West Coast Optimization Meeting
Saturday 5 May 2001

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


Thanks: The support of PIms, the Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, is gratefully acknowledged.


Philip D. Loewen, 17 April 2001