All participants are welcome at this free,
informal meeting. To complement the excellent
technical presentations, there will be ample
opportunity for conversation and discussion.
Detailed information appears below the program
schedule.
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Time | Speaker | Title (Highlighted titles include an abstract) |
08:30-09:00 | (Coffee) |
09:00-09:45 |
Jim Zhu
Western Michigan University/ Mathematics and Statistics |
An implicit function theorem |
09:45-10:30 |
Paul Tseng
University of Washington/ Mathematics |
Global Tangency, Global Normality, and Metric Regularity Conditions for the Intersection of (two) Convex Sets |
10:30-10:45 | (Coffee) |
10:45-11:30 |
Jane Ye
University of Victoria/ Mathematics and Statistics |
Necessary and Sufficient Optimality Conditions for Optimization Problems with Complementarity Constraints |
11:30-12:30 |
Kenneth O. Kortanek
University of Iowa/ Management Sciences |
Models for Estimating the Structure of Interest Rates from Observations of Yield Curves |
12:30-14:15 | (Lunch) | Several restaurants are within walking distance |
14:15-14:55 |
J. P. Moreno
Universidad Autonoma de Madrid/ Matematicas |
On Norm Attaining Functionals |
14:55-15:15 |
Pierre Marechal
Simon Fraser University/ CECM |
Maximization of a Measure of Surprise for the Surprise Examination Problem |
15:15-15:55 |
Jonathan M. Borwein
Simon Fraser University/ CECM |
Partially Smooth Variational Analysis and Applications |
15:55-16:00 | Closing Ceremony |
All talks take place in ROOM 1415 at the
Harbour Centre Campus of Simon Fraser University,
515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver.
(This is a different room from the one used last year.)
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Printable Abstracts: DVI | Postscript
Reservations are essential. See the dinner menu for details.
Local Organization: Local scientific organizers of the meeting are Jonathan M. Borwein (SFU/CECM) and Philip D. Loewen (UBC/Math). Email Loewen to get on the WCOM98 mailing list or to propose corrections and updates to this page.
Thanks: The support of PIms, the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, is gratefully acknowledged.