2014 Workshop on Optimization for Modern Computation

Date:

September 2 – 4, 2014

Venue:

Lecture Hall, Jia Yi Bing Building, 82 Jing Chun Yuan, BICMR
北京大学镜春园82号甲乙丙楼二层报告厅

Directions to BICMR

Organizing Committee:

• Naihua Xiu, Beijing Jiaotong University

• Yuhong Dai, Chinese Academy of Sciences

• Wotao Yin, University of California, Los Angeles

• Zaiwen Wen, Peking University

Scientific Committee:

• Yaxiang Yuan, Chinese Academy of Sciences

• Yinyu Ye, Stanford University

• Weinan E, Peking University and Princeton University

• Pingwen Zhang, Peking University

Sponsors:

• National Natural Science Foundation of China

• Beijing International Center For Mathematical Research, Peking University

• The Mathematical Center of the Ministry Education, Peking University

• The Mathematical Programming Branch of OR Society of China

Group Photo:

• Group Photo 1, Sept. 2 (4.5MB)

• Group Photo 2, Sept. 3 (15.5MB)

Speakers:

• Yuhong Dai, Chinese Academy of Sciences

• Jinyan Fan, Shanghai Jiaotong University

• Dongdong Ge, The Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

• Deren Han, Nanjing Normal University

• Qing Ling, University of Science and Technology of China

• Yafeng Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences

• Xin Liu, Chinese Academy of Sciences

• Zhiquan Luo, University of Minnesota

• Shiqian Ma, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Jong-Shi Pang, University of Southern California

• Defeng Sun, National University of Singapore

• Anthony So, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

• Lieven Vandenberghe, University of California, Los Angeles

• Zaiwen Wen, Peking University

• Stephen Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Che-Lin Su, The University of Chicago

• Yong Xia, Beihang University

• Wenxun Xing, Tsinghua University

• Naihua Xiu, Beijing Jiaotong University

• Dachuan Xu, Beijing University of Technology

• Yuan Yao, Peking University

• Yinyu Ye, Stanford University

• Wotao Yin, University of California, Los Angeles

• Xiaoming Yuan, Hong Kong Baptist University

• Liwei Zhang, Dalian University of Technology

• Tong Zhang, Rutgers University

Program: (Download Program in pdf file)

September 2, Tuesday

09:00-10:20 Session T1, Chair: Yaxiang Yuan

• Stephen Wright, Asynchronous Parallel Methods for Optimization and Linear Algebra (slides)

• Qing Ling, Decentralized Optimization for Multi-Agent Networks (slides)

10:40-12:00 Session T2, Chair: Yinyu Ye

• Dachuan Xu, A Complex Semidefinite Programming Rounding Approximation Algorithm for the Balanced Max-3-Uncut Problem (slides)

• Yong Xia, Solving Quadratic Integer Programs: Small Changes Yield Big Improvements (slides)

13:30-15:50 Session T3, Chair: Lieven Vandenberghe

• Xiaoming Yuan, Accuracy v.s. Implementability in Algorithmic Design  — - An Example of Operator Splitting Methods for Convex Optimization (slides)

• Che-Lin Su, Estimating Dynamic Discrete-Choice Games of Incomplete Information (slides)

• Shiqian Ma, Recent Developments of Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers with Multi-Block Variables (slides)

15:50-17:50 Session T4 Chair: Xiaoming Yuan

• Naihua Xiu, Optimality and Support Projection Algorithm for Sparsity Constrained Problem (slides)

• Deren Han, Asymmetric Proximal Point Algorithms with Moving Proximal Centers (slides)

• Yuan Yao, Sparse Recovery via Differential Inclusions (slides)

September 3, Wednesday

08:30-09:50, Session W1, Chair: Stephen Wright

• Lieven Vandenberghe, Decomposition by operator-splitting methods and applications in image deblurring (slides)

• Xin Liu, An Efficient Gauss-Newton Algorithm for Symmetric Low-Rank Product Matrix Approximations (slides)

10:10-12:00, Session W2, Chair: Yu-Hong Dai

• Liwei Zhang, A Smoothing Majorization Method for - Matrix Minimization (slides)

• Yafeng Liu, An SSQP Framework for a Class of Composite Minimization over Polyhedron (slides)

• Dongdong Ge, An Improved Algorithm for the L2-Lp Minimization Problem (slides)

13:30-15:50, Session W3, Chair: Shiqian Ma

• Jinyan Fan, A semidefinite algorithm for checking monotonic positivity (slides)

• Wenxun Xing, p-Norm Constrained Quadratic Programming: Conic Approximation Methods (slides)

• Yuhong Dai, A Barzilai-Borwein-Like Gradient Method with Positive Stepsizes and An Extension for Symmetric Linear Systems (slides)

15:50-17:50, Session W4, Chair: Liwei Zhang

• Zhiquan Luo, Efficient optimization algorithms for big data applications (slides)

• Wotao Yin, Tight Rates and Equivalence Results of Operator Splitting Schemes (slides)

• Zirui Zhou, Recent Progress on Error Bounds for Structured Convex Programming (slides)

September 4, Thursday

08:30-09:50, Session V1, Chair: Naihua Xiu

• Jong-Shi Pang, A Unified Distributed Algorithm for Non-cooperative Games with Non-convex and Non-differentiable Objectives (slides)

• Yinyu Ye, Optimization with Online and Massive Data (slides)

10:10-12:00, Session V2, Chair: Wotao Yin

• Tong Zhang, Recent Progresses in Stochastic Algorithms for Big Data Optimization (slides)

• Defeng Sun, SDPNAL+: A MajorizedSemismooth Newton-CG Augmented Lagrangian Method for Semidefinite Programming with Nonnegative Constraints (slides)

• Zaiwen Wen, Optimization in Electronic Structure Calculation (slides)

Accommodation and Travel Information:

• BICMR will accommodate all speakers in “Zhong Guan Xin Yuan” Hotel. Other participants are responsible for arranging and paying for their own reservations for hotel accommodations.

• Hotel Address:
  “Zhong Guan Xin Yuan” Hotel (Zhongguanyuan Global Village)
  No. 216 Zhongguancun North Road, Haidian District, Beijing 100871, China

• Map: From Airport to “Zhong Guan Xin Yuan” Hotel

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• Website: www.pkugv.com

• Tel: + (86 10) 62752288

• Fax: + (86 10) 62752236

Registration:

• There will be no registration fee. Please register at your earliest convenience so that we can make proper arrangement for the workshop.

• Download the Registration Form. Click Here

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• Email the form to qmwu@math.pku.edu.cn.

• The deadline of registration is August 1st, 2014.

Contact:

• Zaiwen Wen
  Phone   +86-10-62744125
  Email   wenzw@math.pku.edu.cn

• Qiaoming Wu
  Phone   +86-10-62744133
  Email   qmwu@math.pku.edu.cn