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Spring Eastern Sectional Meeting
Georgetown University, Washington, DC
March 7-8, 2015 (Saturday - Sunday)
Meeting #1107

Associate secretaries:

Steven H Weintraub, AMS shw2@lehigh.edu

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Special Session on Optimization Theory, Algorithms and Applications

• Saturday March 7, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:50 a.m.
  Special Session on Optimization Theory, Algorithms and Applications, I
  Room 262, Reiss Hall
  Organizers:
  Olga Brezhneva, Miami University, Oxford, OH
  Igor Griva, George Mason University igriva@gmu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    Common fixed points of three contractive-like operators by a three-step iterative algorithm.
    Safeer Hussain Khan*, Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics, Qatar University, Doha 2713, State of Qatar.
    Fukhar ud-din Hafiz, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran 31261, Saudi Arabia
    (1107-47-6)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    Techniques for Gomory and Johnson's "Infinite Group" Problem.
    Amitabh Basu*, Johns Hopkins University
    Robert Hildebrand, ETH Zurich
    Matthias Koeppe, University of California, Davis
    (1107-90-229)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Dynamic Optimization on Infinite-Dimensional Manifolds.
    Yuri Ledyaev*, Department of Mathematics, Western Michigan University
    Robert Kipka, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Queens University
    (1107-49-495)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Practical Challenges in Using Multilevel Optimization.
    Stephen G Nash*, George Mason University
    (1107-90-189)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Optimal control of Magnetic Nanoparticles.
    Harbir Antil, Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
    Ricardo Nochetto, Department of Mathematics and Institute for Physical Science and Technology, University of Maryland College Park
    Pablo Venegas*, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742, USA
    (1107-49-92)
  • 10:30 a.m.
    Optimality conditions for irregular nonlinear programming problems.
    Olga Brezhneva*, Miami University
    Alexey Tret'yakov, University of Podlasie in Siedlce, Poland
    (1107-90-341)
• Saturday March 7, 2015, 2:00 p.m.-3:50 p.m.
  Special Session on Optimization Theory, Algorithms and Applications, II
  Room 262, Reiss Hall
  Organizers:
  Olga Brezhneva, Miami University, Oxford, OH
  Igor Griva, George Mason University igriva@gmu.edu
  

  • 2:00 p.m.
    Cubic Regularization in Quasi-Newton Methods.
    Hande Y Benson*, Drexel University
    David F Shanno, Rutgers University - RUTCOR (Emeritus)
    (1107-90-64)
  • 2:30 p.m.
    Interior point methods for sufficient weighted complementarity problems.
    Florian A Potra*, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
    (1107-90-81)
  • 3:00 p.m.
    Optimal Inversion Matrices for Inverse Problems.
    Matthias Chung*, Virginia Tech
    Julianne Chung, Virginia Tech
    Dianne O'Leary, University of Maryland, College Park
    (1107-65-55)
  • 3:30 p.m.
    Fast Projected Gradient Method for training Support Vector Machines.
    Veronica Bloom, School of Physics, Astronomy, and Computational Sciences, George Mason University
    Igor Griva*, Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
    Fabio Quijada, Department of Mathematical Sciences, George Mason University
    (1107-49-251)
• Sunday March 8, 2015, 8:00 a.m.-10:45 a.m.
  Special Session on Optimization Theory, Algorithms and Applications, III
  Room 262, Reiss Hall
  Organizers:
  Olga Brezhneva, Miami University, Oxford, OH
  Igor Griva, George Mason University igriva@gmu.edu
  

  • 8:00 a.m.
    A new nonmonotone spectral projected gradient method for semidefinite program with log-determinant and $\ell_1$-norm function.
    Mituhiro Fukuda*, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    Takashi Nakagaki, Yahoo Japan Corporation
    Makoto Yamashita, Tokyo Institute of Technology
    (1107-90-65)
  • 8:30 a.m.
    On Optimal Ergodic Continuous Inventory Control Problems.
    Kurt Helmes, Humboldt University of Berlin
    Richard H Stockbridge, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    Chao Zhu*, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
    (1107-93-96)
  • 9:00 a.m.
    Using Gradient Descent to Calibrate Parameters for Variance Gamma Model.
    Nguyet T Nguyen*, Boardman
    (1107-41-45)
  • 9:30 a.m.
    Optimization challenges in phase diagram calculation.
    Maria Emelianenko*, George Mason University
    Igor Griva, George Mason University
    Jeff Snider, George Mason University
    (1107-49-441)
  • 10:00 a.m.
    Numerical Optimization Applied to Space-Related Problems.
    Robert J. Vanderbei*, Princeton
    (1107-85-54)

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