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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All talks take place in ROOM 1600 at the
Harbour Centre Campus of Simon Fraser University,
515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver.
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Time | Speaker | Title (Highlighted titles include an abstract) |
08:30-09:00 | (Coffee) |
09:00-09:45 |
Heinz Bauschke
Okanagan University College/ Mathematics and Statistics | A weak-to-strong convergence principle for Fejer-monotone methods in Hilbert space |
09:45-10:30 |
Jane Ye
University of Victoria/ Mathematics and Statistics |
Constraint Qualifications and Necessary Optimality Conditions for Optimization Problems with Variational Inequality Constraints |
10:30-10:45 | (Coffee) |
10:45-11:30 |
Pierre Marechal
Simon Fraser University/ CECM |
On Radon-type inverse problems |
11:30-12:30 |
Levent Tuncel
University of Waterloo/ Combinatorics and Optimization |
Cones of matrices and successive convex relaxations of nonconvex sets |
12:30-14:15 | (Lunch) | Several restaurants are within walking distance |
14:15-15:00 |
Marian Fabian
Czech Academy of Sciences/ Mathematics |
Stegall's smooth variational principle and its applications |
15:00-15:15 |
Yves Lucet
University of Victoria/ Mathematics and Statistics |
How do you build a smooth convex interpolant? |
15:15-16:00 |
Grant Galbraith
University of Washington/ Mathematics |
Cosmic Sub-Lipschitz Mappings and Applications |
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 WCOM99 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.