| Time | Speaker | Title (Click title to view abstract) |
| 08:30-09:00 | (Coffee) |
| 09:00-09:45 |
Lisa Korf
University of Washington/ Mathematics | Duality Theorems in Stochastic Programming |
| 09:45-10:30 |
Heinz Bauschke
Okanagan University College/ Mathematics and Statistics |
The method of cyclic projections --- the inconsistent case |
| 10:30-10:40 |
Herre Wiersma
Simon Fraser University/ CECM |
A C1 function that is even on a sphere and has no critical points in the ball |
| 10:40-11:00 | (Coffee) |
| 11:00-11:45 |
James V. Burke
University of Washington/ Mathematics | Approximating of subdifferentials by random sampling of gradients |
| 11:45-12:35 |
Stephen M. Simons
University of California, Santa Barbara/ Mathematics |
Hahn-Banach and minimax theorems |
| 12:35-13:35 | (Lunch) | Food will be served on site. |
| 13:35-13:45 |
Mason Macklem
Simon Fraser University/ CECM |
Current Models in Image Quality Evaluation |
| 13:45-14:30 |
Jim (Qiji) Zhu
Western Michigan University/ Mathematics |
Necessary conditions for constrained optimization problems in smooth Banach spaces and applications |
| 14:30-14:40 |
Warren Hare
Simon Fraser University/ CECM |
TBA |
| 14:40-15:30 |
R T Rockafellar
University of Washington/ Mathematics |
Variational Geometry and Equilibrium |