Preliminary Schedule

• two 4 hour slots - total 8 hours
• days: Sat Dec 6 - Sun Dec 7
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• Our session: Recent Advances in Variational Analysis and Linear Optimization
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Saturday

1. Sat. I

   1. 14:00-14:30 Abdo Alfakih, University of Windsor
      Title: On semidefinite Farkas Lemma and dimensional rigidity of bar frameworks (abstract)
   2. 14:30-15:00 Bartosz Protas, McMaster University
      TITLE: Probing Fundamental Bounds in Hydrodynamics Using Variational Optimization Methods (abstract)

   Sat. II

   1. 15:30-16:00 Yuen-Lam (Vris) Cheung, University of Waterloo
      Title: Efficient and Accurate Solutions for Linear Programs with Bound Constraints (abstract)
   2. 16:00-16:30 Yichuan (Daniel) Ding, University of British Columbia
      Title: An Overloaded Bipartite Queueing System with Scoring-Based Priority Rules (abstract)
   3. 16:30-17:00 Antoine Deza, McMaster University
      Title: On the polynomial Hirsch conjecture and its continuous analogue (abstract)
   4. 17:00-17:30 Ahad Dehghani, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Montreal
      TITLE: A Primal-Dual Regularized Interior-Point Method for Semidefinite Programming (abstract)
   5. 17:30-18:00 Yuriy Zinchenko, University of Calgary
      TITLE: Curvature of a polytope (abstract)

Sunday

Sun. I

1. 9:00-9:30 Warren Hare, University of British Columbia
   TITLE: Numerical Variational Analysis (abstract)
2. 9:30-10:00 Michael Metel, McMaster University
   Title: Chance Constrained Optimization for Parimutel Horse Race Betting (abstract)

Sun. II

1. 14:00-14:30 Walaa Moursi, University of British Columbia
   Title: Generalized solutions for the sum of two maximally monotone operators. (abstract)
2. 14:30-15:00 Heinz Bauschke, University of British Columbia
   Title: The Douglas-Rachford Algorithm: Recent Progress (abstract)

Sun. III

1. 15:30-16:00 Hristo Sendov, University of Western Ontario
   TITLE: Loci of complex polynomials (abstract)
2. 16:00-16:30 Shawn Xianfu Wang, University of British Columbia
   TITLE: The subdifferentials of a lower semicontinuous function bounded below by an affine function are rL-dense (abstract)
3. 16:30-17:00 Henry Wolkowicz, University of Waterloo
   TITLE: Coordinate Shadows of Semi-definite and Euclidean Distance Matrix Completions (abstract)