Past Talks
October 23, 2020:
Felipe Serrano (Zuse Institute Berlin), Monoidal Strengthening
Santanu Dey (Georgia Tech), Sparse PSD Approximation of the PSD Cone
October 2, 2020:
Tuomas Sandholm (Carnegie Mellon University), Configuring Algorithms Automatically: From Practice to Theory
Andrea Lodi (Polytechnique Montréal), Fair COVID-19 Test Allocation at Roche
July 14, 2020:
Jannis Kurtz (University of Siegen), Discrete Optimization Methods for Group Model Selection in Compressed Sensing
July 7, 2020:
Amitabh Basu (Johns Hopkins University), Provable complexity bounds for integer programming algorithms
Aida Khajavirad (Rutgers University), The ratio-cut polytope and K-means clustering
June 30, 2020:
Timo Berthold (FICO), Learning to Scale
Jean Pauphilet (London Business School), A Unified Approach to Mixed-Integer Optimization: Nonlinear Formulations and Scalable Algorithms
June 23, 2020:
Ricardo Fukasawa (University of Waterloo), Enforcing non-anticipativity in a two-stage stochastic program for scheduling with endogenous uncertainties
Austin Buchanan (Oklahoma State University), Imposing contiguity constraints in political districting models
June 16, 2020:
Axel Parmentier (Ecole des Ponts ParisTech), Learning to approximate industrial problems by operations research classic problems
Dolores Romero Morales (Copenhagen Business School), On Enhancing the Interpretability of Data Science Models via Dimensionality Reduction
June 2, 2020:
Weijun Xie (Virginia Tech), Best Submatrix Selection: Strong Formulations and Approximation Algorithms
Andrés Gómez (USC), Outlier detection in time series via mixed-integer conic quadratic optimization
May 5, 2020:
April 28, 2020:
Sriram Sankaranarayanan (Polytechnique Montreal), When Nash Meets Stackelberg
Siqian Shen (University of Michigan), New Results and Applications of Facility Location involving Competition, Prioritization, or Decision-dependent Demand
April 21, 2020:
Hamed Rahimian (Northwestern University), A Model of Supply-Chain Decisions for Resource Sharing with an Application to Ventilator Allocation to Combat COVID-19
Pierre Le Bodic (Monash University), Estimating the Size of the Branch and Bound Tree