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DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS (UW)

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

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See the abstracts of invited talks.

8:00 - 8:45 Coffee, Juice, Bagels, Fruit, and Pastries.

• Morning Session Talks (8:45 - 11:20)
  • 8:45 - 9:30: John Dennis, Rice University and University of Washington
                       " Optimization using Surrogates for Engineering Design "

  • 9:30 - 9:45: Coffee Break

  • 9:45 - 10:30: Michael P. Friedlander, University of British Columbia
                       " MINOS and Knossos with Second Derivatives "

  • 10:35 - 11:20: Yanfang Shen, University of Washington
                       " Annealing Adaptive Search with Hit-and-Run Sampling
                         Methods for Global Optimization and Bilevel Optimization
                         Problems "

• 11:25 - 1:00 Lunch Break

• Afternoon Session Talks (1:00 - 2:35)
  • 1:00 - 1:45: Jane Ye, University of Victoria
                       " Quasiconvex Programming with Locally Starshaped
                         Constraint Region and Applications to Quasiconvex
                         MPEC "

  • 1:50 - 2:35: Terry Rockafellar, University Washington
                       " Convex Analysis and Finance "