Program:
 
Wednesday - August 31, 2005
8:00 am
Breakfast
8:30 am
Bart van Bloemen Waanders - Opening Remarks
9:00 am
John Birge "A Unifying Framework for Robust and Stochastic Optimization Models and Methods" presentation
9:40 am
Yin Zhang "A General Robust-optimization Framework for Nonlinear Optimization" presentation
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am
Arkadi Nemirovski "Overview of the Robust Optimization Approach with Emphasis on Dynamical Decision Making" presentation
11:20 am
Melvyn Sim "Models for Large-Scale Robust Optimization" presentation
12:00 noon
Lunch
1:30 pm
Mike Eldred "Optimization Under Uncertainty Research at Sandia National Laboratories" presentation
2:10 pm
Tom Bewley "Successes and Challenges in the Identification, Estimation and Forecasting of Chaotic Fluid Systems" presentation - part 1 | presentation - part 2
2:50 pm
Break
3:10 pm
Miroslav Krstic "Extremum Seeking Feedback Tools for Real-Time Optimization"
presentation
3:50 pm
Bartek Protas "Adjoint-based Optimization of Multiscale PDE Systems" presentation

Thursday - September 1, 2005
8:30 am
Breakfast
9:00 am
Paolo Luchini - "Optimal and Robust Control of the Nonlinear Algebraic Growth in a Blasius Boundary Layer" presentation
9:40 am
Jeff Borggaard "Overview of Reduced Order Modeling" presentation
10:20 am
Break
10:40 am
Karen Willcox "Accounting for Variability in Design of Large-Scale Systems: A Reduced-Order Modeling Approach" presentation
11:20 am
Serkan Gugercin "Optimal Approximation of Dynamical Systems with Rational Krylov Methods" presentation
12:00 noon
Lunch
1:30 pm
Luke Achenie, "Robust Optimization Sub-problems and Multicriteria Optimization"
presentation
2:10 pm
Larry Biegler "Multiperiod Optimization" presentation
2:50 pm
Break
3:10 pm
Christodoulos Floudas "Large Scale Robust Optimization in Challenging Scheduling Problems" presentation
3:50 pm
Marianthi Ierapetritou "Short-term Scheduling under Uncertainty" presentation

Friday - September 2, 2005
8:00 am
Breakfast
8:30 am Youssef Marzouk "Toward Efficient Bayesian Solution of Inverse Problems" presentation
9:10 am
Alexandre d'Aspremont "Sparse Covariance Selection via Robust Maximum Likelihood Estimation" presentation | paper
9:50 am
Break
10:10 am
Garud Iyengar "Robust Asset Allocation Problems" presentation
10:50 am
William Hart "Robust Combinatorial Optimization Formulations for Sensor Placement in Water Networks" presentation
11:30 am
Lunch


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