Past Talks
March 26, 2021:
Yiling Zhang (University of Minnesota), Building Load Control using Distributionally Robust Binary Chance-Constrained Programs with Right-Hand Side Uncertainty and the Adjustable Variants
Andrew Trapp (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), A Comparative Study of Stability Representations for Solving Many-to-One Matching Problems with Ties and Incomplete Lists via Integer Optimization
February 26, 2021:
Thibaut Vidal (Polytechnique Montréal), Born-Again Tree Ensembles: Seeing the Forest for the Trees
Marianna De Santis (Sapienza Università di Roma), Exact approaches for multiobjective mixed integer nonlinear programming problems
January 29, 2021:
Merve Bodur (University of Toronto), Inverse Mixed Integer Optimization: Polyhedral Insights and Trust Region Methods
Ward Romeijnders (University of Groningen), A Converging Benders’ Decomposition Algorithm for Two-Stage Mixed-Integer Recourse Models
December 4, 2020:
Alfredo Torrico (Polytechnique Montréal), The Greedy Algorithm: An Effective and Flexible Tool in Submodular Optimization
Cheng Guo (University of Toronto), Copositive Duality for Discrete Markets and Games
David Bernal (Carnegie Mellon University), Modern Computational Approaches to Nonlinear Discrete Optimization and their Application to Process Systems Engineering
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