[DMANET] CWI Symposium on Large-Scale and Uncertain Optimization, CWI-Amsterdam, 12 November 2010

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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CWI Symposium Day on Large Scale and Uncertain Optimization

CWI, Amsterdam
Turing room (Z011)
Friday 12 November, 2010

Symposium website:
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~monique/Optimization-Symposium-Day/

**** Please register before November 9, 2010 ****
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Scope

Optimization problems arising from applications such as medical imaging,
radiation therapy, machine learning, shape design of mechanical structures
and more, pose severe challenges due to the large dimensionality of the
design space and the uncertainty affecting the problems' parameters. The
four talks in this symposium present some current methodologies and
computational schemes addressing the above challenges.

Lectures

- Aharon Ben-Tal, Technion, Haifa, and currently CWI Distinguished Scientist
Title: Robust Optimization: The Need, the Challenge, the Success

- Marco Campi, University of Brescia
Title: Risk-Return Trade-Off in Optimization

- Dick den Hertog, Universiteit van Tilburg
Title: Immunizing Convex Quadratic Optimization Problems Against
Implementation Errors

- Arkadi Nemirovski, Georgia Institute of Technology
Title: Accelerating First Order Methods for Large-Scale Well-Structured
Convex Optimization

Details about the programme at
http://homepages.cwi.nl/~monique/Optimization-Symposium-Day/

Participation is free but please register at
http://repos.cwi.nl/library/lectures101112_registratie/

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Poster of the symposium available at

http://homepages.cwi.nl/~monique/Optimization-Symposium-Day/Poster_CWI_Optimization_Symposium.pdf
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