SCHEDULE

8:00 - 8:45 Coffee, Juice, Bagels, Fruit, and Pastries in Math Lounge (Padelford C-130).

• Morning Session Talks (8:45 - 11:45)
  • 8:45 - 9:30: Stephen Simons , University of California, Santa Barbara
                       " The Hahn--Banach--Lagrange theorem "

  • 9:30 - 10: Heinz Bauschke , University of British Columbia, Okanagan
                       " The Proximal Average: Basic Theory "

  • 10:00 - 10:15: Coffee Break

  • 10:15 - 10:45: Xianfu (Shawn) Wang , University of British Columbia, Okanagan
                       " A general primal-dual symmetric average "

  • 10:45 - 11:15: Yves Lucet , University of British Columbia, Okanagan
                       " Primal-dual symmetric anti-derivatives "

  • 11:15 - 11:45: Rafal Goebel , University of Washington
                       " Local strong convexity and local Lipschitz continuity of the gradient of a convex function "

• 11:45 - 1:30 Lunch Break

• Afternoon Session Talks (1:30 - 4:30)
  • 1:30 - 2: Archis Ghate , University of Washington
                       " Six Degrees of Separation - from Paul Erdos and Kevin Bacon to Navigable Networks and Decentralized Search: A Markov Chain Approach "

  • 2 - 2:30: Lin Xiao , Microsoft Research
                       " Exploiting Symmetry in Graph Eigenvalue Optimization "

  • 2:30 - 3: Zhaosong Lu , Simon Fraser University
                       " Primal-dual first-order methods for cone programming "

  • 3 - 3:15: Coffee Break

  • 3:15 - 3:45: Warren Hare , Simon Fraser University
                       " Bundle Methods for Nonconvex Optimization "

  • 3:45 - 4:30: Michael Saunders , Stanford University
                       " Basis Pursuit Denoising and the Dantzig Selector "

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April 29, 2007, 8:00am - 11:30pm, all talks in Padelford C-36.

8:00 - 8:45 Coffee, Juice, Bagels, Fruit, and Pastries in Math Lounge (Padelford C-130).

• Morning Session Talks (8:45 - 11:45)
  • 8:45 - 9:30: Jong-Shi Pang , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
                       " Differential Variational Inequalities: An elementary introduction "

  • 9:30 - 10: Philip D Loewen , University of British Columbia, Vancouver
                       " Cross-Directional Response Modelling in Paper Machines "

  • 10:00 - 10:15: Coffee Break

  • 10:15 - 11: John Dennis , Rice University and University of Washington
                       " A Progressive Barrier Approach to Derivative-Free Nonlinear Programming "

  • 11 - 11:45: Terry Rockafellar , University of Washington
                       " Generalized Linear Regression and its Motivations "