative-free optimization

13:40 Francesco Rinaldi

Derivative-free optimization for structured problems

14:05 Jan Feiling

Multi-Variable Derivative-Free Optimization Based on Non-Commutative Maps

H 3002 | GLO Convergence Analysis and Kurdyka-Lojasiewicz Property
Peiran Yu
Rujun Jiang
Tran Nghia
13:15 Peiran Yu

Deducing Kurdyka-Lojasiewicz exponent via inf-projection

13:40 Rujun Jiang

Novel Reformulations and Efficient Algorithms for the Generalized Trust Region Subproblem

14:05 Tran Nghia

Metric subregularity of the subdifferentials with applications to well-posedness and linear convergence

H 3013 | MUL Recent Developments in Set Optimization (2/4)
Christiane Tammer
Tamaki Tanaka
Marius Durea
13:15 Christiane Tammer

Subdifferentials and SNC property of scalarization functionals with uniform level sets and applications

13:40 Tamaki Tanaka

Sublinear-like scalarization scheme for sets and its applications

14:05 Marius Durea

Barrier methods for optimization problems with convex constraint

H 0104 | NON Recent Advances in First-Order Methods (1/6)
Renato Monteiro
William Hager
Dmitry Grishchenko
13:15 Renato Monteiro

An Average Curvature Accelerated Composite Gradient Method for Nonconvex Smooth Composite Optimization Problems

13:40 William Hager

Inexact alternating direction multiplier methods for separable convex optimization

14:05 Dmitry Grishchenko

Identification-based first-order algorithms for distributed learning

H 0105 | NON Nonlinear and Stochastic Optimization (4/4)
Michael Overton
Anton Rodomanov
Albert Berahas
13:15 Michael Overton

Behavior of L-BFGS on Nonsmooth Problems in Theory and in Practice

13:40 Anton Rodomanov

Greedy Quasi-Newton Method with Explicit Superlinear Convergence

14:05 Albert Berahas

Limited-Memory BFGS with Displacement Aggregation

H 2053 | NON Interplay of Linear Algebra and Optimization (1/2)
Henry Wolkowicz
Dominik Garmatter
Robert Luce
13:15 Henry Wolkowicz

Completions for Special Classes of Matrices: Euclidean Distance, Low Rank, sparse, and Toeplitz

13:40 Dominik Garmatter

An Improved Penalty Algorithm for mixed integer and PDE constrained optimization problems

14:05 Robert Luce

Regularization of binary quadratic programming problems

H 3025 | NON Advances in Interior Point Methods
Renke Kuhlmann
Andre Tits
Margherita Porcelli
13:15 Renke Kuhlmann

Learning to Steer Nonlinear Interior-Point Methods

13:40 Andre Tits

Constraint Reduction in Infeasible-Start Interior-Point for Imbalanced Large Sparse Convex Quadratic Optimization

14:05 Margherita Porcelli

A new interior point approach for low-rank semidefinite programs

H 0111 | IMP Computational Optimization in Julia
Maxim Demenkov
Mattias Fält
Michael Garstka
13:15 Maxim Demenkov

From concave programming to polytope projection with Julia

13:40 Mattias Fält

QPDAS: Dual Active Set Solver for Mixed Constraint Quadratic Programming

14:05 Michael Garstka

COSMO -- A conic operator splitting method for large convex conic problems

H 0106 | PDE Computational Design Optimization (2/4)
Volker Schulz
Kathrin Welker
Peter Gangl
13:15 Volker Schulz

On the volume formulation for the shape Hessian

13:40 Kathrin Welker

Computational investigations of shape optimization problems constrained by variational inequalities of the first kind

14:05 Peter Gangl

Shape and Topology Optimization subject to 3D Nonlinear Magnetostatics -- Part II: Numerics

H 0107 | PDE Recent Advances in PDE Constrained Optimization (1/2)
Simon Funke
Constantin Christof
Axel Kröner
13:15 Simon Funke

Algorithmic differentation for shape derivatives with PDE constraints

13:40 Constantin Christof

New Regularity Results for a Class of Parabolic Optimal Control Problems with Pointwise State Constraints

14:05 Axel Kröner

Optimal control of a semilinear heat equation with bilinear control-state terms subject to state and control constraints

H 0112 | PDE Optimal Control and Dynamical Systems (2/7)
Nathalie T. Khalil
Luis Briceño-Arias
Daria Ghilli
13:15 Nathalie T. Khalil

Numerical solutions for regular state-constrained optimal control problems via an indirect approach

13:40 Luis Briceño-Arias

Mean Field Games with local couplings: numerical approaches

14:05 Daria Ghilli

Inverse problem of crack identification by shape optimal control

H 1058 | ROB Advances in Data-Driven and Robust Optimization
Vishal Gupta
Andrew Li
Velibor Misic
13:15 Vishal Gupta

Data-Pooling in Stochastic Optimization

13:40 Andrew Li

Toward a Genomic Liquid Biopsy

14:05 Velibor Misic

Decision Forests: A Nonparametric Model for Irrational Choice

H 3012 | ROB Applications of Data-Driven Robust Design
Ihsan Yanikoglu
Shubhechyya Ghosal
Marek Petrik
13:15 Ihsan Yanikoglu

Robust Parameter Design and Optimization for Injection Molding

13:40 Shubhechyya Ghosal

The Distributionally Robust Chance Constrained Vehicle Routing Problem

14:05 Marek Petrik

Robust Bellman Updates in Log-Linear Time

H 3007 | SPA Nonlinear Optimization Algorithms and Applications in Data Analysis (2/3)
Xin Liu
Xiaoyu Wang
Yanfei Wang
13:15 Xin Liu

Multipliers Correction Methods for Optimization Problems with Orthogonality Constraints

13:40 Xiaoyu Wang

Stochastic Trust Region Methods with Trust Region Radius Depending on Probabilistic Models

14:05 Yanfei Wang

Regularization and optimization methods for micro pore structure analysis of shale based on neural networks with deep learning

H 2033 | STO Large-Scale Stochastic First-Order Optimization (1/2)
Zheng Qu
Pavel Dvurechensky
Xun Qian
13:15 Zheng Qu

Adaptive primal-dual coordinate descent methods for nonsmooth composite minimization with linear operator

13:40 Pavel Dvurechensky

A Unifying Framework for Accelerated Randomized Optimization Methods

14:05 Xun Qian

SGD: General Analysis and Improved Rates