The West Coast Optimization Meeting
24-25 April 1998

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.

Technical Session--Saturday 25 April 1998

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.)

Printable Abstracts: DVI | Postscript

List of Participants
(Everyone is included, not just speakers.)

Social Session: Friday, 24 April 1998

We will meet at 7:30 p.m. for dinner, at

Pink Pearl Chinese Seafood Restaurant
1132 East Hastings, Vancouver, BC
phone 604 253-4316

Reservations are essential. See the dinner menu for details.

General Information

Accommodation: Click for an aging list of nearby hotels.

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.

Other Local Events

  1. July-August 1998: PIms Thematic Summer on Mathematical Economics and Finance, held at UBC.
  2. 8-16 August 1998: VII International Conference on Stochastic Programming, held at UBC.
  3. October 1998: The West Coast Optimization Meeting takes place twice each year. The autumn meeting is so far little more than a hopeful expectation in the hearts of regular participants, but it will probably take shape over the summer, and be staged in Seattle before the snow flies.

Philip D. Loewen, 27 April 1998